Will

To reiterate:

Having been fired as US Ambassador, Peter Mandelson asked for HALF A MILLION POUNDS as a severance settment

My humble submission to the new Bank of England with concepts for the new bank notes to please both sides.

Also pretty amazed to find out he apparently had offices on Harley Street.

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh yes absolutely. Centrally decided devolution, potential oxymoron as that is, based on the economic geography you’ve outlined. would be by far the best option. Ends the “we’re not part of that (insert town/city they’re obviously in the orbit of)” culture.

Excellent proposals. Particularly like number 3. It’s starting to change, but there did seem to be this weird priority for everywhere to have devolution or nowhere to have it. Leave those areas who choose to oppose it out of it and they’ll soon realise how far behind they are.

There are about 300 people in the UK who think this war is a good idea, and they are all either columnists or MPs.

Apparently I haven’t updated my gaming preferences in roughly 20 years.

Using one council by election with a turnout of 12%

They’re not. They’ve just swapped millennial based stories for them now we’re older. Will be the same again with the generation after them.

Incidentally it’s amazing how little the Conservatives talk about that. One, of very few things, they did which was actually effective.

Especially wild to suggest this after the last ~16 years which have seen huge improvements in schools.

Slow Horses season five: there’s comedy but also real spycraft – according to espionage expert Honey traps are laid, cyber attacks are enacted and it seems MI5 have to rely upon Slough House to bail them out once again.

That’s why Slow Horses works. The humor pulls you in, but the tradecraft feels believable. Intelligence work is often messy, bureaucratic, and human, and the show actually leans into that reality. #SlowHorses #SpyCraft #Espionage #MI5 #intelligence
theconversation.com/slow-horses-...

Start by reversing this policy immediately

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.

All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Yes it oddly treats people as having no agency, which I would say is much more condescending than criticising them for their actions /words

Professor Slantchev believes in the oppressive Norman Yoke

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.

Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

Just need some pedant to tell you “actually it was formed in 1980” now

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

BREAKING: The NEC has sensationally BLOCKED Andy Burnham from standing to become the next Ayatollah

Today marks the first day of meteorological spring 🌷

March has arrived, and with it comes longer, lighter days. Over the next few weeks most of us will enjoy around two extra hours of daylight ☀️

Genuine racism is a problem in British politics, but a lot of where we are is because of something else: UK politicians, journalists, poli-sci types have no mental map for the fact that the "electoral discontent around immigration" has no real connection to the level of immigration. 1/4

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.

www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

RFK JR’s vaccine nonsense all part of his plan as a secret loyalist to George III

Allies of me are understood to be begging my fellow journalists to stop letting politicians put out doubtful statements through deniable sourcing.

Especially in the third story - The Mystery Knight. You really get the picture of how weakened they’ve been by The Blackfyre rebellions

The stories in A Knight Of The Seven (9) Kingdoms are really good at setting the scene for The Targaryen’s downfall.

a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead