Files show that Jonathan Powell, Starmer’s national security adviser, “was particularly cautious about the appointment” of Mandelson as ambassador in December 2024 and that Powell believed the process had been “weirdly rushed”.
www.ft.com/content/2fcc...
Marco Rubio greets Chuck Schumer in January 2026 at the Capitol Visitor Center
A close-up of his foot shows his shoes are too big
hmm
The Torygraphs favourite repentant terrorist and fantasist Shane Paul O’ D enjoying his all expenses paid trip to the Old Bailey
FT exclusive:
Lord Peter Mandelson received a severance payment of about £70,000 when he was sacked as Britain’s ambassador to Washington last year, a first wave of files relating to his appointment will show on Wednesday.
(but Mandelson demanded vastly higher payout)
www.ft.com/content/6108...
Arlene’s brain farts of course have to be discussed on Radio Ulster is she willing to cut pensions including her own ?
The tool, called HODIO (Spanish for Footprint of Hatred and Polarisation), will track the presence, spread, and impact of online hate speech as part of a broader oversight of SM platforms.
Results will be made public to show how platforms respond to harmful content.
Photos from the scene. @irishtimes.com #lebanon #beirut
Aftermath of airstrike in central Beirut. Report soon @irishtimes.com #Lebanon
Was definitely a feature of the old asylum system in Ireland north and South i don’t know if there’s a body of evidence around this ?
Spain to formally pardon 53 women who were locked up by Franco regime
‘The women were incarcerated by a collection of institutions run by religious orders, echoing Ireland’s Magdalene laundries’
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
At this point, it seems that the safest assumption is that the Trump administration simply doesn't care if the Russians are sharing information on US military assets with Iran. Putin can do what he likes, however damaging to the US, with no fear of a US response.🧵
Chile's new president is extremely right-wing, Catholic, with Nazi roots. But women in Chile are strong and organized. “Women are having abortions right now, they will be doing it tomorrow, and they will keep doing it – no rightwing government will stop that." - member of Con las Amigas y En La Casa
Taxpayer is still paying for her botched RHI scheme her own party booted her out
Brexiter Arlene Foster who now sits in the House of Lords wants to cut welfare support and spend the money on defence instead
Brexit costs the UK £90 billion in lost tax income every year,if we didn't have Foster's Brexit we could keep supporting those in need while also ramping up defence spending
This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology
www.ms.now/news/trump-i...
The anonymous artists who have targeted President Trump with satirical statues and installations struck again with a statue of the president embracing Jeffrey Epstein in a replica of the famous “King of the World” scene from the movie “Titanic.”
‘The war is between Israel and Iran. Why should people in Gaza pay the price?’
After closures of Gaza’s crossings drove up food costs and stalled medical evacuations, ongoing Israeli strikes raise fears of a renewed large-scale assault.
Ahmed Dremly & Ibtisam Mahdi
www.972mag.com/gaza-closure...
Home Office Home Office refuses to exempt exceptional students from tough immigration rules Exclusive: Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper concerned about student visa ban on female Chevening scholars from volatile countries such as Afghanistan Pippa Crerar Political editor Tue 10 Mar 2026 The Home Office rejected an appeal from the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, that would have protected outstanding students in some of the world's most dangerous countries from changes to the UK's immigration system, the Guardian understands.
That Starmer keeps Mahmood in post shows this is not just the actions of an inhumane Home Secretary, but a deeper rooted ideology of hostility and xenophobia within this government. No-one benefits from blocking Chevening scholars. This is cruelty for sake of it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
As a new Supreme Leader was named, Iran’s people focused on the grief of burying their dead, killed in a heavy weekend of US-Israeli air strikes, while toxic smoke filled the skies of Tehran, burning oil from a bombed oil depot setting homes ablaze. Our story @pbsnews.org www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Civilians slaughtered, nations destroyed, oil fields ablaze: ‘This is the price the region is paying for one man’s ego, another man’s messianic vision, and the impotence of a Europe that just stands by and watches.’
RIP Fr El-Rahi
".. they fire missiles from schools & hospitals"
Pete Hegseth preparing the ground for when the US has to admit they bombed a school & murdered over 100 young children
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) stops to talk with reporters in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
Murphy: “I think it’s likely the U.S. carried out this attack on this school — I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact that this was one of our 1st targeting decisions, that this mistake was made on the 1st day of war — I think speaks to the incompetence of our leadership”
Scrapping North Sea windfall tax would not reduce UK energy bills, say experts
Covered up for years by the royals and the vile sycophantic muck that passes for royal coverage RIP VG
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Of the 4,521 homes built in Dublin in 2025 only 208 went For Sale to ordinary homebuyers. Thats Govt policy working.
More details and what needs to be done about it here: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
“We are forced to stay despite the danger, when we defend our land, and we do so peacefully. None of us carries weapons. All of us carry peace and goodness and love.”
These were the words of Father Pierre al-Rahi one day before Israel killed him in Lebanon today on March 9.
A reminder that when Christian Zionists and Christian Nationalists in the West talk about Christians, they are not talking about the Christians of the same holy land that Jesus himself came from. They don't give a shit about us.
Does he want to love it ? Or list it ?
