Had missed this. Seems my investigation on Democracy for Sale about Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm working for the Qataris came up in Mandy’s due diligence!
(Am pretty sure I warned about this at the time of his US ambassador appointment…)
Strong disagree.
Mandelson’s previous financial ties to Russia continued “long after” Putin’s annexation of Crimea.
Powell “raised concerns” about his appointment directly to McSweeney, saying it was being “weirdly rushed”.
McSweeney responded that the issues had been addressed
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#Gaza
#Iran
#Propaganda
#Journalism
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“A outsourced call centre operator has been accused of pressuring managers to fabricate performance statistics & sweep serious privacy breaches..”under the rug”. The allegations.,form part of a series of claims by current and former call centre workers”
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you know I hate to side with a bank but I think these people have a potentially terminal case of "needing to get a grip"
A Sailor Action Man toy with beard.
One of my brothers had this.
This isn’t a hallucination, Michael Gove. You’ve never explained the millions you disbursed to buddies with your crony Covid Contracts.
Cashing in on the worst public health crisis in a century should disbar people from public life permanently.
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Your daily reminder according to Brexiteers the EU has been going to fail for 11,814 days.
Crackdowns on peaceful protest
Support for Conservative benefit cuts
Blaming migrants for failing public services
As Labour keeps moving right. The question is: How low do they want to go?
'FBI documents summarising interviews with a woman who made unsubstantiated claims of sexual assault against Donald Trump have been released as part of the...Epstein files.'
Might we, in 2026, just have a wee bit of a think about how and why claims of sexual assault might be "unsubstantiated"?
Winter in America (12" Version) [feat. Rich Medina] by Brian Jackson, Kenny Dope, Louie Vega on #SoundCloud
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A song to reflect & meditate too.
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
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Release the Epstein files now
The Department of Justice has withheld from the public nearly 48,000 files stemming from investigations into Jeffrey Epstein
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✅ Wilfully lying about people seeking asylum and other migrants
✅Framing migrants as criminals or a "burden.
✅Inflammatory rhetoric
✅Increased deportations
✅Deporting children
✅Targeting specific nationalities
Etc etc
Labour is absolutely copying Trump
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They claim to have been planning this for months, to allegedly keep Americans safe, but had no plan to evacuate any Americans from the region because it happened too quickly.
Weird.
Starmer was seconds from saying "bigly," but McSweeney pushed the shock collar button and stopped him.
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#paperstraws
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
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/...
Only if the people allow it.
Your daily reminder according to Brexiteers the EU has been going to fail for 11,812 days.
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Check this out from Barbados, where India, Africa and the new world come together in culinarily harmony 🥰
just walked past a stall making "jerk burritos", I love immigration and multiculturalism sooooooo much
Last week, UK lobbying regulator closed investigation into ex Tory MP Ben Howlett
We offered Howlett money to work for a fake Chinese investor. He introduced us to a dozen Labour MPs
Regulator didn't even speak to us. Our system is broken
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"One should not give a poisoner medicine,
A conjurer fine apparatus, nor
A rifle to a melancholic bore."
WH Auden
Not to mention the biggest arsenal in the world to a narcissistic attention-seeker.
