The due diligence report on Peter Mandelson's appointment handed to Keir Starmer warned about Mandelson's financial links to Russia, which he retained "long after Putin's annexation of Crimea"
“I THINK THE WAR IS VERY COMPLETE, PRETTY MUCH"
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"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"
Thank you. Trying to imagine being a Labour MP and straight after a historic byelection loss to the left in a formerly safe Labour seat seeing Shabana Mahmood stripping refugees' rights while doing Galactic Empire cosplay
Your 3-minute guide to today’s asylum policy changes
Sir Ian McKellen read a poem by Ukrainian veteran Arthur Dron to mark the anniversary of russia’s full-scale invasion 💙💛
Presently watching Brief Encounter, the story of one woman's attempt to escape the shackles of her two unbelievably annoying British children
Are people aware of how for gone you have to be to be too far gone for the freaking Legatum Institute
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
As I keep saying, the Epstein story is an offshore finance story.
And offshore finance is about elite impunity: insistence on their wealth and their persons being protected by the law, but never being subject to the law.
It's the "Every man a King" fantasy made real.
people.com/jeffrey-epst...
Commuters to UK Train System: so how does this all work then
UK Train System:
Wow congratulations!!
🇵🇱⚖️I promised a banger on the rule-of-law crisis in Poland, so... here it is. A group of PiS MPs have lodged a case with the Constitutional Tribunal, asking it to find the rules of electing the judges of the same Tribunal, introduced in 2016 by a PiS majority, to be unconstitutional. 1/
"They have these big gaming chairs with the back sweat, they drink Monster, they can't get a credit rating. They're weird people"
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If Starmer & McSweeney finally go over the revelations in the Mandelson files
Their toxic immigration plans must go with them.
NO MORE politicians in the pockets of the seedy rich blaming the outcomes of their greed & corruption on immigrants!
Is it ok that the thing I am still most angry at Mandelson for is causing British chocolate to taste like a butcher's bottom
An opinion piece in the Telegraph by the British white supremacist Tim Stanley, titled "Trump controls the world, and Britain ought to let him have it". Subtitled: "We gain nothing by pretending we're still a world power while our nation rots from the inside"
Ceding all forms of autonomy to Trump is now a well-established position within Britain's media and among British media owners.
Ukrainian intelligence warns:Russia is preparing new massive strikes.
In -20°C
This is not about military objectives,but about breaking people.
They are trying to provoke fear, exhaustion, despair to force submission through cold.
The world should call it what it is: terrorism
can any theorists tell me whether enshittification can technically occur in a service that has never not been shit
www.bbc.com/news/article...
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
"For if you forgive others their debts, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their debts, neither will your Father forgive your debts."
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
if Nigel Farage is lazy enough to record a message for paedophile Ian Watkins in exchange for money, what else might he do for money without thinking too hard
Rachel Millward- Green Party Co-Deputy Leader: "Labour's devolution agenda is in chaos. Delaying mayoral and council elections isn't about logistics; it's about fear. Ministers know voters are ready for change and are cutting backroom deals to dodge electoral defeat." Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
"Greens were on course to win when these elections were first cancelled and our support has grown rapidly since. Democracy isn't optional, and this should alarm everyone"
Green co-deputy leader @rachelmillward.bsky.social on the postponement of up to 30 council elections until 2027.
Hello, historian of empire speaking: this is colonialism.
All those recent scholarly apologists for historical colonialism lie unmasked: they really do believe colonialism was ethically good, and they think powerful countries should be colonising again.
As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE
⚡️/1. For the first time, Ukraine’s Security Service has struck a tanker belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet in neutral waters of the Mediterranean Sea.
The SSU’s elite Alpha unit targeted the tanker QENDIL (IMO 9310525) using aerial drones while it was sailing in international waters.
