… and the only reason we are asking the fist question is because Labour don’t have an answer to the second.
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… and the only reason we are asking the fist question is because Labour don’t have an answer to the second.
Asked if MPs should get a vote on UK military action, Badenoch says that given the number of left wing MPs with “silly views” she thinks it’s best if not.
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UK, Germany and France condemn Iranian attacks The UK, Germany and France have condemned Iranian attacks on countries in the region, saying Iran must refrain from indiscriminate military strikes. They did not comment on US and Israeli attacks on Iran.
Classic stuff
“Mandelson, who is fascinated by the secret world” was the ISC’s strongest critic, worrying it could cover up things embarrassing to the Prime Minister👌
* Hollingsworth & Fielding (2000: 253-4)!
This is so telling about Labour factionalism and the mindset of (some of) the ‘serious’ people in and around the party establishment
Jesse Ventura in the Sniper’s Nest. Dallas
Basically, listen to @bloodwork.show !
BLOOD WORK has the best social media going, so it feels weak to simply sing its praises - but this episode is another masterpiece of information selection, delivery, pacing… God damn.
Becker went on to say that there's no question that Donald Trump is evil. "Here’s what I think WWE should do. Donald Trump, President Donald Trump, is in our WWE Hall Of Fame. I don’t know if he’s still in it; they may have quietly dismissed him from that. I really don’t know. I think what WWE should do now that the Epstein Files have been released and there’s no question that that man is evil, I think they should do a public revoking of his Hall Of Fame status." "I think that would be one of the coolest and most leadership things that they could do. 'Hey, Mr. Donald Trump, you are no longer in the WWE Hall of Fame.' I want a statement, a celebration, a parade. I think they should be a leader; they should go ahead and start this. Let’s go ahead and start this.”
In the grand list of things that are not going to happen any time soon, WWE removing Donald Trump from its Hall of Fame must rank pretty high. It’s notably, however, that they never mentioned his membership - the McMahon-Levesques have kept their work w. Trump off-screen.
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BBC’s Election night coverage opens with Peter Mandelson guffawing over the exit poll
Peter Mandelson arrested
July 2024 vs February 2026
The Labour Together scandal is a bit like a mini version of president Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal. Nixon authorised a vast programme of spying, smears and destabilisation against anti-war, civil rights and other activists, called Cointelpro. However Nixon only faced major press exposure when he used the same tactics against the moderate, respectable Democrat Party in the Watergate affair. Watergate being uncovered by the mainstream press did lead to exposure of the bigger, more vicious Cointelpro. We will have to make great efforts to make sure the current Labour Together-Apco smears story also leads to more exposure of the wider, more frequent smears of the left.
I was discussing just today how the perspective outlined in Carl Oglsby’s “In Defense of Paranoia” (1965) - itself a response to Watergate + subsequent revelations - was one UK politics would do well to revisit viz. structural unaccountability & elite power 💯
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Writing to the NSC to tell them what MI5 might think about somebody’s partner’s dad, and then asking to speak to the manager when they’re not interested… LOL, LMAO
My view would be that there’s been enough publicly available evidence for an investigation into misconduct in public office to occur since at least the court documents released in 2023 in the US Virgin Islands case against JP Morgan. The decision to make Andrew Trade Ambassador was always appalling.
Spontaneous ‘FUCK ICE’ chants have propelled Brody King from cult favourite to anti-ICE icon — and rattled wrestling’s corporate partners.
It's incredible watching widely reported facts become Urgent Public Business as soon as a handful of media outlets decide to start noticing them. Meanwhile Paul Holden has set out in detail how Labour Together went to war on the left, in a campaign that the media are still keeping quiet about.
Are you sure? Isn’t jeeitunes him? Thats who says it www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Watching. Big time wrestling. Next up is haystacks Calhoun
He apparently enjoyed watching old episodes of Big Time Wrestling
Conservatives support government's intention to appeal against Palestine Action high court ruling Shadow foreign secretary, Priti Patel, said she was “appalled” by the high court’s ruling on Friday that the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful and supports the government’s intention to appeal against the decision (see post at 09.35 for more details). Speaking to Sky News this morning, Patel, a former home secretary between July 2019 and Septmeber 2022, said: I’m pretty appalled by that ruling, and clearly it’s now going to be subject to a legal appeal. And I think it’s right that it should be appealed …
Priti Patel forced to resign over unofficial meetings with Israelis This article is more than 8 years old Theresa May loses second cabinet minister in a week as pro-Brexit international development secretary departs Priti Patel’s resignation letter and Theresa May’s response – in full Rajeev Syal and Anushka Asthana Wed 8 Nov 2017 20.57 GMT
Any time Priti Patel expresses *any* opinion about Palestine or Israel it should come with a reminder she was forced to resign in disgrace for holding 14 secret meetings w. Israeli ministers, businesspeople and a senior lobbyist while a member of the UK government www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Beginning to think the people in charge don’t understand how wrestling fans work
I’m hearing rumours that Keir Starmer will today release a cover of Nick Clegg’s “So Sorry” song as the first stage in a government reset youtu.be/KUDjRZ30SNo?...
August 2023
The conversation about Mandelson and Epstein also needs to put the disinformation via omission by the political media class front and centre.
They’re going to try and make it about Starmer’s moral failures alone. Not their’s.
This stuff was just sitting there, being ignored.
But (and I don’t need to tell you this ofc) this also isn’t a revelation - a discovery of previously hidden facts. Mandelson’s link to the company, the off-the-books meeting, it was all public knowledge at the time. But all of a sudden people have noticed it, etc bsky.app/profile/daim...
Tbc by ‘bragged’ I mean mocked, which she had form on www.boredpanda.com/prince-andre...
Peter Mandelson invited Lady Victoria Harvey to a party at the British Embassy in Washington, April 2025, where she bragged about Virginia Giuffre’s death.
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I was a bit disappointed that people in the broadcast world never asked Mandelson about this. They were the ones who had the opportunity in the full glare of public viewers in the Sunday shows, other radio shows that Mandelson was on all the time. No one ever seemed to say, what was this stay in Manhattan all about?
Keir Starmer just said, you know more about this than I do. He tried to shrug it off. Bear in mind that, I think it's been quite understated, probably just how important Mandelson was to Keir Starmer's team in opposition. I get the impression that he was talking to Morgan McSweeney, the chief of staff, practically every other day. Providing the strategic advice on what to do in policy terms, what decisions to make, how Keir Starmer should attack towards the center to win the election, which of course he did. Although you could argue that that's as much due to a failure of the Tories.
It was in January 2024. So I guess it was half a year before the election, and about a year before he gave Peter Mandelson the job as Washington ambassador. Yeah, that's extraordinary to think back. And he was able to shrug it off. I guess, as you say, for a lot of us in the media, sometimes you're kind of overwhelmed by evidence or what we used to call sort of cuttings. Hasn't this story been done? Haven't we heard this? Don't we know this already? And that's a kind of perennial response. And sometimes it's a tactic, right? From government or from press offices where they say, oh, you know, if you ask somebody about something, they will say, oh, that's old information. Obviously, we did a story yesterday about how Labour together had paid £30,000 to some kind of public affairs company to basically investigate journalists, including Gagel Pogroms, who had written critical stuff about the Electoral Commission finding them. Someone in government
I'm afraid I don't really care about that because obviously, questions around Labour Together, founded by Morgan McSweeney, are quite pertinent when McSweeney's future is in question right now. And that, for listeners, I guess, that they should understand how the media works and how politics works. That's a good window into why these stories can have a certain momentum, when stories can come out, and then there can be a sense of avalanche. And maybe some people will think, oh, has the media sat on all of this for a long time, and then suddenly they kind of reveal things when the tide is turning. It's not always about that. It's about the fact that there are questions that are pertinent at a certain time. And facts and figures that we knew before then start to come together, and they have more of a relevance at that moment.
FT Jim talking to the NS is actually quite helpful this week, and worth your time. These aren’t the bits he’d pick out, but they’re my beat, so
Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
He was directly told about it on camera in 2024 - long before the appointment as ambassador - and said “you know as much as I do” www.youtube.com/watch?si=rOH...
