Today I’m plagued by memories of my (white) housemates at uni comparing me to the monkeys they had just seen at an exhibition. “It’s the brow ridge!” they gleefully claimed. And these were guys who believed I was “one of the good ones”. They’re all doctors now and I’m sad for their patients.

Hi, all the media 👋🏽 If you can refer to vulnerable trafficked girls as “underage women” you can damn well call racism racism without putting it bloody scarequotes. That is all.

It’s not a ‘racist’ video; it’s a 𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗦𝗧 video. The fuck @lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social?

I want people to understand this. For many of them, democracy ended when Obama was elected twice and Black Lives Matter rose to prominence. This is them “fixing” a system that felt broken and newly unsafe to them.

Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago. jacobin.com/2026/02/wrig...

There's no reason to accept this as normal, though. Much of Starmer and Labour's unpopularity is not misfortune but his own doing. Mandelson was a choice. Consistently pursuing policy positions designed to appeal to people who will not vote for you - and alienating core supporters - is a choice.

This is precisely what has happened with the Gaza “ceasefire” too.

He could try grappling with his conscious *before* the shit hits the fan.

The NYT finally covered the Trump racist video and they made it a point to tell us that Trump probably doesn't know it's racist, this is quite literally the opposite of a news publication

Starmer's reported condition - incredibly unpopular, shorn of authority, probably un-reelectable and yet will stagger on for want of an alternative - is just the new normal of how Britain is governed. It was also true for two-thirds of May's premiership, half of Johnson's and all of Sunak's.

This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.

The PRESIDENT of the US. The President! May he fall asleep and never wake up again.

💥 GOOD. Because that £240 million contract gifted to Palantir, with no competition… …after Starmer had an off-the-books meeting with Mandelson and Palantir… …while Mandelson was officially LOBBYING FOR Palantir and so personally financially benefiting from such links and contracts… Stinks.

Just when you think you couldn’t love him more, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social somehow manages to intensify my adoration multifold. THIS is what politics should look like.

Trump has just posted a video of the Obamas pictured as monkeys. This should hit headlines. We warned you about him years ago, but many made him a friend, defended him, salivated and gave him football shirts. Our thoughts are with black people everywhere and my own family. I am sorry. I am so sorry.

The behaviour of those British people associated with Epstein was absolutely despicable - but where are those Americans associated with Epstein being held accountable for their behaviour? There’s something very big missing here.

Just FYI this is NOT ‘how men behave’; it is how predators and enablers behave.

Palantir needs to keep its grubby hands off our NHS. The NHS is the best thing about this country. Anyone who plans on ripping it up and handing over the shreds to the highest bidder has no place anywhere near politics. And that’s before you even begin to consider any of this Epstein stuff.

I don't think I could better parody the state of the Washington Post opinions page than an essay from a crypto guy and the legal academy's worst amateur epidemiologist that earnestly argues that "stolen land" rhetoric is misguided because of statutes of limitations on lawsuits to recover property

Anyone else completely exhausted by it all? I could sleep for a week.

BREAKING: We're calling on the U.N. to investigate the Trump administration's violations of human rights in Minnesota. The U.S. government must be held accountable for blatantly defying international law as ICE ignores the freedoms our country is obligated to uphold.

We need to keep Streeting away from the NHS

Get Palantir out of the UK. Protect our NHS. Protect our country. www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...

Palantir needs to keep its grubby hands off our NHS. The NHS is the best thing about this country. Anyone who plans on ripping it up and handing over the shreds to the highest bidder has no place anywhere near politics. And that’s before you even begin to consider any of this Epstein stuff.

"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?" Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

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this stuff has really broken me. it's simply astounding that so many people who have been allowed to amass unimaginable wealth are so droolingly stupid, so unmoored from and in fact hostile to any sense of community or social responsibility, and oh by the way they love to constantly rape children

One lesson from the Epstein–Mandelson affair is that we need to stop routinely rehabilitating political careers after serious scandals. When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.

Rattled! #VoteGreen 💚

It is worth recalling that the position of U.K. Ambassador to the US was not vacant at the time the Prime Minister chose to appoint Peter Mandelson to the role. A highly competent and respected woman was replaced.

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

Even the British royal family (not Queen Elizabeth who obviously knew what a creep Andrew was and covered for him) but the current version of the family, has taken more action to punish Andrew than a single American politician, academic or otherwise prominent figure

“Oh, hi Nige, it’s Peter. About that job—” *click* *dial tone* “Nige..? Hello..?”

Laura Kuenssberg has an awful lot to answer for. How does she sleep at night? #BBCNews #Farage #Reform

Why do pedophiles rule the world? Not just elite impunity. It's impunity for rape. It's our whole culture enabling it at every level. It wasn't about the most beautiful women in the world abused by Weinstein, it's not just the rich as prolific abusers. It's an indictment of the whole social order.

Following the release of the Epstein files Jk Rowling has deleted a decade of port logs belonging to the Super yacht Samsara. What is she hiding?

"Epstein’s most stupendous feat was to become a powerful New York insider after being registered as a sex offender" - no, that was confirmation of his place within a particular elite. www.ft.com/content/3f82...

The narrative that the ruling class "went insane" during COVID was apparently not totally accurate. In actuality, they all believed that the Me Too movement killed their beloved pedophile fixer and lockdown just delayed them eventually punishing us all for it.

And yet, in the House of Lords, we still have Lebedev - a national security risk if ever there was one; Mone - who defrauded all of us of tens of millions - and countless other unsavoury characters elevated by Johnson, Cameron and all the rest of their corrupt ilk.

Reform will let children starve so they can enjoy a slightly cheaper pint. Classy af.

🤔 It’s definitely not suspicious at all to have people point out your common Twitter sign off is in the Epstein files and ten completely delete your yacht’s logs right?

BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been formally reported to the police over allegations he was involved in the trafficking of a woman to the UK for sex in 2010

I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly

In a return to the seventeenth century parliament may pass a bill of attainder or something so as to punish one person by primary legislation. Would be better just to have a general statutory scheme for any person in the position of the accused here, so that there may be independent due process.

It says a lot about how government works in Britain that people will pretend you’re not a massive sleazebag for decades but the moment the calculus shifts to negative they will mobilise every resource to destroy you

Breaking: The European Commission said on Tuesday it would investigate Mandelson, who was European trade commissioner from 2004-8 before leaving early to return to UK politics. Mandelson draws a pension from his time there and has to adhere to a code of conduct for former staff.

Information Commissioner launches formal investigation in X / Grok over use of people's personal data to create sexual images of children without consent. (The government will continue to post through it, no doubt.)

"Elon Musk’s flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people even when users explicitly warn that the subjects do not consent, Reuters has found." It needs to be shut down, and Elon needs to be prosecuted for abuse www.reuters.com/business/des...