Streeting really is a weasel; if the Mandie fallout allows Labour to scrape him off the sole of their shoe that would be a win

Left: Keir Starmer, "I will never walk away from the mandate I was given to change this country" Right: "Starmer was shown proof of Mandelson and Epstein’s close friendship" - and appointed him anyway

not that much of a fan of the Greens but at least they're asking about Palantir

Trump seems not to have realised that if you force people to do without you, they end up either not needing you (EU, potentially) or not being able to afford you (UK, almost inevitably).

Multimillionaire Brexiter, Tim Martin, urges pubs to back Reform. Just like he urged the country to vote for Brexit. Too bad if it makes you poorer. Too bad for the children he’ll push back into poverty. Tim wants more money. And he couldn’t give a shit about the cost for everybody else. (iPaper)

Leslie Wexner is one of the 10 co-conspirators named by the FBI during the 2019 arrest of Epstein. He gave Epstein millions of dollars and the $70 million NYC townhouse. Leon Black gave Epstein over $170 million. Both men are alive. How come they've never been asked to testify?

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

criminalising art and going after the creators of 'degenerate' art... gosh, where have I heard that before

There’s a real interesting subplot here at Milan Cortina where there’s a trans masc skier who still competes in the women’s category but has not drawn the global outrage and condemnation that trans femme athletes who medically alter their body to compete do:

This is a must read thread 🧵

This is pretty menacing. Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students." When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.

Labour's @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social written to General Sec Hollie Ridley for 3rd time calling for independent inquiry into Labour Together "Keir Starmer yesterday promised a change of culture in the party. This will be an early test of that promise” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/pr-firm-pr...

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

Can't be overstated how much the ultra wealthy are single handedly destroying the planet

The fact that he said "we left with all my children" is him admitting he knows exactly what was going on there and what Epstein is all about

Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files www.thewrap.com/culture-life...

It's only if your worldview - like that of grooming gangs - is that girls from poorer families are just disposable playthings for the rich that this is all a hilarious joke.

Keir Starmer made a speech about Epstein survivors saying how unacceptable it was that they faced barriers to justice. BUT HIS OWN GOVT has blocked justice for hundreds of Harrods abuse & trafficking survivors. Complete hypocrisy 😡 Write to your MP. See: www.nooneabove.org

NEW The constitutional significance of what happened to the Prime Minister last week Members of parliament moved for a parliamentary committee to decide what is prejudicial to national security instead of the government By me. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-consti...

Exactly this! Labour's PR since the election has been abysmal, and so very disappointing. (Not helped, obviously, by some disappointing early decisions from the top.)

Labour continue to stampede down the Reform path, burning votes as they go. This type of extreme cruelty is not what their voter base signed up for.

By 2025, Brexit has been estimated to have reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, UK business investment is 18% lower than that of comparable countries, and UK employment and labour productivity are on average, 4% lower than other similar countries. Repairing our relationship with Europe must be a priority.

While we can and should celebrate Keir Starmer securing visa free travel to China Today Labour doubled down on denying WASPI women compensation, even though Keir Starmer himself called for compensation and campaigned with WASPI women for it

YouGov's first voting intention poll for the 2026 Scottish Parliament election shows clear leads for the SNP, with Reform UK now in second place Constituency vote SNP: 34% (-14 from 2021 election) Ref: 20% (New) Lab: 15% (-7) Con: 10% (-12) LD: 10% (+3) Grn: 9% (+8) yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

The general sense of the news reports from the United States is that the federal government has realised it has gone too far too soon in being filmed freely killing civilians in the streets. Public opinion is just not ready for that yet.

On Monday the Workers Party tweeted that Sarwar was their candidate. On Tuesday the BBC reported it. On Wednesday WPGB complained that the BBC had made the story up—despite the original tweet still showing on their account 😵‍💫 Looks like Galloway might run after all: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For those joining Bluesky from the Bad Place: welcome. Yes, you could/should have made the decision sooner, but it is never too late to make a good decision. And there is a lot on this site which will remind you of the Bad Place before it was bad.

Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of

I think she'd be our first indigenous woman senator, and I also think she's kind of great (and who can resist "fish family freedom" as a slogan?).

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

In an ongoing lawsuit by Minnesota protesters claiming first amendment violations by ICE, the Trump administration has filed a response describing threats and violence against federal agents -- including frequent confrontations with vehicles either trailing or blocking them.

Right after Renée Good’s disgusting murder, a ICE goon was filmed kicking her memorial candles. Absolutely vile.

"Because the U.S. entered the UNFCCC with advice and consent of the Senate in 1992, it’s our legal view that it also must be exited using the same process in reciprocation... Letting this lawless move stand could shut the U.S. out of climate diplomacy forever" www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

"The UK is not Hungary, but the direction it is taking is alarmingly familiar. Make no mistake, this new authority in the UK may not be wielded by those who promise to use it responsibly. Laws outlast governments."

Sky News on Renee Nicole Good murder: "There are deeply conflicting accounts of what happened." REALLY? Gonna both-sides this? One "account" can be seen on video and is confirmed by a dozen eye-witnesses. The other is a social media post by history's most notorious pathological liar. Grow a spine.

This is truly grim

“Emerson does not have a mother today because one of you murdered a woman in cold blood yesterday.”

And as for who's illegal:

You know you're in trouble when @bellingcat.com is having to analyse reports out of your country because the government and media can no longer be trusted to report accurately.

👉 ICE Abusing Protesters After Murdering Driver 1/7/26 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnfi...

The chaos in international politics, frightening though it may be, presents a domestic opportunity to the Labour government: they can be (and will need to be) far more radical. Labour should reset, rebrand, and build a bold new narrative for the middle half of the 21st Century. It's time.

Car dealers left in limbo as new post Brexit trading rules means some new cars unavailable in NI www.itv.com/news/utv/202...

I have been recently comprehensively fooled by both an AI video, and an AI music track. I literally posted years ago about my testing running LLM/StableDiffusion models on my own 3090 and 4090 so I am not new to this. I've had subs and tested ChatGPT, Google Gemini, etc. We're in fantasy world now.

SMOKING GUN NUMBER 2 "A", a Balmoral resident with a valet who had just retired from the Royal Navy, asked Ghislaine Maxwell to find him "inappropriate friends". Is "distraught" to find she has only found him "appropriate" ones www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

SMOKING GUN. Final letter from Epstein to another convicted paedophile. "We shared one thing … our love for young ladies. Our president [Trump] also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch’" #Epstein www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's the nonce trifecta!

“These sentences also likely breach Article 3 of the Human Rights Act which protects people from torture and degrading treatment - just think about that”