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.

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)

🚨BREAKING: Puerto Rico has been part of the United States since 1898, and people still act confused that Puerto Ricans are American. States that joined after Puerto Rico: • Oklahoma — 1907 • New Mexico — 1912 • Arizona — 1912 • Alaska — 1959 • Hawaii — 1959 Yet somehow this is still news to folks.

I, too, believe that we should go back to traditional ways of people doing their jobs, like MPs holding constituency surgeries

The tiring thing about telling the truth to power is that they have the power innit

Britain's security services have wised up to the risks from climate change to food security. When will the British government? My latest article for the Yorkshire Post www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

The billboard behind Bad Bunny during this halftime performance reads: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love." #SuperBowl

Bad Bunny has more rushing yards than either team so far

Amid another wave of Trump lies about 2020 election, note today's analysis from elections security expert David Becker on Face the Nation “Not only are our elections not rigged, they're as transparent, verifiable and secure as they’ve ever been, whether you like the outcome or not"

Left: Zia Yusuf, "Mandelson deserves to be in jail. The buck stops with the executive, Keir Starmer is a disgrace to his office and should resign" Right: Nathan Gill is in jail for accepting Russian bribes. Using Zia Yusuf's logic, isn't Nigel Farage also a disgrace, and should also resign?

"Reform producing a fake letter in Gorton & Denton is not a mistake. They did exactly the same thing in Caerphilly last year. This is a pattern, not a slip up, and it tells you everything about how the party operates when it thinks no one is watching closely enough." www.facebook.com/TruthAgainst...

Reform can’t lie straight in bed.

"Utterly disgusting by this Govt." via Protect the Wild

🟨 Print Edition — Drowning in Denial As Nigel Farage’s party scraps climate schemes around the country, Nafeez Ahmed reports on new data that shows flood risk surging across the 10 councils it leads 🔗 https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/82/drowning-in-denial/

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Why Nigel Farage’s reaction to the Epstein and Mandelson scandal has been deeply hypocritical, and how his own connections to the story are much closer than he now admits www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

Why do we keep repeating lies before refuting them? www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/word...

I edited this beautiful new issue of Bergsoniana. All issues including this one are available in open access here: journals.openedition.org/bergsoniana/...

George Monbiot"William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear While helping to consign us all to catastrophe" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My simple rules for contemporary politics: 1) whatever the issue, the answer is not racism, or sexism, or hate ... 2) there are never simple issues to complex problems.

In the 1930s students and dons referred to Wodehouse enthusiasts (including themselves) as xylodomists. A hybrid Greek-Latin word and thus not for the purist who dislikes the word television. But a good word.

In the 1930s students and dons referred to Wodehouse enthusiasts (including themselves) as xylodomists. A hybrid Greek-Latin word and thus not for the purist who dislikes the word television. But a good word.

My simple rules for contemporary politics: 1) whatever the issue, the answer is not racism, or sexism, or hate ... 2) there are never simple issues to complex problems.

Lord Mandelson‘s career as British ambassador to the United States. Appointed because he was good at sucking up to rich and powerful Americans. Sacked because he was good at sucking up to rich and powerful Americans. Ends.

Maybe they asked the wrong sort of vet.

Ahhh … finally got it. NHS on the bus stood not for National Health Service but Nigel’s Hate Scheme.

Huge surges in support for @greenparty.org.uk as activists volunteer in droves to campaign for a better future. Bland centrist politics has failed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You'll be shocked to hear that Fox viewers are not getting the full story about renewable energy.

"Then suddenly, these big Democratic precincts with lots of votes that took a longer time to count reported in and those big Democratic precincts gave Democrats more votes! I am very smart and think this is a sign of a conspiracy."

Tell him: the constitution is crystal clear on this, bitch. STFU and also sit down.

“This is not the action plan we were expecting – action has been deferred to an indefinite date in the future” PFAs - while other countries act, Starmer and Co. do the bare minimum Truly pathetic www.theguardian.com/environment/...

House of Lords should strip Mandelson of peerage, says Starmer. That alone won't do. Mandelson leaked sensitive govt info. How many times did he do so? Who benefited from the leaks? Mandelson advised Starmer. Starmer made him US ambassador. What did Starmer know?

"Rather than overt grieving, the videos depict euphoric scenes, including women without traditional Islamic head covering, whooping and dancing to popular songs being blared from stereo sound systems." Joy contra tyranny. Arendt would have approved.

For the sake of balance, maybe we should remain open to the possibility that replacing grass with blades of plastic coated in chemicals linked to cancer, thyroid, liver + kidney disease, + inviting our children to play on it is a good idea?

This is the video to share and show anyone who thinks brexit hasn’t been done ‘properly’ yet and going further would be good for this country. Join the @labour4europe.bsky.social and let’s take back control. Click their account to do so.

Any serious person who knew anything about Gaza knew that the official Gaza Health Ministry death toll was an undercount. We also know (beyond doubt) that the overwhelming majority were civilians. Common sense, a bit of knowledge+analytical skills, and not being racist, get you there.

This tickled me…….

Awkward for Farage because a good number of Clarkson's many hardcore fans are natural Reform voters and will listen to him.

#DemocraticBacksliding: The erosion of US democracy under Trump is steeper than any recent precedent, including Hungary, Venezuela, Turkey, R//ZZ.l'a/nd Source: Financial Times @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/b474...

You dont win 'em all! Reform's Matt Goodwin in Sunday Times: 'Most .. people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head'. Hang on, I'm not THAT bad!Nerds sometimes have a (thoughtful!) point.

Effort to manipulate killing of Alex Pretti collapsed after footage torpedoed ‘domestic terrorist’ claim – could this be a turning point?

Go Seahawks!!

I can’t stop playing this beautiful video

Not a drill: "It’s not too early to plan against another attempt to overturn democratically conducted elections in the United States."

The young graduates with large student debts who are hit hardest by recent changes to the student loan system were one of the strongest constituencies for Labour in the 2024 general election.