That would make him the main character.

One thing that really strikes me throughout this whole scandal – from Mandelson’s chumminess with Epstein, to passing Gov info to him, to his “I’ve done nothing wrong” response today – is Mandelson has told us who he was since 1998, and a whole succession of PMs have never actually listened.

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

Party that doesn’t have a leader, candidates or policies for Wales says it’s going to put Wales first. Whilst lying that immigration is a devolved issue. Immigration is not devolved, the Welsh Government has zero say on UK immigration policy. Reform, Tories & Labour lying constantly at the mo.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

McDonald's in Bruges. The toilets are in the roof space, and cost 1€ to use.

💔🇺🇦 Kupyansk from the height of a drone. Here, people once planned their lives: they built, loved, raised children, and waited for their relatives to come home in the evenings. An ordinary Ukrainian city, full of life. Now, every destroyed house is someone's story.

With Keir Starmer flying out to Beijing this week, this is a must read from our China correspondent @amyhawk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Unfortunately right now we have to rely on either the Supreme Court or spineless Republicans in Congress to end this shit. This also proves to every country that whatever “deal” you make with Trump is utterly worthless.

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"Never has the UK been so exposed". bylinetimes.com/2026/01/23/b...

Rod Stewart calls out “draft dodger” Trump for denigrating the service of allied combat vets, and says that PM Keir Starmer must insist that Trump publicly apologize.

And more, feel superior and thus entitled to rule, “Melian Dialogue” shit—or not be able to cope with the lack of structure in civilian life and blame everyone else, as mentioned here in 1942 anti-fascist film “Keeper of the Flame” bsky.app/profile/rhut...

We're all just here laughing at him, nothing new.

Like I keep saying - Nigel Farage is a Russian Spy and a British Traitor.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

The UK has 3 options: * accept US authority * make post-Brexit isolation work (failed so far) * commit to Europe/EU economically, militarily & politically The correct choice should be blindingly obvious! bylines.scot/news/world/a...

Starmer must cancel the contracts he has recently given to this shameful organisation. He can no longer keep pretending there is a 'special relationship' with the criminal's USA.

This should be posted under every post Farage sends and quoted at him in every interview he gives - forever.

Rambling Trump runs through his achievements as worried world watches on

🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has 43,000 signatures! Let’s get the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

“We have embedded a notorious US military surveillance company whose founder is a close ally of President Trump into the heart of our military at a moment in which the US is threatening to invade our NATO ally, Greenland.” – @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on Palantir https://bit.ly/4sHG9al

My latest on failure in both the US & UK to acknowledge what we are seeing with our eyes & hearing with our ears. The old world is over. And we have to act fast. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20... St Michael’s Mount is an iconic tidal island long thought to have been Ictis, the tin trading island described by Pytheas the Greek in c. 320 BC in the earliest written account of Britain.

Never forget: never let anyone else forget either.

Spoilt brat throws toys out of the pram, for not getting what he wanted.

❓ Eight NATO countries issue statement on Trump tariff threats

Reminder of the spectacularly poor judgement of these people

🇪🇺🇺🇸 EU lawmakers are moving to halt the EU–US trade deal after Donald Trump threatened tariffs linked to Greenland, - Bloomberg

It is hard to process. I was brought up in an American oil town in the Middle East, one of my daughters went to uni in the US, and one of my brothers is a dual national who has lived in the US for 25 years. Hard to believe that I now boycott US products and campaign to disengage at all levels.

Sanna Marin: the West avoids decades of war with Russia only by helping Ukraine push Russia fully out of Ukrainian territory — including Crimea. “There isn’t any other choice.” Anything less is a pause that rewards invasion.

Everyone with authority must speak out now against Trump's depravity and lawlessness. Every Democratic leader. Every university, professional association, charity, and foundation head. Every CEO. Every religious leader. If they don't, history will condemn their cowardice and complicity.

NATO, MI6 and the armed forces warn we’re already at war with Russia – barely noticed. Concern about America's European military bases. Meanwhile Westminster pretends this is all slightly awkward but not urgent....

If Trump invades Greenland what happens next is utterly dependant upon the courage of all political leaders in the NATO Countries. If they unify, eject America from NATO, & resist Trump by force, then the world can be saved. If they act like cowards, a New Dark Age begins. That is the equation

“The United States will not let men steal trophies from women…” - says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman

🇬🇱🇺🇸 Moscow hopes Greenland will become an iceberg that sinks NATO, says former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. “It goes beyond Denmark and Greenland... The conquest of Greenland would mean the end of the world order as we know it,” he said.

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

🇪🇺🇬🇱 Europe will break all economic ties with the US if it tries to seize Greenland, — FT 📍The French Finance Minister warned his American counterpart about this. He stressed: any step towards seizing the island would be tantamount to crossing a "red line".

Judge demands response after Khanna and Massie accuse DOJ of dragging feet with Epstein files. The DOJ has until Friday to respond. www.courthousenews.com/judge-demand...

Renee Good's family is accusing federal immigration officers of killing the Minneapolis mother of three as she attempted to follow agents' instructions, and have now hired the same law firm that represented George Floyd's family to press for answers and accountability.

Outstanding work.

“As the US military chases Trump’s ever-changing Sharpie lines across the world’s maps, the West’s enemies will be tempted to take advantage of the fact that the US has obliterated the most powerful alliance in history while scattering American forces around the globe in showpiece operations.”

More wisdom from Drongo Don.