My professionalism advice to colleagues and family is always: “never write anything down you wouldn’t be happy for everyone to read; and never say anything you wouldn’t be happy for everyone to hear” This mantra keeps you out of all sorts of trouble.

Ministers, advisers and civil servants are braced for political fallout from the impending release of tens of thousands of documents relating to the disgraced peer Lord Peter Mandelson and his appointment as UK ambassador to the US www.ft.com/content/ffcc...

Only 70%? #disappointed

Go 2026! 💀

Top effort. 😂

Doff your hats. Top lad.

‘That is why diversity in leadership is so important.’ That is why I, a man, need to be leader.

37 seconds is my new benchmark…

Odd indeed. Other social media are available…

Today’s FT. The penal nature of student loan repayments vs the largesse of the pensioner triple lock is quite the generational issue.

There’s a certain amount of throat-clearing talking about female victims before launching into talking about men again with the Epstein case It’s depressing

“Quits” is a lot more honourable than “gets fired” or “resigns in embarrassment” or “leaves office to start a well paid job in banking and to write his memoirs”

There’s #alwaysapensionsangle

Reform must just love all the free publicity this stuff gives them.

I’ve always thought it’s a cliché to say there was book you couldn’t put down… but here it is. Frightening stuff.

Interesting stuff on USS - the Higher Education sector’s behemoth pension scheme. Thanks to @henrytapper.bsky.social for collating and sharing.

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I also practise my Northern accent in the bath (pronounced with a flat "a" of course...) #LeedsLeads

Fabulous writing as always from Bagehot @economist.com. “ ‘Keir… thinks he’s driving the train, but we’ve sat him at the front of the dlr,’ a driverless train in east London, which has a pretend control panel for the enjoyment of toddlers. Somehow the Starmer train has still crashed.”

Doff your hats….

"Where's the white ball going?" RIP JV. 😢

Absolutely...I no longer file my stories on X.. hope other journos follow suit. That's the way to kill X

It’s not quite the image of a socialist utopia I hoped for back in 1997…

Who leaked this Number 10 discussion to Jeffrey Epstein? And are there consequences for the leaker? It’s an internal discussion re. getting markets moving in the aftermath of the financial crisis. No doubt of great interest to Epstein and his financial market clients.

New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor. Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time. A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.

“I’m in a leadership role…” Way to be a role model, Tom!

Easy street Fridays for the WFH generation…

🤮 www.ft.com/content/c950...

Good UK stats!!

🚨 NEW: Hannah Spencer is the Green Party's candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election She is currently the leader of the Green Party on Trafford Council

It’s a bit niche but this is a great book: really well written and engaging history. (A gift found at an Oxfam bookshop!) @susanabernethy2.bsky.social @curatorkate.bsky.social

Polar bears adapting to climate change? Or just getting lucky in the short term? @edhawkins.org @zacklabe.com

“ministers AGAIN rejected their [WASPI] claim for compensation” I am minded to agree with @actuarybyday.bsky.social. But some senior members of the Labour Party perhaps look a bit foolish having supported the WASPI cause when in opposition!

Usurper! #medieval

“It’s raining, it’s pouring…” 🎵 COZ OF CLIMATE CHANGE (Sing along, kids) 🌍 ☔️

2026.

Awesome.

You know I don’t need to keep subscribing to @economist.com…. (I cannot now unsee this…)

Suella.

Interesting commentary - should the state pension increase more often… especially for pensioners with minimal financial slack? @stevewebb1.bsky.social @prospectpension.bsky.social @daviesofbrixton.bsky.social

Sunday Runday was WET today! Absolutely pouring down… Double points all round - I don’t make the rules…

Ouch.

The award for “excellent metaphor of the day” goes to…

This makes the Labour leadership look so weak… www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics

And a thousand times no…

I expect @danneidle.bsky.social has a view…

‘Board of Peace’ - today’s FT.

😂 #gilts

“9th strongest out of the 1,208 auctions held since 1998” is quite a statistic. (I haven’t verified it…) Go, gilts!