It’s this kind of attitude that kept Blunt in place. The fear of opening up members of the establishment to the same rigorous legal processes and punishments that the rest of us have to live with. The feeling I get is one of wagons circling.

Doesn’t seem wise. Or even possible.

Seems reasonable. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They have what appear to be copies of emails he forwarded to what appears to be a person unauthorised to receive them. What else do they need to “start an investigation”?

At last.

In the UK we call it a LibDem axis.

The question that the (yet another) Mandelson scandal drives back to the front of my mind is this: Why do we have such shit political leaders? I mean, by way of an example, we have 23,000 headteachers in the country. If you picked 650 of them at random you’d end up with a better quality…

Real danger right now that Mandelson will bring down not just Starmer but the whole government.

Many of the same individuals saying AI doesn’t work are also (righty) complaining about AI making fake images that people should be imprisoned for creating. AI cake-ism.

Is there any idea that you couldn’t find forty Labour MPs to oppose?

I’m kinda old fashioned. In the society I prefer Mandelson would be now so toxic that no one would touch him with a bargepole. No cosy directorships, no interviews, no columns. Not a peep should be heard from him in the public space. Sadly I doubt that will happen. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There is a certainty about the Epstein scandal that no one appears to be discussing. Among the obscenely wealthy he serviced a need. I doubt that need has gone away. Someone, somewhere, has replaced him as the provider of the service. No one seems to be trying to find out who.

Accidentally found myself watching a Scottish premiership match. Must be more careful.

When you consider that the population is up by 15-20% over that period these numbers are quite amazing.

“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them” bsky.app/profile/thed...

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Make it No. 1.

If I were an Orient player I think I’d get the next bus home rather than go in the dressing room at half time.

Reform, like Con Air but without the Cameron Poe character.

Either they are indeed the culprits, or they could argue they were not good enough politicians to make the arguments to change their colleagues minds on policy. Either way they need to withdraw to the darkness. www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/tory...

You just know that the alternate, already written piece, was headlined “Having to allow Burnham to stand betrays more weakness”.

Americans need to decide if they want to live in a lawless, gun toting society, a religious autocracy or a nation governed by law. Even their legislators seem confused about this.

BBC BREAKING NEWS Chinese authorities say armed man attacked tanks.

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It’s not rocket science.

Schutzstaffel.

A masterpiece of the “There’s one person who gets benefits because of <<condition I don’t agree with>> so I’m going to imply that this is the biggest problem in the system”. Milburn gets so much wrong here no one should be listening to him.

I suspect that the harms done to adults by social media greatly outweigh any effect on children.

Political journalists wetting themselves at the thought of a leadership contest because that’s all they know how to report - policy is too complicated for them.

Good to hear the leaders of the Tories and Reform praising this man who has only insults for the British armed forces.

Good.

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

About 6 months ago my mother in law had a mini stroke. Having observed the symptoms and effects close up over that period of time I can say one thing almost for certain. Trump has had a stroke of some kind. The slightly slurring speech, the slight droop of eye and mouth, the favouring of one hand.

I’ve not watched the whole series but I’m fairly sure the traitor is the guy named Donald.

Why, generally, do the right favour a ban on social media for under-16s more than the left? My first guess is that the believed it will reduce the calls to further regulate platform content.

Please be Dignitas. Please be Dignitas.

Here you have Trump rambling as usual and several highly paid BBC journalists trying desperately to rationalise this nonsense. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

Just a ruse by O’Leary to improve his favourability.

Why is Macron wearing shades?

The thing I’m noting here is that Vance is third in line behind Rubio.

I do think a lot of the rational behind adult calls to ban social media for under-16s is based on projection and not evidence.

I think the British electorate will remember politicians who play party politics with the deranged pronouncements of a sick American President.

“They rise so high Nearly reach the sky Then like their dreams THEY FADE AND DIE!”

Oh yes, please do. All you Tories and Reformers please do ally yourselves with Trump. **rubs hands together**

I see quite a few people seem to think that a majority of Donald Trumps handpicked sycophantic cabinet might decide to vote that Donald Trump is incapable of fulfilling his duties as President.

That Trump message to the Norwegian PM is even more in insane when you see what it was in response to.

Children need to be protected from some content (and capabilities) available on the internet. I remain unconvinced that an under-16s ban is the best way to do this. It is likely that is the solution we will be given. It’s not optimal. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Our AI will analyse the entirety of human knowledge and give you the best answer to your question.” “No, sorry, we can’t easily identify racist posts.” Social Media platforms trying to maintain both are true.

David Attenborough got close to that gorilla, didn’t get his arms pulled off and got the piece to camera he wanted. He didn’t do it by running up to where it sat, waving his arms and shouting at it. This has something to do with current political goings on but I’m not quite sure what.