How ADHD became a multimillion-pound industry for private equity. NHS handed £128m to private ADHD companies last year. Just three private-equity backed providers of NHS ADHD services made profits £31.5m profit last year. Public money buys less. Must expand NHS capacity.

Farage’s friendship with Donald Trump is becoming his biggest vulnerability

Massie accused Lutnick of being in business with Epstein “many years after” his conviction in 2008.

SKY TV's Kamali Melbourne on Trump’s disgustingly racist post of the Obamas. 👏👏👏

“The danger is not confined to any one doctrine or term. It lies in the normalization of a judiciary that no longer sees, hears, or understands the country as it actually exists—and therefore cannot meaningfully claim to judge it” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...

No surprise www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Five young teens on life under Australia’s social media ban: ‘It’s not a big deal any more’

No surprise www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Five young teens on life under Australia’s social media ban: ‘It’s not a big deal any more’

McSweeney going is excellent news. It doesn't fix any problems by itself, but it is the precondition for fixing those problems.

#Congress: FUCKING DO something. You represent the people. The people are SCREAMING. #America is dying. #DOSOMETHING.

There is also growing speculation that Chris Wormald, the Cabinet Secretary responsible for the vetting process for Mandelson’s appointment, will soon leave No 10 as part of a wider shake-up t.co/y9sKuGXdkD

Good that people like Gordon Brown who’d turned a blind eye to malversation problems within Labour plus past Tory corruption now acknowledge need for reform. But Brown touting Margaret Hodge as an anti-corruption lead after controversies on child abuse cover ups & malversation for Israel is naive

There is something deeply and clinically wrong with this man.

But anyway, it will forever baffle me how European government's could put key aspects of Europe's security in the hands of people who believe stuff like this

Good that people like Gordon Brown who’d turned a blind eye to malversation problems within Labour plus past Tory corruption now acknowledge need for reform. But Brown touting Margaret Hodge as an anti-corruption lead after controversies on child abuse cover ups & malversation for Israel is naive

I was so hoping for a PM with decency and common sense after Boris Johnson, & here we are presented with a mind blowing lack of judgement which delivers a huge gift to Farage & Co #dispirited

At least the Times is cleared-eyed about this. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

“The Obamas are competent, classy, loving, Harvard and Princeton graduates, loved by many, not in the Epstein files, got the Nobel Peace Prize, and gave us a steady economy to boot…”

Young men are the second most liberal group in the country after young women.

Donald Trump is: - Openly racist - Covering up evidence he may have sexually abused children - Directly responsible for the murder of US citizens by masked agents of the state - Openly looting the treasury and taking bribes from foreign leaders - Polling at 38% amongst the American people

I never thought I would see a US president post a video containing such an unquestionably racist image | US News https://www.europesays.com/2761492/ When I first saw the image of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes come across my social media…

And speaking of scoops… McSweeney’s brand of political genius looks more like the Cummings variety every day.

You may recall that in January of 2025, artist Ann Telnaes announced that she had quit The Washington Post after editors killed a cartoon that depicted owner Jeff Bezos, among others, genuflecting to Trump. This cartoon feels even more relevant this week.

The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true

Can we just call these what they are? Concentration Camps!!! www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

One tends to ignore most of Donald Trump's egregious actions. There are too many. But his recent amplifying of a racist meme about the Obamas is both beyond revolting and completely expected. He is, to quote Hunter S. Thompson about Nixon, "a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president."

Have a read of this. Great scoop, obviously, but it’s also an absolute masterclass in how to report on these jokers. Plenty of London-based hacks could learn a lot from Martin Shipton here. If they actually wanted to… nation.cymru/news/the-new...

Demonstrating that Trump believes his cult will believe anything he tells them to believe, the White House announced that the shockingly racist meme posted on Trump's Truth Social account was posted by "a White House staffer." It was posted in the middle of the night, so which "staffer" is that?

Both stories about Reform UK Party Ltd’s Gorton & Denton campaign are true — they, laughably, reported Labour to the police over a ‘misleading’ video, and now they face a police investigation over breaking by-election law with deliberately misleading campaign material.

Trump has now deleted the post, with the White House now claiming, "A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down." Karoline Leavitt a few hours ago: "Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”

Over 73,000 people are currently in ICE custody, the most ever... But that's not the only shocking number: - There has been a 2,450% increase in the number of people with no criminal record being held in ICE detention on any given day.

The People of Minneapolis Will Simply Not Let the ICE Thugs Prevail newrepublic.com/article/2060... via @newrepublic.com

Powerful white men once equated Black people with monkeys to justify their abduction, deportation, enslavement, lynching and segregation. The heinous image that Trump shared is explicit racism. There is no nowhere for his supporters to hide. Supporting him is incompatible with basic human decency.

Can't stop laughing at Keir Starmer's defence being "I asked the Prince of Darkness 'are you telling me the truth?' and he said 'yes' and now I have discovered that I was LIED to by the Prince of Darkness! The Prince of Darkness LIED to me!"

We are fucking doomed.

Reform's extreme by-election candidate for Gorton and Denton wants to tax millions of childless women more for not having kids. This is insane 🤯 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Just confirmed it myself by viewing the video on Truth Social. This is real. He really did this and he has not deleted it.

Peter Mandelson’s Downfall Puts Morgan McSweeney’s Future in Doubt bylinetimes.com/2026/02/05/p...

50 ways to betray the Labour Party 1. Take personal gifts from Labour millionaires 2. Make notorious liar & malversation expert the US ambassador 3. Use party apparat to keep best successor not MP 4. Totally resist calls for independent anti-corruption agency blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp... 5....

I wrote on LSE blog in September "After recurring sleaze scandals, can Labour regain the public’s lost trust?" blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp... Did Starmer, Darren Jones, Cabinet Office - do *anything* about malversation? No, of course, not.

In Australia.. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

A Labour minister said: "The only thing that is certain is that the government is not in control of this and so it could go anywhere." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mandelson is the thread we need to keep pulling. There is so much dark capitalism to weed out from the system. These ghouls have had their man on the inside for a generation and we need to get a grip and keep pulling. Who knows, perhaps things can only get better?

Pressure building on govt to come clean about Mandelson's role in bringing US spy-tech firm Palantir into the heart of our NHS. The fingerprints of Mandelson and his lobbying firm are all over these deals. The rot goes to the heart of this Labour govt www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Again, the problem is not just Trump It is that the US does not oust him from office

This is overt racism. Full stop. There’s no ‘misinterpretation’ and no excuse. This is who he is, who he’s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again. And there’s a reason the tapes from The Apprentice have never been released.