Prior to his formal start date, the FCDO and the Cabinet Office were explicitly aware that Mandelson planned to participate in a remunerated private engagement at the UBS Greater China Conference in Shanghai.

Rupert Everett asks if there’s any chance of not mentioning that he used to be a rent boy. “I know,” he says, a little sheepishly. “It’s just that Mum used to get so upset about it.” www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Gluten-free products now make up a smaller share of new food launches than they did a few years ago. They fell from 19% in 2019 to 12% in 2025. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

www.gurumag.com/pema-chodron... When a female student came to her and told her she was raped and impregnated by her Shambhala center's leader, Chodron dismissed her claims. "I don't believe you," Chodron scoffed. Later, she told her, "If it's true, I suspect you were into it."

Donor money has a way of changing what it touches – making organisations proposal-dependent, pulling them away from members and towards funders. Pakistan may have more genuine civil society than donors ever saw ... leave it alone. Mohammad Altaf Afridi USAID www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Cole Escola is a beautiful soul. His appearance on The Late Show last night was classic Cole, if you know his comedy, yet one quote was so perfect I made a meme! Thanks Cole, you're the greatest!🫂 #ColeEscola #OhMary!

Multidimensional Religious and Spiritual Trauma Assessment (MRSTA) is designed to measure how religious and spiritual experiences affect mental and emotional well-being Survey link: uisits.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Your bug looks like a Western Conifer Seed Bug. It's narrower (less round, less wide) than the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug. Note that your bug has a long narrow head, and longer narrower body than the BMSB. Also note the two brown dots near the head. WCSB matches your picture much better.

Gulf states could be handed majority ownership of CNN and Channel 5 planned shareholding in the combined company for the Chinese tech company Tencent, “a US designated Chinese military company, with close ties to the Communist Party of China”. RedBird www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Canadian Coast Guard “A very experienced woman with blond hair – I forget her name – gave me the best advice I’ve ever gotten: ‘Hindsight won’t help you, so don’t fall into that trap. Just because you know it now … you didn’t know it before.’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

A book that covers all aspects of male queer life in Belfast from c. 1890 to 1960: cruising the city centre for sex, creating communities, reading queer novels, and navigating the tolerance offered by their families and neighbourhoods. pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Meta on Thursday began removing advertisements from attorneys who were seeking clients that claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18 ... two weeks after Meta and YouTube were found negligent in a landmark California case about social media addiction.

Disgraced Tibetan Chogyam Trungpa (Boulder Shambhala) and his disgraced son Sakyong Mipham were doing and saying the same things as the utah-az pedo cults AND the kundalini crew for access to sex, $, followers

Mandelson's private commercial ambitions in Chinese markets compromised his ability to represent the United Kingdom objectively www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pete...

Never-legally-convicted paedophile Michael Jackson ... everyone forgets about Jordan Chandler, Gavin Arvizo, Wade Robson & out-of-court settlements “he had sex with them ... never denied is that he spent nights behind closed doors with lots of little boys” www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

In Italian opera, when the music stops the intrigue begins www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

V&A censored catalogues after demands by Chinese printer www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

#China is investigating Ding Yexian, former deputy secretary in #Lhasa for corruption. He served in #Tibet for many years. I tell #RFA Tibetan that this shows the actual situation despite all claims of assistance being sent by #Beijing to Tibet. www.rfa.org/tibetan/tibe...

Alyssa Farah Griffin on today's The View - "...(a politician) doesn't pick a fight with the Pope, Dolly Parton, or the Dalai Lama..." Sage advice...

@bookgreeble.bsky.social Text in Tibetan looks #Dzogchen Naljor Chenpo or Mahayoga tantric practice ... Samten = Meditation Stability of meditative concentration is beyond ordinary thought ... In a state of pure awareness, the eye of wisdom does not waver. This, is the ultimate, original state ...

This week in surprise fragments while looking for something else!

In late February 2026, the PLA Xizang (Tibet) Military District published a video that showed personnel, likely from the 53rd Mountain Combined Arms Brigade, conducting a live-fire training exercise at a PLAA base that involved soldiers firing a new 64mm double-barrel grenade discharger.

❓What is axial spondyloarthritis, and how do regulatory T cells shape inflammation and immune balance in this disease? To find out, take a look at a recent Review by Pacheco et al.: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Paramount Skydance’s proposed $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery is being powered by $24 billion from Gulf sovereign wealth funds, with Saudi Arabia’s PIF $12 billion, and sovereign wealth funds for Abu Dhabi and Qatar $6 billion each. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Axial spondyloarthritis represents a continuum, and not everyone has structural changes in the sacroiliac joints visible on plain radiograph. #axSpA#ASAS#Rheumatology

"For those called to become translators — working from Tibetan or other languages into their own — translation requires sensitivity to meaning, context, and intention. It is rooted in lineage, responsibility, and care."

If Trump 's dementia were Alzheimer's "It would be better because he would be diminished and so his, you know, underlying personality disorder, the malignant narcissism, would be getting diminished and he'd becoming less, in terms of what he was able to do ..." www.the-express.com/news/politic...

youtube.com/watch?v=63lv... Happy Birthday Trance Legend Susan Boyle

A new and powerful volume on #Ambedkar's view of #caste and #Buddhist philosophy - my review of Pradeep Gokhale's _Classical Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism and the Question of Caste_ in the Journal of Buddhist Philosophy. www.academia.edu/106577235/My...

“It is now, for all intents and purposes, a military regime ... Mojtaba Khamenei is the window dressing. In today’s Iran, the Sepah rules alone at the top,” he says, using a Persian nickname for the IRGC. Trump is such a loser time.com/article/2026...

I will worry about things later. In many cases, when you come back the next morning after a good night’s sleep, the anxiety will be gone. Nobuko Nakano is a neuroscientist. Her book Lucky People: A Neuroscientist’s Guide to Attracting Luck, Cultivating Success and Leading a Happier Life

Hong Kong dissidents fear China’s hand in campaign of intimidation and attacks in UK British-based activists reveal a rise in violence and harassment – and say police are ignoring their concerns observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Museums are not neutral. Following the DISSENT conference @tsamtruk.bsky.social reflects on the politics of naming. The term 'Xizang' erases Tibetan identity, but our advocacy brings real change. Read the full reflection on the GATPM website. #Tibet #Museums #GATPM tsamtruk.com/2026/03/29/d...

Spent some more time singing this afternoon; hope you enjoy me doing a bit of 'Glacier' by John Grant 🙂💜🎵

​Composer Erland Cooper concludes his "Cities of the Imagination" series on #BBCRadio3 with an exploration of this geometric earthly paradise. ​A tantric mandala brought to life. ​#Radio3 #TheEssay #Shambhala #ErlandCooper www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Kyabje Chime Rinpoche (1941–2026): A Living Link Between Free Tibet and the West tsamtruk.com/2026/03/25/k...

Wagner on Schopenhauer’s philosophy, ‘a gift from heaven' ... "What charlatans all these Hegels etc. are beside him! His principal idea, the final denial of the will to live, is of terrible seriousness, but it is uniquely redeeming ... Now at last I could understand my Wotan" #philsky

“A pure heart is without will” (ein reines Herz ist willenlos) Wagner’s 1813 review of the Latin Oupnek’hat, Wagner sums up the Oupnek’hat’s main message in a striking slogan that #Schopenhauer could have wholeheartedly endorsed #skyphil

The archaeological remains of the ancient Nalanda Mahavihara, a prominent Buddhist monastery considered to be one of the greatest centres of learning in the ancient world. Often called"the world's first residential university." Photo by my hubby, 2007 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaput See ALT.

Buddha by Lama Tashi Norbu

How in God’s name did I get here? Lol ... Fasten your seatbelts and hang on to your hair! The legendary Liza Minnelli is setting the record straight in her new autobiography, Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! #skybooks #liza

#Starmer & Downing Street hiding behind "Neither Confirm Nor Deny" tactics refusing to say if PM even mentioned Tibetan boarding schools or the harassment of UK-based Tibetans during his #China trip. ​#TibetUprisingDay #TransnationalRepression #FreeTibet #FOI www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/rega...

Mandelson was "seen as an advocate for closer UK-China relations" including a 2018 speech defending Hong Kong's rule of law and calling it "absurd" to put China "in the naughty corner." Global Counsel advised CICC, Shein, and TikTok / ByteDance.

Weirdly, the due diligence report does *not* note Peter Mandelson was President of the Great Britain China Centre, which sought closer relations between the two countries. How did they miss this? It took me 2 mins on the Wayback machine (his 2022 register and possibly later made it clear)

Mandelson Files demonstrate UK's most senior diplomatic vetting processes were overridden by political convenience, despite warnings about the "depth and darkness" of Mandelson's ties, "strategic silence" on human rights or Tibet is a deliberated outcome of elite relationship building by China #CCP

That part is interwoven with the abuse. This is a summary of contact with Andrew & Jes Staley & Mandelson & Epstein taken from JP Morgan civil case (which they settled to Epstein victims). The access to girls was an integral part of the business dealings (see FCA case in last photo)

The "Mandelson Files" demonstrate that the UK's most senior diplomatic vetting processes were overridden by political convenience, despite warnings about the "depth and darkness" of Mandelson's ties

Good work. Mandelson appears across our corpus — search https://epstein.dugganusa.com for cross-references against 2M ICIJ offshore entities and 2M federal court decisions. The JPMorgan-China pipeline should light up.

Excellent FOI work on Mandelson. The ICIJ cross-reference shows 3.3M relationship edges — his offshore connections are searchable at https://epstein.dugganusa.com. Keep pulling that thread.