So that’s now three Brits — Ghislaine Maxwell, Former Prince known as Andrew, Peter Mandelson — arrested as a result of Jeffery Epstein. Come US. You bang on about habeas corpus, warrantless searches, Magna Carta and the rule of law Have you really surrendered to King Donald?

Reliably the most essential reading on any legal current affairs story.

Mandelson now arrested, following Andrew M-W. Our @bylinetimes.bsky.social front page deep dive into the Epstein files out now seems ever more relevant. You can read the edition now online subscribe.bylinetimes.com/editions/83/

Trainspotting was released #OTD 1996. Director: Danny Boyle. #Filmsky

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 #BlackHistoryMonth is an opportunity to learn about Black men & women who made contributions to society that do not appear in history books. Today, we honor Major Elizabeth Allen, U.S. Army. Pull up a seat.🪑(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Zhoom! What was that? That was your life, Mate! Oh, that was quick. Do I get another? Sorry, Mate. That's your lot.

As we near the 10th anniversary of Brexit, with evidence the damage to our economy is even worse than predicted, time to remind ourselves of Brexit Battalions ‘Media Corps’ who pushed for and celebrated this. Good time to tag them in. Any apologies?

Nigel Farage lashes out at a FT journalist and refuses to answer the question. Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?

🔴 SCOOP: Wife of Starmer’s comms chief had direct knowledge of Labour Together’s investigation into journalists, documents seen by D4S show Revelation heaps more pressure on minister Josh Simons to explain why he paid a PR firm to dig dirt on reporters democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

‘A white man’s war, a Black man’s fight’: the eye-opening story of Black soldiers in Vietnam

Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......

JUST IN: Trump DELETES racist post depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, blames a "White House staffer." Karoline Leavitt previously defended the post and criticized the public outcry as "fake outrage."

In a democracy, we are supposed to feel like we have control over our lives because the people control the government. But in the U.S., people feel like our lives are out of control because the people don’t control the federal government.

Anyone in doubt that Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell knew what they were doing in the weeks before his first arrest need look no further. I guess they got a thrill out of it

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.

The 50 wealthiest families in the UK own more than 34 million people combined. That level of inequality is totally unsustainable. A wealth tax isn’t radical - it’s inevitable. And the Green Party will keep making the case.

NB: In 2008 Peter Mandelson - then EU Trade Commissioner - holidayed on the yacht of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of Putin. Deripaska benefited from a cut in EU aluminium tariffs introduced by Mandelson.

Donald Tusk says that Poland is now investigating connections between Epstein and the Russian Secret Service

Can anyone *imagine* what would have happened if it had become public, at the height of the financial crisis, that Mandelson was leaking to Wall Street, and advising bankers to threaten his own Government? To stop a tax on bankers' bonuses! Would the Government have fallen?

Texas — Trump supporter fights kids Kids win www.instagram.com/reel/DUS-0sy...

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

I really can’t keep up with this. It’s like every vague suspicion of oligarch, finance and tech power come together - with Russian influence. Yes, you’re not imagining. Only Mandelson, Lebedev, Milner and Epstein and L’Affaire Russe

“De-escalating”

youtube.com/watch?v=TXQY... How #BBC bias & propaganda stymied Scotlands referendum in 2014.

I’m sure others have noticed this exchange between Michael Wolff and Epstein about exorbitant price Rybolovlev’ paid to Trump for his the Palm Beach Mansion and suspicious trades with MBS - but how many have twigged that Rybolovlev is part of the current Ukraine negotiating team?

Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass withdrew his highly anticipated Symphony No. 15 from its scheduled Kennedy Center performance, saying “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.”

There's a tendency to suggest - as Karoline Leavitt did today - that because Tom Homan once worked for Obama, he can't be all that extreme. The actual story of his personal transformation down the path of zealotry can be found here: www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

Greenland has enough rare earth minerals to supply the world for the next 115 years, but residents fear new mining will destroy their livelihoods. Al Jazeera’s Nick Clark filmed this visit to mineral-rich southern Greenland in 2021.

Looking at the video footage so far I think its questionable whether he was armed at the moment he was killed.

If the government executing us in the streets isn’t your red line, then you’ve already decided to endorse it. There’s no gray area left. No ambiguity.

UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:

This is Alex Pretti.

'The Minnesota man who was killed by federal agents on Saturday has been identified as Alex Pretti, 37, a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which serves veterans.'

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

Mine for @theipaper.com on a bouncing ball you need to keep watching. inews.co.uk/news/world/t...

Has anybody collected pro-Trump headlines from UK newspaper commentators in one place? First & second term. Especially ones attacking his critics. If not, bung me your favourites & I'll do it myself.

A year ago today Boris the Liar spaffed out this description of an event that didn't actually happen and the Daily Fail still put it on the front page because who cares about actual facts?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Please please please put up the clip from Victoria about the bond market. She was on point 👍

@denverwaxfiend.bsky.social that looks like a rega planar record deck in your possession !!

We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...

And while we’re recommending YouTube films, here’s the inimitable @petergeoghegan.bsky.social doing the Lord’s work. Because nothing says ‘free speech champions’ like, erm, going to Court to keep who funds your payroll secret. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP0O...

petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1... Defecting politicians are treating their activists and voters with contempt. Sign this petition and make them fight a bi election.

A massive "Hands off Greenland" protest is happening right now in Copenhagen to demonstrate against Trump's threats. "The aim is to send a clear and unified message of respect for Greenland's democracy," organisers said. “Respect for Greenland, respect for Greenlanders, respect for Denmark.”

Sky's Rob Powell asks Nigel Farage that, given Robert Jenrick is the 7th person to have served in Boris Johnson's government to defect to Reform, how can his party be "a new, reforming force" when it is "bringing in so many people who caused the mess that you're trying to clean up"

New 2026 thread to retest in real time if X reporting system *mostly* ignores/protects unlawful racist abuse reported to it Criteria: direct racist abuse @ people that would be unlawful on the bus + is unlawful online + that broad consensus (9/10 people across parties) would agree should be stopped

in other news apparently you can now get shot for being smug

They don't seem to realize that the video of them abusing a legal observer is probably worse than whatever video the legal observer had already obtained of them.

SNP’s more progressive taxation raised £4 billion for higher employment, lower crime, shorter hospital waiting lists, more teachers and better schools talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/01/13/1...

Scotland were dragged out of the EU by a corrupt bunch of charlatans who broke electoral law in order to win & the @BBC refused to investigate further substack.com/inbox/post/1...