Peter Mandelson has been arrested by the Metropolitan Police under suspicion of Misconduct in Public Office, following search warrants at two addresses in the Wiltshire and Camden

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agree with this except I disagree that Labour had to be vague and hard brexity to be elected in 2024. Any policy platform would have won vs the rap sheet of the Tories.

Bear Grylls man, Bear Grylls

Trump appears in the files 38,000 times

They want you to believe Starmer's going because of Mandelson. He isn't. He's been on the way out since summer because the polls are disastrous because half the Labour base have gone to the Greens for entirely political reasons. This is why Starmer will go: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

The daft thing is that with Proportional Representation there'd be no need for this self-destructive war within Labour. It could split into its component parts - left and right - and people could vote for what they wanted. It's only First-Past-the-Post that forces these irreconcilables together.

Here's an impressive Zack Polanski on Starmer, Mandelson, McSweeney and Thiel – and on the importance of sometimes putting country before party politics. [SOUND ON 🔊]

Either Starmer fires McSweeney or Labour fires Starmer

👀 Epstein's Russian connections (free to read French but can translate in browser): desk-russie.eu/2025/07/28/l...

Richie Beirach in his NYC apartment in 1976. Round Midnight solo live - amazing reharms and blazing middle section: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUA1... Obituary www.wrti.org/arts-desk/20...

good article on the hateful Matthew Goodwin hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hat...

superb, intelligent podcast on AI with John Lanchester - author of The Wall. LRB. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

1/ Peter de Wit won the 2025 award for the best political cartoon in the Netherlands for "Gaza Beach 2030" (h/t @rcbregman)...

"We hold all the cards" latest

This is Trump Chickening Out. Re: Greenland: "You can say yes and we will be very appreciative, or you can say no and we will remember."

Britain is Europe’s weakest link

market crashes = nature's healing It's the only way Trump Chickens Out. Markets have to fall first - particularly US bonds and they are tanking.

remember Trump Always Chickens Out

EU to US: How do you like them apples?

The #NuclearTrade 💵

Adam Tooze on Venezuela, Greenland is the most erudite commentator on actual motivations for Trump foreign policy I've heard (by far). podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXHD...

Beautifully done. 👌

Personally I'd prefer internal bleeding (a bruise) to being shot in the face 3 times, but that's just me.

racism sure is expensive - latest

Turns out that White Lives don't matter either

just like with brexit or climate change: balance at the BBC is saying "some people claim that 2+2=4, whilst many experts claim 2+2=5"

OK walk me through how a civil war is supposed to occur. "As many as 33% of British adults polled by YouGov last year believed a civil war would occur in the next decade."

important to understand what happened to Labour - and the history behind it... "The Factional Politics of the Labour Party" from Culture, Power, Politics - also issued on the Compass podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers

Yikes!

Starmer: "You do not need to have a PhD in economics to know that erecting unnecessary trade barriers with your biggest trading partner will hurt growth and raise the cost of living." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Also Starmer:

1. Eyeballing this, I make it about a 50% drop in trade export volume from UK to the EU since the referendum. John Authers (Bloomberg)

“We know what these flags are....This has been a deliberately toxified symbol. Everyone knows what it means, including the people who put the flags up” YouGov poll found that "the majority of ethnic minority adults now see the Saint George flag as a racist symbol" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

Why did Reeves pitch roll tax increases if she knew they weren't necessary?

All the Right Wing apologists are cheering the fall in UK immigration announced today while missing what could be a huge problem - 99% of emigrants are under the age of 35. That’s a big brain drain.

Hoisted by their own petard: Labour trapped by tax promises and the stagflation inevitable from hard brexit. Only solution is electoral reform - ending the primacy of the median provincial authoritarian voter and allowing improved tax revs from single market. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...