Just because someone is rich and highly successful in business doesn't mean their brain can't be utterly melted online.

BBC News - Andrew shared confidential information with Epstein as trade envoy, files suggest www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

New on FT website: Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract. www.ft.com/content/5bba...

While we should all be looking very hard at Starmer’s leadership, this week Nigel Farage decided that the people who vote for him would prefer to have cheaper beer at the expense of children being lifted out of poverty.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Sorry I don't think I'll ever get over the concept of "an Epstein-branded top", what do you MEAN that's a thing that exists???

Steve Bannon tells Epstein he can get Boris Johnson elected as Prime Minister www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Well Well Well

More integrity in his little finger than his detractors have displayed in entire careers.

I love that the Paris prosecutor's office asked for Elon to come in for an interview on 4/20.

“A review of 47 victims’ full names on Sunday found that 43 of them were left unredacted in files that were made public by the government on Friday, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Several women’s full names appeared more than 100 times in the files. “ www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...

Donald Trump raped children. I’m not sure what’s left to discuss.

I reported back in *August 2024* that Goodwin had left the university of Kent. And that the supposed emeritus title he used was nothing of the sort. Since then he’s only hid a part-time title from a private for-profit university. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-m...

PS - The fact that the media was informed of the NEC decision before I was tells you everything you need to know about the way the Labour Party is being run these days. You would think that over 30 years of service would count for something but sadly not. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. But after his latest insults to British troops, sending Charles, Head of the British Armed Forces, to honour Trump, would be a slap in the face to veterans.

May 2007. SeaWorld, Florida. Coalition troops were on active duty in Afghanistan. The coming few years saw the greatest allied losses of the entire war. Please remind the current 🇺🇸commander in chief that NATO troops were very much there. #trump #nato

the female astronaut that we'ee sending to the moon had to warn her husband that he won't just be able to call her to ask where something is in the house 💀💀💀💀

Prince Harry has joined Keir Starmer in criticising false claims by Donald Trump that British and NATO troops were not on the frontline in Afghanistan. British "sacrifices deserve to be spoken about truthfully and with respect" news.sky.com/story/prince...

Board of Peace - Season 1

How dare the Coward in the White House undermine the bravery and sacrifice of our British troops. Reform and Nigel Farage should be ashamed to associate themselves with him.

Amazing concept and delivery.

Five-time draft dodger and abject coward says what?

For anyone who's interested, James O'Brien is discussing Trump's comments about NATO on his programme this morning with traumtaised ex-military and bereaved families phoning in. Callers in tears at the sense of betrayal and anger. It makes for difficult listening. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Please, Faraazagtha Christie and Jack to win. #thetraitors

how far is Davos from Dignitas

NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

The Trump disbelief that the Norwegian govt doesn't control the Nobel process is deeply indicative of his thinking. He can't conceive that an institution could (or should) be genuinely independent of coercion or political power. That's the change he represents.

'Pete' the parakeet who we rescued overnight a few years back after he slammed into our patio doors. Flew away beautifully.

Watching Trump at the podium holding up laminated pictures of ICE captives rambling on and on... And his toddler bulldog clip incident. Is this the guy that world leaders are scared of? Phenomenal.

This is (1) disgraceful at a moment of national danger, (2) laughably unserious and (3) deeply unwise when the President is obviously becoming incapacitated and the most unpopular person in the whole UK. Utterly disqualifying.

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

🔴 Last week the Free Speech Union got a High Court writ to prevent the publication of a list of its donors So we decided to investigate who *does* fund Toby Young's outfit Wanna see? 🫣 New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...

We kicked in $5K to help buy some beer for the Ford autoworker 😉🍻! Thank you TJ! Link we were sent for the GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/tj-sabula-...

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

Ten years on, I’m not sure people voted for what Brexit has delivered. The value of new trade deals? Around £14bn a year. The cost of Brexit to the economy? Closer to £180bn a year. See a clip from today's committee hearing here:

More appalling news from dystopia central www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

“God damn them all.”

This is interesting because when I went for my first Covid vaccination, Farage arrived and pushed straight to the front of the queue.

This administration is profoundly hateful and destructive. They are also liars and idiots.

I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI. The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.

New post just out: "The Overshoot" Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration. What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election? (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

Nigel Farage has been a lifelong racist. He's been a racist since his school days. David Lammy was forced to apologise for saying Farage flirted with the Hitler Youth - but what do you call it when someone sings Hitler Youth songs? Read Chloe Deakin's letter on Farage's fascism and racism at school.