Viktor Shklovsky couldn't have done a better job defamiliarizing the Cornish pasty

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has announced today a record £1bn invest in community-owned energy. This is the start of an energy ownership revolution which will see communities and community assets benefit from renewables in their areas. 📺 Watch him explain.

Why is it fine for him but not for the rest of us?

You would think one minor thing they might learn from the whole Mandelson fiasco would be that the culture of "he had a good resignation, let's bring him back in 6 months" should end, but apparently not

Can you guess where I am? Spooner Row station! A vital weekday train was cut after Christmas, so I raised it with Greater Anglia and Network Rail. From Monday 9 February the 5.27pm Norwich to Spooner Row service is back. Small stations matter. youtu.be/C6uL5z_oGxo

Why is it fine for him but not for the rest of us?

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...

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...

I’m not sure ‘our national security developed vetting technique can be beaten if a candidate is prepared to lie’ is an especially helpful line to push.

i am v pro supporting pubs but 'hmm, children or pubs? pubs obviously!' is the most Reform choice i can imagine

I know I won't be the first to have noticed this, but why was arch strategist / machiavellian manipulator par excellence / supreme political operator Peter Mandelson always oblivious to photographers six feet away taking pictures of him in embarrassing situations?

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor. Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time. A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.

BREAKING: A federal judge has just ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father from the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas!

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social Hi Andrew, Can I ask a question I'm not sure I've ever seen asked or answered anywhere: are there any sitting Labour MPs who are rumoured to be considering / suspected of defecting to the Green Party?

I saw the headline Suella Braverman Defects and thought "That'll be a long list"

I saw the headline Suella Braverman Defects and thought "That'll be a long list"

One of my students is undertaking her independent study project on voting behaviour. If you like surveys and answering questions about ballot casting, this is the questionnaire for you. It will take five minutes to fill out and it's totally anonymous.

Mole in Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's garden at Wolferton The Eastern Daily Press, which knows a news story when it sees one, wins our Headline of the Day Award.

And my skeets don't get seen by any of them.

Bluesky reaches 42 million users bsky.jazco.dev/stats

i see the US is swapping mines and bases on Greenland for mines and bases on Greenland BUT crucially everyone hates them now, fill in your own Art of the Deal joke here www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🚨WOW! Now closing on 88,000 signatures! The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed. Let’s keep going! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Dear God. Listening to Trump at the Board of Peace launch. The only thing he should be president of is the Ramblers' Association.

When Farage shows his friends a perfect mountain view from his foreign national girlfriend’s home in Clacton.

Carney at Davos: "And this aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable, as the natural logic of international relations reasserting itself." Trump at Davos:

Interesting this latest defection to Reform has been released to the press tonight, rather than fanfared via one of Farage's habitual press conferences. Did he not want to be standing next to Rosindell while journalist after journalist brought up rape and sexual assault allegations?

I have to admit @tuc.org.uk win this hands down after the #Jenrick sacking

X and Grok are doing those legislators who want to rein in AI asap a HUGE favour

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I’m running for Congress in NY-12, my home. We have a demented, criminal president running the country like a mob operation—government by the boss, for the boss. We need Democratic fighters who will defend the rule of law and deliver government by the people. Join us.

There's an article on Lib Dem Voice this morning with the headline "Why liberal internationalism must reject camp politics". I'm not proud of it, but I couldn't help thinking of this.

Hoping devoutly thqt the govt of Greenland has been watching "The Mouse That Roared" on repeat. Bit of a niche observation, this one. #Venezuela

Happy New Year! Let's hope 2026 is EVEN BETTER than last year

Am thinking of writing a Christmas/anniversary post about why Jane Austen is our greatest writer about law. She can deftly describe the most complex of legal relationships - entails, succession, etc - in a sentence or two. And you don’t even notice she’s done it. Awesome.

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

Thelma Ferris dressed as Peter Pan is a Christmas film.

Stephen Flynn criticises Nigel Farage from attacking children who speak more than one language #BBCQT "A man who aspires to be PM of these isle would pick a fight with school kids, would hold school kids up as an object to beat, absolutely repulses me and it should repulse all of you as well"

@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social Morning Andrew, Why isn't the govt shouting loudly about the Salisbury Convention? Surely the Lords are flagrantly ignoring it?

Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy. Enough to power 23 million homes! U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.

Minutes ago today the Trump regime abruptly cancelled citizenship ceremonies for several immigrants in Boston. THEY CANCELLED CITIZENSHIP CEREMONIES. These immigrants followed every rule & did everything right—Trump banned them anyway. All are from Black & brown majority nations. This Is Fascism.

BREAKING: Farage 'reported to police over claim of election fraud in Clacton', but only by some woke, lefty member of Reform UK www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

BREAKING: Farage 'reported to police over claim of election fraud in Clacton', but only by some woke, lefty member of Reform UK www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Sensational coup for Farage, as he announces the defection to Reform of Lord McHoosit of Dinnaeken www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sensational coup for Farage, as he announces the defection to Reform of Lord McHoosit of Dinnaeken www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...