Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports

FIFA: the barrel has no bottom.

It is increasingly clear that Donald Trump has no idea what he meant by "hemisphere".

🚨 WaPo scoop: You've heard of Trump's "board of peace." Now HHS wants to build its own World Health Organization that will cost exponentially more than the U.S.'s contribution to the WHO. -- with the incredible @lenasun.bsky.social

If you’re wondering how the government’s new towns pitch is going down locally… just driven through one proposed site where there’s giant AI generated posters of Steve Reed with a tank of petrol setting the countryside on fire.

My colleague Julia Ainsley, who is not on this site but is a killer on the DHS beat, obtained exclusive photos of Kristi Noem's luxury jet that she needs for "deportations."

I have also wondered this. I've also wondered what the downside would be in just handing it over, tbh.

The British right buggering about on Diego Garcia are acting against some pretty major strategic interests. Some of them don't know that. Some know and just don't care.

Speaking as a citizen of a country that competes against the US for medals: please do this!

FT exclusive: Global Counsel, the advisory firm founded by Lord Peter Mandelson, is set to go into administration as soon as Friday in the wake of revelations about the former peer and Jeffrey Epstein, its staff have been told. www.ft.com/content/ad5d...

Grudging credit where it's due: perfectly reasonable idea, this.

What could be more Trumpian than establishing a board of peace on the eve of launching a new overseas war? inews.co.uk/news/world/t...

"Trump is addicted to the spectacle, high on his own supply as a man who can make audacious moves on the world stage that others wouldn’t dare, and obsessed with the idea of creating a legacy for himself – with no idea of how to actually do that." inews.co.uk/news/world/t...

It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.

The wording here is truly bizarre. To the point of being borderline nonsensical. Did no one read it back before sending it?

Here we go again

America: well we must have extended immunity for the president because we inherited the principle of sovereign immunity from British legal tradition, and... Britain: *arrests the brother of the sovereign*

Remember that he has the right to be questioned by an officer at least one rank higher in the line of succession

The entire Chagos Islands deal is being done to help the US keep its dammed military base. How much political capital is Keir Starmer willing to spend trying to save Donald Trump from himself? Especially when Trump cannot remember his stance on this from one day to the next?

oh to be the person behind the counter at the cop shop who gets to say 'can you confirm your date of birth? oh it's today. happy birthday' what a treat

The former Prince Andrew, now officially known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor-who-has-repeatedly-denied-any-wrongdoing

Interesting is see whether an unpaid trade envoy role will be a 'public office' for the purposes of Misconduct in Public Office. No more comments on this case from me now, and replies off.

I wonder who Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor regards to be his peers. A jury made up of disgraced European royalty, maybe?

Bet Princess Anne feels a lot better about being fined for her bitey dog

Quite the 66th birthday present for the Andrew formerly known as Prince.

Skipping a full process on a contentious candidate, I see. Keor Starmer really is determined to just keep doing that until it works, isn't he?

People are still replying to this so I might as well RT again for people to read. Come for the row, stay for the cost of living in Islington stats!

The endless headaches over Diego Garcia really show the problems of trying to do long-term deals where: 1. The US president agrees with whoever spike to him last on it, and is happy to u-turn many times 2. UK politicians have decided its okay to undermine UK foreign policy with an allied leader

Replaying FF16 after about two years away and huh a *lot* of characters lose an eye during the story, don't they. Like, several more than you'd expect in really any single game.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Replaying FF16 after about two years away and huh a *lot* of characters lose an eye during the story, don't they. Like, several more than you'd expect in really any single game.

I think there are some pretty legitimate questions for the Greens to answer in this short thread – entirely possible they didn't know the history here, but if so they should say that and distance themselves.

Working from home often requires compromises.

Basically the entire core of Microsoft pitch on AI is that it's the safe, responsible one that corporates and governments can use. So this is very much not what they needed to happen.

"The USA has one of the largest and most experienced diplomatic corps on the planet, but under Trump, the entire operation has been outsourced to one man. It’s Steve Witkoff – a man who cannot remember the names of Ukrainian territories – or nothing." inews.co.uk/news/world/t...

Another drop in London house prices plus the slowest private rent growth in the country according to the ONS. TfL data has passenger journeys down by 4% year on year as of October 25. Given the wider migration picture - doesn’t this all point to London’s population falling?

"I'm going to say something I should never say, but I will anyway: you can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone."

Sad for the athletes. But every other European nation should follow suit. A stain if we compete. A line has to be drawn.

That's just how bad things are in modern Britain. Even the thieves have no hustle left.

I'm sorry, but give me a break! No party that claims it's finally getting serious about policy would appoint a philosopher and a theologian to oversee the process. Utterly absurd.

It’s now quite hard to sustain that ex-mining, pro-Brexit, Labour-to-Reform swing seats (via levelling up) have been overlooked or forgotten by Westminster. They’ve been the axis of politics 15 years. Why it hasn’t worked is the question

"Dame Antonia is described as behaving in an "unreasonable," "degrading," and "demeaning" way towards staff and of being more interested in promoting her own "personal brand" on social media than that of the UK government." The second half of that complaint is said quite widely around Whitehall.

Starmer needs to commission an independent inquiry into Labour Together- or he too becomes implicated in an increasingly unsustainable cover-up New by me in @theguardian.com on why PM needs to act on Labour Together hiring a PR firm to smear journalists www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Marco Rubio just flew to Budapest to deliver a speech in which he provided a full endorsement of Viktor Orbán in the upcoming Hungarian elections. Here is the letter he signed in 2019 warning about Hungary's "downward democratic trajectory" under Orbán h/t Carrick Ryan

Farage absolutely clueless on the Epstein/Mandelson story here, where the FT (especially @pickardje.bsky.social) has led the way on recent revelations. His thin skin could easily become a vulnerability.

"The White House is caught in a trap of its own making. During the election, it thought it could use the Epstein story to embarrass Democrats, and then drop it without anyone noticing. That hasn’t worked, and their obvious desperation to move the story on only makes it harder for them to do so."

Britain enters its greatest recession of all time due to the Great Plumber Surfeit of 2037.

Yes, my nine-year-old that I just made up is constantly coming home from school with excessive homework from double gender followed by woke studies. AND the school is even teaching identities in maths class now!

They found a woman! Only one, of course. Don't want to get carried away.