4 months after Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, Forbes reports that Binance now holds $4.7 billion of the $5.4 billion supply of Trump’s World Liberty Financial stablecoin. That is 87%. It is the largest corruption scandal in the history of the US presidency.

2-1 now!!!!

1-1 for @morecambefc.bsky.social tonight so far. Great bit of play to go 1 up in the 23rd but then tamely surrendered the lead 15 mins later

This is what we're up against. Bangor University, that fine and noble institution where I've spoken twice, nearly 150 years young and still going strong. The sheer hatred they reserve for us shows what could happen after 2029, but also that they're frightened of knowledge and learning.

“A student debating society in Bangor has barred several Reform members. This will lead to petrol bombs” is a moronic take to begin with. But obviously what he means is he hopes it leads to petrol bombs. The threat is implicit and explicit.

In a touching tribute to his mentor, Morgan McSweeney has resigned in disgrace.

That was one of the more astounding things of reading the various “Morgan’s buddies” post-mortems, a total refusal to even acknowledge how the Government’s electoral performance is going while still touting this guy as a brilliant strategist heading off the soft left or whatever

Indeed. 'Things are going so badly we can't be certain of retaining a mayoralty in one of our safest areas with a popular incumbent. This is no time for a change of approach, strategy or leader'. You...sure about that one pal?

After a certain point the sanity of Palantir's leadership does matter to the national security of the UK and other European states buying its software

Hopefully someone has bought @cjayanetti.bsky.social a pint by now to celebrate

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

Unfortunately it’s not going according to plan as we trail Truro by one goal to nil. More focus and energy for the second half please @morecambefc.bsky.social

Jimbos Homecoming at @morecambefc.bsky.social

Well done, The National. And fuck you, Mandelson. It’s in the public interest. www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...

Depressing to see AI used in the Olympics opening ceremony. So much of it was showing off Italy's artistic work and people only for the theft and soulless regurgitation of art to be included

Exclusive: Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons was provided with intelligence files gathered on journalists (including me) who had reported on Labour Together, the thinktank he chaired at the time (before he became an MP), sources say. Know more about this story? Contact me, Signal: henrydyer.01

Let's say a new leader became PM on 1st April. They could be Prime Minister until the 16th August 2029. That would make them the Prime Minister with the median time in office - 29 would have served more, 29 would have served less. Three Years & a few months is actually a really long time in politics

GUY WHO FOLLOWS BRITISH POLITICS CLOSELY BUT ALSO HAS RETROGRADE AMNESIA: still just absolutely reeling from the news that peter mandleson had compromising connections to wealthy crooks. it must have been such a shock to keir starmer to discover that fact. there were no warning signs

I realise McSweeney is big news right now, but the story here should be about Josh Simons, a government minister www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

The President of the US is a eugenicist white nationalist. It’s like having Woodrow Wilson back in the White House, only without any of the good parts.

I think the problem with this approach is the power of US money rapidly makes them the only ideological show in town on the right, and then regardless of domestic opposition to MAGA, you are one bad economic run from them getting power.

Politics being out of touch with realities will tend towards instability

Yet this is a government with three years left to run and an enormous Commons majority. For all the problems, there is an enormous opportunity there for someone with the political nous to take it and use it.

“..if those now shouting loudest had been shouting then, the question would have been harder to avoid — and the appointment less likely to be made.” “Many of the same columnists now condemning Starmer praised him at the time for appointing a “master of the dark arts”, for taking a gamble.”

Remember the controversy when Obama was accused of intervening in UK politics? This is the current US government openly seeking to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.

So true. Also, many of the Americans doing literally nothing about Epstein’s American ‘associates’ are precisely the ones lying about Europe & particularly the UK being overrun with child-rapists. It’s insane.

this is such a weird story: An influential Labour-aligned think-tank previously run by Morgan McSweeney, now Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, paid a public affairs company to identify the source of leaks to journalists about the group’s funding. www.ft.com/content/dca0...

A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

@neillcameron.bsky.social what do you think of my daughters donut. Introducing Gamernut - “must…reach…high score!”

Weird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Washington Post reporter laid off while freezing in a war zone by one of the world’s richest people.

Washington Post, 2017: Democracy dies in darkness! Washington Post, 2026: [Emperor Palpatine voice] Democracy dies in darkness.

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

Unbelievable

Well, I would criticise Lord Mandelson, but two and a half years ago, a UK government official emailed me to tell me that I can't criticize government officials on social media, for a period going back five years. So. I have to wait a bit. (You think I'm kidding. The UK government told me that)

Why are the names of those who sent these emails to Epstein redacted?

America, 2026

Why are they protecting monsters?! Unredact this now!!

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

Who is Lesley Goff and why aren’t they being charged? #epsteinfiles

It’s the Epstein files deja vu: how many more powerful men knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway? | Marina Hyde

Times: The Metropolitan Police is expected to announced on Tuesday evening that Mandelson is being investigated on suspicion of misconduct in public office, an offence that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

Only days after the Raynor Winn rehabilitation efforts began, the Observer podcast has family members saying that, after Winn's in-laws sold their house to downsize, she emptied their bank account. Wonder if that'll be in her next fictional walks book. podcastaddict.com/the-walkers-...

NEW: Who was John Pond? This August 2009 email exchange which was forwarded to Jeffrey Epstein included Mandelson, the PM's PPS Jeremy Heywood, the minister/adviser Shriti Vadera and... John Pond. Two sources have told the BBC that John Pond was in fact Gordon Brown, then the PM

BREAKING on ft website: Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans www.ft.com/content/fdf7...

The memo talked about the UK having "saleable assets in hand". Epstein asked what they were, and Mandelson helped him out... Again, Epstein and his clients have an obvious interest.