NEW: Police confirm Peter Mandelson has been arrested Met spokesperson- “He was arrested at an address in Camden on Monday, 23 February and has been taken to a London police station for interview. This follows search warrants at two addresses in the Wiltshire and Camden areas.”

Coo lumme. Such is history.

They've been fighting the Ukraine for eight years, latterly with the active help of China, moere recently still with the tacit support of the USA stepping aside as far as they can. And they're STILL not winning. For Europe to surrender to them now would be a shameful nonsense.

Every now and then, I remember that JD Vance smashed the "like" button after reading this tweet, then went back and unliked it five years later when he ran for the Senate.

The regime believes it will survive a bombing campaign better than it would survive surrender. Because it knows Trump won't invade, and he'll get too bored to keep going after longer than a week or two. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/w...

Lying for Jesus is permissable.

Does Britain now do God? Reform UK's Zia Yusuf pledged to restore a Christian heritage to tackle the “crisis of meaning.” But British Future's @sundersays.bsky.social says: “There’s an irony that it is Britain’s new migrant populations that are slowing the decline of church-going in Britain.”

Prior to 2015, if any candidate for elected office had begun a public statement or tweet with this sentence, he or she would have been laughed out of public life. Now, Americans re-elect them as commander-in-chief. I will never allow myself to become numb to his insanity.

As long as they promise to hurt people, they'll do fine!

Word. I'm still paying down my credit card from the fact that you pay £1000 plus for ILR and then another £1000 plus for citizenship. It's outrageous you have to pay twice for both. But I did it because my lawyer advised that immigration policies are fast moving. #lookingforextrawork

A lot of Republicans who insist that the system is rigged against people like them have a perverse admiration for people in power who take everything they can get. They tell themselves they'd do the same thing if they had the chance.

Kenny MacAskill and Alex Salmond believed the SNP would be helpless without them, just like John McCormick once did, just like Ruairidh Erskine of Marr once did. As it turns out, it was them who were helpless without the SNP. And so this chapter is closed.

Virginia Giuffre died aged 42.

“It was his very lifestyle that offered something worth aspiring to. Not a vision for society, but a vision for the individual: to say, do, and be whatever you want without consequence—not in spite of cruelty or selfishness, but because of those things.” www.liberalcurrents.com/what-trump-s...

Does he imagine, if he says this loudly enough, that they won't want to deport him?

The cruelty, as Adam Serwer puts it, is the point. It's also, as I'd put it, a turn on for weird fuckers.

The cruelty, as Adam Serwer puts it, is the point.

People like Musk and Trump (and Orban, Farage and Putin, to name but three) perhaps believe that they represent the future...or where the power is going to lie in that transhuman paradise they pine for. But they don't represent the future. They are trying, Canute like, to prevent it.

Matthew Goodwin, at the BBC hustings: "I never said people who are born in Britain are not British". I'm not sure of the exact form of words he used but here are some of the things he did say, on the record, as reported by @hopenothate.org.uk hopenothate.org.uk/2026/02/11/w...

They are both only interested in future deals in Moscow...because both are stuck in Cold War mentalities where Russia are the big boys, and form an ideological leadership. The future, however, is Ukrainian...that is, "Borderland"...in between what used to be...

Links to filmed extracts of two plays of mine. Fine performances and direction, neither of which had anything to do with me. www.eigenproductions.co.uk/face/#film www.eigenproductions.co.uk/signalman/#f...

What a stupid ahistorical idea. Long and universal tradition of religious building being reused by other religions. From Brick Lane to Seville.

This is what happens when you create a power vacuum...people fight over filling it. Look at Libya, think about Iran. (Not that they're the same...which is the point.)

Providing "multicultural" cover for racists is a pretty lucrative gig.

All Matt Goodwin did was suggest that women should be at home having babies to prevent the white race being replaced; argue for a far-right ethno-nationalist state; & choose a Holocaust-denying antisemite to run his campaign, & the next thing you know, he’s being labelled a Nazi. Shocking!

Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good. Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies. So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.

The real numbers are about 160k (0.2% of people, one 1 in 500) who speak essentially no English, and around one million (1.4%, or 1 in 70) who don't speak it confidently.

Funny. When I was at University , it was students with right wing views who posted Swastikas through people's doors because they were Jewish.

"This is no way to run a declining empire!" 🧵👇

🧵 "Do you seriously want Angry Granpaw running your military, or your economy?"

Funny. When I was at University , it was students with right wing views who posted Swastikas through people's doors because they were Jewish.

Never make a deal with a man who sues plumbers when they present a bill for pipework.

Slightly buried in this excellent piece is the fact that Goodwin shares Stephen Miller’s love of the US 1924 Immigration Act - the one admired by Hitler and the reason why so many Jewish refugees (including Anne Frank’s family) were turned away www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

The Stop Reform UK tactical voting campaign recommends a Green vote on Thursday in the MP by-election to stop Reform's Matthew Goodwin. Will be interested to see how well this holds up. Labour are still throwing everything at the seat from what I can tell. Messy under FPTP.

Insidious slippery BBC behaviour. I hate to say ‘I told you so.’ But it was so f***ing obvious at the time. They were spinning cartwheels to find a pro Brexit economist like Minford, then presenting as if they were plenty of economists on either side of the debate.

Illegal migrant in small boat stopped from entering sovereign territory without a permit.

Why Dementia Donald sends a ship? A U.S. Navy sailor was medically evacuated Saturday afternoon from an American nuclear-powered submarine by Danish military forces, according to a U.S. and Danish official. The sailor is being treated at a hospital in Nuuk, Greenland's capital (free of charge;-)

This will be exactly it. The Greenanders helped an American, so must be punished.

Emily Maitlis: “It might take our producers five minutes to find 60 economists who feared Brexit, and five hours to find a sole voice who espoused it. But by the time we went on air we simply had one of each; we presented this unequal effort to our audience as balance. It wasn’t.”

The Democrats will be back in power by the time the US Government has to pay anything. Plus Ca Change.

Yes.

Sorry to my Hungarian friends...but the threat of expulsion from the EU has to be made real. And the coalition of the unwilling circumvented.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2587540... This feels about right. Extraordinary day, however you tell the story.

Portugal had the worst drug problem in Western Europe in the 90s, then they decriminalised drugs and focused on treatment instead of imprisonment. Now they have the lowest number of drug deaths per capita in Europe. Decriminalisation works, so keep doing what you're doing with this.

In every accusation of their enemies, they tell you a little more about stuff they're up to themselves.

"In essence this is the very substance of the rightwing strategy: politicians feign enough of an interest in what voters care about so they can get on with what they care about."

Democracy in the UK. 2026. How it works. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

She probably imagines a World Government as being a collection of rich people who give her money instead of voting. I wonder where she got that idea! (Glances over the Atlantic)

Farage has a problem with equality, its doesnt help mediocre rich white men like himself.

People like Hannan misinterpret the exhausted silence with which their stupdities are greeted as "consent."