A government enthralled to men and corporations drunk on power is the rot at the centre of the Mandelson scandal. Of all seven of the Nolan principles, openness can help build back the most trust. Every MP, like me, should release logs of all lobbying meetings.

BREAKING: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance "People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense” Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!

Spot on from Tom Baldwin: Keir Starmer is like a butcher who doesn't eat meat and doesn't want to know how sausages are made He always gives me the impression that he thinks politics is somehow beneath him

Anas Sarwar is about to call for Starmer to resign for his appalling judgement when it came to Peter Mandelson. The same Anas Sarwar who proudly posed with his 'old friend' years after everyone knew that Mandelson stuck with Epstein despite his conviction for child sex offences.

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Here's an idea for Starmer: Why not keep the promises he made when he was elected Labour leader? 👌🏻Public ownership 👌🏻Scrapping tuition fees 👌🏻Higher taxes on the wealthy 👌🏻Free movement in the EU This would be a pretty popular platform right now

How indeed. Or did Starmer, like Johnson when he gave his Russian mate Lebedev a peerage, ignore his own intelligence services? We need to know.

McFadden's phony expressions of concern around how women were discussed in the Epstein files are nauseating We all know he is part of the boys' club inside Number 10 that denigrates women And part of the macho culture that has always dominated the Labour Party #BBCLauraK

Post-Brexit sales of British farm products to EU fall by 37% www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🤪😡😤The photo for the profile is actually taken in the home Salisbury that was raided by police yesterday

Big polluters, climate deniers, and oil and gas interests have donated millions to Reform. Why? Because they trust them. But we don't. The Green Party is taking on Reform and their corporate backers - because we know whose interests they serve. Are you with us?

If Reform are behind this letter attacking the Greens from a "concerned neighbour" & have printed & distributed it with nothing to say who has paid for this, it's a serious electoral offence. It also shows they know the Greens are their main opposition in Gorton & Denton, & can win.

The answer reveals a troubling truth about accountability in our democracy. While removal is technically possible, it’s extraordinarily difficult, & is completely out of the hands of the British public. Members of the Lords are not only unelected, but virtually immune from democratic accountability

The destruction of women by powerful men is a tragedy But the Epstein scandal demonstrates how the personal is political It reveals an international conspiracy of oligarchs to control money and power The hollowing out of democracies across the world And Putin as the probable master puppeteer

Gordon Brown continues to show political leadership Accepts his mistake with dignity Makes proposals to improve the health of our democracy What a waste that the gutter press destroyed his chance to be our prime minister www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform UK’s Epstein links show this is no party of the people www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

If you can get to Manchester, great! If you can't, you can still help to make sure Hannah Spencer beats the Reform candidate and becomes the next wonderful MP for Gorton & Denton Here's the page to make your contribution: gorton-denton.greenparty.org.uk?link_id=1&ca...

The fact that we have Steve Reed putting up a feeble defence of a government in freefall - and morally indefensible decisions by the PM - suggests to me that Darren Jones just wasn't prepared to go there And who can blame him? #BBCR4Today

Reform UK treasurer named in Epstein files www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

But, of course, American politicians keep giving speeches where they declare it’s Europe’s values that are “under threat” and European politicians who have lost touch with their people.

The Gorton & Denton by-election is Green vs Reform.

5/ As well as the Putin connection, Deripaska is closely linked to organized crime in Russia. So was Epstein, says former head of MI6 Russia desk, Christopher Steele: "According to my American sources, as early as the 1970s Epstein was involved with Russian organized crime." youtu.be/F8GhGqJLVdc?...

Most worrying thing about recent revelations is that everything was happening in plain sight Those of us engaged in radical politics at the time pointed to the corruption and were dismissed as conspiracy theorists Most journalists still ignoring the important issues of corruption and manipulation

In 1998 Peter Mandelson said he was "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich as long as they pay their taxes." Turns out he was able to get Jeffrey Epstein to help with tax avoidance.

As we approach 40 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, it's worth catching up on what actually happened in this mini series from the Journey Through Time podcast open.spotify.com/episode/3aAv...

How many times does Mandelson have to be exposed as corrupt before we stop having to hear him on the airwaves?

Join the European Movement today to become part of the UK's largest pro-Europe community, standing up for a renewed relationship with our friends and neighbours in the EU!

Reminder: Epstein's emails show that he was in communication with senior Russian officials close to Putin. By pimping/trafficking Russian women to people like Prince Andrew, he was also supplying Putin's regime with copious amounts of kompromat.

The Tories are the reason we've lost our close relationship with Europe And now they're saying we shouldn't have anything to do with china What is their suggestion? More cosying up to Trump? Or are they still living in the delusion of Global Britain going it alone?

Please join us and help make history at the Gorton and Denton by-election! 💚. We have a brilliant candidate, Hannah Spencer, we have momentum and we have a vital message - that the politics of hope *can* win over the politics of hate. We can win this! @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk

Hannah will be an excellent MP and a brilliant representative for her community. The Labour vote is collapsing in Gorton and Denton. This is Green Vs Reform. Help us get Hannah elected! 💚👇 donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/parliamentar...

Say hello to Hannah Spencer—councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and your Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton 💚

Can First Past the Post cope with multi-party politics? 🗒️ The APPG was delighted to host a private briefing in Parliament today with… 🗣️ Professor Sir John Curtice of @unistrathclyde.bsky.social 🗣️ Dr David Klemperer of @uniofbath.bsky.social 🪑 Emma Harrison of @makevotesmatter.bsky.social

NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

Greens or Reform now! Labour admit they're in 3rd place #GortonDenton

If Matthew Goodwin is the very best Reform can muster for an eminently winnable by-election, the unfeasibly warm welcomes for the worst of Johnson & Truss's flotsam & jetsam suddenly make much more sense.

Listening to Liz Kendall just makes my ears bleed A barrage of words is no substitute for intelligent thought Horrifying to think she's in charge of technology #BBCR4Today #DisgruntledOfStroud

Only the greatest living American composer. Wow

Psst. Greens are best placed to beat Reform in the Gorton and Denton by-election. Pass it on. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bet...

More North Sea energy cooperation to be announced today, involving the UK, Norway and relevant EU member states. Can't pretend to understand all the details, but there is a tie to UK-EU energy talks having started. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Exactly how I feel And let's not overlook the fascism that is growing in our own country

The suggestions that Trump is a Kremlin asset look ever more possible

Whenever you hear Labour people talking about processes in their party you realize how they are all sucked into a pernicious and toxic culture To those outside, it is clear that they are operating in an entirely corrupt and undemocratic way But they just don't see it #BBCR4Today

I mean, if the government wants to be sure the Gorton and Denton byelection doesn't go to Reform, they could always make supplementary vote the system for parliamentary elections as well as mayoral ones (again) #justsaying

Doctors who worked with critical care nurse Alex Pretti describe this "domestic terrorist": “He was just so sincere and very kind, just a sweet young man and eager to learn." He was murdered for his kindness. For trying to help a woman in trouble. zeteo.com/p/dhs-shooti...

Another epic fail For Labour, for the country, and for democracy news.sky.com/story/politi...

People all over the world who value democracy and oppose fascism should stop buyIng US products. Starting with the UK government, which is planning to pay the sinister big-tech surveillance company Palantir hundreds of millions of pounds.

In 2008 the Times reported some interesting information on Hossein "Sasan" Ghandehari, the Iranian/Kazakh billionaire who bankrolled Nigel Farage's Davos trip & for whom Farage is (the FT reports) acting as an "adviser". A company connected to Ghandehari donated £200k to Reform UK last year.

The world as we knew it has gone.  But we can influence what comes next.  Rejoining the EU is no longer an academic issue nor a decision borne of nostalgia.  It’s a matter of political necessity Me with Dominic Grieve for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social @europeanmovement.co.uk ▶️ buff.ly/YvqAyV8

In what other area of life is a legal change greeted by a stream of people explaining how they are going to break the law? The digital world really is the Wild West With a culture set by a media dominated by tech oligarchs