What on earth happened yesterday in #scottishlabour? Did #anassarwar really go solo, calling for #starmer's resignation without support nailed down? Or did he have supporters who ratted once the #starmtroopers turned up the heat? I haven't seem any decent reporting of the #Sarwar plan. Lots […]

What's behind this Brit Royal offer to talk to the police about the ex-#princeandrew? They appear to have made a statement to PA in the small hours. Is this some sort of attempt to draw the heat off #starmer, as #anassarwar's botched coup was mopped up? Or was #kingcharles miffed that he had […]

I am in limbo outside a website. Cloudfare's tool says: "Verify you are human by completing the action below. This may take a few seconds" But after 2 minutes, the wee wheely thing is still spinning. It's like a hostile frontier where stern face behind the glass disappears with your papers […]

I'm pleased by yesterday's developments in the Downing Street dramas. #Starmer has bought some space to allow weeks or even months of the #mortoregnum. #Popcorn moments continue, which is of course the primary purpose of the #Westminster shitshow. 😈 Now #starmer#mortoregnum#popcorn#westminsterinevitable demise cannot be […]

SHORT THREAD: 1/4 Nobody else named in the #epstein files upset me much. The others brought plenty of anger and revulsion, and some element of surprise, but no shock. These were not people who I held in high regard, or from whom I expected virtue. >>

I'm pleased by yesterday's developments in the Downing Street dramas. #Starmer has bought some space to allow weeks or even months of the #mortoregnum. #Popcorn moments continue, which is of course the primary purpose of the #Westminster shitshow. 😈 Now #starmer#mortoregnum#popcorn#westminsterinevitable demise cannot be […]

Wild fact from @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest newsletter: "The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."

Elon has apparently finally abandoned his 20 year long assertion that he was just about to build a city on Mars any day now :-)

@Lazarou @2legged I’m guessing that the Chief of Staff left with the key to the stationery cupboard and they can’t type his resignation up (let alone do the press comms) until someone gets a grip.

Morgan's journey, parts 1–4

Reggie from the Blackrock Road analyses the downfall of the first man from #macroom to run the UK. #ukpol #mcsweeney #reggieblackrockroad

Man who nobody had ever heard of calls for resignation of man who is already doomed 🙄 #scotpol #ukpol #starmer #sarwar

I do love that phase of a #mortroregnum when the #UKPrimeMinister has to send out the #10DowningStreet spokesperson to deny that the PM will resign TODAY. 😅🤣 #ukpol #Starmer 😈 screenshot from […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Morgan's journey, parts 1–4

If you ever think it’s too late to change, just remember that Charlie Kirk hasn’t said anything racist in all of 2026.

#mastodaoine #speirghorm #iepol

#normalislandnews ❤ British prime minister #morganmcsweeney has resigned due to the revelations about #petermandelson in the #epstein files — the biggest scandal since Dominic Cummings drove his kids to Barnard Castle to check his eyesight. #mcsweeney had governed the UK via his proxy Sir Keir […]

"Dropping The Pilot", 2026 edition. #starmer #mcsweeney #ukpol

@2legged M Sweeney is gone, who's going to pull the strings now?

#mcsweeney #starmer #ukpol

#fuckwit #starmer can't even do a ceremonial defenestration! 😂🤣 The whole point of ejecting #mcsweeney is show the world that he rejects McSweeney's values. Grovelling undermines that. #ukpol

WTF is wrong with people? #Opinium finds that only 55% of Brits think that #Starmer should resign as #PrimeMinister for his handling of #Mandelson. That leaves 45% who either think the rat should not resign, or dunno. Nearly half of Brits are not outraged […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

#tonyblair worked closely with #petermandelson for years. So it's great to be able to publish this important document in full. #mandelson #labourparty #ukpol

This morning's odds on #Starmer's successor as leader of the UK #LabourParty puts #Rayner in the lead. https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/next-labour-leader And it may all kick off on Monday. But I have feeling that all these numbers are soft […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

The Westminster media bubble seems to agree that: 1/ #starmer recognises that he has last control, and may quit on Monday. 2/ Angela Rayner's pals are briefing that she is ready for a heave. 3/ Starmer is not just crap at politics, but barely interested in politics. These same commenters spent […]

This morning's odds on #Starmer's successor as leader of the UK #LabourParty puts #Rayner in the lead. https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/next-labour-leader And it may all kick off on Monday. But I have feeling that all these numbers are soft […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

I suppose there had to be a slot somewhere for some #Starmer loyalist to defend their boy. Here it is, in #TheObserver: Starmer's biographer #TomBaldwin explains how everything is the fault of everyone except Starmer. 🙄 Especially #GordonBrown […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

The Westminster media bubble seems to agree that: 1/ #starmer recognises that he has last control, and may quit on Monday. 2/ Angela Rayner's pals are briefing that she is ready for a heave. 3/ Starmer is not just crap at politics, but barely interested in politics. These same commenters spent […]

Congrats to The National newspaper for publishing Peter #Mandelson's outrageous attempt to use the #IPSO Editor's Code to intimidate the media. See https://archive.is/kajZT But the code's provisions on #privacy are qualified by "unless justified in the public […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

People are being SO UNFAIR on Keir #starmer. How on earth was Starmer supposed to suspect that a man known as the #princeofdarkness might be dodgy? #ukp9l #mandelson #satire

Why is #GordonBrown allowed to lie? Keir #Starmer's lack of integrity is a matter of historical record. The public knows about Starner's broken 2020 election promises, his claim and later denial of friendship with #Corbyn, and his lies about international law […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

The politics of the #UK is dysfunction as entertainment. Brilliant scriptwriters keep the story skidding between plausibility, slapstick, and surrealism. #ComedyGold But discussion has been hindered by the lack of a term for the terminal illness of most modern […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

The politics of the #UK is dysfunction as entertainment. Brilliant scriptwriters keep the story skidding between plausibility, slapstick, and surrealism. #ComedyGold But discussion has been hindered by the lack of a term for the terminal illness of most modern […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

#starmer's #labourparty. #satire #ukpol

Wikipedia has a guide for editors called WP:SPIDERMAN ("No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_climbing_the_Reichstag_dressed_as_Spider-Man . Basically, don't throw your toys out of the pram. The […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Someone has spotted #starmer's ablity to evaluate risk. Or rather his lack thereof. #matt's cartoon in Saturday's #dailytelegraph. https://telegraph.newsprints.co.uk/ #ukpol #satire #cartoon

#belfast unionist guy doesn't hold with #trans people. #marcjennings has an answer 😅🤣👏 #comedy #nipol #northernireland

#starmer's #labourparty. #satire #ukpol

One has to empathise with Mandy #mandelson. Surely everyone has their own painful memories of #scotlandyard searching not one but two of one's mansions, just because woke communist police are jealous of one's friendships with squillionaire criminals? #starmer's #labourparty. For the few, not […]

#starmer #ukpol

The UK #labourparty leadership election is delayed pending legal advice on the most effective wording for the three undisclosed eligibility criteria. The nominee must be: À/ a member of #labourfriendsofisrael; B/ the subject of a thick Israeli file of #kompromat; C/ committed to defining all […]

#mcsweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists. #labourtogether put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. #starmer's right-hand man knew. By the excellent #petergeoghegan […]

Heartwarming news from #norfolk that royal staff on the #sandringham estate are refusing to work for the disgraced ex-#princeandrew. It seems that even royal flunkies have dignity and standards, and won't grovel to a nonce […]

#jeremycorbyn thanks #petermandelson, in the #houseofcommons on 4th February 2026. #corbyn #mandelson #ukpol

The UK faces a massive centralisation of policing in England and Wales. The announcement last week was soon overshadowed by the Mandelson storm, but this is another huge blow to #civilliberties. Home Secretary #shabanamahmood has announced what she calls the largest reforms to policing since […]

Heartwarming news from #norfolk that royal staff on the #sandringham estate are refusing to work for the disgraced ex-#princeandrew. It seems that even royal flunkies have dignity and standards, and won't grovel to a nonce […]

UK' #labourparty is in crisis. Disgraced #starmer should be gone already, but the succession is broken. Frontrunner Burham is excluded. #rayner is most popular alternative, but busy with #hmrc. Ambitious rightwingers #wesstreeting & #shabanamahmood can win only if Rayner is still on the bench […]

UK' #labourparty is in crisis. Disgraced #starmer should be gone already, but the succession is broken. Frontrunner Burham is excluded. #rayner is most popular alternative, but busy with #hmrc. Ambitious rightwingers #wesstreeting & #shabanamahmood can win only if Rayner is still on the bench […]

Matt in the DailyTelegraph #mandelson #epstein

It's just as well for #Starmer and #Mandelson that in the UK, miscoduct in public office on nowhere near as serious a crime as disrupting a genocide. If selling government secrets and appointing a known dodgy man as the mist senior diplomat were not such trivial offences, then #starmer and […]