🔴 Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, James Cartlidge MP is asking an urgent question: “To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on his Department’s contracts with Palantir.” Watch live ⬇️ parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

7. The failure to change our disastrous electoral system, which might gift the UK to Reform on a small share of the vote, can, I feel, be understood as a matter of putting party over country and faction over party. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Apparently we have to pretend such things are unknown - even if they've had books written about them and been reported in the national press metro.co.uk/2025/10/31/a...

In now publicly available text correspondence between the British health secretary Wes Streeting and former British ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, Streeting admitted that Israel was committing war crimes, conspiring to ethnically cleanse Gaza, and that the UK should sanction the government.

Several others injured in attack on building sheltering displaced people as Israel continues to violate 'ceasefire'.

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Well yes, the whole "we didn't know" thing rather undermined by the fact that everyone remembers this exact discussion at the time, and having it explained to us by tedious centrists that these characteristics of Mandelson were actually a positive thing for the job.

Just beyond parody at this point

Just discovered Mandelson’s reaction to our first report he’d leaked government emails:

Affaire Epstein : Mona Juul, diplomate norvégienne de renom et actuelle ambassadrice de Jordanie, démissionne

Morgan McSweeney's genius is twofold: he is literally amazing at 1) despising the left and 2) giving exclusives to journalists who also despise the left. I can't believe those smarts didn't have staying power!

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Morgan McSweeney has resigned Lots of reasons for it but among them is our revelation on Thursday evening that McSweeney’s think tank paid a PR firm to investigate journalists. McSweeney was across that decision. Still so many questions to answer about it

British values

📺Stretford Passivhaus retrofit TV makeover Deep retrofit of a modest Manchester semi-detached home to the Passivhaus retrofit standard features in Guy Martin's 'House without bills', which will air on Monday 9 February 2026 at 9pm on C4. https://passivhaustrust.org.uk/news/detail/?nId=1507

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Mandelson sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up his advisory firm, Global Counsel, including how to target potential new clients such as the Chinese government. www.ft.com/content/13d2...

Why Spain is breaking the mold in Europe - choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!! Two reasons: morality & pragmatism. 🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

Under Sec Sarah Rogers met influential rightwing think tanks in Dec & spoke to key figures in Reform about deploying a pot of cash to spread US values Her primary targets are the UK’s Online Safety Act and the EU’s Digital Services Act, which are viewed as attacking free speech & US tech, FT told

EXC: US State dept is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in UK/ Europe to amplify Washington’s policy stances and challenge perceived threats to free speech W/ @annasophiegross.bsky.social, @oilsheppard.bsky.social & Amy McKinnon as.ft.com/r/98452b33-5...

It has been revealed that our chief reporter, @john-mcevoy.bsky.social, was among journalists investigated by a PR firm paid by Labour Together. Labour Together was then managed by Josh Simons. Simons is now Cabinet Office minister. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

FT exclusive: “The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.” via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues

I signed this petition demanding an inquiry into PALANTIR's role c.org/Mvs7DDKYzS

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

Mohammed Ibrahim is one of hundreds of Palestinian children who report physical abuse in Israeli detention. He happens to be an American teen. foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/04/m...

Jeff Bezos‘ Washington Post has laid off 14 climate journalists today. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

It truly is wild to see King Charles getting plaudits for "dealing" with Prince Andrew. www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Labour is briefing that they know they won't win the Gorton and Denton by election. The Greens are favourites and are the only party that can stop Reform. Lower bills, tax the rich, protect the NHS. We will win.

Epstein very upset that George Osborne was blocking "my boy", Jes Staley, from becoming CEO of Barclays. Osborne didn't know the half of it. Staley seems almost as close to Epstein as Mandelson was.

here’s our 2,000 word report from June 2023: www.ft.com/content/0723...

"Is Morgan McSweeney safe in his job?" Steve Reed: "Yes of course he is" Reed is a long time political ally of both Mandelson & McSweeney, and all three of them worked together in wrecking, smearing & lying to regain control of the Labour Party.

Why is no one talking about the IPBES Plenary in Manchester? The British Ecological Society explains www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/a-be...

NBC News's Tom Llamas did an hour-long interview with Trump filled with softballs & filled with Trump lies that he didn't challenge. Worst of all, he did not ask 1 single question to Trump about the Epstein files & the 38,000 references to Trump. Our mainstream media is broken. Subscribe to Zeteo.

"If careerists had not been so easy to bribe and blackmail, ordinary people would not have to suffer under this group of sadistic oligarchs and politicians. Our era is the culmination of complicity." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...

We have 400 volunteers on the streets of Gorton and Denton today. Labour are out of it. It's Greens vs Reform. Lower bills, tax the rich, protect the NHS. We will win. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

BREAKING: NO CONVICTIONS AS VERDICTS COME IN FOR FILTON24 TRIAL After 8 days of deliberation, the jury have not convicted Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Ellie (Leona) Kamio, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin on any charge. Defend Our Juries comment to follow.

Heavy flooding has forced more than 50,000 people to evacuate northern Morocco. Residents say the floods followed weeks of heavy rain after years of drought.

New Bellingcat investigation: Made in the USA: How American-Built Weapons Have Wrought Destruction in Gaza. The article examines how US-made weapons have been used in Israeli strikes and the civilian harm linked to their use. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

The Israeli army bulldozed parts of a cemetery in Gaza which houses the graves of Allied solders, including dozens of British and Australian soldiers, from World War II. The IDF has falsely claimed that the dismantling was done out of self defense due to it being an "active combat zone".

Farage's troll army are rattled by the Green candidate in Gorton and Denton. They've claimed Hannah Spencer isn't actually a plumber. She's here to put the record straight!

this is unbelievable inews.co.uk/news/politic...

The PM already seems to have turned a blind eye to Mandelson's relationship with Epstein in order to cosy up to Trump, & the govt's actions today further prioritise a relationship with the US over transparency with the British public. We need urgent action to clean up politics.

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK are under pressure to explain why their treasurer appears numerous times in the Epstein files over more than a decade 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

"Jeffrey Epstein partied with Trump's closest advisers including Wilbur Ross, Rudy Giuliani, and Steve Mnunchin at dinner hosted by David Koch just TWO MONTHS after his release from prison" (h/t @arkancrow.bsky.social): www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Epstein believed that he was ushering in some kind of political revolution in the late 2010s, supporting far-right candidates across Europe. But it's clear from reading his emails that he was learning how to fit into that world as it was being created. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.

one of the most mind numbing aspects of the epstein files is that this implicates so many people and feels like there needs to be massive consequences yet it feels underdiscussed. how is everyone not talking about all of this all the time

1. Trump certainly wants to fully rig elections. 2. He has no actual plausible plan to do so. 3. We should absolutely take the threat very seriously and actively do what's possible to protect elections and democracy. 4. What's actually likely is success or failure at the margins; every bit counts.