Where there’s muck there’s brass.

How surprising 🫢

I’d say that The Times have truly debased themselves but this is just further evidence of how power, money and corruption works… and how the British press willingly facilitates it.

You can't share video clips of JD Vance being booed at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics on Instagram 🤷‍♂️

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So you had a dual stitch up — the Russian/American oligarchs around Farage and Johnson, and the Russian/American oligarchs around Mandelson. Leave or remain, they didn’t want their contacts investigated. So Brexit went ahead.

Just a word of thanks to our fantastic media. Despite my racist bullying at school, having a senior colleague imprisoned for being a traitor, breaking the MP’s Code Of Conduct 17 times, my dodgy house purchase and even being in the Epstein Files, nobody is demanding I resign!

They say no one is above the law, but Reform UK has tested that theory by ignoring the legal data rights of the very voters they claim to represent. That changed this week 👇 https://goodlaw.social/384h

Once unthinkable for an American President, Trump has today endorsed the election campaigns of Viktor Orban in Hungary and Sanae Takaichi in Japan. A rehearsal for the next UK election (and French, and German….)

How many Epstein Files mentions can you get in one photo?

Oh.

Landmark case against Nigel Farage’s Reform reaches the High Court

Who did Epstein turn to for advice on handling a Today Programme interview request, during the first reports of Andrew’s links to a sex offender?

If in any doubt Epstein was a Russian intelligence operative (among many other things of course) look who sponsored his Russian visa

Companies House should probe origins of £200,000 gift to Reform, senior MP says

Farage said while he disagreed with Mandleson on many things, he said Mandleson was a clearly intelligent man and offered to work with him. Zero media pushback on Farage this week. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Yes, of course Epstein had extensive Israeli connections, but the Russian ones are just evidentially more extensive — that was where the money and trafficable women were

Woody Allen, a Florida mansion rulebook and a Paris ‘wife hunt’: stories you may have missed from the Epstein files

Trump may not be reliable source of factual information warns AI From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Nobody in the media asking Farage why he supported Mandleson for the job of US ambassador at the time.

There’s a v cynical media and political blindspot in the Epstein shitshow. A feeding frenzy to get rid of Starmer while red-carpeting Farage into No10. Who is named in the files. As is Candy, Reform’s treasurer. With Bannon. And Brexit. Don’t cry about abuses of power and then do nothing about him.

My cover story for this week's The New World

Yeah, all those anti-semitic / racist remarks, the lying about buying a house, the misogyny, the terrible vetting, the multiple jobs, the neglecting your constituency…

The BBC accidentally reveals the truth. Nigel Farage wants to rule like a King. Except of course it is worse than that because he will just sell the UK to Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks. Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?

Maybe sit this one out, Nige

Irony is dead.

🔼 Spoiler: They did raise council tax in the end... But hey, you know what journalists are like - definite non-story 😉

This is a great point. Can’t see any Mandelson leaks in the files from 2004-2008, but that could just be that those files aren’t published yet.

It's almost like they create monsters that don't exist... and then set out to slay them. "For the Snark was a Boojum, you see."

Why was Epstein so involved with Brexit and far-right European politics? What did he have to gain?

Farage on Mandelson: “There were the allegations of leaking sensitive govt information to a foreign national, possible insider trading. He wondered aloud over whether the Official Secrets Act had been broken…” Only someone so cocksure about not being held to account himself would do this. (Times)

Reform UK’s silence on Epstein speaks volumes A politics that claims to defend women while refusing to confront the systems that harm them is not about protection. It's about strategy.

Reform UK treasurer is in the Epstein Files 👇 www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Peter Mandelson is telling the truth on one thing: the idea he was bought for a $4k “bursary” or a $75k gift is ridiculous The real incentive was a post-government payday - one so big he *rejected* a $3–5m-a-year offer And Epstein enabled that payday Here’s the evidence. 🧵

Strange how none of Epstein’s chums are lecturing us on patriotism this morning.

There are so many lines of inquiry now…

Today!

Farage is named by Steve Bannon in an email in the Epstein files as their man in the UK, and says that 'Brexit is just the beginning'. Farage is clearly toxic for the British people, but right wing media, including BBC continue to ignore the mountains of evidence that prove his treachery.

This is what oligarchy looks like: Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, spent $290 million to elect Trump. Since Election Day, Musk became $548 billion richer while his companies (SpaceX & Tesla) paid $0 in federal income taxes last year after making $13.7 billion in profits.

"This week, I 'ave been mostly living in temporary accomodation"

You couldn’t make this stuff up. Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman accidentally voted with Labour to abolish the two-child benefit cap tonight after entering the wrong lobby!

🚨Gorton and Denton by-election PLEASE DON’T BE TAKEN IN BY THE DIVISIVE POLITICS OF REFORM

A few people asking about fascinating story by @rowenamason.bsky.social (which others have followed up/ expanded on) so sharing here 👇 She & @guardianheather.bsky.social revealed that Nigel Farage’s trip to Davos was hosted and paid for by the $10bn family trust of an Iranian-born billionaire.

Brilliant from Marina Hyde as always — just angrier today. Every word hits the nail on the head with the force of ten sledgehammers. What a wonderful writer she is. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Incredible to think Epstein's circle could operate with impunity when we've got journalism like this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...