This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

"He explained to the American people — whose sons will fight and die (six so far) in Operation Ego Stroke — to say how seriously proud he is of the gold drapes he picked out. So thanks, Mr. President, for meeting this moment with the solemnity it deserves." open.substack.com/pub/mattlaba...

The Pentagon is hanging the White House out to dry. www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

H/T @thegoodliars.bsky.social

I'm hearing reports that the elderly despotic leader is now afraid to reenter the capital and is attempting to establish a functioning government in a gilded palace located in a remote southern part of the country.

Cartoon by Angelo Lopez | Cartoon Movement

Wow. Josh Simons has resigned as govt minister Follows weeks of reporting by Democracy for Sale and others about how he paid PR firm to smear journalists investigating Labour Together Huge thanks to all our supporters. Couldn’t have done it without you democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...

JUST IN: Josh Simons quits government. Starmer: "to avoid any ongoing distraction from delivering the Government’s mission, you have taken the difficult decision to step aside." Laurie Magnus probe found no breach of the ministerial code. Story to follow

Congratulations. You harassed a married staffer until she submitted to your perversions leading to her suicide and still kept your job because the Republican Party stands for nothing except the acquisition of power. Congrats, Tony. bsky.app/profile/atru...

U.S. and Israel both conducting bombing raids on Teheran.

Israel said it launched a pre-emptive attack against Iran, pushing the Middle East into a renewed military confrontation and further dimming hopes for a diplomatic solution to Tehran's long-running nuclear dispute with the West reut.rs/3N9KHGD

For CWU Branches and Regional Political Committees LtB 058/26 has been issued containing a Special Report for consideration of Conference- a further LtB will cover how to submit Motions to Amend the Report.

BREAKING: Angela Rayner response to Gorton and Denton by-election result

Exclusive The European Commission has requested that the EU’s anti-fraud agency investigate Lord Peter Mandelson’s actions while he was serving in Brussels as the British commissioner for trade between 2004 and 2008.  www.ft.com/content/85b9...

NEW: Josh Simons, under investigation over his role in allegedly smearing journalists who had written about late donations to the thinktank he led, has made a late declaration of personal donations. £2,500 donation from Trevor Chinn (who gave sums to Labour Together) declared a month late.

there's a nugget here which helps to explain Brown's character and why he was so incensed by the allegations against Mandelson from their time in office

Drones dominate Ukraine battlefield four years into fighting reut.rs/4s72ZqK

"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical."

“Spending three days on the ground in Minneapolis brought home something that may not be obvious from afar: Minnesota, especially the Twin Cities, has been—and still is—under a paramilitary occupation in which the federal government is at war with the population.” www.thebulwark.com/p/what-i-saw...

This is shocking www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is almost certainly going to get lost amid everything else happening at the moment. But it’s a big story.

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This mock-up from the Guardian is rather eloquent

choose your fighter

When all the wealth and privilege you can imagine is just not enough. #GreedySweatyNonce

BREAKING: Keir Starmer has officially appointed Antonia Romeo as the first ever female Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service

A yellow star, you say?

Polish PM Donald Tusk: “Poland does not foresee participation in President Trump’s Peace Council. “Poland will not send Polish soldiers to the Gaza Strip. Poland is not interested in co-financing development projects in Gaza. “Our money is needed for investments in Polish cities.”

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

More than 25 years after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, Northern Irish paramilitaries, both loyalist and republican, are still extorting protection money from shop owners. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peter Mandelson’s Wikipedia page was edited repeatedly by an anonymous user who was later banned for making paid edits The edits to Mandelson’s page downplayed his support of the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, says the TBIJ. Their story here: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

Trump in person, Trump MAGA judge, and Trump MAGA DOJ all scheme together to destroy Special Counsel report. youtu.be/IosHp7M707M?...

U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died at age 84, his family said in a statement reut.rs/4rnVzzJ

Cost of Privatisation Royal Mail letters sit undelivered 'for weeks', parcels prioritised RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Urgent letters missed. Fines passed to customers Profiteering: Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p. When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.

Not a member of Labour (or any other party), but subscribe to Labour hub, and there is often interesting stuff that you don't get in the mainstream media. labourhub.org.uk/2026/02/16/b...

I’m backing this call to end the narrow, factional agenda coming from the top of the Labour Party. Sidelining the views of Labour members and trade unions has left our Party far weaker. Join trade union leaders, Labour MPs and members. Add your name: tinyurl.com/RestoreLabou...

Jeffries: "Y'all saw the embarrassing display by the so-called attorney general the other day. Who would trust her or the weaponized DOJ to independently investigate wrongdoing by Trump administration officials or by ICE agents? That's a reasonable demand. It's also a hard line in the sand."

Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.

I actually want everyone working there dropped on a desert island and forgotten about.

Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway…. 📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way

Race to find source of carcinogenic Pfas in Cumbria and Lancashire waters

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

US Constitution question of day, if Goldwater-Nichols Act put Secretary of Defense in Chain of Command, is an order from 'Secretary of War' actually legal? @davidallengreen.bsky.social One for several members of Congress to ponder?

UK Dept of Work and Pensions deducted £32.4m from Universal Credit to pay poor people's water bills. People in the North hit the hardest. Water companies pay dividends, exorbitant exec pay, fleece customers, don't pay fines. Now allowed to rob the poor, with full complicity of the state.

Kinsella, who has worked for decades as a government attorney & in private practice, was appointed & sworn in as the U.S. attorney in the Northern District of NY in a private ceremony, the court said on its website. Later that day, he was fired in an email from the White House. Wasn’t Alina Habba😂

Peer ‘disappointed’ that DWP review of subpostmaster prosecutions is still months away. Little people don't count, do they. What if they were wealthy donors? Justice delayed is justice denied. Please read the linked article and write to the Minister.