Thinking about Scottish football and the similarities to the way Scottish politics is viewed from down south | Alec Ross

Nick Watt, "I have heard from the cabinet that Anas Sarwar was working in conjunction with Wes Streeting" "And there was an expectation that there would be further resignations today"

He's Henry VIII without the brains

How extraordinarily fortunate for Wes Streeting that the only text messages he sent Peter Mandelson just happened to be exactly the sort of things other Labour MPs want to hear from a potential leadership candidate

BREAKING: Buckingham Palace says "we stand ready" to help Thames Valley Police in its assessment of allegations against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should the palace be approached by the force.

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

Speak Truth....

Every TV betting advert: CAREFUL, GAMBLING CAN RUIN YOUR LIFE.................DO IT THOUGH

According to the Times:  Everything Starmer has done as leader of the Labour Party has been driven by Morgan McSweeney. Indeed, let’s not forget his election-winning strategy was to do nothing

Hahaha OK that's pretty good.

"It's OK to Be White" has been a slogan for literal Nazis for some time now, if you want to know where the Republican Party is at the moment

Presumably the next post will be ‘BAL won’t entertain offers for Jackson’ and likewise Allen in BUFF. F’king idiocy 👇🏻😏

This is magnificent 👇🏻👏🏻Prescient analysis that is deeply depressing 🤔

“I advised the prime minister to make that appointment and I take full responsibiiity for that advice” The inevitably question for Number 10 now is why the advice is a resigning matter but the actual decision isn’t. That’s a hard question to answer.

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

The email source here

If you’re wondering why the Silicon Valley Tech Bros mutated into MAGA monopolists and purveyors of online hate and Russian propaganda, this dinner might be a good place to start

Then and now Compensation for loss of office (audited): “The Rt Hon Priti Patel left under severance terms on 8 November 2017 and received a severance payment of £16,876.” www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

This is the man whose company Peter Mandelson's lobbying firm represents. Keir Starmer visited its HQ last year, at the request of Mandelson, shortly before it was handed a £240m Government contract

President Trump on Air Force One, "I am by the way the least racist President you've had in a long time, as far as I'm concerned" And Trump walks away refusing to apologise for the racist video that he says he knew went up on his social media

But they all seem so honest & competent!

Absolutely

The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true

Nothing to see here. Just the Times Magazine trying to rehabilitate Mandleson’s image. Totally normal and understandable. I mean, who of us has not shared highly sensitive government information with the world’s most prolific pedophile?

Has anyone asked Nigel Farage what he thinks of his "resilient and brave" friend Donald Trump posting racist memes on Truth Social?

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

This is overt racism. Full stop. There’s no ‘misinterpretation’ and no excuse. This is who he is, who he’s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again. And there’s a reason the tapes from The Apprentice have never been released.

A plea to my fellow professionals in the media. Please put Trump’s racism on the top of your news agendas? Where is it? The leader of the “free world” is using his racism to make all of our lives worse instead of better. A racist is a threat to us all. Whatever else he is doing, holds no worth.

This is the problem with Number 10’s repeated defence on Mandelson, too: it boils down to saying “we knew he was friends with the world’s most notorious paedophile, but not *good* friends”…which is not a great defence!

Trump has just posted a video of the Obamas pictured as monkeys. This should hit headlines. We warned you about him years ago, but many made him a friend, defended him, salivated and gave him football shirts. Our thoughts are with black people everywhere and my own family. I am sorry. I am so sorry.

May 2012. The height of the Eurozone crisis. Peter Mandelson was very focussed:

Boris Johnson’s Deputy Chief of Staff here, worried that secretly-funded lobby groups masquerading as ‘think tanks’ might finally be held to account. Because of course she bloody is.

This is real, and it’s located near Tesla’s flagship London store in Tottenham.

How could I have possibly known that Peter Mandelson couldn't be 100% taken at his word, says Keir Starmer, about a man whose public nicknames include 'the Prince of Darkness' and 'the Dark Lord'

"Prime Minister... it's Pickfords on the phone." #Mandelson

Oh

It was always about the next job. Epstein reviewed a draft of Mandelson's memoir - he said "as currently written the chances of a JPMorgan position would be zero" Mandelson not remotely shocked by this. He just thought JPM wouldn't read it.

Amazon dropped $75M on the Melania doc — with a big chunk going into the Trumps' pockets. Since then, Amazon Web Services got a $580M Pentagon contract. And this week, Pete Hegseth visited Blue Origin facilities as the DoD overhauls how it hands out defense contracts. Always follow the money.

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

We've just found a new email on Mandelson's $$$$ almost-job with DB... what was the "DB revelation"?

I’m not sure ‘our national security developed vetting technique can be beaten if a candidate is prepared to lie’ is an especially helpful line to push.

the guy trying to overthrow every western government whining about "political attacks" is just so precious

The level of corruption on display at the moment really is something isn’t it? More blatant than you’d imagine. We must remember this when we are asking who is donating to Farage and Reform or Johnson or whoever. It’s this simple.

JPMorgan should ‘threaten’ UK over banker tax, Mandelson told Epstein. Mandelson was Business Secretary at that time in 2009. After leaving govt in 2010, Mandelson set up an advisory firm called Global Counsel, JPMorgan was a client. Must be investigated. archive.is/rzjnQ

The death of Alex Pretti has been ruled a homicide, the Hennepin County medical examiner’s office said. Pretti was shot Jan. 24 during a chaotic encounter with federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez were named as the two officers who fired at Pretti.

Nothing says British patriot like advising a convicted sex offender to pressure a foreign banker to threaten the UK Chancellor

Everything we know about the leaks is here, with copies of the documents to view/download: taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/02/02/m... And no use of the word "alleged".

Only in the UK can we have documentary evidence of documents being leaked, no denial of the leak, but journalists still have to put "alleged" in the headline. Libel law is broken.