Speculating on how fast Winston Churchill would have arranged for a leak of some of the choicer Epstein files if he had experienced the misfortune of encountering Trump…

strange things happened in the polymarket markets on the attack on Iran — a lot of very heavy betting, strange odds movements and 12 very suspicious wallets: www.ft.com/content/2883...

NEW POST: A parent has launched a legal challenge against the Schools White Paper's #SEND consultation. @catrionamoore.bsky.social writes about the action's claim of an “irrational, unfair” fundamental change that “significantly weakens" children's legal rights www.specialneedsjungle.com/l...

Government has pledged to wipe 90 per cent of high-needs deficits, yet some councils will remain in financial trouble – and may face a clamour from families and schools to get statutory support before reforms https://schoolsweek.co.uk/will-reforms-fix-the-send-funding-crisis/

Eight years of this: "In one incident in 2019, Easom dragged Ms Burgess upstairs by the head, banging her against each step. In 2021, Easom placed a sheet over her head and strangled her." He could be out before retirement age.

Lisa Nandy says that the government is now considering quitting X. "The first job of government is to deal with the really serious issues around regulation" ... "But I do think symbols matter - the question you ask is very much up for debate. Its a debate we are having"

“The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds.”

'Our ancestral land'? Leave us out of it!

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

The coverage is like everyday they wake up with total amnesia, knowing the truth of nothing. They never consider the ‘fairness’ of this towards victims, only ever the accused. The victims don’t get the same repetition every time it is implied they are lying. It’s a form of abuse.

I’d rather the BBC was busy investigating just what exactly he did to the trafficked victims of sexual abuse, than all this family psychodrama fluff. Also, he should be kept alive to face justice. But wellbeing? How much wellbeing has Virginia Guiffre, and goodness knows how many others?

See also: NHS England. Although the second contract was competitive, they had already done the "land" bit during COVID, paving the way for a very easy "expand".

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

I have questions and concerns. We will be commenting after we have seen the full White Paper, of course

Millions of Epstein files suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says.

Silicone Valley doesn’t mind helping ICE to identify innocent men, women and children to be shipped off to concentration camps, but ask it to help ID an active child sex offender and it gets the vapours about privacy

Reut Yamen, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Paragon, the Israeli spyware company, posted on LinkedIn an image of what appears to be Graphite, the surveillance software which Paragon licensed to ICE. Shows the information it picks up from a phone. (H/t @peterallison.net)

Without naming your job, tell us something you say over and over again at work. “Changing your policy threshold doesn’t change the underlying distribution”

US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe - www.ft.com/content/f869... via @FT

Every authority you can think of enters fierce competition… to do absolutely nothing in response to Epstein’s co-criminals and Musk’s CSAM. Makes you feel warm inside knowing how much women’s lives count for, doesn’t it?

I’ve yet to see anyone engage with what this would mean about the range of interests for which various parties found it acceptable to destroy lives through cse - various nation states (geopolitics) - real estate and other business motives - careers in multiple professions Systemic corruption

Question. If DoJ has evidence that the allegations against Trump are ALL false, why isn’t that mentioned in the report compiling them? Is that evidence in the document dump? Otherwise, on what basis are they making such a conclusion? Seems weird to publish the ‘lies’ and not the ‘exculpatory facts’.

Musk:

An FBI report in the files alleges that Trump was “compromised by Israel.”

The DOJ is now removing some Epstein Files documents it has just released.

Here's a copy of one of the deleted files, that contains the most damning accusations against Trump (and others). #Streisand bsky.app/profile/coco...

"If we build it – a stronger team around the child that doesn’t require an EHCP – they will come, and EHCPs will gradually revert to being a less frequently required backstop." Read @jojohutchinson.bsky.social on SEND reform and the schools white paper: epi.org.uk/publications...

NEW: Planned welfare reform could see big benefit cuts for disabled people who can't work, Citizens Advice has warned The government wants to replace long-term ESA disability benefits with a new, much more time-limited benefit called Unemployment Insurance (UI) www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

With the schools white paper imminent, EPI’s @jojohutchinson.bsky.social lays out the case for an approach that balances fiscal reality with strategic vision - prioritising visible improvements to the experience of children and their families. Full comment piece here: epi.org.uk/publications...

Woah! Jack Smith just said that Trump intimidated witnesses via death threats!

I would also note: X has deleted a handful of these images. But the vast majority of them remain live on X today.

“The power of the less powerful begins with honesty.”

I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to lose confidence in the doctors at Walter Reed

“I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace”

New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, leading Democrat on Foreign Relations, currently in Denmark on cross-party mission, on Trump’s threat to Europe: “My first thought was, Vladimir Putin wrote that.”

It’s much worse than that. It is not the US they want us to play vassal to, but rather the enemy state that is destroying the US.

Farage has pulled out of Kuenssberg interview. Well you would, if your boss was threatening to invade Greenland.

I see all our hard work appeasing the extortionist in the white house has been repaid with another kick in the teeth the moment he decided he wanted to snatch something else he has no claim to.

The families of Danes killed in Afghanistan have a message for Trump www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

„It [Denmark] lost more soldiers per capita than the United States did in Afghanistan“. This says it all. A small country experiencing enormous loss of life in defence of an ally is discarded and ridiculed by weak, bullying, demagogues trying to make up for their obvious inadequacies.

"We need to ensure children with SEND and mental health difficulties feel they belong in the mainstream system, while also securing adequate specialist places for those with the most complex needs." EPI's @jojohutchinson.bsky.social spoke to Sky about the concerning rise in elective home education.

X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

This was always coming. This was always the plan. This is what Trump, through intermediaries, was discussing with the January 6 insurrectionists. It was only a question of timing.

NEW POST: Inclusion doesn’t just happen in mainstream schools, says SEND parent Alice Reeves. It’s more about finding the right setting to be included in education and in life. www.specialneedsjungle.com/s... #Disability #SENDSky #SaveOurChildrensRights

This is sickening.

It's three weeks after the deadline to release the Epstein files. Rep. Thomas Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna have now formally asked a federal judge to appoint a special master or independent monitor to ensure that all materials are released in compliance with the law.

The Pope has the chance to do something real to repent for the church’s sins of child sexual abuse. He could excommunicate this sick, shameless little flunky for pedophiles.

Long before the advent of Grok, online sexualised & violent trolling afforded men a gift like they hadn't had in millennia: an omnipresent tool to make the implicit threat of sexual violence that disciplines women in patriarchy explicit, so that no woman anywhere feels secure from its sanction.