Want a break from the Mandelson meltdown? Here's my chat with @goldbergradio.bsky.social about joining the Greens.

Sir Keir Stasi

🔴 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-...

That rigorous vetting in full:

Barclays cuts ties with Mandelson lobbying firm. Vodafone may too. This is public posturing, isn't it. For years they used Mandelson to gain political advantage despite his history - forced to resign as minister, ambassador, his links with Epstein were known. Now trying to reinvent themselves.

This isn't quite true imv. There are plenty of people Morgan is happy to let have power: mostly, those who already have it and have held it for a long time. What drives him is keeping the left of the party out of power. It is core to him in a way people still underestimate.

I imagine the Guardian’s replies will be full of ruddy faced sixty year olds typing, “So, you obviously want Reform to win” and then following up with something about Putin

i hate keir starmer, i hate anyone who defends him, i doubt their critical thinking skills, i doubt their reading comprehension, i doubt their knowledge of uk politics pre 2016 and i doubt they would disown a friend or acquaintance who was convicted of paedophilia. i also doubt they're real.

If you want to read Peter Mandelson's full pitch for a job to the billionaire CEO of Glencore, Ivan Glasenberg, it's here. It'll make you feel better about all the cover letters you've written over the years for jobs you didn't get.

has someone told him not to smile when this is the fucking news headline

The US has declared Cuba an "unusual and extraordinary threat", authorising new sanctions and tightening its illegal blockade. Trump is trying to starve Cuba into submission — and millions of people will suffer. This is economic warfare, plain and simple. Hands off Cuba!

the guy who financed a propaganda film about the nazi first lady is killing a newspaper that writes unfavorably about her and her husband. this is how the club works.

they don't make tiny violins tiny enough

Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”

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Not one reporter in the room willing to ask to be treated with respect. Not one.

This whole thing where billionaires snap up media properties so they can run them into the ground to make it harder for people to call them and their cronies to account is extremely obvious and very tiresome. It also limits our access to largr information about culture and the world, also by design.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

extremely cool that i have to verify my age to read journalism about how israel is and was committing genocide. fuck keir starmer

"This goes right to the very heart of Government." Good to see principled Labour MPs like @rebeccalongbailey.com call for a full inquiry into Mandelson's appointment.

- I was lying in bed the other night - was you - yes Dud, and I heard this tap, tap, tap on the window - who was it? - bloody Jim Pickard of the FT - no - yes Dud, "Peter, Peter" he said, "tell me about Jeffrey Epstein" - and what did you say? - I told him to 'fuck off' - that told him - it did Dud

EXC: I can reveal the contents of a memo by Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman in January 2025 warning Number 10 it was making a mistake to hire Mandelson - sent to Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney. www.ft.com/content/584a...

Extending the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain would place 46,000 nurses at risk of leaving the UK. Our NHS already faces a retention crisis. The government needs to be honest about the impact this would have and rethink these proposals.

Scrapping the two child limit is not enough. The overall benefit cap must go too. The Government's own assessment shows at least 200,000 children in poverty will not be helped if only the two-child limit is removed. This cruel legacy of austerity must finally end.

SHOCKING FACT: If you earned £18,000 a day from when Jesus was born to the present day, you STILL would not make as much as Shell did in profits last year

This is essential reading for all policy makers - and it’s exactly what many of us have been warning about for years. Our current economic model is simply incompatible with a safe & secure future. We can’t bail out the Earth like we did the banks

'South Wales council to buy and demolish homes prone to repeated floods caused by climate crisis' As the climate crisis accelerates, more people are going to be forced to move; more settlements abandoned. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Ireland has dismantled its first commercial wind farm to make way for a step-change in scale. Each new turbine generates more power than the entire 1992 Bellacorick site, illustrating how 3 decades of innovation have compressed land use while multiplying output. buff.ly/goiabIO #ShareGoodNewsToo

For years, Starmer's critics on the left have warned that he was trashing Labour values, kowtowing to the rich and powerful while hurting the poor and the living world. Every time, people here and elsewhere leapt up to call us "closet Tories" and "Reform enablers". Funny how they've gone so quiet.

Starmer says tackling violence against women his “personal mission” But he knowingly made Mandelson US ambassador, an associate of a convicted sex trafficker You can't claim the moral high ground and make decisions like that We all see the contradiction, once authority is lost, it never comes back

really really funny that Starmer and the project he helms spending their entire political lives Strictly Protecting the 'Special Relationship' and now the government is hours from falling because the yanks couldn't be fucked redacting our politicians' name in the files as with most of theirs

Susanna Reid asks Steve Reed about a story covered by @insidecroydon.bsky.social, that his constituency Labour party wanted to put forward a motion to Labour conference calling for an inquiry into Mandelsons appointment, & that the motion was blocked by one of Steve Reeds senior aides #GMB

You know the Labour Party has entered one of its periodic fits of deep collective stupidity when the idea emerges they should be led by a soldier because Real People (i.e., people who hate the Labour Party) love a soldier, and, er, we need some discipline, or something.

VIDEO: The media in this country is a disgrace WATCH HERE: youtu.be/zNAmkMOyXJU

Mandelson would never have been exposed by the British media if it wasn't for the US DOJ dumping all those files. They would have assisted in covering up his role instead, like they've been doing for the past 30 years. They knew what he was and they kept quiet for decades.

Just to complete the Epstein -> Lomborg -> Gates -> Triangle... @rtakver.bsky.social broke this story late last year... www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

Starmer knew who he was appointing as ambassador to the United States. And for that decision, he should go.

Under my leadership of the Labour Party, Peter Mandelson had no role, no influence and no part to play, because I do not trust the man and I do not believe the man.

I said what I said.

Then and now: Joe Dancey’s Linkedin profile on 18 Sept 2025 and today. Spot the difference! [Dancey is Wes Streeting’s partner]

Curse of Private Equity Asda has lost its mojo and has a big fight to get it back. Debt £3.8bn. Annual finance cost £611m. Staff/Wages cut. Low investment. Suppliers squeezed, less customer choice, assets sold-off piecemeal. Market share down. Future?

Millions of people around the world are living in poverty. Meanwhile, the rich and powerful commit heinous crimes with impunity. Our rotten political system rewards dishonesty, abuse & greed. It’s time to replace it with a real democracy that works for the many, not the few.

Dozens of workers at Royal Mail-owned eCourier claim they are classed wrongly as self-employed. Workers miss out on minimum wage, holiday pay. Employers dodge national insurance contributions. Plans designed by highly paid execs living in leafy suburbs. Royal Mail is owned by a billionaire.

Important to understand that 1) Burgon was absolutely correct 2) it didn’t work, they got no support from Tories 3) this idiotic behaviour has now created a Johnson-level party political disaster and national legitimacy crisis, and 4) John still thinks it’s Burgon that is the dumbass here.

Status update on how well Starmer's "no psycho drama" is going two weeks on...

People are focusing on McSweeney but Starmer’s head should be rolling too for this. Like I just do not see how “oh, I knew he kept associating with one of the most infamous paedophiles in history after he was convicted, and appointed him anyway” is a survivable action once it’s been admitted.

By organising in our communities, we can find the leaders of tomorrow. Read my piece for @novaramedia.com on ‘The Many’ - and our promise to build a powerful grassroots campaigning force. novaramedia.com/2026/02/03/h...

Why they had to stop Corbyn

Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 3, 2026 ~ Been good to know you. "This failure should make us reflect on whether current scientific approaches are fit-for-purpose to inform overshoot policy and avoid inadvertent support for target backsliding." phys.org/news/2026-02...

‘Homes may have to be abandoned’: how #climatecrisis has reshaped Britain’s flood risk - As rivers swell and homes are cut off, scientists say UK winter rainfall is already 20 years ahead of predictions #flooding 2/2 www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...