Pro-Israel, pro-Iran bombing & regime change group 'United Against Nuclear Iran' is advised by Tory MP and former minister Tom Tugendhat. Here's its press release on "so-called civilian infrastructure" in Iran. www.declassifieduk.org/the-uk-milit...

Geopolitics update: pleased to announce that after six weeks of furious struggle I have successfully removed my penis from the penis trap which was labelled 'OBVIOUS PENIS TRAP'. This is a major strategic victory for me. No questions from the press

This Government both want us to believe they've played a leadership role here - and that they don't know the terms of the agreement. It's simply not plausible. While European Allies banned US use of their airspace, we've let bombers launch from the UK.

(1)Two big problems here : First , the obvious: "signalling " something means not-quite-saying it: Why do coded messages instead of plain speech? Because you want a get-out , deniability , if it turns out to be untrue....

America’s intervention in Iran, Feb-April 2026

The last 24 hours have shown what many have said for a long time. Britain's role as an accomplice to Trump's America must end. We must urgently decouple from a rogue US & seek security with allies closer to home. That starts with suspension of the US bombers on British soil.

Israel's next Ambassador to the UK is on hold as his role in a plot to stop ceasefires and risk hostages in the Gaza War by leaking misleading secret information via a UK newspaper is investigated- in current @privateeyenews.bsky.social

A lot wrong in the world today, but can we all congratulate 84 year old British wrestling legend Kendo Nagasaki who has described Nigel Farage as: "a really hateful man ...got this terrible history of racial and right wing abuse - and still doing it to this day, but now he camouflages it a little."

Plus: gov’t fails to free up land information as promised; the delightful world of small cap investment (“pour gasoline over this scum”); and the “all time low” customer service record of the HMRC boss brought in to sort out the National Savings fiasco 2/2

In a packed @privateeyenews.bsky.social In the Money section this issue - more cash in circulation when legitimate use falling - wonder why?; the fall of Macquarie-backed NCP; Farage’s new mate’s dubious Covid loan; the towering cronyism of “Manchesterism” 1/2

defeated by the Greens, Thangam Debbonaire was rewarded with 3 lobbying jobs , working for firms representing South West Water, Serco and AI firms - Labour MP's will ignore voters who want them to go left if corporations give them jobs for staying right morningstaronline.co.uk/article/debb...

(1)The US landed x2 Hercules w/100 troops +2 helicopters in Iran to rescue the second F-15 pilot. The (heavy) Hercules got stuck in the sand , so the US blew them + the helicopters up + flew in x3 lighter transport planes to get everyone out - almost repeated this ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right Well worth a read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

There’s no purpose to these policies beyond the shabby & in any event vain hope of gaining votes from racists. They‘ll screw up countless people’s lives for decades & prevent them becoming full members of society as well as damaging the economy. There is no compromising with this & MPs shouldn’t try

(1)Just watched "Billion Dollar Brain" the film where Harry Palmer spies on a mad right wing US Billionaire who thinks his super computer has given him a perfect plan to invade the Soviets + spark an uprising that will overthrow the 'Reds' , but.....

Also, it’s always worth remembering that Stephen Pollard spent years writing vicious anti-migrant screeds for the Express and Mail

When oh when will there be a ban on the Malevolent Eggs of the Fleet Street/Westminster politico-media complex?

(1)Stephen Pollard rightly criticised for this disgusting article calling Zack Polanski a "Court Jew" - but it's not the maddest thing he's written : Back in the Blair days he wrote a whole pro-NHS privatisation paper that implied the NHS was a Nazi institution....

The red-on-yellow "Vote Labour" window poster sent to all members for the May local elections is the first I've seen for ages that doesn't have a big Union Jack on it - seems significant.

John Healey v. unconvincing on #R4Today this AM. I guess he thinks his slow, bored schoolmaster tone says "authority" but it really sounds weak imo. There's some of the Labour Right so used to getting their way inside the party by discipline, control + expulsion that they have weak persuasive powers

(1)It worries me we may have a many conditions for directly antisemitic attacks in the UK (ie on Jewish people, Synagogues etc) .1stly Israel's hateful warmongering makes folk rightly v. angry , but makes a few simple-minded people wrongly blame UK Jewish people ....

Farage says he doesn't think Non-British citizens should settle in the UK but he does like Non-British citizens settled in the UK to give him £££££. Details in @privateeyenews.bsky.social (picked up here by Politico London Playbook)

Labour Together backing millionaires are now funding Angela Rayner. Is she a left alternative to Starmer or 'Plan B' for the moneybags guys? Details in current @privateeyenews.bsky.social (picked up here by Politico Playbook)

Labour's crude and failing attacks on Green Party decriminalisation drug policy are also attacks on a "Portuguese Model " of drug addiction management which Labour MPs like Bridget Phillipson previously praised , details in current @privateeyenews.bsky.social

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The offshore bonanza fuelling Reform UK continues, according to Electoral Commission data for the last quarter of 2025. Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

Now the Oscars are out of the way, we can turn to a real awards season highlight: Turd of the Week - Private Eye’s regular award for whichever water company or executive has been especially… slippery of late. Find out who is crowned tomorrow as IT’S PRIVATE EYE WEEK!

In @privateeyenews.bsky.social In the Money: bankers’ bonuses ratcheting up thanks to inflation hitting everybody else; Farage’s friend’s money laundering book highlights areas favoured by Reform backers; and more AI-perbole as govt makes Accenture “reinvention” boss an “AI champion”.

The released "Mandelson Files" show govt paid off Mandelson to stop "Peter go[ing] public on some of his claims" , a matter of "urgency "- but they have kept secret what these "claims" are (eg the actual "note of a call" referred to here has been held back)

Here is the letter where govt say they must pay Mandelson £75k in case of an "Employment Tribunal " - which is nonsense because he had no Employment Tribunal claim (needing 2yrs service) . Last line is real reason, to stop "Peter goes public on some of his claims"

(1)A weird thing about Mandelson getting £75k for threatening an Employment Tribunal is he had no "unfair dismissal" rights - you cant claim unfair dismissal until 2 years service. Even after Labour reforms starting this April we will still need 6 months service to claim unfair dismissal...

Revealed: Scores of academy trust leaders paid more than director of England’s largest education authority educationuncovered.co.uk/news/reveale... And heads of five single-school academy trusts each had higher salaries than the person overseeing 444 non-academy schools in Hampshire

labour market flexibility for thee, generous employment rights and severance packages for me

I am delighted that the High Court has ruled in my favour on the key issues in the libel case brought by Raffi Berg. The court rejected the claimant’s interpretation of the article and ruled that it expressed an opinion based on stated material.

".. this is the realities of war, & those who target civilians, in particular the Iranian regime, that kind of action is appalling" Govt minister Sarah Sackman on the bombing of the school in Minab, which more & more people are now admitting was done by the US

Son-of-the-Shah-of-Iran's UK adviser/ spokesman had to resign from top jobs at Save The Children and UNICEF because of "inappropriate behaviour " propositioning a number of junior female staff . In current @privateeyenews.bsky.social

RIP great protest singer Country Joe - I saw him at the very un-radical 2007 Isle of Wight Festival, he kept "Fixing to Die Rag" relevant - even to now - by changing the lyrics in the last verse from "next stop is Vietnam" to "Next stop is I-RAN" ( about 2m in here youtu.be/xOZSscXhsZM?... )

How OPERATION EPSTEIN FURY is going so far: 🤣 🖕 👌 👎

(1)There's an interesting point here-that Labour should appeal to "hero voters" (ie "economically insecure" folk who voted Tory in 2019) by offering something to help "economic insecurity" not trying to win on their "social conservatism". The flaw imo is Labour didn't do this in the 2024 election

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Pete Hegseth: "It was unfortunate that the Brits didn't, from day 1, say go ahead & have access but we got there, we got there, & thats now part of the way that we're operationalising bomber runs, and when we say more to come, its more fighter squadrons, its more capabilities.."

Very impressive to see @georgemonbiot.bsky.social get a round of applause from the audience (and a kind of sulky downward stare from the panel) for explaining how a 1953 CIA coup against Iranian oil nationalisation got us here : Showing that telling the deeper truth might seem.hard but can be done.

I don't think Labour should have put up Jason Manford as their spokesperson on Question Time . "Who remembers when Labour backed a crazy American President in a mad Middle East war ? What was that all about ?"

The Epstein files showed Mandelson, a business friendly Labour's Centrist who lectured everyone about patriotism and obeying laws would share Govt secrets with business associates with no hesitation once he got a whiff of money. This could be endemic in the Labour Centrist-Lobbying circles #spying

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Now Mandelson’s Global Counsel will no longer be holding dinners for its clients, top civil servants and politicos, will there be fewer lobbyist-brokered meetings with government? Hospitality registers for new cabinet secretary Antonia Romeo suggest not. Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

(1) A little example of "How We Got Here" : In 2016 Tom Watson published a "dossier" using clearly fake "evidence" 'proving' Corbyn was leader cos of "Trotskyist" infiltration. The Guardian reported the fake document, their columnist John Harris backed it up.... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump prefers the quicker, Mafia-like take-out-the-top-guy-negotiate-with-his-replacement approach to war. Buy Netanyahu prefers a longer "destroy all infrastructure and rule the ruins". Which makes the US-Israel (and now UK) war plan hard to predict