Nobody has ever explained to me why commentators think that Andrew was the Queen's favourite son. What evidence is there? If she had ever let people believe that, it would be shockingly bad parenting.

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

Charge him and hold him in custody as a flight risk.

I don't remember commentators being concerned about how people under arrest feel, before today.

Did Andy Windsor need a passport when he was a royal? Does he need one now he's a normal citizen? If so, does he have one? Will it be confiscated when he is released from custody?

The wretch Andy Windsor was very close to being king. Time to remove the royal family.

Blimey on a bike! The rolling news is going to be a bit gummed up today, isn't it.

I bet half the people banging on about Labour's U-Turns are perfectly comfortable with this moron's. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

On my way home I walked past someone that looked quite tired. Naturally I called the police.

Let's see... Conservatives describe Farage's "shadow cabinet" as a Tory Tribute Act. Labour describes Farage's "shadow cabinet" as a Tory Tribute Act. At last, something they can both agree on.

Fair enough. From now on we'll have to call them hairpin bends.

First they came for Tommy Robinson, and I said "He's over there, behind the sofa, and his real name's Stephen Yaxley-Lennon"

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage says Jim Ratcliffe was "in the dictionary's definition correct" to use colonisation to describe mass immigration Cambridge Dictionary Definition: the act or process of sending people to live in and GOVERN another country How are migrants governing our country Nigel?

Can we get some Wikileaks or Anonymous to release the full, un-redacted Epstein-Trump files? Or better yet, anyone credible with a shred of decency?

I’ve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.

It’s absolutely absurd that there is no process for removing politicians from the House of Lords, so many recent additions have proven totally unsuitable.

Can we have Gordon Brown back as #Labour leader please.

People who say "hear me out" should absolutely understand no circumstances be heard out

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This can be the site for breaking news, if journalists choose to break news on it. It is as simple as that. And that is not utopian. It is precisely what has happened the last week or so. If you weren't on BlueSky, you were late to each development.

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

Starmer should throw caution to the wind. Start the EU process, electoral reform, healthcare overhaul, welfare overhaul, wealth taxes, education overhaul. He has nothing to lose. But he may even get another term. #c4news

If you really want Trump to be held accountable then you MUST vote in the midterm election regardless of what you think about the candidates. Voting Democrat holds the ONLY possibility of ridding your country of the malignant cancer occupying the White House now.

Mason, Coates and others cut their teeth under Johnson and Brexit. For them, politics is light entertainment. They're no different to gossip columnists and offer zero serious analysis of the complex world of 2026.

I'm old enough to remember when AI stood for Artificial Insemination.

Well you should have tried harder to persuade your members.

And leaking confidential information to the harm of one's financial markets, and therefore one's country, IS TREASON.

Forget what was widely known at the time. Right or wrong, plenty of people in very high places were perfectly prepared to turn a blind eye. Focus on 1) the lies 2) the vetting process and 3) years of back channeling, and possible treason.

Barack did well.

Don’t go associating ponce Andy with vampires, we have a sense of decency. #TheNewsQuiz #🧛‍♂️

IT'S COMING ... FASCISM IS IN CONTROL ... JUST LIKE PUTIN ... tRUMPSTEIN WILL GIVE HIMSELF 95% OF OUR VOTES ... 🤬🤬🤬 SO WHAT'S THE PLAN???

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Release the Epstein Files unredacted except for victim's names and faces. 🗽

Former speechwriter for Bush the Younger and Senior Editor at The Atlantic:

Yes, FBI? I’m calling to report a murder.

There are no more “principaled Republicans.” If there were, two or three of them would simply caucus with the Democrats and start to hold this lawless administration accountable of its crimes.

It's not clear that Mandelson gained anything much for betraying his friends, party and country, so why did he do it? Epstein's empire was built on dodgy money, greed, perversion, kompromat and blackmail. Wouldn't it be funny if Mandelson ended up pulling the whole debauched stink-heap down.

Hang on a minute! If Starmer can put together a dossier overnight he must have had immediate access to incriminating documents. So... Why did this not turn up when Manelson was vetted for ambassador? In any case, why wasn't Mandelson's treachery discovered many years ago?

Mandelson has suffered from venal disease his entire life.

Andrew Windsor: "Hold my pint!"

Forget about Starmer's poor judgement appointing him as ambassador, why the hell did Mandleson accept? He must have known this was likely to come out with the release of the Epstein Files. #entitled #arrogant #corrupt

Why wouldn't this be treason?

Mandelson's long career of grovelling to the rich and powerful like a pig looking for truffles is disgusting. Hopefully, he'll now withdraw from public life.

Surely it would be considered rude for a 56 year old Prince not to join in with a game of Twister with a 26 year old.

I am sick of news readers and comontators reporting on Trump with a smile and a slight laugh, as if they find him amusing rather than terrifying. Would they have done this when Hitler was in his ascendancy?

Just think about what would be happening in the US right now if Kamala had been elected.

Hmm. Seems the EU got a much better and more wide ranging trade deal with India than the one negotiated by the UK last year. How can that happen after the UK liberated itself from the EU in order to negotiate better deals ? It’s almost as if we were lied to! www.theguardian.com/business/202....