Going to be bleak when we find his name in the files

Farage was banging on about Turkish barbers, so these lads in Glasgow did this. It's in Dumbarton Road, if you fancy a trim.

Jeez. This is just unbelievable

HMRC won't admit how much tax is lost offshore. Major corporations dodge taxes by shifting profits to low/no tax jurisdictions. Wealthy use offshore havens. Opacity means HMRC, Govt and tax abuse industry can't be held to account. Normal people pay more in tax.

That £240m contract Palantir won after Peter Mandelson took Keir Starmer to visit them? Government asserts "there were robust processes in place to ensure that government contracts are awarded fairly and transparently" but the award notice says it was a "directed award", ie without any competition.

I don't know for sure, but I'd bet that Mandelson was a key figure lobbying for Labour NOT to hold a proper inquiry into Russian interference in our elections. His closeness to Deripaska and others would have come out

Disturbs me that Reform so clearly have resources to burn.

This should have been an agonising choice for anyone who wants to dent Reform's drive to make Britain a client state to US or Russian fascists. But Labour are so determined to be mired in political calamity that they just aren't a serious option right now. #VoteGreen

Feargal Sharkey: "English Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres p.a., dump sewage for almost 4 million hours p.a and roughly 35% of your bills goes on more dividends & interest payments".

Again, we all did. It was in the public domain.

Have a read of this. Great scoop, obviously, but it’s also an absolute masterclass in how to report on these jokers. Plenty of London-based hacks could learn a lot from Martin Shipton here. If they actually wanted to… nation.cymru/news/the-new...

Zohran Mamdani is planning to open Government run Grocery Stores in New York that will sell goods at up to 25% less than the ripoff supermarkets. We should do the same in the UK.

Just before Trump's re-election, I attended a tech conference in Silicon Valley. Over dinner, a tech bro spoke in ways that reminded me of 1930s fascists. I pointed this out. He replied, without irony: "Yeah, I think we should get a little fascy."

But still, we'd rather be clinging on at the edge, struggling not to be extinguished, than back inside the EU shaping our own future as part of an economic superpower. #Rejoin

Here we go…

The far right party #Reform appears to have breached electoral law in the by-election in #GreaterManchester #VoteGreen in #Gorton&Denton socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/...

Aristocrats really are cunts aren’t they. The French had the right solution in the eighteenth century.

If as @lucympowell.bsky.social claims Labour is so concerned about Reform winning, they could consider: 1. Running their most popular candidate 2. Sack everyone connected to Mandelson 3. Stop copying Reform's policies 4. Address voters problems 5. Introduce PR Otherwise see you at the count.

Interesting poll of Labour members. Starmer 42-30 > Streeting 37-48 < Rayner 37-53 < Burnham (not MP) Least likely contest of all is Starmer-Mahmood: wins 55-17! But if a 2026 contest did happen, my hunch is q.difficult for incumbent to run (without unified ministerial + backbench support).

We are fast approaching the 10th anniversary anniversary of the Brexit referendum. But what does the public think - was Brexit more of a failure or a success? "Looking around now. Do we feel like a rich country? I don't really think so."

JD Vance loudly booed at the Winter Olympics today.

Here is a recent YouGov comparison, with Merz, Starmer and Macron (in that order) battling for the most unpopular position. Also note the big Frederiksen anti-Trump/Greenland bonus.

While the loss of political authority is a prominent feature of Brexit Britain, the deep unpopularity of national leader is not. Whether Merz, who is more unpopular at each poll, Macron or Tusk, very few major European leaders have a net positive popularity rating.

Far from being ‘anti-establishment’, Reform UK seem very much at the centre of the establishment conspiracy swirling around Epstein.

University prospectus From the new Private Eye, out now.

For now, I’d like Morgan McSweeney to be removed immediately from his position, perhaps even investigated for his links & actions. Then I’d like anything that Mandelson has had a hand in stopped. So the contracts with Palantir should cease. There are some very good 🇬🇧 or 🇪🇺 alternative companies 🧵3

Yeah this is correct. Whatever else opinions you may have of Mamdani, through vehement dislike to veneration, this is a guy who is *very very good* at the communications side of politics and human interaction generally. A generational talent, probably the most talented natural performer since Obama?

Left: Zia Yusuf, "Mandelson deserves to be in jail. The buck stops with the executive, Keir Starmer is a disgrace to his office and should resign" Right: Nathan Gill is in jail for accepting Russian bribes. Using Zia Yusuf's logic, isn't Nigel Farage also a disgrace, and should also resign?

Nigel Farage tells GB News that Keir Starmer's decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador shows his judgement is "seriously wrong" and he should stand down as Prime Minister. Here's what Farage said when Mandelson was appointed

I’ve been saying it for years, but as a communicator and politician Pedro Sánchez is so far ahead of Keir Starmer it is unreal. Imagine him with a 150 seat majority up against Farage. It would be carnage of the most beautiful kind.

I just signed a petition calling for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm? Sign now: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Yes, quite. It's the biggest scandal of this administration, so far, probably. It's an average Tuesday under Johnson.

Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government. Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’ I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.

From lost fishing rights to costly export barriers, one of Britain’s oldest industries is paying the price of Brexit. Repairing our relationship with Europe is essential to restoring access and competitiveness, particularly for those in the fishing industry.

this is vicious and correct www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Thread starting with 🚨 TWO SHOCKING FACTS: Epstein was in direct contact with Putin, boasting of personal invites to St Petersburg. He co-owned Thiel’s Valar Ventures w/ Ehud Barak, backing Israeli surveillance firm Carbyne. 1/12 bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...

in order to save this country we are probably going to have to do things that make rich men sad 😔

Great scoop by Byline. Farage was paid by Trump crypt adviser who worked with Russia operative Paul Manafort. He received payment from David Bailey, who collaborated with the convicted fraudster behind the Trump-Russia influence scandal. This should be all over the media.

Alex Burghart MP has now called for a review of the circumstances around the award of Palantir's £240m defence contract, and asked why Mandelson's visit to Palantir's offices in Washington was kept off the books while the company was being represented by his firm, Global Council.

Zack Polanski, "Palantir.. £240 million contract last month" "That was lobbied by Global Counsel which is Peter Mandelson's lobbying group" "The idea that a defence company from the US has its fingerprints all over our healthcare system, alongside Peter Mandelson"

Health minister Wes Streeting takes tons of money from private health firms. It’s a conflict of interest big enough to see from space. This cannot be right.

Just some good ideas!

We @foxglovelegal.bsky.social have called on the govt to release info about Lord Mandelson’s links with US tech giant Palantir and its growing number of uk govt contracts www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...

ICE will be handling election security. Never again wonder why Russia was willing to spend billions getting Trump into office.

I remember when the UK fisheries were a key part of the EU referendum campaign. Leavers promised the earth. Remainers were accused of project fear. Well .... #RejoinEU