thanks to Mandelson’s lawyers we now know why the police accelerated their investigation yesterday www.ft.com/content/5910...

St James’s Park

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

Paul Dorfman at the Bennett Institute, University of Sussex, and a long-standing critic of nuclear power, said some modelling suggested that Sizewell C “will almost be entirely surrounded by flood water once a year by the end of the 2030s” www.ft.com/content/7f09...

Russia launched its full-scale invasion exactly four years ago. If anyone had told us, during that first month, that this would be the situation four years later, we would have instantly called it a massive Ukrainian victory and a staggering Russian defeat

One of Labour's political challenges is that those things it has done that is popular tend not to be well known or high profile to the general public A Reform threat to repeal employment rights is therefore a significant political opportunity, if they can seize it.

when broadcasters repeat Mandelson claim he was “not motivated by financial gain” please also report the $75,000 of financial gain Mandelson received from Epstein in 2004 and 2004 and the £10s of thousands Mandelson’s husband received from Epstein in 2009/10 plus free flights & mansion stays

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"A 3-year-old company with fewer than 5 employees is being considered for a $25 billion contract... raising red flags among investors. "The company is unknown in the nuclear industry, never completed a nuclear project and is headquartered out of a WeWork office... www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

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NEW Land and Expand - how Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence What a close reading of public domain documents tells us about two concerning contract awards Detailed post by me, following-up on my FT column emptycity.substack.com/p/land-and-e...

I mean, it is only 'one meal out of every four that includes meat, now doesn't', it is firmly within the limits of what a good public information campaign ought to be able to achieve.

a year is a long time in politics

full FT story: Lord Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office following claims he leaked confidential UK government memos to Jeffrey Epstein and received cash from the paedophile American financier www.ft.com/content/778e...

a year is a long time in politics

BREAKING Lord Mandelson has been pictured being led from his home by plain clothed police officers

this story about Josh Simons commissioning a firm to investigate how the Sunday Times in 2023 knew about Labour Together's opaque financing is a bit weird when... ....it had literally been fined *two years earlier* by the Electoral Commission, but we all missed the significance of it at the time

there's a nugget here which helps to explain Brown's character and why he was so incensed by the allegations against Mandelson from their time in office

Can't beat a rain, bus window photo.

London, rain, bus, window

this is such a weird, weird story from @gabrielpogrund.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

London, rain, bus, window

This British 65 year old grandmother with a valid visa spent six weeks in an ICE detention center. She was shackled, transported and locked up. She was on a holiday in the US! Warning: ⚠️ Please don’t travel to the US! It’s totally unsafe! #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AY1ljTV6PRD2...

it finishes with the fucking Grandstand fanfare, it is both ominous and batshit

John Lennon: “I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death.”

NEW: JD Vance flew to Rome to formally invite Pope Leo XIV to join America’s 250th anniversary celebration. The first American pope has declined — days after rejecting President Trump’s “Board of Peace” invitation. On July 4, he’ll be in Lampedusa, standing with migrants.

I feel like the British state should do something about platforms that are so comfortable with hosting *fake and hostile* content about this country The constant attack on our reputation isn't harmless

I’ve found it, I’ve found the worst take

full of contempt for the "reporters" who sit there and laugh at trump's "jokes"

Thank you. We reported that point several days before. People are assuming it’s the information sharing that’s prompted the arrest. That remains to be seen, I think.

BBC keeps claiming it broke the story about Prince Andrew sharing government documents about an impending trade trip I’m pretty sure my colleague @reporterrwright.ft.com first wrote it several days previously www.ft.com/content/6b2f...

Wow. Thoughts with the many employees who are absolutely not to blame for what has happened, now facing considerable uncertainty.

I’m no legal expert but the documents leaked to Epstein by Mandelson seem even more market sensitive to me than the Prince Andrew ones (Mandelson leaked information about imminent $500bn eurozone bailout, £20bn of UK gov asset sales, tax changes etc)

this’ll be one of those photographs which will make it into the history books

FT exclusive: Global Counsel, the advisory firm founded by Lord Peter Mandelson, is set to go into administration as soon as Friday in the wake of revelations about the former peer and Jeffrey Epstein, its staff have been told. www.ft.com/content/ad5d...

FT exclusive: Global Counsel, the advisory firm founded by Lord Peter Mandelson, is set to go into administration as soon as Friday in the wake of revelations about the former peer and Jeffrey Epstein, its staff have been told. www.ft.com/content/ad5d...

Mandelson-related scoop coming up on FT website soon

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Scoop by @lucyfisher.ft.com Several people with knowledge of the past investigation into alleged bullying by Dame Antonia Romeo, who was named on Thursday as the country’s top civil servant, raised concerns about her with the Cabinet Office *this month*. www.ft.com/content/bee4...

BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, BBC News reported reut.rs/4s0NSPL

Side point: it is literally Andrew Windsor’s birthday!

I went to Missouri to report on the grassroots backlash to the AI revolution, which is gaining momentum by the day.

Lost my phone in London, with four credit cards and £150 cash in the case. Returned to me within 21 minutes. This hellhole of a city eh.

swan

It’s worth noting that I’ve been asking tricky questions to Farage for years and have never received this treatment. I wonder what it could be about me, a middle aged man, that might account for the difference.

How Epstein propelled investment career of UK power broker Ian Osborne, a onetime PR man and adviser to David Cameron Epstein guided him in setting up Hedosophia (now one of UK’s most important start-up backers) and even appointed him to one of his own investment vehicles www.ft.com/content/8b04...

listen to the Trumpian way that Farage tries to silence my tenacious colleague @annasophiegross.bsky.social (who was politely asking a reasonable question)

Fact Check: Nigel Farage claims the FT ignored the Mandelson-Epstein scandal it was on the front page for SIX days (long before he appears to have even noticed it)