BBC reporting that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. There is no precedent for a senior member of the royal family being placed under arrest in modern British history. A seismic moment for the monarchy.

BBC Breaking News! Andrew Mountbatten- Windsor arrested for suspicion of misconduct in public office

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Interesting view in the FT. What do you think? Will it work?

Followed @VictoriaDerbyshire advice and watched the dark web on BBC4. Horrific but you have to watch it.

This should be front-page news. The collapse in UK goods exports is the single biggest reason why UK economic growth hasn’t picked up in recent years. Brexit is a big part of it, but there’s also a major China shock to UK export competitiveness that’s gone largely unnoticed in UK political debate.

When you look at statistics of how educated our population is, we are not much out of line with other developed countries such as the US, Canada, the nordics, Netherlands etc and often behind south east Asia. All the people calling for less people to go to uni, how much less than our competitors 1/

Terrific piece this. Something that Yvette Cooper said the government would do that seems to have fallen by the wayside is to release this data *themselves*, but instead they've seemingly quit the field leaving it only to bad actors (and now, thankfully, Anoosh)

Great to see the British Supreme Court making these decisions instead of Brussels. Or something.

just billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe throwing out some serious made-up numbers on TV

Yeah, British politics is simple. You just need to improve public services without any meaningful tax increases, reduce immigration without any labour market impacts, and deliver growth and you'll be hugely successful.

McSweeney is out then!

Times: The Metropolitan Police is expected to announced on Tuesday evening that Mandelson is being investigated on suspicion of misconduct in public office, an offence that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

Why didn’t the previous administration release the Epstein files? Anyone know?

Politics nerds. Is there actually anyone currently in the Labour Party who you genuinely think would make a good leader?

It’s going very well. HOW COULD THEY FUCK IT UP THIS MUCH? 14 fucking years to get their shit together

I’m sure you picked up on this one @rolandmcs.bsky.social

FFS

Shock horror Suella defects to Reform. Good fucking riddance

Burnham has been blocked then I see

Hmmmmmm….

France has boarded a sanctioned Russian oil tanker suspected of flying a false flag in the Mediterranean.

Historians.. Did the whole world normalise Hitler? Including the BBC

Did Trump just go full DEI woke when mentioning Suzie Wiles as the first woman chief of staff

This ought to work

He’s fucking crazy…

It’s always, always DOGE for the poor and massive socialist state subsidies via tax payers for the rich

The BBC coverage of Trump for the last few days has been excruciatingly poor. Degenerative lunacy becomes a "reflective afternoon".

Was watching the rambling Trump press conference and was so bored / depressed had to turn on the tudors. Patriotism at its finest

One of the busiest airports in the world coming off Twitter #amsterdam

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Wow! Carney!

Even Montie

So after endorsing the changos deal, Trump has now called the UK (Starmer) stupid. You cannot reason with this man

I see Andrew Neil is saying that Russia has finally managed to decouple NATO. NO Andrew that already started with Brexit

How it started ... How it's going

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

3 more fucking years of this shit, and if Vance gets in it could be even worse. Still remembering all those tories who said we should get closer to USA, Russia, Pacific nations and decouple from Europe and that Trump would make the world safer for us all. Fucking idiots

I feel truly blessed that my masters was completely funded by the European social fund. One of the many reasons I was so against leaving the EU. Haven’t changed my mind about that. I feel so sorry for the younger generation

It does make me smile that this Facebook viral post about “I made an agreement with the government to pay NI and they agreed to pay me my pension at 60” thing being shared by lots of women in Dubai. Woman you’ve lived in Dubai for 20-30 years paying £170 a YEAR in voluntary NI contributions!

Nadhim Zahawi defects to Reform I see!!

Americans who defend school shootings with the 2nd amendment and how it protects Americans from government over reach, how’s that going exactly?

Any time I see a starter pack I repost it. Starter packs are network builders. Network building makes this place better for everyone. If you have a good starter pack, send it round and remind people.

Starmer ABSOLUTELY needs to level with the British public about our national security. ASAP. He has already waited far too long. Hasn’t helped that the UK media has also been VERY slow to accept that the world order has been flipped on its head (present company excluded @stephenkb.bsky.social).

For fucks sale Labour have you got nothing better to do than driving restrictions. Seriously?!!!

What the fuck is he talking about? America you voted for this guy TWICE!!

WHY THE FUCK has politics live got Jacob Rees Mogg on talking about international fucking law?!!!! Of all people

And yet they banned children’s books

For no reason whatsoever, I’m reminding you that before the US invaded Iraq in 2003, the Bush administration said that Iraq’s oil revenue would fund everything. www.meforum.org/middle-east-...