Ah, the kinder gentler crowd have made it to the Greens I see.

Today, the UK arrested Lord Mandelson for his alleged ties to Epstein. But here in the United States of America? Nothing. Tomorrow, I am bringing Haley Robson, a heroic survivor, to the State of the Union.

Loads of press outside Mandelson's flat. He must be well paid to live in a £10mn flat 🤔

Big risk for starmer. In Uxbridge 1997 byelection, Blair went as pm to campaign and labour lost. That was just after that 179 majority

Also the BDC problem is identical to the BREIT problem. Illiquidity is and should be a feature of the structure, not a bug, and if you sold it as liquid then that’s just wrong.

Brits: Ghislaine Maxwell Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and now Lord Peter Mandelson. USA: your turn

You know how grocery stores are tracking all your purchases through loyalty programs/apps? Well, shouldn’t they be able to send me an alert when something I bought gets recalled for food safety reasons or whatever?

We've had questions from three broadcasters so far, and they have all been about the practicalities and costs. None has asked about the legal/moral issue of retrospectively changing laws so huge numbers of people who have made their lives in the UK will be expelled.

FFS can we just stop this pathetic click bait journalism. There's absolutely no evidence that it makes cycling safer and this constant demonisation of cyclists is just tedious.

It is to our eternal shame that we live in a world that tolerates this outcome

Green supporters on here are pretty brittle when challenged too.

This is a bit revisionist. Clegg ran in 2010 promising to recommend whoever won the biggest mandate. There was a whole debate over most votes or most seats but Cameron had both.

Green supporters are condescending eankers

The only aussies who can really be allowed to be anti immigration are first nations people surely

It will be funny if trump decides he's going to appoint more judges to the supreme Court (technically there is no limit) to get his stuff through. Biden and Obama missed the chance. Idiots.

if anyone is tempted to briefly hand it to John Roberts remember that he is about to finish his life’s work of destroying the Voting Rights Act and save yourself the trouble

we go live to Heard Island:

No Board of Peace member country has ever gone to war with another country while they were also on the Board. Let that sink in.

Another stunning win, congrats to the team in Redcar! 🔶 As the Labour vote collapses, Liberal Democrats are the ones beating Reform.

I know I am approximately the 4343th person to say this but why are these people so whiny about flatly factual descriptions of their politics? Going on about how ancestry is what matters then having an attack of the vapours about people saying 'sounds like racism'.

A subtext a lot of people are missing around the FCAS row is how paranoid Dassault management is about how scenarios where it is not the a senior project partner becomes a pathway to an eventual takeover by Airbus

“Albert Bridge to remain accessible to cycles and pedestrians for the next year.” Fixed it for you, BBC. (This local resident is fucking DELIGHTED! It’s a joy to cross right now - children & runners & people on bikes & even dogs all smiling across the full width.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My main concern with the talk about replacing the Royals is what replaces them, and I have to be honest, with batshit mental right wing nutjobs leading in the polls I'm not sure I want to find out

I think some republicans haven’t got their heads around the fact they need a positive offering. What do you want to replace the monarchy with & is it likely to be much more popular? Because, looking at history, there is nothing they can do that is so bad that negativity alone will be the end of it

New rule: You can really worry about falling fertility rates & rising dependency ratios as a source of long term economic gloom. Or you can really worry about an AI jobs apocalypse and surging productivity. You can’t have both.

I am concerned that weaker monarchy in time of farage is bad for UK though. Like 1920s Spain and 1930s Europe. Monarchies appeased the fascists and look where it got them. Mind you a lot of those 1930s were fake and related to breakup of ottomon and hapsburg empires.

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...

It's now clear Donald Trump is trying to bully the government into letting the US use UK bases like Diego Garcia to pursue unilateral military action. Keir Starmer needs to stand strong and give Parliament a vote on the use of UK bases by US forces.

Even princes are not above the law. Rep. Thomas Massie & I forced the release of an email showing former prince Andrew allegedly shared state information with Epstein. On Feb 9th, I called on King Charles to investigate & answer questions. www.nbcnews.com/world/united...

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

Legal bluesky - wouldn't this prejudice a legal case?

You’d think London’s roads calm down after work - but after 6pm the West End turns into Wild West, with no congestion charge and few parking controls. @cleancitiescampaign.org analysis shows dramatic increase of cars entering central London in evening 6-7pm (56%+) compared to morning 8-9am... 1/9

"can you arrange something that'll knock the Chagos Islands clusterfuck off the front pages" "I certainly can my ever beleaguered master" "back in the game"

The #RugbyLeague world club challenge game is live on BBC3 tonight from 7pm if you are interested. Hull KR take on Brisbane Broncos.

A really good piece from #GCN here and especially the discussions at the end and the final point about needing some visions and plans - that really is the thing lacking in the UK. youtu.be/y4pO1vS0gkc?...

People are fearful of being displaced by AI. And then they do the exact opposite of what they should be doing, learning about it…Instead they double down on their ignorance 🤷‍♂️

Such a bluesky take

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reposting for the lols

I think there are some pretty legitimate questions for the Greens to answer in this short thread – entirely possible they didn't know the history here, but if so they should say that and distance themselves.

Osborne is right and there's a lot of luddites here

Trump, who has sued thousands of times, has not sued anyone calling him a pedophile

Anyone who lives in Walthamstow you are very welcome to join our jobs fair this Wednesday 18th February. I will be running crafts too, so you can bring the kids and I will entertain them whilst you talk to potential employers in peace! #loveWalthamstow

Anything that strengthens the EU institutions prior to the French election seems like a sensible move. RBG’s reluctance to retire from the US Supreme Court prior to 2016, and what happened afterwards, provides a hard lesson

Clearly if these people still love Trump then they are idiots.

The basic line between Restore Britain and Reform UK is simple: Restore is openly racist, Reform veils its racism. Even the BNP wasn't as openly racist as Restore; for them to have Parliamentary and significant local govt representation feels a Rubicon crossed.

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)