An old but nonetheless interesting story. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Chri...

This is genuinely wild.

How are your gilt yields this morning boys ?

Great defence of First Past the Post - which has brought stability to UK politics for over a decade. Also v interesting to see Israel mentioned as an example of failings in PR. There are calls in Scotland for a PR system too, tho I expect those'll be as successful as demands for a Scottish Assembly!

Tel Aviva

This story didn't even make the six o'clock BBC News for all it's worth.

Another thing to chalk up on Starmer’s maintenance of the special relationship and Mandelson’s record as ambassador.

Am I missing something but wasn't this the thing to do over a decade ago when the first accusations against Andrew came to light?

Is handing vexatious and false complaints to the security services against the law? It certainly *feels* like a criminal conspiracy.

David Dimbleby saying the relationship between the monarchy and the media is literally "a conspiracy". Quite something. #wato

King Charles' brother Andrew left a UK police station, according to a Reuters witness, following an earlier arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office reut.rs/4s3QI6I

Moodyman / skull disco genre

Have they taken Andrew’s guns from him?

The typo really adds to the sincerity.

If the Queen was still alive none of this would be happening and obvious she was personally shielding Andrew from accountability and the law for decades.

Not the best time for @trending.bsky.app to be broken.

Andrew thought the Newsnight interview went well.

While we're all celebrating that no one is above the law, a reminder that the current King accepted literal bags full of cash from the Prime Minister for a foreign country and the Met failed to interview or arrest the then Crown Prince before quietly closing the case. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-6194...

"A man in his sixties from Norfolk," is a wonderful Private Eye style euphemism.

Very funny bbc 5live describing the very concept of “a police cell.” Roll on the emergency podcasts!

Throbbing Gristle?

Top three promoted news stories going on over on xitter, I'm sure Starmer, the government and UK Labour Party will be winning whatever argument they think they're having there soon.

This is pricing in Starmer not being leader.

Just excellent stuff, you have to say.

He should do one of those apologies-to-the-fans Maguire has to do after a particularly humiliating performance.

Sitcom idea: Andy & Mandy Do Porridge. Episode 01: Andrew attempts to prove he’s physically incapable of prison labor by claiming a medical inability to grip a mop. Peter rebrands incarceration as a a courageous act of public service.

The “Petie-Files”…

Ange vindicated.

The whole Labour Party is going to need proper De-Ba'athification once these Mandelson files are released. This is all just skirmishes.

Call for a general election you cowards!

Won’t somebody think of the gilt yields!?

All a bit undignified having the branch office manager be chosen to stick the knife in.

NFL perceptively realising FIFA is now a pro-Trump project and getting ahead of the game.

Bad Bunny, good actually.

I feel the international viewer is genuinely missing out on something crucial to the Super Bowl experience by not getting to see just how unwell America is from the commercials.

Give it to Big Sam.

Truly, the FBPE-Starmtrooper is the final boss of centrism.

They’ve caused more damage to the British establishment than the American one. Feels like a proper systemic meltdown over here, at the very least the beginning of the end of this government.

Surely if "Pincher-by-name, pincher-by-nature" was the last straw for Boris Johnson... this whole thing is of an order of magnitude considerably worse for Starmer, just doesn't seem tenable at all. May limp miserably until May.

I know this is trivial but id be so fucking pissed off if I was prime minister and they made my secret alias 'John Pond'. Obama's secret service name was Renegade. Oh nice to meet you Renegade, I'm John Pond. This is my wife, Swampy Sharon.

"Former" one step above "disgraced" in this Guardian style guide formulation.

Since pubs are in the news and the timeline today, all time top tier pearl clutching here from a government MP - but also shows the outsize weight pubs have on politics in general.

It's the Adam Curtis timeline, we're all just living in it.

New Atheism finally defeats Al Qaeda. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

It’s interesting to think this will be going on as millions of football fans fly in and around America this summer.

A minor electrical issue in the brain stem?

Very late capitalism global supply chain to note Denmark supplies most of America’s insulin and weight loss drugs.

@islingtongreens.bsky.social hi, is there information online about who is running for Islington council for the Green Party? Ideally at ward level if possible.

Has anyone seen the weather ?

Always the cowboy, never the cow.