If you think the Times gave Peter Mandelson a soft soap, I interviewed him for the New Yorker while Reinaldo was giving him a soft tissue massage. Read all about it here: www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...

I have a robin outside that is singing loudly and proudly, for the first time this year. There's been fairly tentative birdsong most mornings, but today it feels something in the air. And yesterday a blackcap was trilling its full song, instead of a phrase or two. Courage, mon brave!

Funny you should mention that... www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...

The Melania screenings will continue until morale improves.

Incredible stuff from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/igno...

'Follow me to certain death'

Genius. Very reminiscent of a soap opera I saw a few years ago....

some people might say I take the RSPB's Big Garden BirdWatch too seriously. I don't think that's possible: www.thetimes.com/life-style/w...

“I’m Lee Anderson, I say what people think. And I’m not apologising for it.” Comedy gold.

But they all seem so honest & competent!

Wonderful. Every paragraph contains a gem. 🤣😂

"Soon it is already mid-afternoon. Following a collaboration-fostering knot exercise that culminates in Kruger losing a shoe, it is time for the trust fall" @mrhenrymorris.substack.com reports from the front lines of a Reform defectors' away day www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/723...

It’s mid-morning at Hadrian’s Wall and the Romans have already lost again. Not to the Picts this time, or to the weather, or even to the slow grind of history. But to Lee Anderson. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/723...

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Wild that a fella whose nickname is the Prince of Darkness has turned out to be a wrong 'un.

I don't think biodiversity conservation has an evidence problem I think it has a most of the world's biggest industries depend on destroying nature problem This isn't an information deficit issue, we pretty much know what to do. The problem is that govs prioritise capital growth over survival

I should have added that the “brilliant physicist“ stuff is directly related to Thiel’s post-democracy agenda. Basically these people are trying to convince each other (& us) that they’re the cognitive elite who obviously should be in charge of everything because they’re way smarter than us plebs.

Attention west Wales! March 28th at Mwldan, Aberteifi. Two disgraced ex-Tories under one roof. We'll see you there! mwldan.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Seeing your mate wearing a suit and asking what time they're in court x

Immigration is good for the UK. 👏 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/04/zero-net-migration-shrink-uk-economy-thinktank-niesr

Israel's illegal cruelties to the Palestinians continues.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment? "Pull factors" on steroids. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Look on my Deals, ye MAGA, and despair!

Incredible to think Epstein's circle could operate with impunity when we've got journalism like this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Love that he married a highly skilled manipulator.

Looking back fondly on this quote Mandelson gave me last September

I think a significant part of any school's OFSTED rating should relate to how easily you can find the term dates on their website.

England's water companies have 1,200 criminal convictions. They lose a trillion litres of water to leaky pipes. Dump sewage in rivers for 4m hours. Customers fleeced. None has its licence revoked. No exec prosecuted. Corporate fines are not collected Whatever happened to democracy, rule of law?

Maybe it's time to go back to Firefox

I don't know what his problem is, they'd just spend it in the pub anyway.

I like to scramble their brains by pointing out that Ancient Greeks, at their peak, loved to portray mythical figures as black. And, yes, black figure pottery was a technique, but *also* artistic choice. See, for instance, below: Zeus is black (as is Hephaestus), but Dionysus and Athena are white.

Together, @oceanauk.bsky.social + @zslofficial.bsky.social examined research on harm to wildlife from 1000s of oil spills in UK waters, finding evidence of: - lung lesions in bottlenose dolphins - harm to the livers of minke whales - orcas + dolphins less able to successfully reproduce

Stop calling Epstein’s youngest victims underage – they were children

The death of Twitter, beautifully articulated by the legendary Stewart Lee. Catch this full episode of The Trawl anywhere you get your pods ✌🏾

the problem with this newfound “bursary” argument aired in the Times is this: twhen we first heard about these payments in September a person close to Mandelson said it couldn’t possibly be the case and, er, threatened to sue us

It’s so funny that this guy’s entire thing is “Oh are you triggered by what I have to say about marginalized people” but he loses it when someone more well-liked than he will ever be talks about an actual injustice

Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed… …perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.

#JeffreyEpstein’s dark legacy continues to unravel as another victim shares her harrowing story. At just 15, she met Epstein during a five-day trip to his sprawling Zoro Ranch in New Mexico.

Could this monster sunspot deliver a Carrington level event? spaceweather.com

I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

this is what really killed the place even before the nazis fully took over the Venn diagram of “people willing to pay for Twitter so their replies are boosted” and “people capable of making funny comments” is just two completely separate circles side by side

Peter Mandelson. Nobody could have seen this coming.

If Christopher Nolan doesn't show Helen of Troy being hatched from an egg after her mother slept with a swan then it just shows he hates Western Civilization. These people do get that this is mythology right? Not sure the colour of her skin is the biggest issue here.

Wrong. It was about blue passports.

Probably safer to start from the basis that all billionaires are paedophiles until proven otherwise.

Don’t mind me, I’m just fitting a new mega-server into Wikipedia HQ so there’s capacity to update the scandals section for Peter Mandelson.

Greens now odds on to win Gorton & Denton

You can pay Gregg Wallace to record a romantic or cheeky Valentine’s message for the one you love …or really don’t love. 21 funniest burns www.thepoke.com/2026/02/02/g...