Oh, Mandy, Well, you came, And you gave without taking, But I sent you away – politicalbetting.com
Oh, Mandy, Well, you came, And you gave without taking, But I sent you away – politicalbetting.com
23 hours ago Starmer gave Mandelson his full backing. We all knew this had to happen, why was the Prime Minister the last person to understand that Mandelson had to go? pic.twitter.com/tvjrnvCuVX
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Chancellor of the Exchequer?
There's Mandelson himself, who had to be sacked. And perhaps our own HYUFD ?
But David Cameron has just texted me to suggest a scandal-hit Foreign Secretary in the House of Lords is not out of the question.
NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
https://bsky.app/profile/dmehro.bsky.social/post/3lykkh55d2k2q
Id have preferred this.
It also happens to be a favourite of mine
https://youtu.be/3HzJ5Rg908k?si=rhROc5srmAqnYHjv
TBF I thought this one would blow over, until the eMails. A salutary lesson for Labour politicians. BigG. almost always gets his man.
I feel there's another issue here. We've had *six* foreign secretaries in five years. True, we've had a change of government, but that's not good.
That's Starmer done then!
I think a lot of well meaning good government types should be thinking closely about Peter Mandelson, and how dangerous it is for a politician to earn enough to give them a taste for yachts, but not enough to afford a yacht of their own.
He liked partying with rick folk.
BREAKING: FBI officials in Utah have confirmed they have recovered the weapon believed to have been used to kill right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, and have also confirmed the shooter's movements.
Oh Margie,
You came and you found me a turkey,
On my vacation away from work-ey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyjNqAUfX5g
every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
https://bsky.app/profile/headfallsoff.com/post/3lyjfuonko223
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lykudvszue26
FBI and Utah law enforcement have located who they believe to be the suspect in Charlie Kirk shooting, and have good video of the person. FBI said they've located what they think is the weapon, a high-powered bolt-action rifle. They didn't release a photo of the suspect. via
@CBSNews
Never mind, I'll save the lawyers a job and shut up now
NEW: Top US Congressman @RoKhanna says that Peter Mandelson "is the first example of many that will follow when the files are released".
Says "rich and powerful men" who covered for Epstein "must be held accountable".
https://x.com/freddiejh8/status/1966135318593286572
I was looking a few weeks ago and worked out that more politicians have been murdered in my lifetime in the UK than America.
So there is a huge question about why the vetting process did not identify those public documents and conclude that Mandelson was unfit to fill such a high and important public office.
https://x.com/Peston/status/1966089399969468896?s=19
What would it be worth to be a valued member of Epstein’s inner circle, one who could participate in these deals as they floated past & be in regular contact with the most powerful & wealthiest people in the world, recommended by Epstein as a person worth doing business with? A lot, I’d imagine.
I would suggest, therefore, that the benefits of currying favour with Epstein are fairly obvious: access, influence & potentially great personal wealth. I think many people, if they were unfamiliar with the less savoury ways Epstein operated, might think him someone well worth cultivating.
I know the Amess family are frustrated with both this and the previous Government but "Cox has been elevated, whilst David Amess has been relatively forgotten" is a depressing and untrue comment. I haven't forgotten either and I can tell you where I was when I heard the news about each of them.
I suspect, sadly, that her being a young woman and Amess being an old man is another part of it.
He also had money, and as the Bloomberg article that trawls through Ghislaine's emails shows, he was not shy about using it to curry favour with people who had none.
So, Bill Richardson (former NM Governor) got to use a private plane, and Bill Clinton got a $35k watch (and yes, I'm sure there were plenty of poor Republicans that got to live the high life too.)
And it's not like Mandelson doesn't have form about accepting hospitality from -say- Russian oligarchs.
He is gone for now but he may be back, as he has been before. Not as an elected politician or grand Ambassador, but as an effective behind the scenes man
Not -for the record- that I am alleging that anyone in particular is a lying scumbag.
Ed Miliband must embrace the declining North Sea by offering subsidies to oil and gas companies operating in the basin, Dale Vince has said.
Mr Vince, the green energy tycoon who is also a Labour donor, said companies that operate in the North Sea should be given a guaranteed minimum price per barrel of oil and gas to put them on an equal footing with renewable energy providers.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/09/11/dale-vince-urges-ed-miliband-to-subsidise-north-sea-oil-gas/
I’d add Cllr Andrew Pennington who was murdered trying to stop a mentally ill murdering an MP.
Which is a shame, as the reasons for their murders says a lot about some political extremes, and we are better off if we remember both in connection with each other.
What we are seeing is political allegiance - Cox was Labour and female. Amess was Tory and male. And before you complain, remember how Corbyn invited two IRA members to parliament soon after the Brighton bombings.
I'd also give a mention to Andrew Pennington, who died when Nigel Jones was attacked.
NY Times blog
Alternatively, he’s worried that there’s going to be an almighty backlash against energy subsidies and high bills.
Considerable dismay in the Security Serviced about the blame game
This is quite some development
If so...Starmer is in real danger.
Though there's a plaque to the murderer of Spencer Perceval in my local town...
I agree with you on this. Both are awful.
“ I used to go and have a drink with my dad at the the Coach and Horses at the back of Covent Garden. They have really good Guinness. It’s also the place where my father had his last fight. It was summer. He was sitting outside having a pint. My father would have two sorts of interactions with Irish people. One would be very positive. The other, they’d say: “What the fuck have you ever done for Ireland?” He was having the second interaction with this Irish woman and lost his patience.
He said: “I can forgive many things. I can forgive ignorance, because that’s not your fault. That’s the fault of your education. I can forgive bad manners. Again, not your fault if your parents just didn’t bring you up properly. But the one thing I cannot forgive is ugliness, and you’re the ugliest woman I’ve ever seen in my life. Now fuck off.”
So she goes inside, gets her boyfriend, who comes out and says [does Irish accent]: “You called my girlfriend ugly. Stand up if you’re a man.” So dad sucker-punched him and knocked him out. He was on the floor, cracked his head, and the girl started jumping up and down, going [does Irish accent]: “Dickie Harris has killed me boyfriend! Dickie Harris has killed me boyfriend!” Dad wasn’t sure what had happened, so he grabbed his Guinness and chucked it in the guy’s face, which brought him round immediately. But he was a big boy and Dad knew that he wasn’t going to win round two, so he leapt into a taxi and took off.”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6762154/
It was a curious thing that Michael Heseltine missed both events, during the Brighton bombing Heseltine was in Rome for a NATO meeting and during the Downing Street attack he wasn’t there as he wasn’t a member of the war cabinet.
Fun fact, I’ve stood in the Downing Street garden where the IRA mortars landed, and a few feet further they would have wiped out the war cabinet, it would have taken out not just top echelons of the cabinet but top echelons of the British military and intelligence services.
To be fair, not recently; things have moved on a lot during my lifetime.
Someone was paying for all this.
At that very moment one asks them for their company car keys one's heart sinks because you know they would be the one that one could count on to hit their targets and yours.
I once went to the county court in Swansea to recover money owed from a guy called Jones. I had put my case before the Judge? and Jones put up little defence. The Judge awarded my company everything that I had requested. As I gathered my papers I noticed that my salesman had himself signed the sales documents on behalf of Jones but with the name Davies. I said nothing, but when I got back I sacked the lying f*****.
The talk (and there’s plenty of evidence) that his fortune came from Israeli intelligence in exchange for well intelligence and kompromat.
Fun fact, Ghislaine Maxwell’s father was a longstanding agent of Mossad.
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1966130355745718669
The suspect arrived on campus at 11:52am, walked across campus, and accessed a rooftop from a stairwell.
After the shooting, he ran to the other side of the building, jumped off the rooftop, and fled into the neighborhood.
That's where investigators found the doorbell camera footage of him.
They’re not releasing the CCTV footage yet, instead are first using technology to attempt to identify the shooter.
That would be an ecumenical matter.
Terrorists are labeled by their aims, generally. The PIRA “claimed” to be the heirs of 1798 - which was a joint Protestant & Catholic undertaking - religious freedom for all. Hence the usual label of “Republican Terrorists”
The Loyalists are (and were) very often simply anti-Catholic. Hence they are sometimes referred to as “Protestant Paramilitaries” or “Protestant Terrorists”
Actual Christian Terrorists exist of course - classic would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Rudolph
https://x.com/jessicaelgot/status/1966147553378054352
Epstein was running (he claimed) a money management service. One billionaire put all his money with Epstein. Epstein, apparently, charged higher than average fees for these services.
Speculation was that he was either running a ponzi, a partial ponzi, and/or was using his evil services as combined blackmail and payment to use his financial services.