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Mandelson was given secret spreadsheet to vet left-wing MPs in Labour power struggle Whistleblower's revelation shows extent of his direct involvement in bitter battle to gain control of the party ahead of 2024 election

Your regular reminder Peter Mandelson handpicked every new Labour MP in 2024.

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It’s worth putting this in its broader historical context, I think. This is the end of the Starmer Is Great era (late 2021-2026) when everyone agreed to pretend Sir Keir et al were very intelligent, principled people with smart plans, whom the public would like and want. That stuff is dead, now.

This is a very valid observation, unless you are a columnist for a newspaper which played an outsized role in selling Keir Starmer to the public as an ontologically moral and decent man contra the Tories, and for whom that obviously farcical claim has now become a load-bearing pillar.

No other political leader in history has been mauled by the press like Sir Keir, just for being forensic

Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

How much longer can everyone maintain the fiction that these people ‘saved’ Labour.

What if... what really makes Britain "ungovernable" is... the nature of its political media and of its political class?

Do you want to see the "big picture" on climate change?

Here it is.

Emissions are on the left, and include CO2, CH4, N2O, and f-gases. Natural CO2 sinks (from healthy forests & oceans) are on the right. And carbon removal, what little there is, is on the right, too. All expressed as GWP100.

An electricity pylon framed by cherry blossom against a blue sky.

Ireland’s hills are victims of policy that hurts farmers and nature Incentives to do the wrong thing have hindered habitats, wildlife and good farming practice

In Science & Climate in @irishtimes.com, @whittledaway.bsky.social looks at how Ireland's hillscapes have been savaged by sheep and by policies that fail to offer upland farmers a viable alternative......
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Haha, John knew this day would come, he’s loving it.

Again, it’s striking how these people have gone from the most capable and talented politicians ever to draw breath, to clueless no-hopers who can’t even screw their own trousers on correctly, without anyone having been incorrect about them at any point between these positions

And despite the fraud perpetrated against the public now being too glaringly obvious and severe to ignore, all these withering critiques were still given under cover of anonymity, suggesting Starmer and his team are, at the very least, effective at one particular thing. Fun to ponder.

Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.

In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.

Most people have no idea. 🧵

We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out | George Monbiot The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"Just as we make ourselves more energy-secure by switching from fossil fuels to renewables, we make ourselves more food-secure by switching from animals to plants." - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Mick Kelly: We’re only ever nine meals away from anarchy. That risk is no longer just theoretical Ireland is sleepwalking into a food security crisis. We have just 74 field-scale vegetable growers left, down from around 600

The consolidation of the dairy + beef industry, profiting a handful of export-led processors, pushed by the Irish state for 50 years.

-> food insecurity, fossil fuel dependency, environmental degradation, massive income inequality and farmer indebtedness.

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Imagining every Green party in Europe feeling equal parts satisfaction & exasperation

The fun part is: this was loudly denounced as an insane conspiracy theory, right up until those books came out that were filled with McSweeney and Reed bragging about how all of it was true, and they really had suckered the press into repeating all of this awesomely dishonest horseshit.

Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Bring a knife to a vault containing many wheels of cheese in a brutalized postapocalyptic society where knives are only a legend. You are now Knifebringer, Divider of the Cheese. Raise your knife and rule the clans.

Let’s hope so. History should record that this was brought about by the Labour right, who were fully supported in their takeover of the party and the subsequent move to the right by the centre and centre-left press, all of whom loudly crowed that they had saved it. A historical era of hubris.

I think this is fair enough, an issue they’ll have to grapple with as they get more popular.

BREAKING: We're taking the government to court over Palantir Peter Thiel's surveillance firm is embedded in the NHS. Wes Streeting won't show us the briefings - so we have launched a legal challenge.

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.

The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm

So we’re taking legal action.

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Freedland's claim that Starmer's enemies saw him as a dull technocrat is an inversion of the truth. This was the caricature pushed by his supporters, notably at the Guardian. His actual opponents (on the left) saw him from day one as a bare-faced liar.
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A political project based entirely on arrogance and fucking people over, only total simpletons could think these people would be competent in government.

Every single average joe in the country understands that corruption is when ‘important’ people get away with stuff that would have you crucified at work in a second.

Every excuse, every attempt to shift blame, every interpretation of the story by Labour’s media friends now feigning horror, is just a big, middle finger, fuck you to the public isn’t it, a massive insult to our intelligence. It’s all bullshit, it’s a resignation issue, get on with it, fuck off.

Isn't it funny that even Tory and reform voters end up supporting stuff like this.

'I feel profoundly let down.' Is Starmer's government mimicking the Tories and their '14 years of corruption and dishonesty'? James O'Brien says he was 'perhaps naive' to think it would be any different.

It’s not like nobody told James they were like this: he was told over and over what it was he was buying and how these people behave. The problem was, he was told it by people he regards as intellectually, morally and socially inferior to him, so he could not hear any of it.