Mandelson is a malign influence and Starmer’s judgement in giving him a job rearranging Ferraro Rocher in a whole other continent was spot on.

What was Robbins‘ agenda? Surely if you’re being pressured into rushing an appointment, just mentioning that they failed the vetting is a simple way to buy some time.

As dodgy as the ethics were, getting super rich sportswashers to give you as much money as you want to distract from their tyranny sounds like a good business plan on paper. Where did it all go wrong? Now they’re broke and immoral. Lessons for others who are tempted.

If the BBC didn’t constantly flog that story they might have to mention their beloved Reform MPs tax dodging.

I’m uneasy about the speed with which Orban conceeded. It should be totally normal to transfer power but these days you just assume they’re up to something.

That really would be a giant leap for mankind

Orban’s pathetic explosives stunt has been done so many times before. Does he think we’ve never heard of Putin and how he got into power?

And similar for Ophelia as well.

Oh look, he’s doing what he said he would. You can’t legislate for people who weren’t listening thinking they were promised something else.

The call is coming from inside the house.

And the victims might not have been chosen at random.

It seems like he has a restraining order there

I no longer believe that Putin and Epstein met in person in the late 1980s, I think Peter Thiel brokered the early stages of the long game and might even still be pulling Putin’s strings.

In most countries that would be considered treason. Seems to be called entrepreneurial spirit over there.

NATO countries should offer to re-open the straits of Hormuz if USA provide the tools. Give us the unredacted Epstein files and we’ll have everything back to how it was in no time.

Huge mistake. Often the class clown lets you down.

Investigate miscarriage of justice and quash Post Office Capture convictions, MPs say Fujitsu, the maker of the faulty Horizon software, has yet to pay anything towards redress while still benefiting from state contracts, the Business and Trade Committee said.

BREAKING: A committee of MPs have called on the government to quash convictions obtained with data from the Post Office's Capture software, the predecessor to the faulty Horizon IT programme

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The haulage industry is already acting like a cartel and all prices domino from that.

Money is just a number, everyone’s wealth is relative to everyone else’s so if the rich are getting richer it isn’t in a vacuum, it is in relation to the rest of us. We should never be comfortable with extreme wealth.

All the haulage companies that have just imposed a 20% fuel surcharge should try shopping around. All the forecourts have barely gone up by 6%.

Possibly Stalin or the other one though

Profit warnings are the scariest things. The fact that a company that made 20 billion last year only making 10 billion this year is a crisis is all the alarm bells you ever need about the system that we live in.

They are outside of US law as well

The main lesson of this May’s waste of money elections that Reform have forced us to pay for is that elections are too expensive. It’s time for postal votes to every elector, no more expensive polling stations and school closures.

Exactly. What has happened?

Starmer risks doing great damage to the special relationship if he gives any support to an attack that Congress has not authorised. Disrespect the institutions at our peril.

Why are Putin’s puppets now killing Ayatollahs? Is he having to remind even his allies who is in charge?

There might be some footage later today that disproves that if you take it literally.

The attacks on Iran are not from USA. US Congress has not authorised them.

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Buckle up everyone, we're in for days of opinionated articles about Starmer and Labour. Well done the Greens, a good result for them and their candidate will be a good MP. But I do wonder what more people want, the Government's policies are helping the left behind and it's still not enough.