Either the Case memo implies
“Do the vetting first obvs”
Or
“Well will sort vetting out one way or another, and you can go ahead”
But whichever way you read it, it’s bad for KS. Either he ignored advice, or was given a nod to appoint Mandelson whatever the outcome.
Surely the problem for Starmer is that the announcement of Mandelson was PRIOR to (failed) vetting. So someone (Robbins?) took the decision that it would be too embarrassing to sound the alarm. So the q is not why did KS not know, but why did he assume it would be ok? It's staggeringly stupid.
Oh please. “Friends of McSweeney”. Ha fucking ha.
__maxxing is possibly the worst linguistic affectation I can recall. I've seen looksmaxxing, Londonmaxxing, Chinamaxxing. frictionmaxxing. Please make it stop.
If you can't work out what coffee you want, you can be humiliated by a fucking chatbot which burns the planet to come up with 'caramel latte' as 'inspiration'.
DON'T. GO. TO. STARBUCKS. EVER.
Mumumelon.
Forget Dubai. The true expat location to demean the UK from is France, as per Harmsworths.
I've asked it before and I'll ask it again - how are the Lib Dems doing so badly when there's a clear centre-left gap?
Just overheard a bunch of 20-somethings loving this story, to the point that one says "Disney should so make this into a movie". Who will tell them?
www.scmp.com/news/people-...
Top gun synopsis: After losing his friend, top pilot Maverick is given a second chance to redeem himself but struggles to be at his best and gets romantically involved with his civilian instructor.
"struggles to be at his best"... Jesus, come on RTE, you can do better than that.
AGAIN with this 'understands' bullshit from the BBC. There's nothing to understand. Either it's a rumour, so fuck off, or it's confirmed, so say it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...
It wrote itself
Every time you think “ooh that’s bad” there’s another example and video that takes it up a notch. Great reporting.
Morrissey has described his hotel on Plaza Manises as …
"indescribable hell. It will take me one year to recover. And that is an understatement".
Devastating line in Jonathan Liew's piece on Tottenham:
"After four defeats in his first four games, Tudor has paid the ultimate price by being made to keep doing his job."
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
I forgot Liverpool - a 1-0 loss!
So 6 Prem teams collectively get 4 losses and 2 draws, an overall scoreline of....
16 - 6
For all the Premier League's riches and supposed dominance, the first leg of the UCL L16 has delivered a BIG wake up call.
Arsenal - tight draw, lucky pen.
ManCity - stuffed in Madrid 3-0
Newc - draw
Chel - stuffed 5-2 at PSG.
Spurs - stuffed 5-2 at Atletico.
That's 2 draws and 3 3-goal deficits!
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
What could possibly go wrong?
Wait, what? I thought it was a dystopian hell hole riddled with knife-brandishing maniacs and Dubai was the safe haven.
www.timeout.com/london/news/...
I doubt that Leeds will do either (ie not relegated, not winning FA Cup). Their remaining fixtures are mainly against teams below them, and FACup next round there's a 4 in 7 chance they play one of the top clubs in the next round.
To misquote Gerulaitis, nobody beats Italy 33 times in a row.
For the private jet companies this is the gold mine: full both ways!
It’s not even subtle propaganda. It’s just [INSERT CLIP HERE] bullshit.
Wolves have taken more points (8) from their last 5 games than either Villa or Newcastle, in which time they have played 3 of the top 5! Relegated almost certainly, but going down with a bit of entertainment.
I'm not sure the Telegraph editors have workshopped this headline enough...
gotta question the people who placed their dot IN THE FUCKING OCEAN.
“Could” doing a lot of work here. I’d argue that a party that flirts with far-right voters recently won a massive majority with just 35% of the vote.
