EXCL: Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff, has been summoned before the foreign affairs select committee.
McSweeney to appear next Tuesday to respond to allegations that No 10 put huge pressure on officials to approve Mandelson’s appointment.
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sorry, video didn't upload here 👆 apparently. here's the clip
Thinks - "I don't like the question you asked let me, but here are some answers I'd prepared and I'll be damned - now I learnt them - if I'm going to walk away from this podium without spouting them"
An image containing a post from Isabel Oakeshott complaining that the press are reporting on her boyfriend’s tax dodging accompanied by various reports about his tax dodging.
'Richard Tice’s girlfriend is very annoyed that the free press she champions, despite having emigrated to a dictatorship without one, is investigating her boyfriend for stuff she says people who aren’t her boyfriend, like Angela Rayner, should resign over.'
You couldn’t make it up. 🤦🏻‍♂️
I'm not sure I've ever really seen such fragile ego's that reporters get accused of being "rude", and that that should "show respect". That said farage hides behind it, so I guess its a far right play book, go to move when under pressure.
A massive Thank You to all #NHS staff, particularly CSRU and Wards 2A and 9 at Wycombe General Hospital, who so sympathetically cared for my step-mum over the last eight days of her life.
You helped us survive a very difficult time and are truly appreciated.
PM disappointment is deep. Nothing is his fault. He lives in a vacuum. The reason Mandelson was hired we all know was because he was know to have close links to trump and epstein (the right suggesting it should be nigel farage for the same reasons). He was hired for the reason he was fired. He knew.
ALBUM LAUNCH TONIGHT!
Club Precious #6 – @cultfigures.bsky.social album launch at Paper Dress Vintage (Hackney) with added Silver Biplanes and @dreamcoasterband.bsky.social Advance tickets here until 2pm wegottickets.com/event/695330/ ... then a few on the door (£14) after 7-30pm. First band 8.20pm !
It's already here. With state supported falling education provision. We have reform on the rise which proves independent critical thinking is weakening. I've seen people look at their smart watch when they have been asked, have you slept well? We are being pacified and subdued as a nation. AI is key
What if AI stands for Authoritarian Idiocracy
Absolutely… the longer the 🍊shit-gibbon maintains the blockade in The Gulf, the longer the effects will be felt, so peoples' optimism that inflation won't last that long through 2026, are misplaced. Even once open, there will still be transit times to be taken into account for supplies to reach UK.
Shut the... How can anyone be allowed to hide from congress? Anyway so yeah he has all those different asset classes. He's a peice of Sh!t ii
…once extracted from the North Sea, Equinor and Shell (the principal companies involved) would sell the resources on global markets which determine the country's pricing, so consumers wouldn't benefit from greatly from lower prices.
When one analyses their other arguments of growth…2/
Yes, so do I. Just like #SemiBadenough, I heard Katie Lam calling for increasing the drilling in the North Sea, no doubt ignorant of fact that ›90% of resources have been extracted and that Rosebank will yield ~7% x UK annual demand of oil and Jackdaw yield ~2.2% x UK demand for gas! Of course…1/
Looks like a lot of fun to me. Weird he was always a favourite in the comics and I never really thought of him as an animation. I've been looking forward to this and the trailer makes it feel closer.
Genuinely hope that this fuel crisis will push us quickly as a nation down the renewables as soon as possible so we can get off the fossil fuels roundabout for good.
Highlighted effects on #inflation of various fuels, domestic (heating) and transport related.
Most fuel/energy sections have risen by ›4.5%, with electricity being ›5% because so much hails from gas fired power generators.
A glaring increase is liquid fuels (04.5.3) showing ›95%⬆️ in 12-mths. 1/
And the ripple effect through the economy for the high street and the Supermarkets where it comes to baking, cooking, transporting, heating, farming. It's the pressure on consumers to allow traders to keep trading.
Fortunately, its weighting is slight at 0.8151 out of 1000, but that doesn't help those who use oil for heating their homes.
Transport related fuels account for 4.9% increase over 12 months. /2
#CPI #Trumpflation #Inflation
I thought there was a duty of care provided by it's country that if not legal was at least a covenant ensuring this nonsense would not spread.
Trumpflation is ballooning the cost of living.
All cheered on by Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch.
Still makes for sober reading.
I genuinely expected, as I scrolled down, it was a b&w photo of the New Order Brotherhood album.
But Elon Musk is such an all round decent guy! What an absolute waste of time Tesla's are. There can't be any point to owning them at all.
Nigel Farage keeps boasting about
how Reform candidates are 'carefully vetted'
So carefully, that they welcomed with open arms
a Tory councillor suspended amid allegations
he sent an unsolicited image of his “private parts”
via Reform Watch
Here's a show you shouldn't miss; great one-day festival coming to #Birmingham in June
The House of Love, Michael head @theindiecountry.bsky.social and more
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