Me when someone in the curry house wolfs down their main course in under three minutes:
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Five key questions: Who overruled the decision to deny Mandelson security clearance? Ministers and civil servants face scrutiny after revelation Foreign Office overruled vetting procedure for US ambassador appointment

Five questions from Paul Lewis here which are rather serious www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Revealed: Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision Guardian investigation uncovers decision by UK security officials to deny clearance before Mandelson took up role as US ambassador

EXCL: Peter Mandelson failed his security vetting clearance but the decision was overruled by Foreign Office to ensure he could take up his post as ambassador to US - a Guardian investigation by Paul Lewis @direthoughts.com & me

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘I was beaten and tortured’: how a British father and son made a fortune in Dubai then became wanted men As the Middle East is drawn into war, expats and influencers are under pressure to only share the positive side of the UAE. In reality many are at risk of being put behind bars, and often find the UK ...

Albert Douglas, a British businessman, was imprisoned in Dubai for five years over debts incurred by his son's company. Many others like him remain behind bars.

My latest for the @theguardian.com Saturday Magazine

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Mahmood’s migration changes will deliver fraction of claimed savings, data suggests Exclusive: Analysis of government figures indicates public finances will gain £600m not £10bn if migrants’ access to benefits is reduced

Shabana Mahmood’s migration changes are expected to save just £600m – about 6% of the £10bn the home secretary claimed, according to the government’s own data.

FOI data was obtained by @jdportes.bsky.social

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Is there a way to search posts only from people you follow on here (e.g. like the old filter:follows operator on twitter)? Can't remember who shared a great looking roast lamb recipe months ago

‘There’s no Hezbollah here’: the Lebanese reaction to Israeli strikes that killed hundreds Beirut residents and officials say thousand-pound-bombs mainly hit civilians in mission dubbed ‘Operation Eternal Darkness’

Will Christou speaks to survivors of Israel's massacre in Beirut yesterday www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

THE ASSET CLASS publishes today! The book is a roving investigation of private equity, a surreptitious realm of finance that has infiltrated almost every corner of our lives…

Hear me out: Martin Lewis Money Saving Expert would walk an election

the jamaican tonic wine

Every single US military installation in Britain or on British overseas territories should be shut down today

This is a cool idea!

Also it's in the article today near the bottom

Union fined £265,000 for blocking lorries in Birmingham bin workers’ strike Court finds Unite repeatedly breached injunction by blockading and ‘slow walking’ next to waste trucks

Hi James - Neha covered that one here! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Genuine surprise for me this morning as didn't even realise Rob had entered our piece!

For the love of sticky toffee pudding Sticky toffee pudding gains global attention through viral TikTok reviews, with chefs worldwide experimenting with the classic British dessert's traditional recipe.

Great to see @stpguy3.bsky.social featured in the economist www.economist.com/britain/2026...

I'll delete it by tomorrow tbh, too worried about being hauled into a side office somewhere

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growing up my favourite snack was rice cakes for the same reason. nothing like the (objectively grim snack of) slices of cheddar between two rice cakes for the pure bland crackly chomp into an almost equally bland waxy nucleus

Didn’t want to get affected like this giving evidence. Caught me by surprise. We all lost so much. We have to act on the inquiry’s recommendations. We have to be better now, so that we can be better next time.

Jeffrey Epstein’s elite relationships visualised: the banker, the economist and the director Day 2 of our Guardian analysis of more than a million Epstein emails exposes the child sex offender’s deep relationships with more high-profile figures

And this is the second:

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A great team-work with @michaelgoodier.bsky.social, @anlugonz.bsky.social Philip McMahon, Paul Scruton and the international team

Yesterday morning I stepped outside on my balcony for coffee with my wife and our neighbor. The drone was as low as it has ever been. We saw it over our heads. Below, our alleyway had turned into a parking lot for displaced people’s cars. A school next door is hosting around 1500 people.

I was wondering - has the limit effectively shortened over time due to increased civil servant wages / inflation? Or does the way it is pegged to X hours mean it has stayed the same

Nigel Farage stops accepting Cameo requests after revelations about his use of platform Reform leader ‘unavailable’ on service after Guardian investigation unearths clips of him repeating extremist slogans

Nigel Farage stops accepting Cameo requests after revelations about his use of platform; calls @theguardian.com reporter "a loser" for asking him whether that raised questions about trust #ReformUK

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Nigel Farage has called Welsh people “Foreign speakers” in a Cameo video.

I hate to break it to you Mr Farage, but if you read a history book you would realise English is more foreign in the UK than Welsh.

Big credit to the Guardian for breaking this story: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

Nigel Farage stops accepting Cameo requests after revelations about his use of platform Reform leader ‘unavailable’ on service after Guardian investigation unearths clips of him repeating extremist slogans * Farage videos reveal support for rioter, neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans Nigel Farage has stopped using the personalised video platform Cameo after revelations that the Reform UK leader has filmed a string of highly questionable paid-for clips. On Thursday morning, Farage’s page on the website said he was “unavailable”, and sources said he had ended his use of the platform over security concerns. Continue reading...

Nigel Farage stops accepting Cameo requests after revelations about his use of platform

Nigel Farage Cameo videos backed cryptocurrencies that collapsed in value Cameo videos produced by the Reform UK leader were used to drum up interest in obscure memecoins

The Reform UK leader has produced videos that appear to have been used to drum up interest in memecoins, with names such as “Stonks Finance”, “NIG Finance”, “Trump Mania” and “Farage coin”.

Latest Farage on Cameo story from @michaelgoodier.bsky.social and me

burger sauce! but good ones have pickles/pickle juice in. Unilever must own a pickle brand too though they own everything

at least, that we could tell were from him

No direct emails from/to trump in the files released so far!