EXCL: Intelligence & Security Committee has now been handed the vetting information the cabinet office received several weeks ago.
Understand this includes short summary doc including details of Mandelson’s personal life, financial & business dealings - which PM is now believed to have seen.
But fortunately the Israelis are going to investigate the vandalism of a statue. FML.
I checked this too.
*20 seconds* of Reform logo display.
*No other* party logo displayed.
In local election purdah.
This is not normal. At all.
His nicknames were "the Prince of Darkness" and "the Dark Lord".
He was repeatedly sacked from government for lying.
His connections to Epstein and Russia were widely reported for years.
Yet Starmer still trying to claim he was somehow kept in the dark about Mandelson being a wrongun. Come on
It’s shit here. Honestly.
Alicante today. EES. Not even 10 mins to get through it, and passport control. Don’t believe the media bullshit.
John 3:16 "Aw, man. I just shot Marvin in the face"
Lords spot incoming for Sir Olly. Absolute bullshit that Starmer didn’t know.
Absolute bullshit. As you will know anyway.
Beginning to look terminal for Starmer. Not sure which is worse - that he knew and went ahead anyway or that he simply didn’t have a clue what was going on.
The PM didn’t know? Ask anyone who works/worked in the Foreign Office…
HOW EMBARASSING! Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon. 🤣🤣
The message left by Pope Leo XIV in the guestbook of the Great Mosque of Algiers: “May the mercy of the Most High keep the noble Algerian people and the entire human family in peace and freedom.”
BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists
The American president counts Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un as his friends while denouncing the Pope.
To 'Vance'; verb, to fuck up.
So happy for Hungarians - a chance to stop the erosion of democracy, corruption, and economic malaise. And such an unqualified middle finger to Trump, Vance and Putin - and all the politicians in Europe who endorsed Orban, like Meloni, Wilders, Weidel, Le Pen. All losers tonight
Fair to say Trump hasn’t had the Midas touch when it comes to international endorsements
This is as beautiful a thing as you'll see in all your life. Hope, after months of darkness.
It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
You on the other hand seem reasonably tooled up, Americans. Just saying.
So, Trump has taken over blockading the Strait of Hormuz from Iran. I’m sure the Iranians are fuming. Trump really is a fucking idiot, isn’t he?!?
Leaflet of three candidates, white blokes with limited hair, all in glasses. --- **GATESHEAD IS BROKEN. VOTE REFORM UK TO FIX IT** Introducing your Reform UK candidates for Low Fell leaflet text: **ATKINSON, John** Reform UK John has lived in Low Fell for 30+ years. His background is in civil engineering, policing, teaching and transport. He wants to bring back a sense of community, listen to residents' concerns and focus on local issues such as crime, roads and streets, and better services. --- **HENDERSON, Iain** Reform UK Iain has lived and worked in Gateshead all his life. Now retired, he wants to give something back to the borough. With a positive outlook, Iain is looking forward to making a real difference to the lives of the residents of Low Fell and to working closely with them. --- **MURRAY, Arthur** Reform UK Arthur has owned several businesses for many years. He has lived locally for 50 years and employs local staff, servicing the northeast and Scotland. His priorities are to see the ward and area prospering once again, caring for the old and infirm and maintaining our parks and open spaces. ---
This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person
💥🗳️ I’m speechless. Hungary’s parliamentary election turnout is 66,01% already at 3pm (2022: 52,72%).
Budapest and other opposition-leaning cities lead the way.
Final turnout in 2022 and 2018 were 70,21% and 70,22%.
Polls close at 7pm. It could go well above 80% this time.
Bad news for Orbán.
Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.
Always the tongue test to find out.
re: the #GrandNational:
43 racehorses have been killed on UK courses so far this year. I’m not on favour of an outright ban on horse racing - but that figure alone tells you everything about an industry in urgent need of serious reform
