It's outrageous that this government won't consider public ownership of water
Did Peter Mandelson lobby Steve Reed on this?
Mandelson is co-founder of lobbying firm Global Counsel, privatised water was a client
We want to see the Reed/Mandelson messages
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They don’t like it up em
There seems very little point in having security vetting if it is not possible for anyone to know the outcome
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.
Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
As his father might have said, he’s not a tool you can trust
What a beast
Tough times for satirists – the jokes have become sentient
What a tool
I think that you’ll find that it is the far Right who are totally toxic, and Trump is their embodiment
It’s actually hilarious by comparison – the detailed ‘who lied to whom’ about someone’s vetting here, then one looks across the Atlantic where they’re actually murdering the population and trousering huge sums of money, without a murmur.
Trouble is, only a crisis will spur a dethroning – no crisis, no change
“They’re eating the cats, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”
Not very top secret now is it you chump?
Enjoying the return of Tom Waits - both in the Jarmusch film and this.
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Irrespective of whether Kier Starmer has been “economical with the actualité" over Mandelson’s appointment, he needs to go – for being useless at a time of dire national crisis and opening up the potential of a disastrous Reform government
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He wants to go harder into austerity territory – really squeeze the pips on the poor, there must be some juice left? That nice chap at Palantir told him so.
Dems should pledge to pursue illegality in public office with a dedicated commission
NUMBER CRUNCHING **£7.4m** Fine Ben Delo agreed to pay in 2022 after pleading guilty in the US to anti-money-laundering failures at BitMEX, the crypto exchange he founded **£4m** Donation Delo, since pardoned by Donald Trump, has made to Reform UK
I hear neither Reform nor donor Delo want this news getting round. Via Private Eye
Seems like a nice guy?
What demands will JD Vance make next? That Gianni Infantino stays out of peacemaking?
The Popesplainer
…and it’s goodnight from us
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Trump is itching to restore the corruption and cruelty of the Batista dictatorship in Cuba – just like the old days, with organised crime, property speculation and gambling for rich Americans.
What a corker
The Popesplainer
Pretty much the only tools the public sector can access are Word, Powerpoint and Excel. Whitehall runs on Excel and the results across the country are clear.
