God, it really is Boris Johnson all over again.

@dsquareddigest.bsky.social continuous refrain that the register is supposed to make you not take it because we all get to see it!

The next dinner party is going to be very awkward

This is actually where the disputed idea of "Unknown knowns" come in, because they definitely knew all of this and decided it was unknown or chose not to know.

Managed to make myself giggle trying to fit Mandelson's behaviour into Rumsfeld's "Known Knowns" framework and now wondering if I'm actually going mad?

It's bad, shamone.

He was right, everybody should have his own owl.

Okay, maybe David Graeber was right about one job.

It's certainly a bold approach to take to one of your party's core voting groups two weeks before elections.

Fundamentally, the only one still laser focussed on the 8 Lab > Reform swing voters, all of whom hate her anyway.

There's a weirdness to Mahmood's approach which is basically "I get a lot of death threats, and if I don't do some of what they demand then they'll win, ergo, you are racist for defending immigration against me, a brown woman."

Bit rich of Kemi to criticise Starmer for not knowing what he believes

It's not like he's a particularly compelling TV presence

Not to be a broken record, but why on earth is Ed Balls there interviewing his wife's work colleagues about a scandal involving the government department she currently runs?

Even, imo, the better of the lot GotG 3 has a new status quo (the replacement Gamora) that comes from films that aren't in the main franchise.

I think to go back to Nute's original point, so many of them just don't feel like standalone films now?

Love and Thunder loses half an hour talking about GotG, Doctor Strange 2 requires you to have seen an entire TV series, Marvels is sooo many franchises together.

I also think Thor 3 does broadly land the impact of Asgard being destroyed?

The combination of "Asgard is not a place it's a people" and the depiction of them as nomadic and without direction works as an evolution of the status quo, it is just then immediately undone.

I assumed given how many outriders ran with it it must be

The 'Starmer appointed Mandelson because he needed someone to manage Trump' - not true. What happened was:

1) From the general election there was a desire in Downing Street for a political appointee
2) There was no question that the US embassy had good Trumpworld links as it was

Almost every MP would have been disciplined for their behaviour in their previous role.

Every former councillor would have a G&H policy that would have prevented freebiegate.

Final point, it should not go underappreciated how consistently these men overlooked the abuse of women by their associates.

A rotten, misogynistic culture.

I would also add that this is particularly indicative of the real risk of factionalism within Labour. An inability to recognise when your "team" is in the wrong.

Both Doyle and Mandelson had known issues when they were appointed, there is no way they'd overlooked without links to McSweeney.

Again, from freebiegate, to Mandleson, to Doyle just a consistent theme of behaviour that would be unacceptable and, frankly, result in a disciplinary in the private sector is just normalised in parliament.

A real, persistent problem for our politics that it is so endemic and normalised.

Well done to everyone in team Starmer who decided to throw this guy under the bus.

Yeah, when they first charged the first Court Date available was 2.5 years away! That is avoidable.

At a conference with the SFO:

Pattiserie Valerie collapsed in 2018, they charged them in 2023, the first court date was 2026, this was then delayed by the defence requesting more time, so they now won't see court until 2028.

10 years.

For context, SBF was prosecuted for FTX within 12 months.

Good luck to Nadine on his transition

Can't remember where I got this from.

Autism causes vaccines

We really are speed running event comics bullshit now