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.

Sir Olly Robbins says that when he became FCDO permanent secretary he wasn't "walking into a vacuum":

- due diligence already done on Mandelson
- PM had taken advice on his fitness for office
- name had been given to King
- PM announced the job
- he had access to building and sensitive briefings

They laughed at us because people were stupid enough to vote him back into office. Now they look at us with disgust and distrust.

Morning all.

Photographer John Bulmer
Lady with Washing, Greenock,
Inverclyde, Scotland c. 1960s.

Anthony Edwards!

Trump admits his "working class" moments for the cameras were all staged. He calls the photo ops "a little bit tacky" and "embarrassing” - which is ironic since Trump is so tacky and embarrassing all the time. All the rich do is lie to workers. That’s America.

Spike Lee at the Knicks game at MSG.

#spikelee #popeleo #knicks #madisonsquaregarden

Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources

t.co/zcb5Kia8CY

Reform UK is promising to deport millions of people who currently have the right to remain or refugee status in this country. This will entail ICE-like policies, including vast deportation prison-like structures.

Shocking.

Absolutely appalling

Appointing Peter Mandelson is a resignation issue in itself. Forget all the smoke and mirrors about process.

Screen cap of BBC Breakfast tweet: "Last year Richard Tice said Angela Rayner should resign if she had any moral decency, after she'd underpaid stamp duty. Should he also resign then by his own standards?"

BREAKING NEWS: Zia Yusuf Reluctant to Apply Same Standards to Richard Tice as Angela Rayner Shock!

#politicslive

I agree about the style of football, but I don't think finishing second and the season we have had in the champions league can be defined as failure - especially when you look at Chelsea, Man U etc etc.

But it isn't 'Arteta' who buys the players.

this is it.
i can feel it.
if everybody in the university can just increase their survey participation rate by 200-300%
that will fix EVERYTHING

They are actually *paying back* the tariffs now... just incredible.

Every fan base has its idiots. But those calling for Arteta to be sacked are a particularly idiotic sub-set.

Define 'success'.

BBC News December 2024:
‘Farage has meanwhile said that he "might disagree with Mandelson on his politics, but he's a very intelligent man" and would be good choice for ambassador.’

Donald Trump: "We're raising those tariffs very soon."

Meanwhile, you still owe Illinoisans $8,679,261,600 from your last round of illegal tariffs.

Cut the check, Donald.

Trump sets tariffs.
Businesses raise prices on consumers to pay increased tariffs.
Tariffs found illegal.
Businesses get refunds, and consumer prices still go up.
So fucked.

I'm always skeptical of BBC-bashing, but BBC News website hasn't reported on the Tice tax scandal since 12 April, when the headline was "Tice £91,000 tax row is 'minor administrative error', party claims".

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

Reform’s Richard Tice posts picture with telltale signs of AI manipulation, say experts Tice’s image on X was almost certainly generated or altered using AI, according to Peryton Intelligence In a picture of a blue-skyed day in Birmingham, a diverse group of Reform supporters gathered with placards and cheesy grins to knock on doors for their party. Richard Tice, the party’s deputy leader, posted the picture as evidence of the activists’ commitment through thick and thin. “That is what resilience looks like,” he wrote. “This is what belief looks like.” Continue reading...

Reform’s Richard Tice posts picture with telltale signs of AI manipulation, say experts

The Mandelson affair is about the government’s judgment, not process Discussion of vetting and procedure is part of the excuse but not the core of the difficulty

Ultimately none of the process chatter about the Mandelson appointment really matters, it is all just fluff around 'the PM made a bad decision that became politically untenable':

In a nutshell. 😊

Governor Tim Walz — "We are sick of this. A weak, reckless, Idiotic president just threw us into a war nobody asked for. No threat existed. No objectives were set. No exit plan exists. This is pure fascism." #cdnpoli

Eze hitting the post was our Stones clearing off the line moment.

Daughter calls for investigation into death of man after police contact at Bristol protest Exclusive: Retired NHS worker Nicholas Stone, 65, died after becoming unwell at protest against far-right group Bristol Patriots The daughter of a retired NHS worker is calling for a full and independent investigation into the death of her father after it emerged he died after police contact at a protest against the far right. Nicholas Stone, 65, who lived in Bristol, died on 10 January after becoming unwell at a protest opposing the rightwing group Bristol Patriots, who were staging a demonstration in the city centre. Continue reading...

Daughter calls for investigation into death of man after police contact at Bristol protest