I mean it’s the obvious question and it’s unanswerable. US security guarantees obviously count for shit.

Yes, absolutely.

Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

Morning Ted. Lovely photo. Have a good day!

It's 10 years today since Prince died.
So a reminder of this, that happened on the other place, because sometimes sadness can still bring laughter.

Mandelson’s always been a wrong’un; he just happens to have been Labour’s wrong’un.

At least he’s not sitting on it.

If Burnham is the answer fuck knows what the question might be.

In this matter as in so much else.

A stopped clock is correct every 12 hours, and this man was certainly right in his characterisation of Farage’s team.

Take him to the cleaners!

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

I raise you.

Traitor Trump is right. 😕

When AI has more empathy than your president Anthropic's Claude says it's "troubled" by the way it's being used in the war on Iran

New: "Like Donald Trump, artificial intelligence isn’t programmed to have a conscience or a sense of empathy. But it turns out AI has more of both than the mentally unbalanced and dangerous buffoon Republicans are allowing to remain in the Oval Office."

All subscriptions/links are free.

Big bones, I’m sure….

I had to stop buying their bread once I discovered the owner was a Brexiteer. Apart from that it’s noisy, overpriced, and full of students.

Richard Tice said Angela Rayner should resign “if she had any moral decency” She did resign.
His tax dodging is far bigger than hers. He hasn’t resigned.

We can therefore conclude that even he admits he has no moral decency (something the rest of us already knew)

Last August while on holiday we limped into the Macclesfield branch with a failing battery, at about 5.20 pm on a Saturday. We were back on the road at just gone six (slightly after they should have closed). Outstanding service.

Silly wanker. Looking forward to him getting his ass handed to him on a plate.

Times? We’ve ‘ad ‘em.

Mandelson has always been a wrong’un. He just happened to be Labour’s own wrong’un.

It’s been too long since I was there. Forty years to be precise. 😐

The striking stained glass window in Belfast City Hall commemorating the International Brigades. 48 mainly working class men volunteered from the city.
Gandesa, Belchite, Madrid, Brunete, Teruel, Córdoba....
Thanks to Paul Mullen for this photo.

Trevor Phillips said on Sky News this morning that "everybody in the country who could read a newspaper" knew in advance of the Mandelson appointment that he was problematic

is this the same Phillips who interviewed Mandelson on October 08 2023 and didn't ask any questions about Epstein friendship?

Yes, the media holds Labour to higher standards than the Tories and Reform.

So do I. I expect higher standards from Labour. That should be part of the main point of Labour. We expect Tories to be self-serving, corrupt and nasty. We expect Reform to be bigots and racists. Labour, not so much.

“They {Ukrainians} have done an amazing job innovating. We learn a lot from them.” – US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll on Ukraine.

At the same time his friend JD Vance calls cutting aid to Ukraine one of this administration’s main achievements.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama read a picture book to a group of children.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh with a group of children.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh.

Children hug Mayor Mamdani.

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx. 

In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

“They’ll never close the Strait again” lasted a solid 10 hours.

Masterful negotiation (read: market manipulation) from Trump

#TrumpTrainWreck