Me too!

Luckily the boy I saw this morning was not smacked in the face...

So kindness doesn't always pay?

Kindness changes everything!

The Mandelson saga is really about Labour factionalism Keir Starmer is a process man, but his mishandling of it in appointing a US ambassador shows how rule-by-clique dominates his party

Keir Starmer is a process man, writes @tom-clark.bsky.social for @prospectmagazine.co.uk, but his mishandling of the Mandelson appointment reveals the root cause of this disaster—and of the wider collapse in support for the government: Labour factionalism

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/730...

I felt the same when I witnessed this!

Yes, this is one of the most pervasive myths of the whole business, that it was to appease Trump. Total bollocks.

From time Robbins arrived, "Under constant pressure ... an atmosphere of constant chasing from private office [No.10] to private office [FCDO]" to deliver vetting clearance

Speaking on Sky this AM about Mandelson, energy sec Ed Miliband says:

"Prime ministers make errors. Prime ministers are fallible. Prime ministers are human. As you know, I steered well clear of Peter Mandelson when I became Labour leader in 2010. But people make mistakes."

Something extraordinary – yet predictable – has happened over recent days on Facebook.

Fake accounts that usually post anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content generated using AI to fuel division and hate in UK are now pushing out AI-gen content asking:

"Should the UK produce its own fuel again?"

some drivers would have just let her on, not sure why this guy didn't

She might have not been quite old enough for the free bus pass!

JD Vance is expected to depart for Islamabad by Tuesday morning for talks with Iran over a potential deal to end the war.

Vance will arrive in Pakistan with the ceasefire on the verge expiring.

Source: Axios

Beautiful!

True! But in this case I guess the driver could have vouched for her

I thought so too. I was really moved to see this

Timeline cleanse: I just got on a bus. An elderly woman was trying to pay but her card didn’t work. She was standing flustered by the driver. A boy, maybe 12 or 13 years old, who was queuing to get on said to the bus driver, “sir can I pay for her?” and then went ahead and paid for her

Lol !

McVey was a serious highlight

Screenshot of a thread on X. Top post by Steve Laws, verified account @Steve_Laws_, posted four hours ago: “People like to avoid the mixed race question but here’s a prime example of these people belonging nowhere. We don’t want them and neither do they. Very problematic.” The post quote-tweets an earlier post by the same account: “We don’t want them. They’re yours.” That post in turn quotes a user called Naima, @Naimaintaipei, replying to @eleanorzjames and @MrNChance: “Mixed race people aren’t black at all. We don’t want them to claim black.” The Laws post shows 79 replies, 59 reposts, 928 likes, 16,000 views. Below it, a reply from a verified account called Zoomer, @ZoomerHistorian, posted four hours ago: “A genuinely rootless people, terrible.” The reply shows 6 replies, 3 reposts, 234 likes, 2,500 views.

Two Restore Britain supporters, both in Rupert Lowe’s orbit, discussing on X about what to do with those who are mixed-race. Conversations that once had to be held secretly now held with little to no pushback. So much for the marketplace of ideas.

Oh come on Jenrick

Clearly not me !

I just had the same thought!

'I did not have cognitive relations with that vetting process'

Israel told people to evacuate Beirut’s southern suburbs — then hit city’s center The deadly strikes on the Lebanese capital shattered neighborhoods where many people had taken refuge after being displaced by earlier Israeli bombardments.

Israel says it warns residents when it's bombing neighborhoods.

It didn't do that the other week when it bombed central Beirut.

At least 90 people were killed.

2,000-lb made by the U.S. were used.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The phrase that keeps going through my mind is "a good workman doesn't blame his tools" . A good leader doesn't blame the process?

Gosh they all look miserable

The very British tradition of keeping the PM out of the loop The “Rhodesia solution” long predates the Mandelson vetting scandal

The ‘Rhodesia solution’ long pre-dates the Mandelson vetting scandal. Peter Kellner in @prospectmagazine.co.uk on a British tradition of keeping the PM out of the loop

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/730...

The JC has published an op ed by Nigel Farage rallying against Jew-hatred.

This is a man who sang antisemitic songs, and supposedly said “Hitler was right”, “Gas them” during school days

news.sky.com/story/nigel-...

theguardian.com/politics/202...

thejc.com/opinion/jews...

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

Three videos posted by the Israeli military and on social media showed Israel carrying out mass detonations in the villages of Taybeh, Naqoura and Deir Seryan along the Israel-Lebanon border.

Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...