I suspect McSweeney lobbied forcefully for the appointment.

He edged out an extremely competent and vastly experienced woman, Karen Peirce, to give a job to a known liability.

Sick of the "realpolitik" excuses.

And they still don't give a shit about Epstein's victims, despite all the bleating and breast-beating. It's the financial stuff that will bring Mandelson down.

When Mandelson was appointed, people were fully aware that he was a close pal of Epstein. There were photos, for fuck's sake.

Bottom line: they didn't give a shit about Epstein's victims, until it blew up in their faces. Because boys' club rules ALWAYS apply - regardless of tribe or affiliation.

What a pathetic response.

Starmer is either inept and not across his staff/brief, or he's a liar. Neither is a good look.

Excusing ineptitude becaue of tribal loyalty is what has bedevilled this country for far too long.

His nicknames were "the Prince of Darkness" and "the Dark Lord".

He was repeatedly sacked from government for lying.

His connections to Epstein and Russia were widely reported for years.

Yet Starmer still trying to claim he was somehow kept in the dark about Mandelson being a wrongun. Come on

Thanks Dawny. Sick of the ego circus. The people of this country deserve better.

When I look at Starmer I see someone who lacks vision, doesn't give a shit about governing meaningfully, who is not devoted to public service, but who is basically ticking boxes along his career trajectory.

His constant centring of himself in discourse gives him away. What a fucking shambles.

The quality of your average politician/public servant really does not reflect well on the UK, does it.

Careerism will only get you so far.

Not a lot of Truman's "the buck stops here" on display among this lot.

Evil triumphs not just when good men do nothing, but when careerists dominate.

The entire MAGA movement exists to shore up the privilege of mediocre white men - and one in particular.

This is amazing and it does make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. We've all heard plenty of dead men's voices but this is *Robert* *Johnson*.

That is not coincidental.

Like ICE, where "the cruelty is the point", with Tesla, the hideousness is the point.

Wannabe space-case Musk reportedly said "fuck Earth" in a discussion about his Mars delusion.

The anti-organic form of the Tesla is "fuck Earth" writ large, EV greenwashing notwithstanding. It looks like it was designed by a psychotic six year old who tortures animals as a hobby.

Everything about it is offensive

He's a trust fund moron who got lucky with a few investments and ever after has been hailed a genius by his fanboys. And thus a perfectly representative figures for our times.

People think the ugliness of the Tesla is only an ancillary problem.

It's a key part of the obscenity of this machine: it's fascist-ugly, intent on shoving its high-camp military-style hideousness down your throat. It's the fascist art of the 21st century, reflective of the minds of its makers.

Thiel's crew in action

James Bembridge on X: Hate is too weak a word for what I feel towards the NHS. I'd tear it down and salt the earth upon which it stood.

Lovely people, these Reform UK candidates for the upcoming election, and great to know they're on our side.

😉

The Art of the Squeal.

BREAKING: Police unlawfully arrest Elizabeth Morley, aged 80, under the Terrorism Act.

Whilst being taken away for peacefully holding a sign in support of Palestine Action, she says the mass arrests are a "very stupid thing to do".

www.everyoneday.uk

Pre-emptive strike.

Coming out of agnostic retirement to rejoin the Counter-Reformation on the side of the papists is not how I expected my fifties to go.

French perspective

In my head I keep hearing the sentence ending "just married Todger Strunk" followed immediately by "and that cannot be allowed to stand" 😂

I love how your beautiful dog seems to be quite deliberately posing for those shots! So sweet!

We stopped off at Barnard Castle 🏰 on our way down to Lincolnshire.

I'm sure his wives have said exactly the same thing, many times.

Then they looked at his money.

Well, their country was founded on white supremacist genocide and slavery, despite the buttercream icing, so there's that.