Mandelson wasn't a "washed up old spinner", he made millions selling his political contacts to represent firms like Palantir, a career path Team Starmer admire and want to copy ,and he helped design Team Starmer's devious route to leadership. This wasn't a 'mistake', its is who Starmer's group are

'Like Gaza': IDF razes south Lebanon villages during cease-fire, sources say Sources Describe a Policy Modeled on Gaza Operations, With Contractors and Heavy Machinery Demolishing Civilian Infrastructure South of the Litani; Officials Say It Aims to Prevent Residents' Return a...

IDF commanders told Haaretz that southern Lebanon is being demolished “like Gaza.” The declared goal is to prevent civilians from being able to return.

Both are war crimes punishable under international law.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

ho ho ho

Man Whose Whole Family Died in Air India Crash Denied Right to Stay in UK The Home Office has told a grieving man he must leave the UK after his wife and two-year-old daughter died in last year’s Air India plane crash.

Mohammad Shethwala lost his wife and 2 yo daughter in a plane crash. He applied to extend his visa on humanitarian grounds. The Home Office said no. His daughter Fatima was born here. His wife Sadikabanu was studying here. He lost the right to stay after she died.

novaramedia.com/2026/04/20/m...

easy to get numb to how far previous norms have been eroded, but to see a company that our government plans to embed deeply in the UK's key infrastructure release the corporate equivalent of a school shooter manifesto is really something. companies used to have to at least pretend not to be evil!

“Starmer would have blocked Mandelson over vetting failure, says Lammy” - guardian headline

obvious nonsense - if the vetting outcome was important to Starmer, he would have a) learnt the outcome and b) waited for the vetting to be completed before appointing Mandelson lol

Israel continues to break new ground in the depths of depravity. Truly the most heinous government supported by the most immoral and rotten society.

"passport bros" are not at all new and they are not "frustrated with modern dating" they just want women who are completely subservient to them and have zero power in their own lives

Sorry, is the claim here really that security clearance is now so secret that people can't be told the outcomes?

look at my beautiful cat. he’s incredibly stocky and his fur is unusually thick for a short-haired cat

the rear end of a 4x4 truck parked in a drive blocks over half of the pavement

whooooo remembers pavements

I wrote about media rushing to turn Iran potentially capturing an American POW—who was bombing their country—as a “escalation” by Iran and Iran taking “hostages”, and the broader default setting of western media that turns everything our enemies do, no matter how defensive, into Sinister Terrorism

German Officials Search for Motive in Christmas Market Attack At least five people were killed and more than 200 others injured after a driver rammed an SUV into a crowded Christmas market in eastern Germany.

The doctor had an active social media presence that included postings criticizing Germany for what he called the authorities' tolerance of radical Islam, German news media reported. A security official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said that those reports were accurate.

In his social media, the man also expressed support for the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party and reposted comments by party leaders warning of the threat of Islamic law being imposed in Germany. [photo of Scholz on the street in Magdeburg] Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany, accompanied by several of his ministers, on Saturday visited the site of the attack in Magdeburg. Ronny Hartmann/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images

Any time the perpetrator of a terrorist attack has a social media profile that says very directly that they’re a far right accelerationist, the headline is like “BAFFLED COPS PONDER THE RIDDLE OF SUSPECT’S MOTIVATION”

from John Ganz

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor