Cabbage?

King acts on the advice of his Ministers....

a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van Alt: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van

Ultimately a bad decision was made....

The Mixed Signals That Canada Post Workers Are Getting from Their Union As voting gets under way on new collective agreements, CUPW's leadership is divided on whether members should accept the terms

CANADA: The Mixed Signals That Canada Post Workers Are Getting from Their Union pressprogress.ca/canada-post-...

Some would say they've stopped hiding the editorial policy...

Successive governments have failed to learn lessons of Grenfell Tragedy The conditions that facilitated the tragedy remain unchecked

Corporate capture of the state.

The Post Office with help from Fujitsu, accountants, lawyers illegally convicted postmasters for fraud.

£1.5bn+ compensation paid from public purse. Perpetrators paid ZERO.

No one charged/prosecuted for lying in courts. Fujitsu gets govt contracts.

Who governs?

Indeed, some are politically fatal, others merely wound.

Olly Robbins: One other serious proposal made in march 2025 - several discussions initiated to me about finding a head of mission position for Matt Doyle (Starmer's ex comms director). I was under strict instruction not to discuss that with the foreign secretary which was uncomfortable.

Well it's not like there's ever been anyone asking questions or lobbying for interests that have renumeration them in some way....oh wait, as for Privy Councillors being trustworthy?

Just how many people worked in Private Office at the time? Because suspect it's not a long list of names....

Staff are there to ensure Ministers get to see what they need to, otherwise they're making the decisions by omission.

The key to all this will be who knew what when (process story) and why on earth anyone thought this appointment was a good idea (judgement).

No, definitely 'one of us'...Philby et al were years ago after all.

'Due diligence' by whom? Because there we get back to 'he lied' to whom and when?

Chicken and egg ? Ultimately did no-one in No10 get told?

For those keeping track the Israeli foreign ministry is now in a public fight with the POLISH Foreign Minister because

1) He condemned the IDF soldier who desecrated a statue of Jesus

and

2) Accurately noted in the context of lack of discipline that IDF soldiers have even shot Israeli hostages.

Slow news day today?

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

BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.

Speaking in the Commons in the debate on Mandelson, @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social has just called for an independent inquiry into Labour Together over hiring lobbyists to investigate and smear journalists

Here's the original story we published in Feb democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

And the answer is 'more power' for Executive....?

Generic Supermarket brands only...

Does raise the slightly more worrying question over what else he's not being told?

In a very messy world James your daily show of success strangely cheers me.

There's always a memo...

For all the obvious love of the West Wing by aides and Parliamentary lobby correspondents last I looked this was a Parliamentary, not Presidential Democracy...hence the short tenure of Liz Truss.

The Egyptians and Romans did go in for removing all trace of certain rulers...so quite Old School approach.

Does the Bank of England have a team working on this Wednesday productivity gap?

Indeed.

Well the State Pension being notoriously generous who could argue...obviously those who've most benefitted from 'peace' are those whose assets have increased massively in value (especially thanks to QE and support for housing market) how much extra are they paying?

On 16 September, Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty told the Commons:

"That vetting process was undertaken by UK Security Vetting on behalf of the FCDO, and concluded with clearance being granted by the FCDO in advance of Lord Mandelson taking up his post in February"

the Mandelson Russia links alone should have triggered more curiosity before his appointment