Sir Olly saying vetting is a risk judgement and management and mitigation of risks...Hello! Look at who you are vetting and the risks around him!!

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below: 1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation … 3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people. 4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners … 5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice … 6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices … 7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. 9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. 10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: 11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: 12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit … 13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: 14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: 15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury: 16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: 18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. 19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people. 20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.

#NoKings

Just listened to the MAGA conference episode by @lewisgoodall.com Truss leaning ever more to the extreme just to get recognition for her grift. Not unlike someone self mutilating themselves for the titillation of a Victorian freakshow crowd

That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won.
You broke it Don, you fix it.

This whole affair is surely an existential crisis for the United Nations. The USA is totally rogue what is the point of the UN!

What a bunch of grifters. £75m from equity invested, sold for £33m with no pay out. Just giving dressed up as investment

Says Michael Gove's ex wife. Irony is having an existential crisis here.

I wonder if Andy Burnham is glad he has recovered from his bout of hubris concerning the Gorton/Denton by-election following the Mandelson scandal?

Mandelson was only ever acting in his own best interests. As Dan Neidle points out it wasn't the £70k or 'bursary' 😂 but the long game of a multi million banking advisor job post Govt.

His attempts to lie his way out of it were particularly sad and pathetic

Happening now: breathtaking aerial view of today’s immense protest in Minneapolis Minnesota! Just wow 🤩

“Oh, we are just the first. This is the plan - to cause chaos, make the polls unsafe, militarise our voting”

Fulton County Commissioner gives stark warning ahead of midterms after FBI raids Georgia office over 2020 election.

Just another facet to the fever dream which is the Trump presidency. US democracy has been exposed as a sham in no small part due to the executive power of the presidency which makes it dictatorial.

A Letter to Those Who Still Give a Damn It’s exhausting to give a damn, isn’t it?

It’s exhausting to give a damn, isn’t it?

To be a person of compassion in a time and place when compassion is in such great demand?

Day after day, these legions of sorrows begin to take up residence in your body...

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...

So pleased to read that it was Braverman to Reform and Nigella to Great British Bake Off and not the other way around!

Photo of a man wearing spandex leggings, a cycling top, helmet, and carrying a backpack and gloves posing with a mountain bike. It appears the man may have been participating in a race or event, because there's a paper sign, unreadable from this angle, affixed to the bike handlebars.

RIP Alex Pretti
November 9, 1988 - January 24, 2026

A nurse who exhibited bravery and kindness. Murdered by U.S. government thugs.

Not really. Burnham's presence would only be something for the right to play on for the next couple of years. The party have already rejected him twice for leadership. He should wait for a General Election where he can then seek the leadership as Prime Minister or...leader of the opposition.

There is always social media, and we're always here!

Aww bless! He's a sweetie!

I love track hubs, they're compulsive.

Brilliant

Fair point

I agree. I hope to be proven wrong but I sense he will be a nearly guy in GT's (no means feat with current riders) but not bring in the wins

Solid

Proper

What a racer

She sounds pissed up.

Good luck to bookshops everywhere as they approach the busy season, including Waterstones Deansgate, Chorlton Bookshop @chorltonbookshop.bsky.social, Read Holmfirth, Waterstones Newcastle.

I think his place in cycling has been defined by his approach to his career. Ruthless, selfish and not entirely honest