The Mandelson fiasco reveals the true nature of Starmerism This is a prime minister who does not understand the difficult trade-offs involved in governing

Here is @stephenkb.bsky.social on a roll www.ft.com/content/0f33...

Trump says his allies never do anything for him, and here we are about to remove our Prime Minister because of Epstein

Simon Case gave explicit advice that the vetting take place before the appointment was confirmed.

Starmer keeps saying someone else - Wormald - has since read that advice and told him that it was followed.

But he could have read the Case advice himself. Relying on Wormald's gloss is unconvincing.

where is the manifesto version, Alan?

Publish the Peter Mandelson files Revelations about the disgraced Lord Peter Mandelson’s relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein have rocked Britain. Recent reporting has revealed that Mandelson did not receive approva...

I’ve signed this calling for the full Mandelson files, including vetting documents, to be published. Parliament and the public need the full facts, not partial disclosure.

Sign here:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...

"Loneliness is bad for the body politic… conspires to create the impression that the minds of others are frightening" Jay Griffiths

"Do we risk automating our search for love so much so that love will no longer be felt at all?" Iain Overton

New Byline Times print edition has gone to press 👇

Burnham is desirable but still outside the Portcullis. Rayner could try but is not yet cleared. Streeting is disqualified by the curse of Mandelson. Miliband looks condemned to become the next tragic victim to be strapped to the tumbril of No 10 Downing Street

Starmer is not going to survive. "Don't blame me, I'm only Prime Minister!" "I didn't rush to the Commons to say I'd misled it because, why should I?" His utterly disqualifying weakness always meant it was just a matter of time. Now, suddenly, time's up.

But who will replace him... see 🧵

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These calls to gut welfare in the name of security deserve to be seen in exactly that light - as the work of people fighting the last war, at the expense of our ability to fight the one that may or may not actually be coming.”

This is... incredible.

Hegseth quoting Pulp Fiction as actual Biblical verse.

Even if Magyar is no liberal, this is why it is still a huge defeat for illiberalism.

For it shows that a powerful illiberal political machine and methodology can be defeated.

This is what curse of the ancients sounded like.

The most important thing is to lift the veto in the €90 billion

Never forget that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Le Duc Tho as well: Vietnam's negotiator. He refused it as there was no peace. When I interviewed him in Hanoi in 1980, he dismissed Kissinger as "a liar".

Just wrote up my interview with Trần Nam who was 6 years old in 1968 and saw his entire family killed at My Lai. Only those who were 10 or older at the time of the massacre are formally considered as survivors, since younger children are not presumed to remember much. But he remembers everything.

Yes @adamramsay.bsky.social is signalling a profound turning point. What the Anglo-Brits in Westmonster feel is an earthquake of destruction could be the emergence of their long-awaited replacement

Great article raising important questions about national identity & more progressive stories of who we are & who we can be

Screenshot from @aljazeera.com

This is not just pathetic it may be a genuine sign of dementia. If anyone can see this it’s Melania

The Guardian says Trump tweeted in Truth Social on his critics
“They’re not ‘MAGA,’ they’re losers, just trying to latch on to MAGA. As President, I could get them on my side anytime I want to, but when they call, I don’t return their calls because I’m too busy on World and Country Affairs,”

Oh yes. I love your eye for this, the texture of statements! It was considered if not planned. And a team employed. But why? The timing is question.

Great report on the radical right network being funded by Orban in Hungary. The recent conference on Christianity and “post-liberalism” at Pusey House, Oxford was funded in part by The Danube Institute. It drew major voices like Graham Tomlin and Iain McGilchrist. The should not have attended!

English is not her first language so she had to have it written for her. Her pronunciation of trivial was tr I vial…

On the one hand, this is a pretty normative Christian belief.

On the other hand, wild to hear MTG — a self-described Christian nationalist — take this position in this political moment, when other self-described Christian nationalists/those associated with the movement are arguing otherwise.

Genuine tragedy: @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on the monstrous Israeli war on beautiful Lebanon www.thenerve.news/p/lebanon-wa...

Thatcherism is still the problem Labour cannot comprehend the scale of our historical malaise

End 'Progressive Nostalgia' @ben-glover.bsky.social calls it out. Ukania's problems go back to the 80s www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Here is the link on 'X': x.com/SenSchumer/s... There is also a clip from a Moore film on Trump and Hitler

Just re-upping Third Act's statement from yesterday, before America carries out a new, industrial-scale, My Lai. Everyone please speak out @thirdactorg.bsky.social

Our Darkest Hour The civilization we destroy may be our own

The fate of American civilisation is on the line paulkrugman.substack.com/p/our-darkes...

The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM