FBI began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about the bureau's director, Kash Patel, using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us...
Truth Social replaces a former California congressman, Devin Nunes, as leader of the media platform after a stock collapse in the past year wiped out $6 billion in investor wealth. www.globenewswire.com/news-release...
oh hang on, 4 fronts - that someone in no 10 was angling for a head of mission, ie diplomat, job Matthew Doyle (head of comms sacked by PM, v much not a career diplomat, bonkers idea ) which suggests they saw diplomatic service as somewhere you could park people you sort of owed one.
Al Carns
This is not a way of defending Starmer but simply defenestrating an unpopular leader is not a plan
A fair amount of 'Starmer must quit' stuff in my timeline from Labour people but without any sensible suggestions for a replacement
Rayner: tax affairs hanging over her
Streeting: Mandelson links and a tiny majority
Burnham: no seat and hasn't had a top job for 16 years
A fine upstanding group
Ouch, Robbins says there was discussion in No10 as to whether Mandelson, as a peer, needed to be vetted *at all* for the job of ambassador to the US
Olly Robbins tells Foreign Affairs Committee that when he took up his FCDO post he found a 'dismissive attitude' to the vetting process with the aim of getting Mandelson to Washington 'as quickly as possible'.
ONS says the surprise fall in the unemployment rate reflects rising inactivity - particularly people becoming students - rather than rising employment.
Keir Starmer repeats line first taken by Lammy and Kendall yesterday, saying he would have blocked Mandelson from taking up UK ambo role if he knew he failed vetting, even though he had publicly announced it.
Keir Starmer: I have changed the process so that the barn door must be closed before the horse has bolted
Angry Keir Starmer tells MPs it was 'staggering' that Olly Robbins failed to tell him or any other ministers about problems with Peter Mandelson's security vetting...
NEW: Nigel Farage says X is now becoming “a very unpleasant place” due to a rise racist accounts and content Reform leader says that many of his ethnic minority candidates are experiencing huge levels of abuse
BRB, just telling my stockbroker to go big on Hot-Dog man memes
Former Musk fanboy Nigel Farage branded X 'a very unpleasant and dangerous place' today as he hit out at racist abuse faced by non-white Reform election candidates on the platform.
Other potential factor - said for a while now the public most seem to like politicians who look like they enjoy the job (Rayner, Burnham, Johnson etc). Farage has always looked like he loved campaigning, but clips cutting through recently are those of him looking grumpy/snappy with journalists.
"While the party is traditionally in favour of renewables, she said she was opposed to "industrial scale energy infrastructure schemes"…"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The same Sir Adrian Fulford currently charing the Southport Inquiry? Retired makes it sound like he has more time on his hands for this than I imagine he actually does...
Starmer not being told about Mandelson failing vetting is one thing, him not asking if he passed is another.
NEW: Foreign Affairs Committee asks Olly Robbins if he'd like to come have a little chat on Tuesday next week re mandelson
Looking forward to him quoting from the Book of Armaments about the Holy Hand Granade of Antioch.
EXCL: Peter Mandelson failed his security vetting clearance but the decision was overruled by Foreign Office to ensure he could take up his post as ambassador to US - a Guardian investigation by Paul Lewis @direthoughts.com & me
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I think they said earlier their servers were having a wobble.
Capping food prices so people can afford a 'balanced diet' but not mentioning fruit or veg 🤷♂️
Can't we do both?
We can eat them AND make glue from different bits, in fact we have a duty to recycle better.
Looking forward to Vance sharing his views on al-fresco arboreal ursine defecation.
