Release the files - on Mandelson, Starmer and McSweeney Sunlight is the only disinfectant to the corruption that's been revealed this week

"Rhe only reason we know any of this [about Mandelson] is because Epstein became entangled in the MAGA movement’s narrative.

"What we still aren’t asking is how similar networks of influence are operating elsewhere today."

New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/release-th...

Palantir, explained - and sign our petition calling for an urgent debate in parliament! At a glance, Palantir sells software. In practice, it provides government with the infrastructure to monitor, investigate and target people at scale.

Palantir is celebrating soaring profits this week while powering Trump’s deportation drive and expanding its grip on UK government.

Understand how we got here 👇
citizensreunited.substack.com/p/palantir-e...

So it turns out that out of the small number of people who personally benefited from Brexit, one of them was Jeffrey Epstein.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: Starting next week, my government will implement the following actions: First, we will change the law in Spain to hold platform executives legally accountable for many infringements taking place on their sites. Second, we will turn algorithmic manipulation and amplification of illegal content into a new criminal offense. Third, we will implement a hate and polarization footprint system to track, quantify, and expose how digital platforms fuel division and amplify hate. Fourth, Spain will ban access to social media for minors under the age of 16. Platforms will be required to implement effective age verification systems - not just checkboxes, but real barriers that work. Fifth and last, my government will work with our public prosecutor to investigate and pursue the infringement committed by Grok, TikTok, and Instagram.

Today, #Spain's prime minister Pedro Sánchez announced a comprehensive plan to control #SocialMedia, saying it "has become a failed state.
If we want to protect our children there is only one thing we can do: take back control."

A summary of his plan:

Infographic: Peter Thiel and detail of Palantir’s contracts with UK government departments, agencies and authorities. Where the amount is unknown, the contract has not been included in the overall £672m+ spend. The bulk of the contracts are post 2018, the Olympics contract dates back to 2012 and some work with unreleased dates could be earlier. Design: Lynsey Irvine

NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations

Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency

By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert

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Mandelson deserves all he gets. But let’s not forget that Epstein’s main role was a conduit for the Alt Reich in Russia, America, Israel and Europe. Putin has ceased to care about the left and pumps all his money and social media to Farage, Tommy Robinson and MAGA

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

#thfc #coys #spurs

Interestingly cryptic email from Jeffrey Epstein to Peter Thiel, 26 June 2016:

"Brexit, just the beginning"

Board of Peace - Season 1

Mandelson told Epstein JPMorgan should ‘threaten’ UK government over banker tax Then business secretary advised sex offender on how Jamie Dimon should lobby chancellor

Extraordinary: Mandelson told Epstein that JP Morgan should "threaten" then cabinet colleague and chancellor Alistair Darling over tax on bankers' bonuses. In plain language: "Minister conspired with US bank against own government".
More brilliant FT reporting
www.ft.com/content/91e8...

‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company $500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.

New reports reveal that the UAE royal family secretly funneled $500M to Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency venture, just days before his inauguration and months before the President agreed to sell the UAE highly advanced AI chips that many fear would end up in the hands of China. 🧵

Trump is once again selling out American national security to enrich himself and his family.

More corruption in plain sight, and on a scale that is unprecedented. It must be investigated.

Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who

This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Israel’s Military Now Accepts 70,000 Killed in Gaza – But Why Did Our Media Let Them Get Away With Denying It for So Long? I have spent the past two years debating the credibility of the Gaza Health Ministry’s numbers with supporters of Israel. It turns out the Israeli military agrees with me, not them.

“How many times, then, will Western journalists allow themselves to be fooled by Israeli propaganda – by military denials that later collapse under the weight of evidence?”

YouTube video by Democracy for Sale The Gucci Loophole: How British High Streets Launder Drug Money

Can watch full video of my interview with @oliverbullough.bsky.social about how money laundering has taken over the world - and governments have woefully failed to stop it

Hard not be angry listening to Oliver

youtu.be/uEkKT7yzVGY?...

wow. This is a must-read!!

Have lost most of this morning to searching Epstein files docs at www.justice.gov/epstein/search

The nexus between political power, inherited power and media power laid completely bare

Corruption at the very highest levels, with impunity

Churchwarden linked to foreign-born billionaire is behind £200k Reform gift The man whose firm made the donations will not discuss where the money came from, nor his ties to wealthy Farage allies who may not hold citizenship

How is it that a church warden behind an interior design firm originally incorporated in the BVIs & tied to a Kazakh billionaire can make a £200,000 donation to Reform UK?

Source of funds not disclosed.

Farage has questions to answer.

The Electoral Commission must investigate.

Yesterday evening, Peter Mandelson told me "I've never owned property in Brazil and never will".

Then we discovered the Brazilian company he incorporated, "for the purpose of purchasing and selling real estate".

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New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor.

Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time.

A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.

On 9 December 2009, Alistair Darling - then the Chancellor of the Exchequer - announced a one-off 50% tax on bankers’ bonuses.

Public education and the costs of COVID inequity We need policies to protect precarious workers and students.

www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

Great article by Andrew Wilkin @teachrprecarity.bsky.social on precarious front line people in our society that provide essential services such as teachers and their risks and serious consequences of repeated COVID exposures.

“Cognitive warfare is not coming—it is already here.”

Discussion from Mark Van Helzing link: www.linkedin.com/pulse/cognit...

Similar to my testimony in European Parliament last year.

youtu.be/xJaJfROLs6Y?...

News Release 29-Jan-2026 Metformin shown to prevent Long COVID across risk groups in multiple randomized trials Peer-Reviewed Publication University of Minnesota Medical School FacebookXLinkedInWeChatBlueskyMessageWhatsAppEmail MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (1/29/2026) — Multiple randomized clinical trials and electronic health record studies now show that metformin, a widely used and well-established medication, significantly reduces the risk of developing Long COVID when taken during or shortly after acute infection with SARS-CoV-2. The findings were published today in Clinical Infectious DiseasesExternal link that opens in the same window. In the paper, the University of Minnesota Medical School research team provides information about metformin and summarizes several studies in low, standard and high risk populations that show taking metformin during or soon after infection with SARS-CoV-2 prevents the development of Long COVID. Notably, the research summarizes the number of patients needed to receive treatment in each study to prevent one case of Long COVID. On average across the four studies, one case of Long COVID is prevented for every 50 cases of acute SARS-CoV-2 treated with 14 days of metformin.

News Release 29-Jan-2026

Multiple studies show: "metformin, a widely used & well-established medication, significantly reduces the risk of developing Long COVID when taken during or shortly after acute infection with SARS-CoV-2"

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

#LongCovid #COVID19 #postcovid19

Auditors at Bitpanda’s German subsidiary flagged information security issues, echoing regulator's concerns - ICIJ The crypto exchange said it had addressed authorities' concerns, but an internal report has cast doubt on those claims, according to a new investigation by ICIJ media partners.

Bitpanda prides itself on being one of the most regulated crypto exchanges in Europe. But new reporting by ICIJ media partners found that internal auditors of the firm's German-licensed subsidiary raised red flags last year about its Berlin operations.

Crypto giants moved billions linked to money launderers, drug traffickers and North Korean hackers An ICIJ investigation traced tens of thousands of transactions and found crypto platforms awash with dirty money.

The findings from The #CoinLaundry investigation raise questions about whether exchanges are doing enough to stop illicit financial flows, either by freezing funds, closing accounts or carefully monitoring suspicious transactions.

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Huge congratulations Hannah!! What a brilliant choice - someone who knows & loves the city, lived there all her life, & 100% committed to delivering the very best for residents. On my way to campaign in Gorton and Denton right now. We can do this!! 💚 @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social
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