Football must reject Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s cynical, self-serving electioneering | Barney Ronay Tax exile has already proven himself a terrible club owner; now his ill-informed diatribe about immigration has poured fuel on wider flames

Dyson mkII. Greedy, clueless and hypocritical.

Football must reject Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s cynical, self-serving electioneering | Barney Ronay www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Day after Alex Pretti killing I complained to BBC about presentation of White House statements and evidence as equivalent. Duty of balance doesn’t extend to complicity with clear lies, I said. BBC could and should report WH making false statements as a *fact of the story*. Today I got response …

He needs to be intercepted at customs next time he saunters back and referred to PROTECT for deradicalization. A few months in limbo seems fair.

This couldn’t be clearer. Bannon’s texts to Epstein in mid July 2018 - “overthrowing May right now” and in “London with Boris” as well as his appearance on LBC with Nigel Farage are prettying damning evidence of a cross party plot with foreign backing

How Trump is rigging immigration courts against Somali migrants During a December 2 cabinet meeting, President Trump unleashed a torrent of bigoted invective against Somali migrants.

1. Trump has launched a torrent of bigoted invective against Somali migrants, calling them "garbage" and demanding they be kicked out of the country

Now, the Trump administration is rigging the immigration courts against them

We've uncovered the details of the scheme

YouTube video by Green Day Green Day Crowd Singing Bohemian Rhapsody [Live in Hyde Park 2017]

I'm not the biggest fan of Green Day, can hum a few of their songs, but their fans are amazing. Check out this audience singing Bohemian Rhapsody while waiting for them to come on. Stick with it till the bounce!

Can we also get back to Farage’s gf 800k found behind the sofa??
Why is everything he does just brushed away.

Trump mocks the idea of praying during a meal at the National Prayer Breakfast:

“Mike Johnson is a very religious person... He’ll say to me sometimes at lunch, ‘Sir, may we pray?’ I say, ‘Excuse me?’ You know, we’re having lunch.”

Dominic Cummings walking out of Downing Street carrying cardboard box containing his office vanity mirror and emotional support weasel

We might get to relive the schadenfreude of this though

this is vicious and correct www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Who did Epstein turn to for advice on handling a Today Programme interview request, during the first reports of Andrew’s links to a sex offender?

The list given of people the Today program have interviewed as an incentive has a remarkable overlap with those named in the Epstien files. Sarkhozy, Gates, Clinton, Hawking.
Setting the news agenda certainly, but not in a good way

The rare Hampshire chalk stream 4x4s can legally use for fun Campaigners want to stop vehicles legally driving along a 200m section of chalk stream in Hampshire.

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

'260 chalk streams worldwide but in the Meon you can see 4x4s driving along it. Green lane enthusiasts say the right to drive along the 200m section must remain and it's vital access to the countryside is for everyone.'

#extremecivilisation
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Reading the Epstein documents and absorbing the enormity of the corruption is like gazing into the abyss.

This abyss constitutes our politics, international finance, and how the very powerful are shaping the world to work for them.

I don't know what the remedy is but it needs to be radical.

Jailed for more than 20 years: The sources convicted of selling stories to journalists Four years after the launch of Operation Elveden, the number of public officials convicted of misconduct in public office stands at 26. A further seven out of the original 80 who were arrested are sti...

These are some of the convictions, in the once-famous Operation Elveden, of those in public office convicted for leaking information

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Peter Mandelson is telling the truth on one thing: the idea he was bought for a $4k “bursary” or a $75k gift is ridiculous

The real incentive was a post-government payday - one so big he *rejected* a $3–5m-a-year offer

And Epstein enabled that payday

Here’s the evidence. 🧵

This went well. Deutsche offered $4-10m/year.

The CEO's stated reason for the hire was to "be able to access governments, families and corporations"

Not done this for a while, so does anyone want anything stupid scribbled?
Usual rules apply, shout and I might draw it, simpler things more likely to get done, nothing that would constitute a paid commission and take food from my table.

@wefail.bsky.social for the credit

NEW: Previously unreported Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson discussing a Panama-linked tax avoidance structure for a £750k Rio apartment - with Epstein as his "chief life adviser".

Exclusive Tax Policy Associates report:

The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it

🎧 listen this is heartbreaking 💔

@coldfishstix on TikTok for the whole track

Mayor Mamdani surrounded by worker justice organizers

Worker justice organizers

Los deliveristas unidos sign

Corporations will not exploit working people in NYC.

Uber Eats, Fantuan & HungryPanda broke the law — shortchanging workers while raking in profits.

Today, we secured $5M+ in restitution for 49,000 delivery workers.

Let this be a warning: steal wages, face the consequences.

Jeffrey Epstein sent £10,000 to Mandelson’s husband, emails show Epstein sent Reinaldo Avila da Silva payment in 2009

I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in

Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files

more to follow

www.ft.com/content/c950...

This is excellent as well

"a prison platter containing a collection of foodstuffs seemingly foraged by a particularly depressed squirrel."

Mind the Rant: Why are all lunch options now shit? What’s a Farmer J? There is a noticeable trend in London. The rise of the ‘almost lunch’, a terminal disappoint that we should all riot against. Welcome to the rise of Farmer J and the ‘almost meal’.

"not a restaurant, more a nutritional correctional facility"

Very grateful for this recommended read from the FT's Inside Politics newsletter. Invective to brighten up my Friday afternoon.

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'It's going to be catastrophic': The inside story of the Challenger disaster Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent the tragedy.

When the engineers say, "It's not safe. Something bad will happen," it's always best to listen and err on the side of caution.

Keep in mind that after the killing of Renee Good, Trump went out and egged on ICE to be a force for "RECKONING AND RETRIBUTION" in Minnesota. It was no accident that Alex Pretti was executed, it was almost inevitable because of Trump's actions. He is to blame, no one else.

Back in the beforetimes of 2021, over on the other place, I set out to answer the age old question "is my wankpanzer bigger than a tank". Here are those findings for the Bluesky record.
Q1. Is my Ford Ranger bigger than a tank?
A. Not quite but getting there.

Horrific. We are disembloweling any sense of online privacy in the name of child safety.