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Morning Thingummies!

Someone should do a predictions league table for commentators. Fairly sure Heath would be at the bottom.

Powerful words from 2024

The owner of the world’s
biggest bookstore eliminates the Books section of his newspaper.

If the voters of Denton genuinely want change, the only vote is Green. Until the established parties see there are votes in community, unity, humanity, empathy, respect and decency, they'll continue drifting to the right wing, chasing the votes of bigots.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Only three SNP MPs were invited onto bbcQT during 2025/2026

🇬🇧 So this unelected ‘Refash uk’ bigot has been invited onto bbcQT on 2 more occasions than the party governing Scotland

#FTbbc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎

I deleted my post from before…

I thought it was fake

So I went to WH Smith and here it is

An unbelievable attempt to sanitise this man and normalise what’s he’s done.

Love this!

our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”
Carl Sagan

a round pottery piece with pig eyes and a snout

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

Exclusive: Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton People across the constituency thought they were getting a letter from a concerned pensioner, they didn’t know she was working for Reform

Reform seems to think that the only way they can win in #GortonandDenton is by breaking electoral law.

Desperation is setting in.

manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-re...

On the other hand Starmer isn’t in the Epstein files whereas our friend Mr Farage is in there alongside the links to Bannon and the coordinated work to promote far right parties in Europe and create chaos from which they could profit. How about launching into that

So Team Starmer couldn’t ’possibly have known’ Mandelson was lying about his relationship with a convicted paedophile. Despite mountains of publicly available evidence.

Yet they spent £30,000 on private investigators trying to dig dirt on journalists who asked them troublesome questions? 🤔

Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government.

Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’

I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.

I present the most interesting graph ever made.

HUMAN ON BICYCLE beats every other living thing.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

🚨It's starting: one of Russia's 10 largest banks had losses last quarter due to loan defaults.

Moscow Credit Bank, with overdue loans making almost 30% of its portfolio, posted a 9B ruble loss last quarter. 8.2B of that loss occurred in December.

The bank crash has begun...💥

Zack Polanski's ( @zackpolanski.bsky.social ) strongly worded open letter to Wes Streeting, rightly urging him to rip up the Palantir contract in light of the Mandelson Epstein revelations

Are you enjoying media howls for Farage to resign for his highly questionable/illegal financial dealings, close ties with Epstein and appearance in files, his 2nd in command Gill - jailed for Russian backed political interference, his blatant lying? No, you're not enjoying it? Ohhh, there isn't any.

Let’s just brick all the crypto.

The thing that most infuriates me is that students in England with loans pay a higher marginal tax rate than CEOs.

Epstein ran an enormous pedophile racket for 3 decades for the very rich & powerful.
1,000 victims are recorded.
This involved rape & more.
No single American has been charged.
The US would benefit from having some rule of law also for its pedophile elite.

Jeffrey Epstein: "I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body."

Mandelson leaks UK secrets to Epstein

Epstein was working for the Russians

And still Keir Starmer will not instruct our security services to investigate Russian interference in pushing Brexit over the line

This is v powerful

We know who the criminals are. Over & over & over.

They are in so-called 🇺🇸 law enforcement agencies.

The damage this is doing to USA standing in the world is incalculable. The Republican Party is now too weak & too rotten to reign in executive power immediately & fiercely.

Nigel Farage wants to cut price of beer by reinstating two-child benefit cap Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has pledged to reinstate the two-child limit on benefits to pay for a 5p cut off pints of beer to boost pubs.

Half a million children will be pushed back into poverty.
For maybe 5p off a pint.

What a shitty thing to do…
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

Sound up! 🔊
Must-watch video! 👇🏽

“They are not confused
They are not ignorant
They chose this.

And history will remember who cheered
While children paid the price.”

Thank you, Sarah. 🙌🏽

#EpsteinAndTrump

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.

Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

If you want to understand the philsophy/ideology/plan Tim is referring to, I explain in this post (see Group 3) open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

Peter Mandelson sold Government secrets to foreign agents for personal profit.

He doesn't need to be thrown out of the House of Lords, he needs to be thrown in jail.

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)