Rob Taylor

One lesson from the Epstein–Mandelson affair is that we need to stop routinely rehabilitating political careers after serious scandals.

When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

Placating the Orange Toddler, as I recall. Another, among many naive and ultimately damaging decisions. As we're finding out over and over again, Trump rewards weakness with contempt.

Panicking Trump pulls hundreds of ICE officers out of Minnesota over backlash Border Czar Tom Homan said he'd reached an agreement with local leaders that would allow him to pull agents out of the state

Panicking Donald Trump pulls hundreds of ICE officers out of Minnesota over backlash
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This is Nigel Farage with Nick Candy, the treasurer of Reform UK 👇

Candy appears numerous times in the Epstein files over more than a decade, The National has uncovered.

The Scottish Greens are putting pressure on Reform to explain the links.

🚨BREAKING: After a Labour backlash Keir Starmer’s amendment has been amended

“any papers which are prejudicial to UK national security or international relations will be referred to the Intelligence and Security Committee"

The Integrity Gap: How We Built the Authoritarian Future We Fear Labour MP Clive Lewis argues that the collapse of public trust in Government is the product of corporate power being wired into the architecture of the state

Last year I wrote this for @bylinetimes.bsky.social:

The public see a political class whose proximity to wealth has eroded its independence, where talk of public service is an empty ritual. It's this culture that claimed Mandelson’s ‘qualities’ outweighed the risks.

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Stop asking if they’re “rigging the election.”
They. Already. Are.
But the most dangerous part isn’t the mechanics. It’s the message.
They’re doing it in public to make you swallow the real lie:
That voting is pointless.
If they can get you to quit before Election Day… they don’t even have to win.

“It’s his own fault, shouldn’t have been carrying a weapon!”

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

'Peter Mandelson's Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions' Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report

If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir
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🚨BREAKING: Angela Rayner has intervened to ask that the Intelligence & Security Committee has oversight of release of docs

This is very significant. It suggests govt amendment as tabled today not adequate/sufficient as it stands & thinks ISC oversight important for transparency/public confidence

Despite fascist republicans trying to keep it behind closed doors, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have agreed to testify under oath publicly on live television in front of Congress about the Epstein Files.

And that’s how it’s done.

Landmark case against Nigel Farage’s Reform reaches the High Court When voters asked Reform about their data, the party ignored them – now they’ll have to explain in court why they don’t listen

⚖️ We're in court today ⚖️

When voters asked Reform about their data, the party ignored them – now they’ll have to explain in court why they don’t listen

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Two Reform MPs accidentally vote to scrap two-child benefit limit Ex-Tory MPs Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick walked through the wrong voting lobby with Labour MPs to scrap the two-child benefit limit in the Commons on Tuesday evening

You just couldn’t make it up

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🎯💯

Gary Black Thinks Tesla-SpaceX Merger Does Not Make Sense For TSLA Shareholders: Here's Why Investor Gary Black, who is the managing director of The Future Fund LLC, shared his insights on why a merger between Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) and SpaceX does not make sense for the EV giant's shareho...

Black highlighted that Tesla had "underperformed Nasdaq for 5 years (TSLA +48% vs NDX +90%), including over the past year (TSLA +12% vs NDX +20%)."

"A $TSLA/SpaceX merger makes no sense mathematically for TSLA shareholders unless there are huge cost or revenue synergies for $TSLA."

Sadly, this is NOT satire.

Thousands showed up in Seattle—nurses, doctors, educators—people who heal and protect life. Congress is voting to fund ICE instead of care. The public is choosing dignity and health. Lawmakers should listen.
#FundHealthcareOverICE

Let’s unite in compassion

Mike Johnson: "GOD FORBID we do what the US Constitution requires us to do! And GOD FORBID we use some of that $190 BILLION DOLLARS from the Big Bullshit Bill that was given to DHS to actually fund competent immigration judges who can ensure due process for ALL people, regardless of citizenship!"

This is how democracy ends.

Here we are 2026. I've been saying he's not presidential material and don't vote for him for 12 years. How many crimes has to happened before the people go WTF! I can't believe anyone in this country would allow a criminal to be in the presidential office let alone in any position of trust.

Interesting move from Gov Tim Walz here: He calls on Kristi Noem to release detailed information on how many migrant kids from Minnesota that DHS has imprisoned in the vein of 5-year-old Liam:

Nigel Farage announces plans to slash vital benefit to fund 5p cheaper pints Nigel Farage's party had promised to back scrapping the two-child benefit limit, but now Reform intends to funnel the support to the most vulnerable into slashing prices in pubs

Nigel Farage is going to "save pubs" by cutting 5p off the price of a pint of beer...

The £3 billion cost will be funded by reinstating the two-child benefit limit.

This might be the worst policy anyone has ever come up with.

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Every time Trump praises Putin as wanting peace, Putin bombs the living shit out of Ukraine to make Trump look like the lying, compromised old fool that he is.
Isn't it time for Trump to send real tough negotiators to Moscow instead of pansy boy Jared b/c Putin devours weakness.

TRUTH..

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

I see the “president” is doing and saying (more) unconstitutional stuff today concerning our voting processes.

Thousands showed up in Seattle—nurses, doctors, educators—people who heal and protect life. Congress is voting to fund ICE instead of care. The public is choosing dignity and health. Lawmakers should listen.
#FundHealthcareOverICE

More integrity in his little finger than his detractors have displayed in entire careers.

The average price of a pint in England these days is £4.74.

Making it £4.69 and sending millions of kids into poverty is the policy making of utter, utter lunatics.

But that's who Reform are.

The rot at the heart of British politics is a patriotic affront It would seem that Mandelson was not just operating against his government's interests, but against his country's interests

Mandelson was not just operating against his government's interests, but against his country's interests inews.co.uk/opinion/rot-...