This is quite extraordinary
07.02.2026 20:43 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@symenc.bsky.social
Web development in the Scottish Borders. Also cook, baker, muso, mamil, lover of countryside & dog walker extraordinaire.
This is quite extraordinary
07.02.2026 20:43 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Fantastic work!
07.02.2026 19:56 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I miss America ๐บ๐ธ
07.02.2026 18:47 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Too late, msg delivered.
06.02.2026 23:33 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Seriously? Have you forgotten Johnson? Truss? Cameron?
06.02.2026 18:28 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 1Itโs an incredibly low bar, granted, but Starmer is by far the best PM we have had in the past 15 years.
06.02.2026 18:27 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Is anyone surprised? Elect a
mobster and this is what you get.
At least someone is saying the truth. Mandleson could swim in the sewer of filth surrounding trump and come up smelling of roses. Except he was as flithy and rotten as the rest of them.
05.02.2026 20:47 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Weird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.
04.02.2026 20:55 โ ๐ 1450 ๐ 388 ๐ฌ 74 ๐ 38Absolutely bang on. Politics in the US is a grubby business and having a master of mendacity and sleaze *on your side* was presumably the hope. The problem was mandleson was even more ghastly than anyone imagined.
05.02.2026 08:03 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0And who would you have replace him?
05.02.2026 07:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0He hasnโt, he wonโt.
04.02.2026 22:34 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0No itโs not - pragmatic, sensible and moving forwards. Mandleson was way way worse than we considered, but did a good job taming trump. Possibly having ghastly โfriendsโ in common helped thatโฆ.
04.02.2026 22:24 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Happy happy ๐
04.02.2026 22:20 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Same old same old
uk.news.yahoo.com/fred-goodwin...
Yes certainly not straightforward. Nevertheless, Mandleson has proven to be a completely amoral character.
04.02.2026 08:22 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Presumably part of the thought was as mandleson and trump were both privy to Epstein, mandleson may have something on trump which could be useful.
04.02.2026 08:08 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Yes there should, but it wont happen. Apart from some sacrificial lambs, the rich white/orange men are too powerful
03.02.2026 22:02 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Yawn ๐ฎ
02.02.2026 22:04 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0No, as all the info containing him has undoubtedly been removed. Rich white men get away with with it again
02.02.2026 18:31 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Itโs a terrible look for the lords. Shocking undermining of democracy.
01.02.2026 22:24 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We are on the mend. After 15 years of disastrous Toryโs of various shades of arrogance, incompetence and utter ineptitude. It will take time, but definitely things are looking up.
Thank fuck we have a decent, sensible, pragmatic, professional in charge at last.
I think that โworlds biggest electric-car makerโ will soon be someone else.
28.01.2026 21:24 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Why on earth does Italy need thick-as-mince yankie gestapo at the winter Olympics?
28.01.2026 06:45 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The headline reads 2nd MPLS. Killing and shows a woman crying on the streets being comforted by another man
Front page of Minnesota Star Tribune showing a US citizens being held on the ground and pepper sprayed. The headline says Children as young as 5 detained
Right now, this is the most important publication in America.
Its reporting has been relentless and essential.
@startribune.com
Fair enough, but I feel clear blue water between reform and labour is important. So making it simple is key.
25.01.2026 21:13 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Its calmer with Starmer. Go to the next election with a promise of a referendum on negotiations for joining the EU.
25.01.2026 19:41 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0It's time to change the laws around streaming services so that musicians get their fair share! Join me in signing to Musicians' Union petition to fix streaming! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/ch...
25.01.2026 12:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If this is not civil war, what is it?
24.01.2026 20:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Itโs the reformograph
23.01.2026 21:02 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0