TraceyMac

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So glad a debate is finally happening. This goes to the heart of the security of our democratic system. I’ve taken part in court cases against successive governments for their failure to investigate hostile state interference in UK elections - ministers’ lack of curiosity is truly shocking 👇

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Baroness Smith says Mandelson should repay any cash he got for being sacked

As an MP many years ago Smith listed her sisters London house as her main home, allowing her to claim over £116,000 in allowances for her actual family home. What did you do with that cash, Jacqui?

Wes Streeting shouldn’t be celebrating this as a win!🚨
We averted a terrible winter crisis because the flu season hit earlier+was less extreme than many predictions. Staff worked unbelievably hard too - but a lot of hospitals still struggled to cope!
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BBC called out for its recent Mandelson / Palantir softball session More people are calling out the government because of Thiel and Palantir's links to Epstein, but we also need to call out the British media

This has got many people questioning why our current Labour government has given Palantir so many contracts. It’s especially alarming, because Plantir is deeply enmeshed with the US and Israeli spy networkd
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Many people on this platform just aren't getting it.
The jig is up.
The party's over.
Unless Labour MPs eject Starmer PDQ, recover Labour values, show how they'll fix our chronic problems, give us hope and inspiration instead of disappointment and frustration, they're finished.
No more denial. ⏰👃☕

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski Everyone Deserves Equal Rights | Doris | Zack Polanski

A group of hotel housekeepers went on strike for the first time in 40 years.

And won!

Organising works. Trade unions work.

This is the story of @uvwunion.bsky.social & the amazing Doris.

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UN Expert Says Companies Dealing in Illegally Seized Venezuelan Oil Face Legal Risk Despite U.S. claims of legal impunity, companies engaging in the refining, shipping and sale of illegally seized oil—particularly those headquartered in the EU—might face judicial hurdles.

The Trump administration can claim Venezuelan oil is up for grabs all they want; companies that opt to trade in illegally seized or produced oil can still be held accountable in a court of law, a UN expert tells @ninalakhani.bsky.social drilled.media/news/hopenhaym #Venezuela #climate

peter griffin from family guy is riding a bike with a basket full of bread and the words mama mia below him ALT: peter griffin from family guy is riding a bike with a basket full of bread and the words mama mia below him

Did Nick Robinson just say that the UK would look as bad as Italy if Keir Starmer steps down as PM on BBC R4 Today? Implying that a quick succession of PMs makes us appear like a joke. In the past 10 years Italy's only had 5 PMs - the UK is currently on 6 for the same period. Arrogant much?

Water bosses in England exploiting bonus loophole face crackdown Exclusive: Ministers to act after last year’s legislation ‘outwitted’ by failing firms paying millions to executives

Water bosses in England exploiting bonus loophole face crackdown.

We have heard that before. Companies circumvent rules. Fines announced but not paid.

Let customers elect directors, vote on exec pay. Deny corporate tax relief on exec pay above £x.

Any significant change in strategy following McSweeny's departure should involve Mahmood's exit from the government. She has championed the cruel and pointless scrap for racist Reform voters.

‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.

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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

This is the key point that is lost in so much Westminster bubble talk on net zero. It is popular. It’s hugely popular with Labour’s base and with the progressive voters it needs to vote tactically to defeat Reform. And it’s even popular with Tories who Labour needs not to switch to Reform.

Musk and Zuckerberg pictured at dinner with Epstein after child sex conviction Jeffrey Epstein emailed the photograph to himself on in August 2015, one day after he bragged about meeting tech chiefs for a swanky dinner, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg

"Awesome dinner"

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The great Ministry of Defence-to-Palantir pipeline Senior defence officials are moving into Palantir roles as the company secures ever-deeper footholds across government

A senior MoD official helps shape defence strategy, then joins Palantir.

Months later, Palantir lands a £240m MoD contract without tender.

No laws broken – just the revolving door doing what it does best.

I do wonder about anyone who thinks McSweeney single-handedly won Labour its majority. They do realise they were up against a catastrophically unpopular government? The 2024 result was very much an underperformance against the fundamentals.

Jeffrey Epstein survivors speak out
#SuperBowl #SuperBowl2026 #SuperBowlXL

"I was 14"
"I was 16"
"I was 16"
"17"
"14"

"There are about a thousand of us"

"It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows"

"It's time to shine a light into the darkness"

"Release all of the Epstein files"

Damn right. There's still time to transform a wasted govt into a transformational one. It's not as though nobody knows what needs doing, or we're lacking ideas about how.

Labour built the NHS in 3 years, and transformed the nation. They can this too. It just takes will.

McSweeney is gone. Time for Starmer to try to salvage his government by launching long overdue proper action to address all the flaws in our political system - peerages, patronage, cronyism, party finances, MPs revolving door, appointments, ministerial code, business interests, Leveson, etc etc.

This series of articles by Peter Oborne is so spot on - withering about McSweeney - and his obsessive focus on party politics, scheming and tactics, at expense of policy conducive to the national interest - and in process ultimately ruining Starmer’s govt.

The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.

It would help if every centrist who says they’d love to abolish ICE or end a genocide or protect trans people or get to universal healthcare but “you have to think about elections” would admit they just don’t want to do any of those things and are quietly fine with fascism if it doesn’t touch them.

You should also be looking at his track record at Barnet where public services were all catastrophicly outsourced to Capita.

Widely regarded as a disaster and held up as a case study of bad leadership.

Nigel Farage’s Epstein Hypocrisy The Reform leader's own connections to the Jeffrey Epstein story are far deeper than he now pretends

Farage - a total hypocrite on the Mandelson appointment. And, besides, the Epstein files expose him too.
A grubby apologist to Trump. A useful idiot to Bannon. And a traitor to the UK.

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Nigel Farage’s Epstein Hypocrisy The Reform leader's own connections to the Jeffrey Epstein story are far deeper than he now pretends

Why Nigel Farage’s reaction to the Epstein and Mandelson scandal has been deeply hypocritical, and how his own connections to the story are much closer than he now admits

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"I might disagree with Mandelson on his politics, but he's a very intelligent man and would be good choice for ambassador".
Nigel Farage, Dec 2024

Nigel Farage condemns Sir Keir Starmer calling his appointment of Lord Mandelson as US ambassador a "grave error of judgement".
5th Feb 2026

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In the public interest

The new leader of Reform UK Wales lives in Bath, not Wales Martin Shipton The newly appointed leader of Reform UK in Wales hasn’t moved back to his home town in the Valleys, but has bought a £1m house near Bath, we can reveal. Dan Thomas, the former Conservat...

More geographical confusion. Nigel Farage said Reform's new leader in Wales had "come back to the Valleys", so his children could grow up Welsh. Nation Cymru report he had moved from London to Bath in the west of England, about 50-60 miles from Islwyn, across the border
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