Peter Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office Move comes after details of peer’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein revealed in US justice department documents

Oh dear. He's gonna have to give up his title of the Prince of Darkness. Soon he'll just be plain old Peter Mountbatten-Darkness.
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Of course. Get that black woman who worked for Obama off your board or I won’t allow you to have what you want. My way or the highway. Trump has spoken. What freak!!

Why do these failed politicians insist on treating us to their opinions? He was the worst PM in living memory in terms of the damage he did to the UK economy and society. He was also the most corrupt by a mile.

I don't know how he can th bring himself to show his face in the UK.

The US President, which does not offer free healthcare to his own people, wants his own people to offer free healthcare… to Greenland… which already has free healthcare.

Maybe it is time for another brain scan for the US president.

Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It's on the way!!! President DJT

Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good.

Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies.

So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.

That's more like it!

After a few minutes I find it isn't at all stressful, and switch over to something like Bangers and Cash

Interesting. I can't imagine anyone going to a Bond for the plot, or theme. They're all tosh, but I like the Craig ones because he's by far the best of the Bonds, imo, and somehow carries them off.

today I recommended a novel to the woman browsing in the charity shop next to me and, then remembering that I am in Britain, a place where people may feel socially bullied into doing something by a nearby leaf falling off a tree, left the shop so she could make her own choice away from me

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For those who think it important for the Nation to impose more tariffs, I understand that today's decision will be dis-appointing. All I can offer them is that most major decisions affecting the rights and responsibilities of the American people (including the duty to pay taxes and tariffs) are funneled through the legislative process for a reason. Yes, legislating can be hard and take time. And, yes, it can be tempting to bypass Congress when some pressing problem arises. But the deliberative nature of the legislative process was the whole point of its design. Through that process, the Nation can tap the combined wisdom of the people's elected representatives, not just that of one faction or man. There, deliberation tempers impulse, and compromise hammers disagreements into workable solutions. And because laws must earn such broad support to survive the legislative pro-cess, they tend to endure, allowing ordinary people to plan their lives in ways they cannot when the rules shift from day to day. In all, the legislative process helps ensure each of us has a stake in the laws that govern us and in the Nation's future. For some today, the weight of those virtues is apparent. For others, it may not seem so obvious. But if history is any guide, the tables will turn and the day will come when those disappointed by today's result will appreciate the legislative process for the bulwark of liberty it is.

These words by Supreme Justice Gorsuch should be printed, in full, on tomorrow’s front pages.

Staggering to think that someone like Kavanaugh is there for life - a chronic sewage disaster poisoning the well of American justice

I'm never 100% sure something is true until these people deny it.

The government's immigration plans: a dog’s dinner of half-conceived policy, Reform rhetoric, mean-spirited sentiment, and profound intellectual muddle iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...

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I wish it were true that "no one is above the law". But while the City of London acts as laundromat for the world's dirty money, as almost all fraud and waste crime go unprosecuted, as no one has gone to jail for the financial crash or the poisoning of our rivers, this is manifestly untrue.

Email blunder exposes $90bn Russian oil smuggling ring Apparent network of companies using same server includes little-known group that has become country’s largest oil exporter

The FT has identified 48 seemingly independent companies working from different physical addresses that appear to be operating together to disguise the origin of Russian oil, particularly from Kremlin-controlled Rosneft.

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Not sure why Reform announcing they’ll scrap the Equality Act 2010 hasn’t provoked widespread alarm.
They want to torch our human rights framework AND repeal our right to protection from discrimination.
A smile and a shrug on BBC News.
What the hell?
FFS, media. Tell people what this really means.

Wholly in favour of this as long as it also applies to Eton, Westminster etc.

agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with

We are the laughing stock of the world.

True love. There's nothing better in the world. Except maybe for true love in A+ orange hose! Happy Valentines Day.

Picture of a green cargo ship with the headline "China starts sea trials for largest electric powered containership"

You can't prove received wisdom wrong if you don't try... and you've got to give China credit for not being afraid to try. A step on the way to serious reduction of shipping emissions by 2050? Or an expensive experiment with niche coastal uses? Time will tell!

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Even down here in Kent we've scarcely seen anything of that mythical ball of fire in the sky for many months. But we're stoical. As our fragrant Reform council would say, we just have to fucking suck it up.

Jammy bastards.

You know what helps make the streets safer? Paying your taxes

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

Outstanding. A triumph for liberty and against unrestrained state power. The government should be ashamed of having to be forced into this position.

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Born in Brussels, on this day, in 1457: Mary of Burgundy, only child of Charles the Bold & hence heiress extraordinaire. Today is for her, her book, and her favorite painter.

UK Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful, in humiliating blow for ministers Thousands arrested for supporting group since proscription are now in legal limbo as Mahmood says she will appeal

It's depressing that ministers ever thought this was proportionate, and disgusting that they haven't immediately accepted the judgement.

I expected such levels of knee-jerk stupidity from Braverman. But we voted Labour because we wanted better.

Be better.

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BBC didn’t have to concede those points. I wouldn’t have been surprised by boilerplate ‘breaking news, we just give both sides’ rebuttal. Seen plenty of BBC correspondence over the years and tone of the email definitely chastened by standard of these things. Hope it has some lingering effect.