Will

McSweeney going is good but it doesn't change what Labour leadership represents at the moment - shallow performative and lacking in vision while being openly contemptuous of the party it represents

US, China opt out of joint declaration on AI use in military Around a third of countries attending a military AI summit agreed on Thursday to a a declaration on how to govern deployment of the technology in warfare, but military heavyweights China and the U.S. ...

This seems like it's fine and will work out well for humanity
www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Ski jumping: Wada responds to penis injection claims The World Anti-Doping Agency could investigate if evidence emerges that male ski jumpers are injecting their penises in a bid to improve sporting performance.

Erm this story suggests an obvious additional strategy for suit measurement 😂

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...

For reference The Shard cost about £1.5bn to develop with construction costs under £500 million and has 112% of parliament's floor area and is a more expensive design.

The new highly secure US embassy cost about £1bn and is 42% of parliament's floor area.

Parliament revamp could cost £40bn and take 61 years MPs and peers are presented with two renovation options and told to make a decision by the mid-2030s.

How about we ask what another (sensible and modern) country would do and just do that instead?

Surely they would build a new modern parliamentary building for around £2bn and then repair the completely vacant historic building as a visitor attraction for about £3bn?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Vive la France!

Jeffrey Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson

"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?"

Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.

Mahmood is bragging about reducing the (checks notes) £16m per year spent on taxis for asylum seeker's medical appointments.

That's 0.0013% of the budget.
It's one 18th of what the Tories paid Rwanda.

This is not serious government, it's headline hunting and it won't even help Labour one iota.

Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks.
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?

Weird 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.

BYD Seal - a 4 door sedan with coupe-like curves and sporty design

Electric cars from BYD massively outsold Tesla last month in the UK. Polestar also outsold them. Good riddance.

BYD - 4021
Polestar - 1070
Tesla - 718 (50% less than last year)

Literally foreign nazis and pedophiles interfering in British politics and the establishment does nothing. Makes you wonder how much distance there is between them

Totally not a secret police...

Russian hits Ukraine energy sites in 'most powerful blow The attack - which reportedly consisted of more than 70 missiles and 450 drones - comes after a so-called

So Russia used Trump's 'ceasefire' to stockpile missiles for a saturation attack on Ukraine. What a surprise.

Time for Ukraine to use some kinetic sanctions on the Russian war machine again.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

British politics has been badly compromised by foreign interests for a long time and there's no sign that's about to change any time soon.

Me:

“What about the fact that Trump was found guilty in a civil court for sexual abuse…was that not enough for you to withdraw your support?”

Now listen to the response from Andrea Jenkyns of the Reform Party…

I can't believe anyone thought Putin was serious about negotiating at any stage, it defies everything we know about him and Russia

Bannon bragging he has control of the far right across Europe. Including Nigel Farage.

#EpsteinFiles

Churchwarden linked to foreign-born billionaire is behind £200k Reform gift The man whose firm made the donations will not discuss where the money came from, nor his ties to wealthy Farage allies who may not hold citizenship Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor Saturday January 31 2026, 8.00pm, The Sunday Times Share A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works for the family of a highly secretive, Kazakhstan-born billionaire can be revealed as the man behind £200,000 of donations to Reform UK., John Richard Simpson is a 59-year-old

Why isn't this a major news story?

BREAKING: President Donald Trump warns the UK against getting into business with China, saying it would be "very dangerous."

He seems to have forgotten he has agreed to visit Beijing in April and invited Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state visit later next year

The Times’s latest inaccurate reporting on net zero - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment Bob Ward examines misrepresentation of a report by Great Britain’s National Energy System Operator in The Times newspaper – but also finds that improvements could be made to how the results of officia...

That would be this times.
www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

Advert on the London underground. Text says "The future is uncertain. The facts shouldn't be". The advert shows a flooded scene and a solitary house. The caption reads "Times change. The Times remains."

The bare faced cheek of this ad campaign.

Isn't it brilliant to live in an era where posts on social media are portents of war?

London is far safer than violent viral videos will have you believe Contrary to social-media lore, it is one of the safest cities in the world

Contrary to social-media lore, it is one of the safest cities in the world

No mention of the killing of protestors. Almost as if he didn't actually care about that in the first place and is just looking to start a new conflict overseas for his own benefit at home.

Whose side is the US on again?

The UK has had worse state violence against it's own citizens in recent history than the US currently faces and it didn't implode.

But the UK is also not the US, it wasn't simultaneously attacking it's own constitutional order and wasn't a hyperpower going for territorial expansion. So 🤷‍♂️

I very much doubt guardrails will stop him though. Popular revolt, economic elite defection, perhaps. Guardrails, not convinced.

20 year gold price chart shows increase from around 500 dollars in 2006 to 5000 in 2026 with a sharply increasing curve in the last 4 years.

This isn't funny. Gold prices only do this when they are distressed.

It's somewhat problematic that the BBC cannot be relied upon to provide even basic factual information about world events due to it's craven culture and leadership.