Starmer will never be great at this, and will have to go sooner or later, but he has a golden opportunity to stop kicking Labour MPs, members and voters in the head

Herzog says demonstrations undermine his and Israel’s rights.
There is no right to commit genocide.
No right to slaughter civilians and children.
No right to starve people.
No right to breach international law.
No right to use apartheid.
No right to silence concerned Australians.

We knew this but totally powerless to fight back - the progressive left is totally marginalised. If you want a voice from the left support @novaramedia.com

Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client

New on FT website:

Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.

www.ft.com/content/5bba...

The Daily Telegraph currently owned by a private equity vehicle RedBird IMI - based in the UAE and led by Italian American Gerry Cardinale and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Patriotic news. For patriotic people. Who don't want to pay taxes.

100% no one has said it better.

Baroness Hazarika, "This has been an absolutely shameful week for the Labour party"

"This is a story about male power and a boys club"

"Why was the Labour party so seduced by Mandelson?"

"To me, it was about a male power structure"

Why is every scandal existential for Starmer? Because he has actively worked to eradicate his own support base. And that, along with the Mandelson decision, can be laid at McSweeney's door iandunt.substack.com/p/starmers-m...

YouTube video by DiEM25 Who Owns Your Image and Narrative? Naomi Klein & Yanis Varoufakis — Live

Naomi Klein & I discussing what public life on the left looks like today. Starting with AI deepfakes, our discussion opens onto the larger questions Naomi explores in her book Doppelgänger, moving on to current affairs and lessons for the left www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iRc...

Man, imagine having a prime minister with a spine

From the AFR: sorry but this is absolutely batshit fucking crazy and it needs to stop

By the time Starmer is replaced this summer, we'll have had two wasted years, in which a country crying out for transformation instead got more of the same, or even worse where environmental legislation is concerned, and a high possibility of Farage running the next government.
Thanks Keir.

Amazon dropped $75M on the Melania doc — with a big chunk going into the Trumps' pockets.

Since then, Amazon Web Services got a $580M Pentagon contract.

And this week, Pete Hegseth visited Blue Origin facilities as the DoD overhauls how it hands out defense contracts.

Always follow the money.

Reform MP refuses to reject Tommy Robinson's endorsement Reform MP Sarah Pochin has said there is 'no place for Tommy Robinson in Reform' - but refused to reject his recent endorsement of the party.

Reform MP refuses to reject Tommy Robinson’s endorsement

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...

Same old Sarah Pochin…

WTF 😳 - utterly absurd and gaga - she just needs to move over to Reform and take Starmer with her.

VIDEO: The media in this country is a disgrace
WATCH HERE: youtu.be/zNAmkMOyXJU

Trump’s plan for the Kennedy Center is a preview for what he wants for US elections Trump’s plan for the Kennedy Center is a preview for what he wants for US elections

Trump’s plan for the Kennedy Center is a preview for what he wants for US elections

What news stories did people hear the most about in the last week?
Once again it’s an international picture with Trump and China up there, but all dwarfed by the Epstein Files (this polling was over the weekend before Mandelson became a primary UK focus)

Tiny changes mean Reform lead Labour by 9 and the Tories by 10 in this weeks voting intention, with Lib Dem’s and Greens 4th/5th

➡️ REF UK 30% (+1)
🌹 LAB 21% (-1)
🌳 CON 20% (nc)
🔶 LIB DEM 14% (+1)
🌍 GREEN 10% (nc)
🟡 SNP 3% (nc)

N = 2,005 | 31/1 - 2/2| Change w 28/01

JPMorgan should ‘threaten’ UK over banker tax, Mandelson told Epstein.

Mandelson was Business Secretary at that time in 2009.

After leaving govt in 2010, Mandelson set up an advisory firm called Global Counsel, JPMorgan was a client.

Must be investigated.
archive.is/rzjnQ

House of Lords should strip Mandelson of peerage, says Starmer PM believes ex-Labour minister should not be member of House of Lords or use title, No 10 spokesperson says

House of Lords should strip Mandelson of peerage, says Starmer.

That alone won't do. Mandelson leaked sensitive govt info. How many times did he do so? Who benefited from the leaks?

Mandelson advised Starmer. Starmer made him US ambassador. What did Starmer know?

Mandelson’s Fifth Column The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.”
This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵
www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

Revolting - according to JE, PM is his ‘chief life advisor’ … nuff said.

Was ready to dislike the song for being pretentious or just dull. But it hits.

The director of Melania movie

Roger & Me My first movie, ROGER & ME, had its world premiere 35 years ago today at the Telluride Film Festival!

open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...

Purge the Public Servants The destruction of the civil service can destroy democracy, too.

The destruction of the civil service can destroy democracy, too

the next episode of the AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA podcast has dropped:

www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

This number DOES NOT include those starved, crushed, missing or killed by disease resulting from the attack.

Not the biggest story but bringing back measles for no reason whatsoever is the quintessence of the Trump project’s self-destructive idiocy

Boomer steps up. He feels that impulse. I hope the tradition of the rapid-response song (eg Ohio) doesn't disappear