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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...
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...
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
www.ft.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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...
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...
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Curious that none of this furore has attracted a "rare intervention" from Tony Blair.
💥"Nothing less than a century-defining rebalancing of power and accountability is equal to this moment and the trauma of the victims."
A significant intervention from former PM Gordon Brown on why the Epstein-Mandelson revelations demand a fundamental cleaning up of UK politics.
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A significant intervention from former PM Gordon Brown on why the Epstein-Mandelson revelations demand a fundamental cleaning up of UK politics.
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We owe it to Epstein’s victims and to British democracy to demand historic change | Gordon Brown
The abuse of women by figures such as Epstein, and of political power by the likes of Mandelson, must be confronted. As far as I am able, I will play my part, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brow...
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Curious that none of this furore has attracted a "rare intervention" from Tony Blair.
Another “brexit benefit” thanks to Farage & co.
Those who voted Leave, (rightly) pissed off at the state of things but (wrongly) thinking Nige was on your side: Ever feel like you’ve been taken for a mug & lied to?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Those who voted Leave, (rightly) pissed off at the state of things but (wrongly) thinking Nige was on your side: Ever feel like you’ve been taken for a mug & lied to?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Warning of long airport queues under new EU border control system
Airport organisation says queues could last up to six hours over the summer holidays.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Another “brexit benefit” thanks to Farage & co.
Those who voted Leave, (rightly) pissed off at the state of things but (wrongly) thinking Nige was on your side: Ever feel like you’ve been taken for a mug & lied to?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Those who voted Leave, (rightly) pissed off at the state of things but (wrongly) thinking Nige was on your side: Ever feel like you’ve been taken for a mug & lied to?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Fingers point at Morgan McSweeney, the chief of staff who championed Mandelson, but the final blind eye was Starmer’s. www.ft.com/content/1a29...
February 5, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Fingers point at Morgan McSweeney, the chief of staff who championed Mandelson, but the final blind eye was Starmer’s. www.ft.com/content/1a29...
First 30 minutes of today's Radio 3 Breakfast with @tommckinney.bsky.social was perfect waking up radio. The segue from the song of the Pauraque to Philip Glass was sublime, and what a Bach before 7! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, Wake up your senses with classical music
Join Tom McKinney every Monday to Friday for Radio 3's Breakfast show
www.bbc.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 9:11 AM
First 30 minutes of today's Radio 3 Breakfast with @tommckinney.bsky.social was perfect waking up radio. The segue from the song of the Pauraque to Philip Glass was sublime, and what a Bach before 7! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Much solidarity with this all round! ✊
Doug just wrote this, about the power of small actions that remind everyone around you that they're still being seen and heard and that you're all part of this, and I really think now is a great time to read it: snackstack.net/2026/01/30/t...
February 2, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Much solidarity with this all round! ✊
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I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
January 31, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
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I met Melissa Hortman in October of 2024. She was smart and kind. I heard about her murder in a LA hotel room and it dropped me to my knees. So I went to Minnesota and talked to her kids, parents, and friends. This is not true crime, this is Melissa in real life. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story
www.rollingstone.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I met Melissa Hortman in October of 2024. She was smart and kind. I heard about her murder in a LA hotel room and it dropped me to my knees. So I went to Minnesota and talked to her kids, parents, and friends. This is not true crime, this is Melissa in real life. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Paris pollution maps are a delight to behold
January 31, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Paris pollution maps are a delight to behold
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"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language.
...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"
...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"
Alison Luchs, who has worked at the National Gallery of Art for 47 years, agreed to learn Gen Z slang and make videos because she wanted to raise interest in the museum’s art.
She never expected to slay. https://wapo.st/45BXc3S
She never expected to slay. https://wapo.st/45BXc3S
January 30, 2026 at 5:14 AM
"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language.
...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"
...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"
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To celebrate the publication of @d-j-frost.bsky.social and mine’s book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, I am giving away a copy to one randomly chosen person who reposts this post by 11.59pm ACST Sunday 1 Feb.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
January 27, 2026 at 7:21 AM
To celebrate the publication of @d-j-frost.bsky.social and mine’s book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, I am giving away a copy to one randomly chosen person who reposts this post by 11.59pm ACST Sunday 1 Feb.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
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Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass withdrew his highly anticipated Symphony No. 15 from its scheduled Kennedy Center performance, saying “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.”
Philip Glass pulls world premiere from Kennedy Center
The pioneering composer announced that “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message” of his Symphony No. 15: “Lincoln.”
wapo.st
January 27, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass withdrew his highly anticipated Symphony No. 15 from its scheduled Kennedy Center performance, saying “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.”
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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The Feds claim Pretti was a terrorist, that he sought to massacre agents. What they are really saying is "don't believe your eyes and ears." Ignore what you see in broad daylight. Instead, substitute in the vicious storyline pushed by the Great Leader.
January 25, 2026 at 7:16 PM
The Feds claim Pretti was a terrorist, that he sought to massacre agents. What they are really saying is "don't believe your eyes and ears." Ignore what you see in broad daylight. Instead, substitute in the vicious storyline pushed by the Great Leader.
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The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."
Live: Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, police chief says
A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.
www.startribune.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:40 PM
The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."
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As Trump's authoritarian presidency spirals into madness, my new book American Carnage: How Trump, Musk, and DOGE Butchered the US Government, is released tomorrow (Jan 20th). It tells story, over 6 months, of 11 purged federal workers. Let's make it go viral tomorrow. Please help by spreading word.
January 20, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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In European politics, De Wever is the party ally of Meloni in the European Conservatives and Reformers, traditionally a very pro-atlanticist and (soft) Eurosceptic block:
There's @deweverbart.bsky.social dishing it out. Good to have this voiced very clearly.
January 20, 2026 at 1:00 PM
In European politics, De Wever is the party ally of Meloni in the European Conservatives and Reformers, traditionally a very pro-atlanticist and (soft) Eurosceptic block:
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"When I landed in Minneapolis & saw the size, scope & lawlessness of the federal onslaught unfolding here, I understood Good's killing as emblematic of ...a spectacle of cruelty upon a city that stands in stark defiance of Trump’s dark vision of America".
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:47 PM
"When I landed in Minneapolis & saw the size, scope & lawlessness of the federal onslaught unfolding here, I understood Good's killing as emblematic of ...a spectacle of cruelty upon a city that stands in stark defiance of Trump’s dark vision of America".
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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My FT splash today:
Sadiq Khan, the London mayor, will warn that AI risks destroying huge numbers of jobs in the capital and “usher in a new era of mass unemployment” unless ministers take proactive measures.
www.ft.com/content/6f92...
Sadiq Khan, the London mayor, will warn that AI risks destroying huge numbers of jobs in the capital and “usher in a new era of mass unemployment” unless ministers take proactive measures.
www.ft.com/content/6f92...
Sadiq Khan to warn AI could cause ‘mass unemployment’ in London
Mayor concerned that capital will be at ‘sharpest edge of change’ given dependence on white-collar jobs
www.ft.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:20 AM
My FT splash today:
Sadiq Khan, the London mayor, will warn that AI risks destroying huge numbers of jobs in the capital and “usher in a new era of mass unemployment” unless ministers take proactive measures.
www.ft.com/content/6f92...
Sadiq Khan, the London mayor, will warn that AI risks destroying huge numbers of jobs in the capital and “usher in a new era of mass unemployment” unless ministers take proactive measures.
www.ft.com/content/6f92...
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This is especially bad news for Leila Cunningham who has been put forward as Reform UK’s Mayoral Candidate (two and half years ahead of the election), and rather punctures her message that we Londoners must be “pitied.”
Brilliant work by our current mayor, @london.gov.uk.
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Brilliant work by our current mayor, @london.gov.uk.
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"London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade
Sadiq Khan says ‘public health’ approach has made the capital one of the safest cities in the western world"
Bad news for the right whingers
Sadiq Khan says ‘public health’ approach has made the capital one of the safest cities in the western world"
Bad news for the right whingers
London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade
Sadiq Khan says ‘public health’ approach has made the capital one of the safest cities in the western world
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:56 AM
This is especially bad news for Leila Cunningham who has been put forward as Reform UK’s Mayoral Candidate (two and half years ahead of the election), and rather punctures her message that we Londoners must be “pitied.”
Brilliant work by our current mayor, @london.gov.uk.
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Brilliant work by our current mayor, @london.gov.uk.
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NEW
Death in Minnesota
The significance of the reaction to the killing of Renee Nicole Good
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Death in Minnesota
The significance of the reaction to the killing of Renee Nicole Good
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
January 9, 2026 at 12:33 PM
NEW
Death in Minnesota
The significance of the reaction to the killing of Renee Nicole Good
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Death in Minnesota
The significance of the reaction to the killing of Renee Nicole Good
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
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I'm excited to announce the official Nullschool app is here!
earth.nullschool.net on mobile browsers works fine, but the app is nicer. Full screen display, persistence across sessions, text size that matches device settings. Even landscape works well.
And, like the website: no ads!
Links below ⬇️
earth.nullschool.net on mobile browsers works fine, but the app is nicer. Full screen display, persistence across sessions, text size that matches device settings. Even landscape works well.
And, like the website: no ads!
Links below ⬇️
January 7, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I'm excited to announce the official Nullschool app is here!
earth.nullschool.net on mobile browsers works fine, but the app is nicer. Full screen display, persistence across sessions, text size that matches device settings. Even landscape works well.
And, like the website: no ads!
Links below ⬇️
earth.nullschool.net on mobile browsers works fine, but the app is nicer. Full screen display, persistence across sessions, text size that matches device settings. Even landscape works well.
And, like the website: no ads!
Links below ⬇️
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A man travelling within the lines of a text printed in 1621. Enjoy this short 🧵 for #skystorians and friends of news flows.
January 7, 2026 at 9:08 AM
A man travelling within the lines of a text printed in 1621. Enjoy this short 🧵 for #skystorians and friends of news flows.