Tam Britton
@tambritton.bsky.social
Trade unionist, cinema, music, books, curries, single malt whisky and Thistle.
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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.
Thanks Keir.
February 5, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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.
Thanks Keir.
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Does anyone sell subatomic sized violins?
February 5, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Does anyone sell subatomic sized violins?
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Enjoyed Starmer rhyming off some of the best of Britain today and grouping Marcus Rashford, Shirley Bassey and Anas Sarwar together. Love anyone who can score a screamer, belt out a Bond tune or underpay the workers at the family business.
February 5, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Enjoyed Starmer rhyming off some of the best of Britain today and grouping Marcus Rashford, Shirley Bassey and Anas Sarwar together. Love anyone who can score a screamer, belt out a Bond tune or underpay the workers at the family business.
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Your yellow ballot packs should have arrived this week!
Make sure you fill in your ballot paper and get it in the post as soon as you can💛✅
Take a picture at the postbox and tag us to remind your colleagues📮📮📮
Make sure you fill in your ballot paper and get it in the post as soon as you can💛✅
Take a picture at the postbox and tag us to remind your colleagues📮📮📮
February 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Your yellow ballot packs should have arrived this week!
Make sure you fill in your ballot paper and get it in the post as soon as you can💛✅
Take a picture at the postbox and tag us to remind your colleagues📮📮📮
Make sure you fill in your ballot paper and get it in the post as soon as you can💛✅
Take a picture at the postbox and tag us to remind your colleagues📮📮📮
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Name them
shame them
shame them
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Name them
shame them
shame them
So, it’s really only a matter of days, maybe even hours before he’s sacked or resigns.
LATEST: Keir Starmer has full confidence in his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, Downing Street has said
Keir Starmer has full confidence in Morgan McSweeney, Number 10 says amid MP fury
www.thenational.scot
February 5, 2026 at 4:04 PM
So, it’s really only a matter of days, maybe even hours before he’s sacked or resigns.
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Instead of looking under the hood and probing banks for hidden risks, New Labour under Blair, Brown, Mandelson and Balls preferred to champion ‘light touch, limited touch’ regulation, lionise out-of-control bankers and congratulate themselves for ending ‘boom and bust’.
Banking’s journey from virtue to vice - Ian Fraser
Award-winning author and writer Ian Fraser explores how and why Scotland’s banking industry, much admired by Adam Smith, fell from […]
www.ianfraser.org
February 5, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Instead of looking under the hood and probing banks for hidden risks, New Labour under Blair, Brown, Mandelson and Balls preferred to champion ‘light touch, limited touch’ regulation, lionise out-of-control bankers and congratulate themselves for ending ‘boom and bust’.
Utterly pathetic.
Keir Starmer ‘sorry for having believed Mandelson’s lies’ about his relationship with Epstein – UK politics live
Keir Starmer ‘sorry for having believed Mandelson’s lies’ about his relationship with Epstein – UK politics live
Pressure continues to build on the prime minister after he said he knew about Mandelson’s friendship with Epstein before his appointment as US ambassador
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Utterly pathetic.
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👖 GREENOCK LEE JEANS WORKERS NEEDED👖
On the 45th anniversary of the Lee Jeans Occupation, NTS & @trontheatre.bsky.social seek strikers, or their family members.
More info/sign up here: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/whats-on-tem...
On the 45th anniversary of the Lee Jeans Occupation, NTS & @trontheatre.bsky.social seek strikers, or their family members.
More info/sign up here: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/whats-on-tem...
February 5, 2026 at 11:34 AM
👖 GREENOCK LEE JEANS WORKERS NEEDED👖
On the 45th anniversary of the Lee Jeans Occupation, NTS & @trontheatre.bsky.social seek strikers, or their family members.
More info/sign up here: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/whats-on-tem...
On the 45th anniversary of the Lee Jeans Occupation, NTS & @trontheatre.bsky.social seek strikers, or their family members.
More info/sign up here: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/whats-on-tem...
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Thread:
So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
February 5, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Thread:
So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
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It's Elmo's birthday
February 3, 2026 at 5:58 PM
It's Elmo's birthday
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Jeffrey Epstein took more photos of people he only hung out with once than I have of my best friends of 15 years
February 4, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Jeffrey Epstein took more photos of people he only hung out with once than I have of my best friends of 15 years
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Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
February 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
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There's more.
On 31 March 2010, Lord Mandelson's principal private secretary sent him a note of a meeting between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Larry Summers, US Treasury Secretary.
Lord Mandelson forwarded it to Jeffrey Epstein five minutes later.
On 31 March 2010, Lord Mandelson's principal private secretary sent him a note of a meeting between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Larry Summers, US Treasury Secretary.
Lord Mandelson forwarded it to Jeffrey Epstein five minutes later.
February 2, 2026 at 8:30 PM
There's more.
On 31 March 2010, Lord Mandelson's principal private secretary sent him a note of a meeting between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Larry Summers, US Treasury Secretary.
Lord Mandelson forwarded it to Jeffrey Epstein five minutes later.
On 31 March 2010, Lord Mandelson's principal private secretary sent him a note of a meeting between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Larry Summers, US Treasury Secretary.
Lord Mandelson forwarded it to Jeffrey Epstein five minutes later.
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I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home.
But did you look at the judge's order?
It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept."
Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
But did you look at the judge's order?
It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept."
Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 2, 2026 at 7:11 PM
I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home.
But did you look at the judge's order?
It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept."
Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
But did you look at the judge's order?
It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept."
Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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BREAKING on ft website:
Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans
www.ft.com/content/fdf7...
Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans
www.ft.com/content/fdf7...
Mandelson leaked sensitive UK government tax plans to Epstein
Former ambassador forwarded memo from special adviser to Gordon Brown to late sex offender in 2009
www.ft.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:30 AM
BREAKING on ft website:
Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans
www.ft.com/content/fdf7...
Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans
www.ft.com/content/fdf7...
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A reminder that Reform's candidate for Gorton and Denton, Matt Goodwin, has still not explained what he meant by this claim that developments in genetic science will make younger generations more right wing as they understand the "inherent differences" between different groups
February 2, 2026 at 9:53 AM
A reminder that Reform's candidate for Gorton and Denton, Matt Goodwin, has still not explained what he meant by this claim that developments in genetic science will make younger generations more right wing as they understand the "inherent differences" between different groups
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New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor.
Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time.
A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.
Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time.
A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.
February 1, 2026 at 5:26 PM
New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor.
Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time.
A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.
Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time.
A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.
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Really striking going through Epstein disclosures just how often British defamation lawyers are referred to: Schillings; Paul Tweed; oblique suggestions to sue to silence
Why? Because our libel laws let rich and powerful buy silence
Why I signed this last week pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/an...
Why? Because our libel laws let rich and powerful buy silence
Why I signed this last week pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/an...
Editors unite to demand Parliament takes action on SLAPPs
Editors from national newspapers including The Guardian and The Times demand action on SLAPPs in next King's Speech.
pressgazette.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Really striking going through Epstein disclosures just how often British defamation lawyers are referred to: Schillings; Paul Tweed; oblique suggestions to sue to silence
Why? Because our libel laws let rich and powerful buy silence
Why I signed this last week pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/an...
Why? Because our libel laws let rich and powerful buy silence
Why I signed this last week pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/an...
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NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM.
It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line.
My latest for @thenerve.news
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www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line.
My latest for @thenerve.news
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www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here
Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK will be next
www.thenerve.news
February 1, 2026 at 2:44 PM
NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM.
It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line.
My latest for @thenerve.news
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www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line.
My latest for @thenerve.news
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www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
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A first look at tomorrow's front page of The Sunday National 📰
Pro-Israel group's 'secret' guest list
Pro-Israel group's 'secret' guest list
January 31, 2026 at 9:57 PM
A first look at tomorrow's front page of The Sunday National 📰
Pro-Israel group's 'secret' guest list
Pro-Israel group's 'secret' guest list
I see some County fans are calling for Kettlewell to be sacked. County getting their fourth manager of the season and still going down would be utterly glorious.
January 31, 2026 at 6:03 PM
I see some County fans are calling for Kettlewell to be sacked. County getting their fourth manager of the season and still going down would be utterly glorious.
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Some amazing feedback already for my article published yesterday on the real story in #Greenland that nobody is talking about. So glad it's resonating with people. Thanks @bellacaledonia.bsky.social for carrying it.
January 31, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Some amazing feedback already for my article published yesterday on the real story in #Greenland that nobody is talking about. So glad it's resonating with people. Thanks @bellacaledonia.bsky.social for carrying it.