Dan
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Just beyond parody at this point
February 8, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Just beyond parody at this point
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Fair summary of Sir Keir's No 10: "You outsource economics to Reeves, AI to Blair, campaign to McFadden, devolution to Gordon Brown, defence to George Robertson, health to Alan Milburn, foreign policy to Jonathan Powell. And politics to Morgan"
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Keir Starmer’s hollowness is clear for all to see
The PM’s distaste for politics means he has outsourced every significant decision and now finds he’s left to pay the bill
www.thetimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Fair summary of Sir Keir's No 10: "You outsource economics to Reeves, AI to Blair, campaign to McFadden, devolution to Gordon Brown, defence to George Robertson, health to Alan Milburn, foreign policy to Jonathan Powell. And politics to Morgan"
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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Starmer has not so much “lost the dressing room” as curled out a turd on the dressing room floor before assuring the team that he was advised by someone else that defecating there would really impress another team owner who is absolutely smeared with shit.
February 8, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Starmer has not so much “lost the dressing room” as curled out a turd on the dressing room floor before assuring the team that he was advised by someone else that defecating there would really impress another team owner who is absolutely smeared with shit.
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This seems quite bold, given the only marked success these lads had was wrecking the fuck out of their own party hand in hand with our horrible newspapers, then expelling “the hard left” in an especially grim hate campaign. On every other measure, pretty fucking catastrophic.
February 8, 2026 at 8:34 PM
This seems quite bold, given the only marked success these lads had was wrecking the fuck out of their own party hand in hand with our horrible newspapers, then expelling “the hard left” in an especially grim hate campaign. On every other measure, pretty fucking catastrophic.
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This week's top posts: MP Reed gets dragged into the scandal over Peter Mandelson insidecroydon.com/2026/02/05/m... #Croydon #Mandelson #Epstein #GMB @bylinetimes.bsky.social @the-independent.com @politicshome.bsky.social
MP Reed gets dragged into the scandal over Peter Mandelson
The Croydon MP and friend of Morgan McSweeney is ‘disingenuous’ in his claims over how his aide blocked debate about the controversial appointment of Ambassador to the United States. By…
insidecroydon.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:04 PM
This week's top posts: MP Reed gets dragged into the scandal over Peter Mandelson insidecroydon.com/2026/02/05/m... #Croydon #Mandelson #Epstein #GMB @bylinetimes.bsky.social @the-independent.com @politicshome.bsky.social
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I left Substack over 2 yrs ago, when this FIRST CAME OUT and have been on a nonprofit (Ghost) since.
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February 7, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I left Substack over 2 yrs ago, when this FIRST CAME OUT and have been on a nonprofit (Ghost) since.
So join me! For ancient prophetic wisdom, healing, & essential organizing tools for this moment—
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And fuck enabling Nazis
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Morgan McSweeney's genius is twofold: he is literally amazing at 1) despising the left and 2) giving exclusives to journalists who also despise the left. I can't believe those smarts didn't have staying power!
February 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Morgan McSweeney's genius is twofold: he is literally amazing at 1) despising the left and 2) giving exclusives to journalists who also despise the left. I can't believe those smarts didn't have staying power!
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Do you notice how - just like they do with all the other avoidable calamities - the lads can go from “the public are crying out for exactly this kind of shit-hot political ninja” to “what idiot thought this clueless dork was good”, without ever having been wrong at any point between these positions.
February 8, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Do you notice how - just like they do with all the other avoidable calamities - the lads can go from “the public are crying out for exactly this kind of shit-hot political ninja” to “what idiot thought this clueless dork was good”, without ever having been wrong at any point between these positions.
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Keir Starmer? Never heard of him mate, don’t know him from Adam. Nothing to do with me or the politics magazine I used to edit.
February 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Keir Starmer? Never heard of him mate, don’t know him from Adam. Nothing to do with me or the politics magazine I used to edit.
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Amazing stuff. You made a pact with a spiteful demon and now, it is going to kill you and drag your eternal soul to Hell.
February 8, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Amazing stuff. You made a pact with a spiteful demon and now, it is going to kill you and drag your eternal soul to Hell.
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February 8, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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Yes, isn’t it strange how general elections keep being won by frauds that the public swiftly come to despise? And none of the people who loudly said that one or both of them would be great can explain what went wrong? Just a real head-scratcher there
February 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Yes, isn’t it strange how general elections keep being won by frauds that the public swiftly come to despise? And none of the people who loudly said that one or both of them would be great can explain what went wrong? Just a real head-scratcher there
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Why am I a member of the Closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility All-Party Parliamentary Group?
Because the issue even more now needs to be highlighted
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Because the issue even more now needs to be highlighted
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
How Guantanamo lit the fuse for authoritarian rule in Trump’s America
Hundreds of men were rounded up and wrongly imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay as part of the war on terror – where torture and abuse were commonplace. In a new book, human rights lawyer Eric Lewis examines...
www.independent.co.uk
February 8, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Why am I a member of the Closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility All-Party Parliamentary Group?
Because the issue even more now needs to be highlighted
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Because the issue even more now needs to be highlighted
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Call it what it is, @nbcnews.com. Concentration camp.
Every time.
The OED defines a concentration camp as “a camp in which large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.”
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Every time.
The OED defines a concentration camp as “a camp in which large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.”
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The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.
ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Call it what it is, @nbcnews.com. Concentration camp.
Every time.
The OED defines a concentration camp as “a camp in which large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.”
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Every time.
The OED defines a concentration camp as “a camp in which large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.”
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For the first time in a long, long while, I'm just that tiny bit less jaded and angry about politics - maybe even hopeful!
(Plus, he's an Aberystwyth alumnus, and a drama one at that, so he's obviously a good 'un!)
(Plus, he's an Aberystwyth alumnus, and a drama one at that, so he's obviously a good 'un!)
‘Am I at peak popularity? I hope not’: on the road with Zack Polanski, from protest to podcast to Heaven nightclub
‘Am I at peak popularity? I hope not’: on the road with Zack Polanski, from protest to podcast to Heaven nightclub
With polls and membership at an all-time high, the Green party are having a moment – and it’s largely down to their charismatic (if slightly cheesy) new leader. Can he really pull off a socialist revolution?
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:14 PM
For the first time in a long, long while, I'm just that tiny bit less jaded and angry about politics - maybe even hopeful!
(Plus, he's an Aberystwyth alumnus, and a drama one at that, so he's obviously a good 'un!)
(Plus, he's an Aberystwyth alumnus, and a drama one at that, so he's obviously a good 'un!)
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To understand how much Alex Massie actually cares about women's safety: when I called out his transphobe-in-arms Nick Cohen for multiple acts of sexual misconduct against cis women, which eventually got him sacked, Massie went berserk at me.
Transphobia is a men's rights movement in drag.
Transphobia is a men's rights movement in drag.
February 8, 2026 at 7:51 AM
To understand how much Alex Massie actually cares about women's safety: when I called out his transphobe-in-arms Nick Cohen for multiple acts of sexual misconduct against cis women, which eventually got him sacked, Massie went berserk at me.
Transphobia is a men's rights movement in drag.
Transphobia is a men's rights movement in drag.
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From Gordon Brown's piece in The Guardian today.
Starmer's Labour promised to clean up politics, promised to ban second jobs for MPs. But has done nothing.
This must change. Cap donations. Ban 2nd jobs. Fines for non- and late declarations.
Starmer's Labour promised to clean up politics, promised to ban second jobs for MPs. But has done nothing.
This must change. Cap donations. Ban 2nd jobs. Fines for non- and late declarations.
February 7, 2026 at 8:41 AM
From Gordon Brown's piece in The Guardian today.
Starmer's Labour promised to clean up politics, promised to ban second jobs for MPs. But has done nothing.
This must change. Cap donations. Ban 2nd jobs. Fines for non- and late declarations.
Starmer's Labour promised to clean up politics, promised to ban second jobs for MPs. But has done nothing.
This must change. Cap donations. Ban 2nd jobs. Fines for non- and late declarations.
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The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.
Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example
fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...
*Not satire.
fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...
*Not satire.
Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example | Fortune
The Gen Z Swedish climate activist is a legionnaire of the Antichrist, Thiel claims, a “Luddite” who wants to halt technological progress in its tracks.
fortune.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:27 AM
The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.
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One more Musk fantasy.
"Datacentres on earth are constantly maintained – component failure is normal. Shipping components to space is complex and expensive, and you would have to be innovative regarding how components are fitted.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"Datacentres on earth are constantly maintained – component failure is normal. Shipping components to space is complex and expensive, and you would have to be innovative regarding how components are fitted.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Why has Elon Musk merged his rocket company with his AI startup?
SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI creates business worth $1.25tn but whether premise behind deal will work is questioned
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:42 PM
One more Musk fantasy.
"Datacentres on earth are constantly maintained – component failure is normal. Shipping components to space is complex and expensive, and you would have to be innovative regarding how components are fitted.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"Datacentres on earth are constantly maintained – component failure is normal. Shipping components to space is complex and expensive, and you would have to be innovative regarding how components are fitted.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Follow the #DirtyMoney, if you can...
"Money was disappearing fast over last nine months of Maxwell’s life. To what extent he still had money was impossible to find, because it was offshore, in Liechtenstein, and all that.”
#Corruption
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
"Money was disappearing fast over last nine months of Maxwell’s life. To what extent he still had money was impossible to find, because it was offshore, in Liechtenstein, and all that.”
#Corruption
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
At last we know where Ghislaine Maxwell got her money from
A confidential bank report in the Epstein files reveals that her fortune came not from him but from secret trusts created by her father
www.thetimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Follow the #DirtyMoney, if you can...
"Money was disappearing fast over last nine months of Maxwell’s life. To what extent he still had money was impossible to find, because it was offshore, in Liechtenstein, and all that.”
#Corruption
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
"Money was disappearing fast over last nine months of Maxwell’s life. To what extent he still had money was impossible to find, because it was offshore, in Liechtenstein, and all that.”
#Corruption
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
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Mandelson hides behind ‘grieving family’ clause to secretly demand end to Epstein scrutiny...
Mandelson hides behind 'grieving family' clause to secretly demand end to Epstein scrutiny
Mandelson tried to quietly shut down press scrutiny over his Epstein ties by hiding behind rules meant for grieving families
www.thecanary.co
February 7, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Mandelson hides behind ‘grieving family’ clause to secretly demand end to Epstein scrutiny...
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BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone.
He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein
We have published it in full.
www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...
He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein
We have published it in full.
www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...
Peter Mandelson issues secret notice demanding press leave him alone – read in full
LATE on Friday evening, this notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news…
www.thenational.scot
February 6, 2026 at 7:06 PM
BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone.
He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein
We have published it in full.
www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...
He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein
We have published it in full.
www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...
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In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.
February 7, 2026 at 6:42 AM
In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.