Stephen Ball
@sdball16.bsky.social
Emeritus Prof, Quondom Prof, Hospitality Management Academic Author and Researcher EdD MPhil
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Sounds like a plan.
Can the EU formally investigate Nigel’s ties to Russia too please?
Can the EU formally investigate Nigel’s ties to Russia too please?
February 4, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Sounds like a plan.
Can the EU formally investigate Nigel’s ties to Russia too please?
Can the EU formally investigate Nigel’s ties to Russia too please?
Many questions to ask and investigations to be had far beyond Mandelson and Starmer but for the large part the media seem obsessed with Starmer and McSweeney.
It seems pretty obvious that Putin has kompromat on Trump, and many other wealthy and powerful people, and has been using it to blackmail them into making serious political decisions in his favor
He likely helped finance the whole thing to gain power over so many others
And here we are
He likely helped finance the whole thing to gain power over so many others
And here we are
February 5, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Many questions to ask and investigations to be had far beyond Mandelson and Starmer but for the large part the media seem obsessed with Starmer and McSweeney.
And Farage's links to Russia and Putin.
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?
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
Post-Brexit, Epstein told Thiel: "Brexit is just the beginning" – eyeing crypto deregulation via right-populism. 7/12
February 5, 2026 at 6:43 AM
And Farage's links to Russia and Putin.
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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?
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
Post-Brexit, Epstein told Thiel: "Brexit is just the beginning" – eyeing crypto deregulation via right-populism. 7/12
February 4, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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?
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
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This seems significant. Compromising the investigation into Mandelson tomorrow would be a stupid price to pay for humiliating Starmer today.
Following Keir Starmer's pledge to release material relating to Peter Mandelson's appointment as US ambassador, subject to exemptions decided by parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, the Metropolitan Police has said publishing certain documents would undermine its criminal investigation
February 4, 2026 at 6:22 PM
This seems significant. Compromising the investigation into Mandelson tomorrow would be a stupid price to pay for humiliating Starmer today.
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Nigel Farage made ‘non-apology’, says school contemporary who accused him of racism
Nigel Farage made ‘non-apology’, says school contemporary who accused him of racism
Film-maker Peter Ettedgui responded to BBC interview in which Reform leader apologised for any hurt caused
Nigel Farage has been accused of making a “non-apology” by a school contemporary who accused him of racist and antisemitic behaviour, after saying he was “sorry” if he had “genuinely” hurt anyone.
For the first time since the row broke following a Guardian investigation, the Reform UK party leader appeared to indicate some remorse for the impact of his alleged behaviour while at Dulwich college, a private school in south London. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Nigel Farage made ‘non-apology’, says school contemporary who accused him of racism
Could Epstein have taken compromising photos of Trump and then forwarded them to Putin as kompromat? As Frank Gardner of the BBC reports some are now questioning whether Epstein was a Russian asset.
February 4, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Could Epstein have taken compromising photos of Trump and then forwarded them to Putin as kompromat? As Frank Gardner of the BBC reports some are now questioning whether Epstein was a Russian asset.
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The true nature of the Epstein, Mandelson, Trump and Putin associations deserves to be explored.
While attention rightly focuses on Mandelson, did Trump promote him to be US Ambassador? If so why? Did M pass on secrets to Trump?
February 4, 2026 at 10:50 AM
The true nature of the Epstein, Mandelson, Trump and Putin associations deserves to be explored.
While attention rightly focuses on Mandelson, did Trump promote him to be US Ambassador? If so why? Did M pass on secrets to Trump?
February 4, 2026 at 10:46 AM
While attention rightly focuses on Mandelson, did Trump promote him to be US Ambassador? If so why? Did M pass on secrets to Trump?
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Fantastic thread from @peterjukes.bsky.social
The background to Brexit is becoming clearer…
Farage will continue to foster crypto corruption, which is, as noted in the replys below ‘where they plan to “collapse” society to create investment opportunities for themselves’…
The background to Brexit is becoming clearer…
Farage will continue to foster crypto corruption, which is, as noted in the replys below ‘where they plan to “collapse” society to create investment opportunities for themselves’…
Thread starting with 🚨 TWO SHOCKING FACTS: Epstein was in direct contact with Putin, boasting of personal invites to St Petersburg. He co-owned Thiel’s Valar Ventures w/ Ehud Barak, backing Israeli surveillance firm Carbyne. 1/12
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...
In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel
The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage
bylinetimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:17 AM
Fantastic thread from @peterjukes.bsky.social
The background to Brexit is becoming clearer…
Farage will continue to foster crypto corruption, which is, as noted in the replys below ‘where they plan to “collapse” society to create investment opportunities for themselves’…
The background to Brexit is becoming clearer…
Farage will continue to foster crypto corruption, which is, as noted in the replys below ‘where they plan to “collapse” society to create investment opportunities for themselves’…
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Nigel Farage is going to "save pubs" by cutting 5p off the price of a pint of beer...
The £3 billion cost will be funded by reinstating the two-child benefit limit.
This might be the worst policy anyone has ever come up with.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
The £3 billion cost will be funded by reinstating the two-child benefit limit.
This might be the worst policy anyone has ever come up with.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Nigel Farage announces plans to slash vital benefit to fund 5p cheaper pints
Nigel Farage's party had promised to back scrapping the two-child benefit limit, but now Reform intends to funnel the support to the most vulnerable into slashing prices in pubs
www.mirror.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Nigel Farage is going to "save pubs" by cutting 5p off the price of a pint of beer...
The £3 billion cost will be funded by reinstating the two-child benefit limit.
This might be the worst policy anyone has ever come up with.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
The £3 billion cost will be funded by reinstating the two-child benefit limit.
This might be the worst policy anyone has ever come up with.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Peter Mandelson is telling the truth on one thing: the idea he was bought for a $4k “bursary” or a $75k gift is ridiculous
The real incentive was a post-government payday - one so big he *rejected* a $3–5m-a-year offer
And Epstein enabled that payday
Here’s the evidence. 🧵
The real incentive was a post-government payday - one so big he *rejected* a $3–5m-a-year offer
And Epstein enabled that payday
Here’s the evidence. 🧵
February 4, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Peter Mandelson is telling the truth on one thing: the idea he was bought for a $4k “bursary” or a $75k gift is ridiculous
The real incentive was a post-government payday - one so big he *rejected* a $3–5m-a-year offer
And Epstein enabled that payday
Here’s the evidence. 🧵
The real incentive was a post-government payday - one so big he *rejected* a $3–5m-a-year offer
And Epstein enabled that payday
Here’s the evidence. 🧵
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Immigrants can’t vote unless they have become American citizens.
February 2, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Immigrants can’t vote unless they have become American citizens.
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Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
February 2, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
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Now is probably a good time to remind folks that Elon Musk deleted this recent tweet of his about an 18 year old girl
February 2, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Now is probably a good time to remind folks that Elon Musk deleted this recent tweet of his about an 18 year old girl
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Trump’s problem is that so many Americans — including his MAGA base — believed that he’d expose a powerful global elite.
But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump is part of that global elite.
Expect him to lash out as the walls close in.
But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump is part of that global elite.
Expect him to lash out as the walls close in.
February 1, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Trump’s problem is that so many Americans — including his MAGA base — believed that he’d expose a powerful global elite.
But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump is part of that global elite.
Expect him to lash out as the walls close in.
But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump is part of that global elite.
Expect him to lash out as the walls close in.
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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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The Room Next Door - Donald Trump and the New Guy
Only on YouTube.
Only on YouTube.
The Room Next Door - Donald Trump and the New Guy
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
youtu.be
February 2, 2026 at 8:25 AM
The Room Next Door - Donald Trump and the New Guy
Only on YouTube.
Only on YouTube.
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Matt Goodwin must be hoping no one in Gorton and Denton reads his Substack, with its obsession about too many Muslims and civilisational collapse. If only he hadn't picked a constituency which is 30% Muslim. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pop...
Matt Goodwin isn’t the winner Farage thinks he is
The academic turned right-wing firebrand is Reform’s candidate for Gorton and Denton. But his ‘Broken Britain’ mantra is unlikely to convince voters
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Matt Goodwin must be hoping no one in Gorton and Denton reads his Substack, with its obsession about too many Muslims and civilisational collapse. If only he hadn't picked a constituency which is 30% Muslim. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pop...
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There’s plenty more exchanges between Bannon and Epstein on their European plotting - as Epstein says to Bannon in 2019
“Macron down. Boris up. Merkel down. You up GREAT”
“Macron down. Boris up. Merkel down. You up GREAT”
February 1, 2026 at 12:07 PM
There’s plenty more exchanges between Bannon and Epstein on their European plotting - as Epstein says to Bannon in 2019
“Macron down. Boris up. Merkel down. You up GREAT”
“Macron down. Boris up. Merkel down. You up GREAT”
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Now you know why Melania chose her Director. She knew him from the Epstein Sex Trafficking ring.
January 31, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Now you know why Melania chose her Director. She knew him from the Epstein Sex Trafficking ring.
He’s the fall guy for many other rich/powerful people but up to his neck in it. He must know a lot and has to spill the beans. Do your duty for the victims and testify.
Keir Starmer calls on Andrew to testify in US over Jeffrey Epstein links
Keir Starmer calls on Andrew to testify in US over Jeffrey Epstein links
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his royal titles last year, features heavily in the latest tranche of the Epstein files
Keir Starmer has said Andrew Mounbatten-Windsor should testify before the US Congress about his links to the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The prime minister, who is in Japan for a meeting with its premier, Sanae Takaichi, was asked by journalists if the former prince should apologise to the disgraced financier’s victims and give evidence about what he knew about his crimes. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:24 PM
He’s the fall guy for many other rich/powerful people but up to his neck in it. He must know a lot and has to spill the beans. Do your duty for the victims and testify.
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On the anniversary of the UK leaving the EU, it is worth hearing once again the many benefits of Brexit, clearly articulated by those who voted for it.
January 31, 2026 at 5:33 PM
On the anniversary of the UK leaving the EU, it is worth hearing once again the many benefits of Brexit, clearly articulated by those who voted for it.