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the new statesman has finally decided to inform us that Mandelson has been charge all along. Wonder what we'll learn in 5 years?
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
February 4, 2026 at 9:22 AM
the new statesman has finally decided to inform us that Mandelson has been charge all along. Wonder what we'll learn in 5 years?
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
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Hell of a set of top BBC politics stories for the government
February 3, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Hell of a set of top BBC politics stories for the government
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Sophy Ridge asks Karin Smyth about a recent comment from Mandelson & whether he realises how serious things are. Smyth says that maybe it was made before the latest emails were released
Ridge has to point out that Mandelson doesnt need to wait for revelations to know what he did
Ridge has to point out that Mandelson doesnt need to wait for revelations to know what he did
February 3, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Sophy Ridge asks Karin Smyth about a recent comment from Mandelson & whether he realises how serious things are. Smyth says that maybe it was made before the latest emails were released
Ridge has to point out that Mandelson doesnt need to wait for revelations to know what he did
Ridge has to point out that Mandelson doesnt need to wait for revelations to know what he did
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February 2, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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My post about the movie includes more information about that, in case anyone is interested:
www.andrewjacksonlynch.com/the-cost-of-...
www.andrewjacksonlynch.com/the-cost-of-...
Melania — Andrew Jackson Lynch
For a minute there, I thought I was going to a private screening. When I bought my ticket for the 3:00 pm showing of Melania only forty minutes before showtime, every seat in the house was available...
www.andrewjacksonlynch.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:00 AM
My post about the movie includes more information about that, in case anyone is interested:
www.andrewjacksonlynch.com/the-cost-of-...
www.andrewjacksonlynch.com/the-cost-of-...
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OpenAI has to pay Oracle $300 billion over the next 5 years, and OpenAI is *THE ONLY COMPANY IN THE WORLD* who would want this much compute. There is literally nobody else even close to its spend, even Anthropic. Oracle is only "okay" if OpenAI makes $100bn annually in revenue in 3 years.
January 26, 2026 at 4:53 AM
OpenAI has to pay Oracle $300 billion over the next 5 years, and OpenAI is *THE ONLY COMPANY IN THE WORLD* who would want this much compute. There is literally nobody else even close to its spend, even Anthropic. Oracle is only "okay" if OpenAI makes $100bn annually in revenue in 3 years.
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You may think that Larry Ellison has Elon musk money. He sort of does! But it’s all tied to Oracle stock and he’s tied $58bn in loans and $248bn in lease obligations to it. It’s like the dumbest possible way to do what Elon did in a more expensive and existential way
January 26, 2026 at 3:59 AM
You may think that Larry Ellison has Elon musk money. He sort of does! But it’s all tied to Oracle stock and he’s tied $58bn in loans and $248bn in lease obligations to it. It’s like the dumbest possible way to do what Elon did in a more expensive and existential way
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It is important to know that despite its prominence TikTok loses billions of dollars and tweaking algorithms lays havoc to your ad sales. Oracle is gonna destroy this thing and it’s going to combine with the data center debt and consume it whole
www.theinformation.com/articles/tik...
www.theinformation.com/articles/tik...
January 26, 2026 at 3:56 AM
It is important to know that despite its prominence TikTok loses billions of dollars and tweaking algorithms lays havoc to your ad sales. Oracle is gonna destroy this thing and it’s going to combine with the data center debt and consume it whole
www.theinformation.com/articles/tik...
www.theinformation.com/articles/tik...
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Blocking Burnham may be Wes Streeting's best shot at PM: The cowardice would corrode away Starmer's remaining authority, making a leadership challenge more likely. It would also cause enough Party Member resignations to finally turn Labour into a small enough centrist-enough party to vote Streeting
January 24, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Blocking Burnham may be Wes Streeting's best shot at PM: The cowardice would corrode away Starmer's remaining authority, making a leadership challenge more likely. It would also cause enough Party Member resignations to finally turn Labour into a small enough centrist-enough party to vote Streeting
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This is a really good essay from Juliet Jacques on intellectuals & the politics of the media. novaramedia.com/2026/01/15/t...
Today’s Public Intellectuals Are More Likely to Serve Power Than Challenge It | Juliet Jacques
30 years ago, the BBC invited Palestinian thinker Edward Said to deliver six lectures on the public intellectual, writes Juliet Jacques. Can you imagine something so outlandish happening today?
novaramedia.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:50 PM
This is a really good essay from Juliet Jacques on intellectuals & the politics of the media. novaramedia.com/2026/01/15/t...
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Nine years ago a Twitter user was sending poetry to Sadiq Khan about London’s many cultural identities. A decade on, Reform UK’s mayoral candidate doesn’t dispute it was her old account - so what’s changed?
Our profile of Laila Cunningham: www.londoncentric.media/p/laila-cunn...
Our profile of Laila Cunningham: www.londoncentric.media/p/laila-cunn...
January 18, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Nine years ago a Twitter user was sending poetry to Sadiq Khan about London’s many cultural identities. A decade on, Reform UK’s mayoral candidate doesn’t dispute it was her old account - so what’s changed?
Our profile of Laila Cunningham: www.londoncentric.media/p/laila-cunn...
Our profile of Laila Cunningham: www.londoncentric.media/p/laila-cunn...
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The Katie Hopkins “machine gun the migrants” stuff was in the Sun in 2015, lads. These are cartoons published in the Daily Mail the same year, or earlier.
January 12, 2026 at 5:24 PM
The Katie Hopkins “machine gun the migrants” stuff was in the Sun in 2015, lads. These are cartoons published in the Daily Mail the same year, or earlier.
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"Free Speech, noooooo not like that"
January 11, 2026 at 12:47 PM
"Free Speech, noooooo not like that"
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The world's richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget
The UK’s richest 1% produced more carbon pollution in eight days than the poorest 50% used in a year.
We can't afford the rich - they produce corruption, poverty, environmental degradation; destroy democracy.
The UK’s richest 1% produced more carbon pollution in eight days than the poorest 50% used in a year.
We can't afford the rich - they produce corruption, poverty, environmental degradation; destroy democracy.
World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam
Richest 1% took 10 days while wealthiest 0.1% needed just three days to exhaust annual carbon budget, study shows
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:56 AM
The world's richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget
The UK’s richest 1% produced more carbon pollution in eight days than the poorest 50% used in a year.
We can't afford the rich - they produce corruption, poverty, environmental degradation; destroy democracy.
The UK’s richest 1% produced more carbon pollution in eight days than the poorest 50% used in a year.
We can't afford the rich - they produce corruption, poverty, environmental degradation; destroy democracy.
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Rifaat al-Assad, known as “the butcher of Hama” for his alleged role overseeing the slaughter of tens of thousands of people in Syria, used Gibraltar shell companies & a Guernsey financial adviser to manage some $300m in stolen Syrian public funds. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
Why fraudsters are drawn to Britain’s overseas territories
The legacy of empire has turned British jurisdictions into magnets for dirty money
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Rifaat al-Assad, known as “the butcher of Hama” for his alleged role overseeing the slaughter of tens of thousands of people in Syria, used Gibraltar shell companies & a Guernsey financial adviser to manage some $300m in stolen Syrian public funds. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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I know I said that once they’d shitehoused Brexit through and made politics safe and secure for themselves again, they’d all be great pals once more and you still wouldn’t be talking to your crank Facebook auntie. But this is somewhat more hand-in-glove than I meant.
January 7, 2026 at 10:05 PM
I know I said that once they’d shitehoused Brexit through and made politics safe and secure for themselves again, they’d all be great pals once more and you still wouldn’t be talking to your crank Facebook auntie. But this is somewhat more hand-in-glove than I meant.
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If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:07 AM
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This Guardian analysis says Starmer is doing a "masterclass" in Trump whispering, but makes him sound so feeble and useless its hard to think this isn't a deliberate pisstake. 'He won't return my calls but I still love him' levels
January 6, 2026 at 6:22 AM
This Guardian analysis says Starmer is doing a "masterclass" in Trump whispering, but makes him sound so feeble and useless its hard to think this isn't a deliberate pisstake. 'He won't return my calls but I still love him' levels
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BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 1:19 PM
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
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🚨 NEW | Keir Starmer is less popular in Britain than Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
🟡 Maduro -31
⚫ Trump -56
🔴 Starmer -56
🟩 Hamas -58
Net favourability ratings via @YouGov, 4-5 Jan
🟡 Maduro -31
⚫ Trump -56
🔴 Starmer -56
🟩 Hamas -58
Net favourability ratings via @YouGov, 4-5 Jan
January 5, 2026 at 7:38 PM
🚨 NEW | Keir Starmer is less popular in Britain than Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
🟡 Maduro -31
⚫ Trump -56
🔴 Starmer -56
🟩 Hamas -58
Net favourability ratings via @YouGov, 4-5 Jan
🟡 Maduro -31
⚫ Trump -56
🔴 Starmer -56
🟩 Hamas -58
Net favourability ratings via @YouGov, 4-5 Jan
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If domestic policy is absolutely non-negotiable beyond somewhat varying the level of deliberate cruelty applied to people the Mail and the Sun hate, and debating our foreign policy is off the table entirely, we might ask: to what extent is Britain an actual, meaningfully democratic system at all.
January 5, 2026 at 10:58 AM
If domestic policy is absolutely non-negotiable beyond somewhat varying the level of deliberate cruelty applied to people the Mail and the Sun hate, and debating our foreign policy is off the table entirely, we might ask: to what extent is Britain an actual, meaningfully democratic system at all.
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I’ll say this for Sir Keir’s Labour: they have been wonderfully revealing on what the actual limits of democracy are in Britain: it’s Thatcherism wearing a variety of different hats at home, and whatever America wants abroad. Don’t like it? Fuck you, we are not debating whether this is good or not.
January 5, 2026 at 10:41 AM
I’ll say this for Sir Keir’s Labour: they have been wonderfully revealing on what the actual limits of democracy are in Britain: it’s Thatcherism wearing a variety of different hats at home, and whatever America wants abroad. Don’t like it? Fuck you, we are not debating whether this is good or not.
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