Pawel Swidlicki

I think the baseline is somewhat different, but there are definitely parallels

Have to say I do not find Mandelson's complete imperviousness to shame or lack of any grace beyond the superficial variety in any way astonishing, these were seen as assets as regards being able to operate effectively within Trump's orbit.

"There you have it, in black and white. The PM, Keir Starmer, warned in the clearest possible terms that Peter Mandelson maintained his relationship [with Epstein] after the conviction.. there is no escape from this"

Not a celebrity as such but got blocked by a completely random backbench Labour MP for absolutely no obvious reason (don't think I'd ever interacted with her) which became a problem when she technically won a twitter competition I was running on behalf of a client, but I hadn't seen her tweet

Wouldn't also surprise me if it also was partially a twitter effect, I skimmed it the other day early on in the conflict and there were lots of 'so much epic winning' type posts

Doubt much of the electorate have noticed but the mess Badenoch and Farage have got into over Iran shows just how beatable they are.

Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.

If you thought China was selling a lot of batteries and solar panels before, you’re going to love what happens next.

Its like when Sunak and Hunt cut NI, something the whole Conservative media-political ecosystem had been calling for but given the wider economic backdrop it just didn't really register. That said, I'd expect lifting the 2CBC would be noticed by the people it affects.

Yes, that bit did come through. I still let them win the war though, felt like least worst outcome.

Thing about Nigel is that like him or not at least he gives it you straight unlike all those professional LibLabCon politicians

I haven't read the books, but in the game Nilfgaard felt quite Germanic-coded

This isn't funny with the sole exception of Yvette Cooper now being on the opposite side of this kind of HO performative vindictive pettiness

The Blue Labour justification is that people on here won't like it

Yeah, there’s absolutely no way Vladimir Putin would be sending satellite reconnaissance photos to the Iranians, he certainly doesn’t benefit from elevated oil prices and US economic problems

Incredible. A prime example of what happens when someone has to leave the confines of their political ecosystem (you could even call it their safe space) and have to reconstruct their worldview from first principles.

“.. Nearly seven months ago, Ukrainian officials tried to sell the U.S. their battle-proven technology for downing Iranian-made attack drones .. The Trump administration dismissed the Ukrainians ..”

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Corbyn, Brexit, Trump, Covid, Israel, Ukraine, trans... chose your own derangement vector

I do think its true that anti-Semitism was 'instrumentalised' by Corbyn's internal opponents within Labour, but the fact remains it had to meaningfully exist for that to even be possible

Boris Johnson's version of the Tory party but led by Farage and Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party led by Zach Polanski

I'll admit to liking her a bit back in the day even when I didn't always agree her, thought she was frequently insightful etc but yeah, her recent trajectory hasn't been good

"President Donald Trump’s decision to wage war abroad threatens to wipe out some of his key economic accomplishments at home" >> which ones?

It's genuinely incredible how "listens to what Trump says and interprets it as a policy goal" puts you in the top 5% of Trump understanders

I guess if you're a populist opposition party then you'd welcome the fact that incumbent governments are likely going to get the bulk of the blame for any economic repercussions

One for the sovereignty fetishists

Don't really know enough about what the Departments for Wales and Scotland are doing to be able to agree 100%

I remember when Cameron vetoed the EU fiscal pact (yeah I'm old) and lots of people proclaimed it a disaster and how the UK was isolated but others said maybe, but insofar as someone standing on the pier watching the Titanic was also isolated, and I can't help thinking this analogy applies well here

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

in this former mining town, they know two things: Brexit means Brexit, and the Pahlavi dynasty (1925-1979) are the rightful rulers of Persia.

I don't know who that is - should I?