The BBC are really going out of their way to not call these The Peter Files.
11.03.2026 18:03
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The BBC are really going out of their way to not call these The Peter Files.
A foreign hacker likely has the Epstein Files.
The best way to prevent blackmail of government officials, such as trump and Howard Lutnick, would be for AG Pam Bondi to stop the cover up and release all the Epstein Files as required by law.
🚨A historic breakthrough today for the fight against #SLAPPs as for the first time ever, the High Court has formally branded legal action as a #SLAPP, throwing out a “spectacularly inflated” £8m libel claim against @danneidle.bsky.social who reported on a barrister’s role in a tax avoidance scheme
DCI Pär Mandelsson investigates mysterious payments from a mysterious billionaire on the mysterious Noncecrime Island, with mysterious consequences.
I will absolutely *not* be watching BBC Four's gritty new Scandinavian detective series.
Crisp form from the 1980s. Yummy.
Jinkeys!
NEW: Peter Mandelson was offered a severance payment of £75,000 - having initially asked the Foreign Office to pay him more than £500,000 upon his sacking as US ambassador, newly released docs reveal.
Compromise: keep Churchill on the notes but it's the dog version from the advert
I'm disappointed that Rick Stein's wife isn't called Phyllis.
The biggest terrorist in the world did this.
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Millionaires stopped paying into Social Security for the rest of 2026 today.
Billionaires stopped paying in on January 1st.
You're going to pay in for 298 more days.
This makes zero sense. The wealthy should pay in all year like the rest of us.
Scrap the cap.
Q: You just suggested Iran got a Tomahawk & bombed its own school. But you're the only person in your govt saying this. Even your defense secretary wouldn't say that. Why are you the only person saying this?
TRUMP: I just don't know enough about it. It's something I was told is under investigation.
A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him
I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit
Whoops!
Another gem
Also by Hannan: “the blue eyed sheiks” of Icelandic Banking will save us (2004). Brexit will be a huge success and we won’t leave the single market (2016) “Covid won’t kill you” (2020)
On top, he's an abysmal presenter and interviewer and one of the reasons I abandoned today
There was never a doubt about this, but it's good to have something concrete to consider against
Wow. The end of 31 August is a bummer. Still loved it.
Genuine questions: could these people be in the pay of the regime? And would that, to use language some of them favour, make them both ‘economic migrants’ *and* ‘welfare scroungers’?
Starmer has been a massive disappointment as pm but he's had this broadly right up to now, as long as there are no offensive manoeuvres from this deployment
SCATTERING half a teaspoon of dried chilli flakes over a cut grapefruit half and leaving it overnight in the fridge will make the grapefruit taste of chilli. So don't do it. Robert Canning e-mail
A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?
From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
"We are freeing Iran from religious fanatics".
A prayer for Trump in the White House.
If the AI robots want to use my body as a battery and plug my consciousness into a simulation of the late 90s they absolutely 100% have my permission
I don't know how to clip a segment (sorry), but the bit I really want you to watch starts at 29'10". It's about the deep roots of the attack on Iran and why it's just as well Starmer is "no Winston Churchill". I'm surprised this aspect isn't more widely discussed. 🧵
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
This is frankly amazing. I imagine lots of coffee spluttered onto red corduroy trousers today. But maybe a title worth reading again sometime soon....?
