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The BBC are really going out of their way to not call these The Peter Files.

11.03.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 2112 πŸ” 482 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 13

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.

11.03.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 2698 πŸ” 829 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 22

🚨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 β€œspectacularly inflated” Β£8m libel claim against @danneidle.bsky.social who reported on a barrister’s role in a tax avoidance scheme

11.03.2026 18:21 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
DCI PΓ€r Mandelsson investigates mysterious payments from a mysterious billionaire on the mysterious Noncecrime Island, with mysterious consequences.

DCI PΓ€r 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.

11.03.2026 14:17 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Crisp form from the 1980s. Yummy.

11.03.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jinkeys!

11.03.2026 10:25 πŸ‘ 99 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0

NEW: Peter Mandelson was offered a severance payment of Β£75,000 - having initially asked the Foreign Office to pay him more than Β£500,000 upon his sacking as US ambassador, newly released docs reveal.

11.03.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 18

Compromise: keep Churchill on the notes but it's the dog version from the advert

11.03.2026 12:30 πŸ‘ 119 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm disappointed that Rick Stein's wife isn't called Phyllis.

10.03.2026 09:55 πŸ‘ 229 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 0
10.03.2026 22:12 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The biggest terrorist in the world did this.

10.03.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 453 πŸ” 278 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 16
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Andrew O’Hagan Β· Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

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...

10.03.2026 08:02 πŸ‘ 1568 πŸ” 644 πŸ’¬ 119 πŸ“Œ 91

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.

09.03.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 1192 πŸ” 377 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 15
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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.

09.03.2026 22:29 πŸ‘ 2542 πŸ” 663 πŸ’¬ 332 πŸ“Œ 231
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Andrew O’Hagan Β· Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

This is brilliant www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

09.03.2026 22:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him

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

09.03.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 11344 πŸ” 1990 πŸ’¬ 789 πŸ“Œ 493
Whoops!

Whoops!

Another gem

09.03.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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Also by Hannan: β€œthe 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) β€œCovid won’t kill you” (2020)

08.03.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 489 πŸ” 120 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 15

On top, he's an abysmal presenter and interviewer and one of the reasons I abandoned today

09.03.2026 07:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There was never a doubt about this, but it's good to have something concrete to consider against

08.03.2026 23:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow. The end of 31 August is a bummer. Still loved it.

08.03.2026 23:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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 β€˜economic migrants’ *and* β€˜welfare scroungers’?

08.03.2026 09:08 πŸ‘ 1675 πŸ” 413 πŸ’¬ 122 πŸ“Œ 14

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

07.03.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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

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

07.03.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 279 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
A monochrome β€˜spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage

A monochrome β€˜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 β€˜like’ or share this one?)

07.03.2026 08:19 πŸ‘ 1306 πŸ” 420 πŸ’¬ 168 πŸ“Œ 71
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"We are freeing Iran from religious fanatics".

A prayer for Trump in the White House.

05.03.2026 21:14 πŸ‘ 962 πŸ” 348 πŸ’¬ 218 πŸ“Œ 191

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

04.03.2026 08:55 πŸ‘ 175 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 3
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Question Time - 2026: 05/03/2026 Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Kettering. On the panel are Stephen Doughty, James Cleverly, Shashank Joshi, George Monbiot and Annabel Denham.

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...

06.03.2026 07:58 πŸ‘ 1015 πŸ” 290 πŸ’¬ 93 πŸ“Œ 24

This is frankly amazing. I imagine lots of coffee spluttered onto red corduroy trousers today. But maybe a title worth reading again sometime soon....?

06.03.2026 12:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Axel Springer to buy Telegraph for Β£575m, elbowing aside Daily Mail owner German owner of Bild and Die Welt is understood to have agreed all-cash deal for one of UK’s oldest newspapers

LOL www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

06.03.2026 12:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0