Wirecard update. Henry O'Sullivan, the boisterous Brit who worked closely with Jan Marsalek on various schemes, has been banged-up after Singapore police discovered spare passports and online searches about Vanuatu's extradition policy!
He intends to appeal his 6-year sentence for faking accounts
Old enough to remember when Tugendhat was considered by some to be the Tories' "sensible" hope.
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IN PRAISE OF JEREMY BOWEN
His Today programme monologue on Trump, war in Iran, and the history of the Middle East was exactly how the BBC should be reporting on the world.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
🚨🚨🚨 🇮🇱 BOMBED NEXT TO THE UNESCO SITE OF BAALBEK
This adds to the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 axis targeting of a series of heritage sites in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon over the past week (see post 👇 🧵)
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I can think of only one Guardian reporter who I now rate, and she's not based in the UK, and she got her start at a still serious newspaper. See my bio for hint.
You misunderstand what the Guardian's about. Or are old enough to remember when it was a serious newspaper.
A letter appointing Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the US, with police-style, black fingerprints all over the paper.
"Fingerprints"
Cartoon: Dave Brown (UK)
h/t @annabarna.bsky.social
Estonian World: Flag rescued from Kadriorg in 1944 returns to Estonia from Australia estonianworld.com/life/flag-re...
The irony is that supporters of the ludicrous @eddavey.libdems.org.uk's party showed the largest plurality in favour of nature/wildlife. He really is clueless, and the LibDems are off my list. bsky.app/profile/sund...
But an "FBI warning" no longer has any credibility, under its current leadership. The legacy reflex to take it seriously will take time to overcome. I especially object to the verb "reveals" in that post, accepting the claim uncritically as fact.
I can't really think of any *consistent* exceptions.
@happydees.bsky.social ❤️❤️
Very mixed record.
When I checked your bio, I guessed that was the case!
Is that to him or me?
Someone takes seriously what Trump's FBI says? Or ABC? Or Rolling Stone.
Not just the usual suspects either. bsky.app/profile/mudl...
the creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to stop doing culture wars about which one should go on the banknotes
We can all agree that I'd look fantastic on a £5 note
The dissonance between wacko #Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback’s social media success and his disastrous personal finances hasn’t been lost on his campaign staffers. www.thebulwark.com/p/james-fish... via @thebulwark.com
Last straw. Not a serious person, not a serious party.
1st batch of Mandelson vetting documents points to 2 things. The Government knew plenty (if not everything) about Mandelson’s relationship with Epstein, sufficient for Jonathan Powell, Starmer’s NSA director to raise a 🚩. McSweeney’s opinion was preferred
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/peter-...
h/t @theresamuir.bsky.social
Our tiny independent business just had a £400 water bill for a *quarter* and the town we live in that relies on tourism has sewage in the sea. Do I care what Zack Polanski did 10 years ago or do I care that he wants to nationalise an actual shit show?
Alain Catzeflis @slowflyer.bsky.social Trump's video war is not going the way he intended. Iran is still standing and lashing out. theconstantreporter.substack.com/p/trumps-vid...
“epstein class is iranian propaganda” is definitely something i’d expect the epstein class to say
h/t @froomkin.bsky.social
