Our media rightly rages about the already-disgraced Mandelson and Andrew but wrongly fails to hold others in that murky moneyed network to account.
Our democracy is under attack from these dismal people right now. Do not be exposing that a decade too late.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/steve-b...
This new graphic from @thenerve.news could be so much bigger but we wanted to show 3 essential nodes in Peter Thiel’s sphere of influence: Silicon Valley, Washington & the UK.
In Britain, our govt is so naive about Thiel & what his company Palantir really is.
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I just signed a petition calling for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm? Sign now: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...
FT exclusive:
“The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.”
via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues
Trump has just posted a video of the Obamas pictured as monkeys. This should hit headlines. We warned you about him years ago, but many made him a friend, defended him, salivated and gave him football shirts. Our thoughts are with black people everywhere and my own family. I am sorry. I am so sorry.
Trump is a vile racist bully
We should all condemn this without hesitation. But something tells me Farage will find a way to make excuses for his best mate Trump. I hope I’m wrong.
If Mandelson really told Starmer he barely knew Epstein, that was an epic whopper of a lie.
Here's Mandelson to Epstein in 2009: "You are the only person who knows everything about me. Don't go away".
Their relationship only got closer after 2009.
Mandelson 'lied, he lied and he lied again to my team' says Starmer at PMQs (describing the vetting process). Mandelson of course bears responsibility for that. But the question remains: why didn't Downing Street anticipate that a known liar would be lying to them?
Watching the usual political circus unfold.
Mandelson is now playing the usual lightning-rod role for an outraged political establishment. Little to no acknowledgement he’s the tip of an iceberg.
This is part of a political culture that’s pushing our democracy towards corporate oligarchy.
Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government.
Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’
I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.
The rot runs right through this Labour government.
Starmer made Mandelson ambassador to the US despite knowing of his relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. He must go.
Streeting must cancel the NHS contract with Palantir which has Mandelson's hands all over it.
They are trying to make this a thing. A "moral panic" is not just public outrage at immorality. It is a concept with independent meaning and history. An essential element of it is media distortion, which Lehmann and Soave are contributing to. See Stanley Cohen, Folk Devils and Moral Panics (1972).
The president constantly lying about stolen elections, after staging a coup attempt, & now threatening to federalize & steal future elections, should be the primary news story in the country 24/7 & on every front page until he is impeached & removed next week.
Trump at National Prayer Breakfast: "They rigged the second election. I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would've had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego. Beating these lunatics was incredible ... The first time they said I didn't win the popular vote. I did"
What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here
Peter Thiel's data company is powering ICE operations in the US. In part 2 of the Nerve’s Palantir series, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social argues that the UK will be next - and we map Thiel’s network🧵
www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
Dear @washingtonpost.com
journalists. Solidarity on a terrible day. But also: it’s an opportunity. The @theguardian.com also fucked over its journalists last year.
Months later, 5 of us launched @thenerve.news - with zero £ - & it’s working! Rebuild your own media from the ground up 👊👊👊
Every contract and every decision that Mandelson's lobbying group was anywhere near needs to be ripped up. He was working hand-in-glove with child sex traffickers. Those decisions were made in their interests.
Zack Polanski, "Palantir.. £240 million contract last month"
"That was lobbied by Global Counsel which is Peter Mandelson's lobbying group"
"The idea that a defence company from the US has its fingerprints all over our healthcare system, alongside Peter Mandelson"
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
Even without Starmer Labour are fucked. Plan B was Streeting and he's as popular as crabs. They have 400+ MPs but all the newbies are Mandelson approved briefcases. One of the safest seats in the country opened up and they gave it to Luke Akehurst. They've really got *nothing*
Barry Gardiner suggesting on #Newsnight that it's not just Keir Starmer who needs to go but the top of the 'Labour aristocracy'
"This was our manifesto, one man, one word, change"
"That's what we promised"
"Keir Starmer's Labour looks more like the same"
Very poignant interview about how Epstein's victims are never* centred.
It's a complicated story, right, and plainly Trump is deeply evil, but I have always been very uncomfortable about those whose interest in the files was purely as a weapon to attack Trump.
If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.
"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
Never forget that Labour's Friends of Israel Cabinet
is aware of the ongoing child slaughter
yet keeps arming the Israeli perpetrators of genocide
"This is what the mainstream parties support. Labour in particular can never be forgiven"
via Wear The Peace
Peter Mandelson was (and may still be)
the friend & mentor who advised
Morgan McSweeney while he orchestrated
the lies against Jeremy Corbyn
the Starmer's left-leaning leadership campaign,
the ditching of his 10 pledges & Labour's historic values
The thing is Elon, money CAN buy happiness, if you know how to use it.
You could have built things for people that needed them, fed the poor, housed the homeless. You could have given something back without asking for anything in return.
Instead you chose to be a petty, nasty, racist piece of shit
"Whatever they say now, those centre right politicians and their media hacks knew Mandelson was shady and still sided with him to bring down an honest, decent man."
via @dailypolitik.bsky.social
Peter Mandelson was directly involved in helping Morgan McSweeney select Labour’s parliamentary candidates ahead of the 2024 general election.
This is despite his past misbehaviour.
It was all part of the purge of the left and push Labour to the right.
archive.ph/FXGiY
" ... All Parliamentary Friends group should be suspended.
Being Friend to Israel now is equal to be friend with genocide and murders committed by Israel forces.
Disband Friends of Israel Parliamentary Groups NOW!!"
via Halit Ece
The chair of the first law firm that bent the knee to Trump’s extortion and agreed to do pro bono work for him is featured in the Epstein Files, you say? Huh.
Blair & Starmer - complicit
" ...a briefing delivered to the prime minister, Keir Starmer, on the reputational risk in appointing Mandelson as ambassador to USA mentioned official records showing he had facilitated a meeting between Epstein & Tony Blair in 2000"
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
MI5 & 6 knew about
Mandelson's close relationship
with sex-trafficking Epstein
They briefed every PM
including Blair & Starmer, yet
Blair appointed Mandelson Minister & Lord
Starmer made him UK's No.1 Ambassador
Not only war criminals
Complicit in sheltering paedophiles
meme via Taylan Özgür
Labour’s action over PA should outrage people just as much as Mandelson’s betrayals. It was/is a ridiculous overreach that has seen nearly 3000 people arrested as well as a hunger strike by those accused in the primary case. All this heavy-handed control on people of UK in support a genocide in Gaza
🚨🚨Given current situation and with the sharply deteriorating situation in #trumpland, I think it is unwise, imprudent and just a very bad idea for the EU to go ahead with plans to grant #US border authorities unprecedented access to Europeans’ data. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-m...
“The pressure which the United States is extorting on our member states, the threats that if you don’t agree with this we will cancel your access to the visa waiver program, that is an element of blackmail that we cannot let go,” Hermida-van der Walle said. /8
Kiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer.
Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!
The two children who returned to MN today say they saw one of their Valley View schoolmates at a detention center in TX. This is a child whose family was last in contact with the school on January 9. No one has known where they were until now.
Zack Polanski, "Palantir.. £240 million contract last month"
"That was lobbied by Global Counsel which is Peter Mandelson's lobbying group"
"The idea that a defence company from the US has its fingerprints all over our healthcare system, alongside Peter Mandelson"
Alex Burghart MP has now called for a review of the circumstances around the award of Palantir's £240m defence contract, and asked why Mandelson's visit to Palantir's offices in Washington was kept off the books while the company was being represented by his firm, Global Council.
🔴‘Peter Mandelson’s Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions’
Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...
