Penny Stuart
Centre left politics junkie, polite but quietly furious. RTs are not endorsements.
Same handles on 🐘 and X.
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- 6th February 2026 10.26
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- Yes, quite. It's the biggest scandal of this administration, so far, probably. It's an average Tuesday under Johnson.
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- It must be rather enjoyable as a journalist for you to be one of the few people who knows how many more grenades you have to throw
- EXCLUSIVE: Peter Mandelson sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up his advisory firm, Global Counsel, including how to target potential new clients such as the Chinese government. www.ft.com/content/13d2...
- it's really not over yet
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- Yes so the UK retains a strong modicum of belief in public service and the norms / rules related to that. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but still important and better.
- This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..
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- I'M WRITING THIS FAIRLY BIG BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE HARD OF HEARING.
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- Officially, Boris Johnson was brought down by Chris Pincher. In reality, it was PartyGate and utter moral failure of his project. Officially Keir Starmer will be brought down by Mandelson. But he'd survive this easily if his project hadn't been so piss-weak, disappointing, and morally spineless.
- I think what distresses me the most about the Epstein files - apart of course from the exploitation of scores of young women and girls - is just how *basic* all these powerful people are. Sex and power. Like cavemen but with smartphones.
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- You can't shine shit. Not even if you coat it in gold. It's still a piece of shit.
- The ‘worst political scandal of this century’ is quite the claim. In my usual helpful manner, I shall help to explain why I think this is very possibly true via the media of synecdoche and the proverbial sausage.
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- The idea the enquiry will stop at the very particular circumstances around this one specific situation is very naive (though that will be the plan). I suspect that in fact there’ll be an investigation of the entire sausage supply chain, from hoof to mouth, and that will not go well at all. /ends
- McSweeney surely finished. Starmer’s fate, now in serious doubt, now essentially in the hands of the ISC and what is in those documents.
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- If there is any variance, vetting assessment was damaging/critical, hard to see a way out. If so, Rayner now perfectly positioned to succeed.
- Must admit, I’m not seeing loads of evidence of Morgan McSweeney being a master strategist atm
- Here we go. Here’s our Lloyd.
- In our exc tonight - How cabinet minsters viewed govt amendment as a mistake How Angela Rayner brokered the deal to save government from defeat - again “If Ange ran tonight she’d get the numbers,” says one MP.
- Our story tonight “We need all the poison to come out.” Labour MPs have warned that Keir Starmer’s days as prime minister are numbered after a day of fury over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador despite his friendship with Jeffery Epstein. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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- The hometown newspaper that I read as a teenager through Watergate and Vietnam and made me crave the life of a reporter is now being butchered by a billionaire who had $75 million to bribe and flatter a president and his wife but nothing to save journalism, an bulwark of the republic itself. Got it.
- Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".
- “Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.” People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence. Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
