Tory peer to leave Lords after investigation finds he breached standards over Covid PPE deals
Lord Chadlington introduced government to company in which he had financial interest in 2020
Tory peerβs crony VIP lane company received Β£24m from taxpayers for unusable anti-Covid gear.
The company goes bust owing the same taxpayers Β£1.1m.
He should be in the Tower.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
07.03.2026 08:46
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Dubai Influencers vs Iran
YouTube video by The Rest Is Entertainment
Yep, many are state-regulated tax-free subsidised scammers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtir...
05.03.2026 11:20
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Do social media "influencers" enjoy cut-price, free or paid trips to Dubai in return for positive posts?
Just wondering.
05.03.2026 09:53
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Episode 27: This Is Not Winston Churchill We're Dealing With!
YouTube video by Pierce vs Maguire
Trump is no Washington, Lincoln, FDR or Obama but he is a Nixon.
Starmer not joining Trump attacking Iran is discussed in the latest very lively β¦βͺPierce Vs Maguireβ¬β©.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziBh...
04.03.2026 09:39
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MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up
Documentary reveals evidence confirming a British spyβs role in restoring the Shah in 1953 β and how the Observer exposed the plot
Churchill oversaw a 1953 coup that replaced Iran's first democratic leader Mohammad Mossadegh with an autocratic Shah so Britain could grab the country's oil.
Trump is clueless about history but on Iran I'm relieved Starmer is no Churchill.
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/a...
04.03.2026 08:20
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US-Israeli first strikes against Iran.
Against: Starmer, Davey & Polanksi
For: Farage & Badenoch.
UK Left(Lab, Lib Dem, Green)-Right(Con, Reform) split.
02.03.2026 18:23
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Plastic patriot tax exiles who fled to Gulf states to avoid paying their fair share back home should be charged the full whack if repatriated by the UK Government.
01.03.2026 17:50
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Trump wants Iranβs oil just as he did Venezuelaβs in another imperial grab.
The US President hailing Putin, Mohammed bin Salman and his oppression in America show the attacks arenβt about human rights.
Letβs not mourn a dead Ayatollah but fear what comes next for Iranians.
01.03.2026 08:15
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Trump now leading the war, breaking international law with his aggression just as he breaks the law in the US launching war on Americans.
28.02.2026 07:53
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Episode 26. No Tradesman's Entrance For MP Hannah
YouTube video by Pierce vs Maguire
Political earthquake special Pierce Vs Maguire after Gorton and Denton.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HreG...
27.02.2026 16:57
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'Royals enabled Andrew with blind eyes and deaf ears - but it won't wash'
"Everybody else long ago concluded that the eighth in line to the throne was a bad βun, yet a privileged family continued housing and financing their son, brother and uncle"
Bit not said out loud is preparations are starting for a state funeral and coronation in, I'm told, 12 months.
No wonder William Mountbatten-Windsor isn't calm when he faces Qs about what he knew about Uncle Andrew and could soon inherit this crisis.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/...
23.02.2026 07:56
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What drives Gordon Brown?
The elder statesman could be enjoying a lucrative semi-retirement on the speaking circuit. Instead, he's campaigning for the downtrodden
What drives Gordon Brown?
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson are the latest to feel the fury of a son of the manse and ex-PM still fighting for social justice.
Me for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
22.02.2026 07:36
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I bet Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is sweating now.
19.02.2026 10:50
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Starmer abandons plans to delay local elections in England in latest U-turn
PM under fire from his own MPs and opposition leaders after ditching plan to postpone elections for 30 councils
Why is this expensive centralisation going ahead anyway, distancing services from local people?
Elections in even zombie councils should never be halted but Reform MPs - including Jenrick and Braverman - were in a Con Govt that scrapped some in 2021.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
17.02.2026 08:12
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RIP Chris Boffey, a brilliant old school Fleet Street journalist and raconteur who entertained many a pub with his doorstepping stories.
Always had a wry greeting when you met him.
14.02.2026 14:54
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Episode 24. Will Andrew Be Turned In By The King?
YouTube video by Pierce vs Maguire
Why the Princes of Darkness could bring down a King and a Prime Minister.
Here's the latest Pierce Vs Maguire podcast.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCRs...
12.02.2026 08:53
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What Gordon Brown told me about Mandelson
Also this week: crumpets for John Major, and the hypocrisy of Nadine Dorries
When Brown blamed me(jokingly, I hope) for putting Mandelson in the cabinet and a Reform Brextremist is applying for an Irish passport.
I've written this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social tesman diary.
www.newstatesman.com/diary/2026/0...
12.02.2026 08:11
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Keir Starmer doing relatively well at PMQs in the circs, showing fight and resilience.
Badly might've been curtains yet better is only a reprieve when fundamentals don't change.
The "gullibility" jibe from SNP's Stephen Flynn over Mandelson and Doyle smashed the defence.
11.02.2026 12:30
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Gordon Brown deflected personal criticism of Keir Starmer over Peter Mandelson but simultaneously made his successor as a Labour PM sound much smaller.
07.02.2026 08:27
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Tough on(alleged) crime, tough on the causes of(alleged) crime
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
06.02.2026 17:03
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