The Metropolitan Police led Labour grandee Lord Mandelson, a former UK government minister, ambassador, and European Union commissioner away from his London home following alleged revelations about his contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
The former British ambassador to the United States, hand-picked to serve Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government in that role, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The arrest follows alleged revelations in emails published by the U.S. Department of Justice of Mandelson’s communications with now deceased, disgraced, financier and influence peddler Jeffrey Epstein.
Among the emails are what purports to be evidence that Mandelson leaked British government secrets to Epstein. These assertions have not been proven in court and Mandelson denies criminal wrongdoing. The Metropolitan Police announced they were commencing an investigation into the material on February 3rd.
In a statement offering an update on the progress of their investigation into a “former Government Minister”, the force said they’d arrested a 72-year-old man on Monday 23rd, who had been taken to a London police station for interview.
Police said: “This follows search warrants at two addresses in the Wiltshire and Camden areas. We are not able to provide further information at this stage to prevent prejudicing the integrity of the investigation.”
Mandelson was seen being led out of his London home by a police officer and into a waiting car.
The furore surrounding the allegations about Mandelson’s conduct have brought the British government to the brink. Although Mandelson has now resigned from the House of Lords and quit the Labour Party, he has been a major figure in the left-wing party for decades, and said to wield considerable power and influence behind the scenes, and was said to have been active in bringing Prime Minister Starmer to power.
As the United States prepares to go to war with a country that is simultaneously pursuing nuclear weapons, funding terrorism, and whose leaders chant "Death to America," Zohran Mamdani participates in Friday prayers, speaks, and prays as the Imam calls for the congregation to martyr themselves because the Mahdi will help them kill all infidels.
The mosque has been identified as an Iranian front. Nice.
You can't make this up. Here we are, 25 years after 9/11, and the newly-elected mayor of the city is on his knees praying for the destruction of the infidels.
Diversity is, indeed, our strength.
On Oct 9, 2023 — two days after Hamas' Oct 7 massacre in Israel — the Muslim Democratic Club of New York put out a statement blaming Israel for the attack, saying they stood "in solidarity with the besieged Palestinian people"
Today, the founders of this group occupy top posts in City Hall under NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani
New York City has more Jewish residents than any other city in the world, but their population is about to be eclipsed by the number of Muslims who live there, and those Muslims are quite open about their hostility to the Jews and to just about every other non-Muslim around them.
While I reject the term "Islamophobia" to describe people who are skeptical that Muslim values are compatible with Western Civilization—Muslims loudly and proudly declare this themselves—it really would not be irrational to be scared of being surrounded by Muslims. Ask British schoolgirls, who have lived under a reign of terror for decades.
Mamdani mouths all sorts of nonsense about how tolerant he is and how he wants New Yorkers to live in peace and harmony, but everybody he surrounds himself with is a communist who is hostile to America or an Islamist who wants all infidels, or at least all Jews, dead.
I suppose they would let you live if you convert, wear a hijab if you are a woman, and give up your children for marriage to some Imam or another.
One of the biggest mistakes that liberals make is that they assume people from other cultures are just like them because they have not been infected by the white supremacist capitalist values that regressive Americans live by.
While it is true that there are Muslims who have moved to the United States and integrated well enough, the Islamic diaspora residing in the West is dominated by people who have no interest in becoming members of our culture. They intend to dominate us.
No doubt the millions of people who voted for and/or admire Mamdani think of themselves as the good, decent, and tolerant ones, but Mamdani has no illusions about the compatibility of his ideology and religion with American or Western Culture. He is doing the typical "say one thing in English and another in a foreign language" shtick that Ilhan Omar has been playing for years.
Ronald Reagan hit the nail on the head when he said that the problem with liberals isn't that they are ignorant, but that so much of what they "know" simply isn't true.
Liberals are certain that people who tell them basic truths about the world must be evil, because much of what we tell them is so disturbing. They would rather believe that sterilizing and mutilating children is "life saving" than to believe that evil ghouls would harm children so grievously.
They would rather believe that sitting children on the laps of mentally ill men in dresses is teaching tolerance than to believe that teachers and librarians are giving degenerates access to children.
And they would rather believe that "diversity is our strength" than to believe that their political leaders have opened the borders of their country to people determined to conquer it.
Liberals will believe any bad thing about conservatives, but assume the best of MS-13 gang members. They will put their bodies on the line for actual pedophiles because they believe that America is on stolen land and systemically racist.
I genuinely believe that there are plenty of Muslims who present no danger to American or Western societies, but I know beyond doubt that Islam, and hence a large fraction of Muslims, are an existential threat to our societies. Many of them will say so outright, and many others sit in Mosques while listening to Imams instructing them to kill infidels.
Zohran Mamdani is such a man. And he is the mayor of one of the greatest cities in the world.
It took only 25 years for New York City to go from being the victim of Islamists committing the worst terrorist attack on American soil in history to being governed by an Islamist who prays in a Mosque as an Imam talks about killing the infidels.
This is a product of decades of propaganda forced upon us by the transnational elite. George Bush spent his time in office talking about the "religion of peace," and ever since we have been lectured to about Islamophobia.
Tell us you don't know anything about how DOGE works without telling us you don't know anything bout how DOGE works, Jessica.
We simply do not get why so many people are angry at Kash Patel for celebrating with the USA Hockey Team yesterday after they whooped Canada. It's not as if he jumped on a private plane and flew overseas just to watch the game ...
Maybe they don't understand that since they're used to Democrats flying and doing fun things on our dollars. Remember when Senator Chris Van Hollen flew to El Salvador on the taxpayers' dollars and had margaritas with that wife-beating illegal?
Gosh, we don't see Tarlov complaining about that.
Wonder why.
But it's different when Democrats do it. Man, we feel like we write that phrase a lot. Which SAYS a lot ...
Thousands of people on X were willing to say more ... they didn't bite their tongue, so no worries.
They really don't; let's hear it for job security here at Twitchy!
There were some deeply dramatic issues emerging last week involving the effects of the fuel embargo on Cuba, entities moving out of blue states, and the courts ruling against President Trump’s tariff efforts. But all of that was largely ignored by our friends in the press - Stephen Colbert was mad!!!
The media was rather consumed with the case of “The Late Show” pulling the interview with Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico (TX) as the host claimed he was supposedly being canceled. Again. But then, as always, the facts arrived and disrupted the manufactured outrage. Ah, well, it gave them a couple of days to trash the president again, so all was good!
All of that was swirling against the backdrop of the Olympics, where Team USA was having a great tournament – and upsetting the press in the process. So it is time to tug on the hip waders and the swamp of news outlets this past week.
THE CONTENDERS
(dis)Honorable Mention: Huffington Post – After the big Olympics by Team USA, HuffPo came out with an acidic feature on being depressed about being an American. Behold the tens of thousands who lit them up over this anti-jingoism attempt.
MS NOW – In covering Colbert, Jen Psaki accurately read the statement from NBC that the show’s producers pulled the Talarico interview – then went on to claim President Trump forced them to do it baselessly. Ken Dilanian and Carol Leonnig reported that Kash Patel flew to Italy on the FBI jet just to watch hockey and ignored the FBI providing his schedule of meetings in Milan before publishing. Joe Scarborough tried to equate the Talarico Equal Time controversy to conservatives complaining when it was applied to talk radio, when that had actually been about the Fairness Doctrine. Lawrence O’Donnell was there to give James Talarico airtime in his incessant media tour about being silenced, then Larry stated that CBS making this move constitutes a bribe, and Trump should be impeached. Amazing.
Several states in Mexico, including tourist locale Puerto Vallarta, burned over the weekend after the death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as El Mencho, the head of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG). CJNG set fire to a Costco, cars, and other things in retaliation for the death of El Mencho.
Tourists and residents were urged to shelter in place while CJNG threatened to go door-to-door to kill innocent civilians. Thankfully, that threat didn't come to fruition, but people are scared. Major airlines have canceled flights in and out of parts of the country (those may resume today or tomorrow), so the terror is real and understandable. But check out how The Daily Mail framed the concerns of these tourists:
Seriously? They're not "spoiled," and they're not complaining about being "stuck" at resorts — they're worried they might die in the cartel violence.
El Mencho was the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels that plays a key role in trafficking methamphetamine and fentanyl to the US.
But as violence gripped the region, influencers took to social media to bemoan how they were stuck in the tourist hotspot.
'We were supposed to leave this morning, and right as our shuttle came, our shuttle never showed up because they could not leave the airport due to a shutdown, due to cartel retaliation,' makeup artist and mom influencer Kaila R Gibson shared in a video on Instagram.
'So I really want to cry, I miss my baby,' she continued. 'It's really scary, honestly. I have no idea how long we're going to be here for. And it's just quite terrifying.'
'So if you could pray, I would super appreciate that - and pray for all the other girls that are also stuck here,' she told her 275,000 followers.
In a follow-up post, she added that she is also 'so sad for the families here as well.'
'I've never felt unsafe here because the cartel stays out of the tourist areas,' she said.
Still, Gibson said she was 'praying we make it home to our babies soon and the people here are safe.'
As a mom, this writer relates to missing her child, especially when there's a risk you might not make it home alive. But asking for prayers and pointing out that you're unable to leave because cartels set up roadblocks isn't "spoiled."
Same mentality.
That, too.
They will not delete this, of course.
They sure are.
They will not be fired, sadly.
In fairness, the Daily Mail is based in the U.K., where being "racist" is a worse crime than being raped or murdered. So this tracks.
