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😉Love Europe, despise the EU, Pro Brexit, Ex NHS Path lab of 40 years. CSci, FIBMS, PPL, Classic British bikes. Yorkshire born/bred. Very ex Conservative
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One Missing Phone. One Very Convenient Gap in the Evidence.
There is an old principle in the law of evidence that individual facts, each innocent in isolation, can combine to form proof. No single thread condemns. But weave enough of them together and the picture becomes impossible to deny. Keir Starmer spent years applying that principle to other people. He is about to have it applied to him.
Morgan McSweeney's phone went missing in October last year, one month after Lord Mandelson was removed from his post as ambassador to Washington, and shortly after Downing Street officials had begun interviewing witnesses as part of an internal inquiry into how that appointment came to be made. The Metropolitan Police, we now learn, closed the investigation without speaking to McSweeney. They had written down the wrong address. The case has since been reopened after a journalist asked the right question.
The phone matters because of what it almost certainly contained. McSweeney and Mandelson were close. McSweeney drove the appointment. The messages between them would have constituted, as lawyers sometimes say, the best evidence: direct, contemporaneous, unmediated by retrospective account. Those messages are gone. This would be less troubling if WhatsApp messages vanished when phones were stolen. They do not. They are stored. They can be recovered. Their disappearance is not a technical inevitability. It is a choice, or a failure, and nobody has yet explained which. One missing phone. One very convenient gap in the evidence.
There is more. McSweeney was bound by guidance requiring him to preserve significant government information onto official systems. The Cabinet Office holds some of his messages. Not all. The remainder have not been accounted for.
Meanwhile the documents that have been released tell their own story. Jonathan Powell, the national security adviser, described the appointment process as weirdly rushed. He had raised concerns about Mandelson's reputation with McSweeney directly, and was told the issues had been addressed. Sir Philip Barton, a senior foreign policy official, raised concerns too. Both men were overridden. The appointment proceeded. Months later Mandelson was sacked, the internal inquiry began, and then, with a timing that strains credulity, the phone disappeared. Then the police misfiled the report and closed the case.
History offers us a word for this kind of sequence. Not conspiracy, which implies coordination and intent that cannot here be proved. The word is omerta: the closing of ranks, the convenient forgetting, the institutional instinct to protect itself from the reckoning it has earned. It does not require a villain. It requires only a culture in which the right questions are not asked, the right addresses are not recorded, and the right messages are not preserved.
Keir Starmer came to office promising a different kind of politics. Transparency. Accountability. The rules applying to everyone. What his government has produced instead is a missing phone, a botched police report, unrecovered backups, a rushed appointment, a severance payment made to stop a disgraced peer talking, and a paper trail with a hole in it exactly where the most important evidence should be.
That is not bad luck. That is a pattern. And patterns, as this Prime Minister knows better than most, are evidence.
"The messages between them would have constituted, as lawyers sometimes say, the best evidence: direct, contemporaneous, unmediated by retrospective account. Those messages are gone."

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These Iranians are Islamophobic.
Ahmad Batebi 🛡️ 🇮🇷 🇺🇸@radiojibi
I'm Persian, I'm NOT a Muslim
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@BasilTheGreat Your king 20 years ago praised Islam.
Your nation is being destroyed by its own government, and the British people do nothing.
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@Skint_Eastwood1 1. He is not British. He is Russian.
2. IDF warned several times to evacuate the area as it is going to be bombed.
3. This "Journalist" (Russia propoganda) has ignored the warnings entirely and came there anyway.
FAFO
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Freedom can also be lost little by little, by what the Fabians call the doctrine of gradualness. A little more taxation here, a little more government expenditure there, year after year until the people are no longer the masters of the state but its servants.
There are always, it seems, good reasons advanced for the state to have more power. But rarely for the state to divest itself of power.
Each new problem becomes an excuse for more government intervention and less individual responsibility.
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“WE HAVE EVERY SINGLE RIGHT TO BE INFURIATED!”
GB News host @MichelleDewbs EXPLODES on her left-leaning guest as he again tried to compare apples and oranges.
As a domestic abuse survivor Michelle sharply put his patronising remarks to shame.
Brilliantly done.
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Starmer is handing Britain to Islamists and extremists. Radicals now pull the strings.
NCF Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo (@RafHM):
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