Marcus Rowswell⚒

Another great masterclass in interviewing from Andrew Neil and this time he destroys Angela Rayner piece by piece until she’s a blithering idiot drowning in her own sweat and flawed arguments. Enjoy a top inquisitor play with his prey, it’s cruel but so fun to watch. 👏👍🤣

Which of West Ham's current loan players would you genuinely want back in our squad for next season?

Keir Starmer was warned that Peter Mandelson posed a ‘reputational risk’ before appointing him as ambassador to the US in an official ‘due diligence’ document drawn up in Dec 2024. The dossier includes a link to a Telegraph story from Jan 2024 that detailed the links ‘extensively’. It notes that Mandelson’s relationship with Epstein was a ‘general reputational risk’. Even Jonathan Powell, the national security adviser and a Blairite who might have been thought sympathetic to Mandelson, saw it as a ‘weirdly rushed’ process for appointing Mandelson. There were objections from Philip Barton, the most senior civil servant at the Foreign Office. Yet Starmer appointed Mandelson as US ambassador at the end of 2024 despite knowing that he had maintained numerous ties with Epstein after the financier was convicted of child sex offences. The PM has nobody to blame but himself.