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@iampeterkelly There is an app called Too Good To Go that might help you out. Food retailers like M&S and Greggs sell "Magic Bags", it's food nearing it's sell by date that might get thrown out at the end of the day. They sell for about £2/3/4. Can place an order and collect at a set time.

The Undeclared Meeting. The Shared Client. The £750 Million Contract There is a moment in this affair when the accumulating details stop looking like coincidence and start looking like something else entirely. Sunday's revelation about the Palantir meeting may be that moment. On February 27 2025, Keir Starmer and Peter Mandelson visited Palantir's headquarters in Washington. Eleven defence personnel attended alongside Britain's defence attaché to the United States. A presentation was given. A tour followed. The Ministry of Defence described it as a meeting. Downing Street says it was not a meeting and therefore required no declaration under the ministerial code. Both positions are on the public record and only one of them can be accurate. The meeting was not logged in Starmer's transparency returns, while other engagements from the same trip were. Breaking the ministerial code is widely regarded as a resignation offence. Set aside the semantic argument about what constitutes a meeting. Focus on what was present in that room. Starmer. Mandelson. Defence officials. And the executives of a technology company that was, at the time, a registered client of Global Counsel, the lobbying firm Mandelson co-founded and in which he held a 24 percent stake while serving as Britain's ambassador to the United States. Global Counsel had been hired by Palantir in 2018 specifically to help procure UK government contracts. Mandelson retained his shareholding when appointed ambassador. The connection between Global Counsel and Palantir was reportedly absent from his vetting. Later in 2025, Palantir won a five year £750 million contract with the Ministry of Defence. Its MoD contract had already tripled in size without due process or competition. Palantir also holds a £330 million NHS contract and a total of 34 contracts with public sector bodies. The question Alex Burghart has put publicly is the right one. Who arranged the meeting, what was discussed, and what did Global Counsel's client stand to gain? A third question deserves equal prominence. Did Starmer know, when he visited Palantir's headquarters with Mandelson at his side, that Palantir was a registered client of the firm in which his ambassador held a substantial financial interest? Downing Street has declined to confirm whether Mandelson was directly involved in arranging the visit. The government says there are robust processes in place to ensure contracts are awarded fairly. Palantir says its latest MoD contract was first discussed before Mandelson became ambassador and signed more than three months after he was sacked. Both statements may be technically accurate. Neither addresses the central problem. A British ambassador with a direct financial interest in a lobbying firm facilitated a meeting between the Prime Minister and that firm's defence contractor client. The meeting was not declared. No minutes were taken. The contractor subsequently won a contract worth three quarters of a billion pounds. Each element of that sequence has an innocent explanation available to it. The combination does not. A man whose financial interests were supposed to be held in a blind trust while he served as the Crown's representative in Washington was present at an undeclared meeting between his Prime Minister and his lobbying firm's most significant defence client. Whether that constitutes a conflict of interest is not a complicated question. Whether it constitutes something worse is now a matter for Scotland Yard, which has been asked to widen its investigation into Mandelson to include the Palantir meeting. Starmer is already facing a privileges committee referral for misleading Parliament. His own Cabinet Office chief has contradicted his account of the vetting process. A senior government source says the wheels have stopped turning. The Palantir meeting was not declared. The contract was awarded. The question of who benefited and who knew is not going away.

@M8rkmywords @AFin26UK @rossmacleodputt The North East is one of best places for great golf on a budget.

@AFin26UK @Dougie__Rae @rossmacleodputt Came here to comment on Dunstanburgh, Bamburgh etc definitely worth a visit and much better value than other areas

UK green fees continue to sky rocket The course I learned to play on is still under £100 Tain GC, in the highlands just a few miles from Dornoch I get people want to play the biggest names but unfortunately they’re pricing out most golfers Maybe we could be finding, sharing and promoting the few that are still reasonably priced? Feel free to comment any courses in UK you think are good value…

@rossmacleodputt 1 & 18 are a bit plain, but once you are up and into the dunes its outstanding.

@Dougie__Rae Never played Fraserburgh but would like to. It’s quite good the Braids thing. Especially as he did so many courses!

@AFin26UK @rossmacleodputt It was nice to see it get in the Top 100 for courses under £75

@Dougie__Rae @rossmacleodputt Honestly I’d be amazed if there’s a better value golf course in the entire British Isles

@rossmacleodputt @AFin26UK Used to be a member at Dunstanburgh and its outstanding. Think its only £38.50 for a weekend round 😲. Foxton is quite good and so is Seahouses once you get along the coast holes.

@AFin26UK Noted for future trips. I’d go to that area again definitely 👍

@Top100Rick I hosted an American last year. Was over for 3 weeks. He posted in a facebook group for Scottish Golf Courses asking for advice on where to play and ended up with umpteen offers for sign on's. A lot of top end courses too. He was playing two rounds a day.

@Dougie__Rae Yes reciprocal and member play is wonderful!

UK golf pricing has gone insane! How long can this go on? When the USA has a real recession, it will have a profound effect on these clubs. I’m not sure golf courses, USA or Uk, are prepared for the bad times that eventually will happen. After a boom, comes a bust.

@jamierkennedy Golf in Scotland run a Turnberry Twos event there, few weekends a year. Round on each course and an over night stay at the hotel/Lodge for just over £500. Ways to play it for cheaper.

What are we doing.....

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Lord Hermer is not fit to oversee Labour’s Troubles bill after his “betrayal” of British troops, former SAS leaders have claimed. The Attorney General is facing calls to resign as the UK’s top lawyer after The Telegraph exposed his role in one of the most notorious witch hunts in British military history. Lord Hermer, a close political ally of Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, is now working alongside ministers on the Government’s new Northern Ireland bill, which will scrap immunity protections for veterans facing court hearings over incidents during the Troubles. Labour claimed the immunities given as part of the Tories’ previous Legacy Act, which Sir Keir scrapped, were “incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights” because it could prevent rights violations from being properly investigated. Former military chiefs, however, have repeatedly warned that the new law, which as Attorney General Lord Hermer has a close role in overseeing, would open up a Pandora’s box of legal claims and risks elderly veterans being dragged through the courts. Two former SAS commanders have criticised the situation, insisting Lord Hermer must quit, while Sir David Davis, a Tory MP and former SAS reservist, said the Attorney General should step away from dealing with the Troubles bill. Full story: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/2…

@Top100Rick If you are near Stirling and fancy a round let me know.

Soon I will be back to Scotland. If you are a follower from Scotland, DM me and I’ll try to meet up and/or golf!

A good friend of mine is playing golf in Scotland for the first time. He just sent me this text. 😍 He’s a great player, member of a great club, played tons of USA T100’s. And yet after just 2 days he has seen the light. He gets it. He now sees what golf can be. If you haven’t been, book that trip to Scotland!

@jamierkennedy Just won a 4 ball for there. Looking forward to playing it.

The 13th hole at Cullen.

@PL_RETRO_25 1&4 👌🏻

Alright — what’s it gonna be? Each concept’s got a number. Comment your favourite 👇 Top TWO go into production.

@thinkdefence Cracking couple golf courses

Selling off RAF Macrahanish was really rather misguided wasn't it

@theiaincameron I went to Stenhousemuir primary and a girl in my class won a competition to name a new bar, she called it Gorgo 🧐

Those of a certain age in Scotland will need no introduction to McCowan's Highland Toffee. The reassuring sight of the Hielan coo on yer play-piece* meant assured tastiness. But, the bovine symbolism of McCowan's was not accidental. In fact, it was historic acknowledgement. 1. * Highland cow on your playtime snack

@ryancavengolf Stirling GC

Tell me your home club in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I will Photograph it this year. #golf #scotland

@Heritagecricket @RoyalAberdeenPS @Crudenbaygolf @TrumpScotland Fraserburgh is outstanding, 1st and 18th are a bit 🤷🏼‍♂️but once your up into the dunes its amazing. £45 on James Braid is an absolute steal. Trump is great, Old over the New for me but both are superb. Peterhead/Stonehaven are good. Even try Balnagask, great value council course.

Likely to be in the Aberdeen area for Easter, where should I go play? Royal Aberdeen? Cruden Bay? Trump Int? Murcar? Fraserburgh? @RoyalAberdeenPS @Crudenbaygolf @TrumpScotland

@Heritagecricket @CrailGolf Playing the Open in August, looking forward to it.

First post work 9 holes of the year, stunning evening at @CrailGolf and course in magnificent condition heading into spring! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⛳️

To celebrate shipping our 1,000th putter at @HannaGolfCo, we are doing a giveaway. How to enter: • Retweet this tweet • Fill out the form in the next tweet There is a catch: It's a blind giveaway. It's a prototype. You will get it before we even release it on our website. But we aren't sharing what the putter model is. Here is what we are sharing. • Aged copper plate finish • Can select length • Can select lie angle • Can select sight line • Can select paint fill color • Can select black or chrome shaft • Can pick the initials you want milled It's a custom prototype putter. You just don't know what it looks like. We will be releasing this putter in April or May (not the same model we are posting about tomorrow). I love this putter. We had a DI team in the shop, and half the guys got this putter.

@parandpaddock Old Course 🧐😒

We have undertaken some analysis of what we think are the top 20 courses in the world, based on green complexes, course design, routing and topography of natural land. Here is our list: 1.Cypress Point (USA) — Alister MacKenzie & Robert Hunter 2.Royal County Down (Northern Ireland) — Origins: George Baillie; key shaping: Old Tom Morris / Harry Colt among others 3.Pine Valley (USA) — George Arthur Crump 4.St Andrews (Old Course) (Scotland) — Evolved over centuries (no single architect) 5.Shinnecock Hills (USA) — William S. Flynn (major championship-era form) 6.Royal Melbourne (West) (Australia) — Alister MacKenzie with major build influence from Alex Russell 7.Muirfield (Scotland) — Old Tom Morris (original layout credit commonly cited) 8.Augusta National (USA) — Alister MacKenzie & Bobby Jones 9.Sand Hills (USA) — Coore & Crenshaw 1 0.Royal Portrush (Dunluce) (Northern Ireland) — Harry Colt; later major work led by Martin Ebert 11.Kingston Heath (Australia) — Dan Soutar (original), later MacKenzie influence 12.Cape Kidnappers (New Zealand) — Tom Doak 13.Turnberry (Ailsa) (Scotland) — Willie Fernie; post-war redesign Philip Mackenzie Ross 14.Riviera Country Club (USA) — George C. Thomas Jr. & William P. Bell 15.National Golf Links of America (USA) — C.B. Macdonald (with Seth Raynor’s construction/engineering role) 16.Pebble Beach (USA) — Jack Neville & Douglas Grant 17.Royal Dornoch (Scotland) — Old Tom Morris (key 1886 expansion/lay-out), shaped by the club thereafter 18.Ballybunion (Old) (Ireland) — James McKenna (early credit), shaped significantly later 19.Valderrama (Spain) — Robert Trent Jones Sr. 20.Royal Troon (Old) (Scotland) — Willie Fernie (major influence), with other historic inputs often cited What your thoughts??