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Prince of Darkness, King of the Shuck.

Jock Mulligan on Mandelson. The long and the winding road of Peter Mandelson’s political career has reached a bitter and a shameful end. At fughing last. For a man who twice walked away from the high table with the whiff of the backstairs deal hanging about him, these new tales from the Epstein papers have […]

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Indybag- The Red Tories’ New Wedge: Sarwar, Starmer, Mandelson and the Ghost of 2017

​I’ve sat in draughty community halls from Easterhouse to Maryhill for thirty years, and I’ve seen some shit in my time. I’ve seen the “vanguard” cults try to hijack local strikes and the middle-class “missionaries” come into our schemes to lecture us on solidarity before jumping into a taxi back to their Bearsden bungalows and […]