Disgraced former minister, peer and key Starmer adviser Peter Mandelson has tried to exploit editors’ code clauses usually reserved for grieving families to demand freedom from media scrutiny over his ardent relationship with serial child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein. It hasn’t worked out too well.

Mandelson told a representative to contact mainstream press pseudo-regulator IPSO invoking clauses in its editors’ code intended to protect grieving families and other vulnerable people from harassment by pushy reporters. And he tried to keep it secret, marking it “strictly not for publication”. But it came out anyway, after the National saw the public interest in publishing it. The notice was not sent to Skwawkbox or the Canary, which are properly regulated — and not by IPSO — so there are no issues with publishing it here.

Read IPSO’s communication to ‘mainstream’ editors on Mandelson’s demand in full below:

CONFIDENTIAL – STRICTLY NOT FOR PUBLICATION: Ipso has asked us to circulate the following advisory:

Ipso has today been contacted by a representative acting on behalf of Peter Mandelson.

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Mr Mandelson’s representatives state that he does not wish to speak to the media at this time. He requests that the press do not take photos or film, approach, or contact him via phone, email, or in-person. His representatives ask that any requests for his comment are directed to [REDACTED]

We are happy to make editors aware of his request. We note the terms of Clause 2 (Privacy) and 3 (Harassment) of the Editors’ Code, and in particular that Clause 3 states that journalists must not persist in questioning, telephoning, pursuing or photographing individuals once asked to desist, unless justified in the public interest.

Please do not hesitate to contact me to discuss any Code issues on [REDACTED] or out of hours on [REDACTED].

If this cowardly ‘hide behind the vulnerable’ tactic looks familiar, it’s because it is. Yesterday, Keir Starmer hid behind Epstein’s victims to avoid disclosing documents showing just how much he knew (lots) about Mandelson’s closeness to Epstein, Mandelson’s insider trading with the paedophile and his leaking of sensitive government information.

Mandelson has mentored both Keir Starmer and Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney. It shows. On Friday, 6 February, Mandelson’s properties were raided by police investigating his actions. If there’s any justice, the same will soon be true of his two protégés.

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Well, Nigel Farage has officially lost the plot. The Reform UK leader has just revealed that Jeremy Kyle – the poverty-porn mogul – has a secret role within the party. Hilariously, he’s media training Reform’s candidates.

Jeremy Kyle lol, one of the most hated TV presenters of all time.

Well, expect reform politicians to bully their opponents until they top themselves. pic.twitter.com/apaxqRVLzL

— Inevitable Pinky 🐡🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇬🇱🇪🇺 (@BpdLion) February 5, 2026

Jeremy Kyle: a legacy of exploitation

Jeremy Kyle spent a ridiculous 14 years shouting through our TV screens. He put vulnerable people on show for the world to see, and he laughed at them.

ITV finally took The Jeremy Kyle Show off air in 2019 when Steve Dymond took his own life after failing a lie detector test. Kyle’s legacy is one of cruelty and death.

Never forget: Jeremy Kyle built his career on screaming at vulnerable people, getting addicts drunk, parading them in front of a jeering audience, then hiding behind a lie detector. Some of those people took their own lives. To describe him as despicable doesn’t even cover it. pic.twitter.com/Rew922MCez

— Vit (@vitt2tsnoc) October 8, 2025

A full eighteen years ago, a judge described the show as ‘human bear-baiting’ after a violent incident unfolded on the show. Kyle built his empire by kicking down on people who are on a low income; people who are suffering with addiction, and people facing mental health crises.

Yep, sounds like the right man to help Reform reclaim the UK:

This footage of The Jeremy Kyle Show is a stark reminder of how he ruthlessly exploited vulnerable people for ratings. It highlights just how irresponsible and cruel his approach was. Good riddance to this kind of ‘poverty porn’pic.twitter.com/l9Jy4UWxCs

— Charlie Watts (@char1iewatts) September 5, 2024

Reform’s a magnet for scandal, just like his show

Jeremy Kyle seems to fit right in with a party surrounded by scandals. It seems like Reform UK have an issue with having to drop candidates for shitty behaviour:

Can you see a pattern here? Kyle fits right in, it seems:

🚨Jeremy Kyle is FURIOUS with how illegal immigrants are treated better than the British people 🇬🇧

“I don’t care if they get rid of me for saying this”

Everybody HAS HAD ENOUGH of free loading fake asylum seekers who are put before us at every turn ⚠️ pic.twitter.com/9Gee97h7hI

— BRITAIN IS BROKEN 🇬🇧 (@BROKENBRITAIN0) January 26, 2026

The perfect home for Kyle

The right-wing Talk TV helped Jeremy Kyle reboot his career. The channel performs a similar function to GB News, which Reform UK are intimately entwined with:

As usual with @Nigel_Farage when he’s told he must fall in line he falls in line.

On his GB News show two nights ago he continued to spread the unfounded and frankly ludicrous theory that Epstein was a Russian agent all along.

This is how controlled opposition operations work. pic.twitter.com/wg5bLdV5We

— Wolf 🐺 (@WorldByWolf) February 6, 2026

Ladies and gentlemen.
I present to you:
Mr Lee Anderson MP dressed up as a warlock, bleeding from his head, making serious political comment on GB News.
I feel as though I need say no more…
😬 pic.twitter.com/j50jH5ddmr

— Sir Michael Take CBE (@MichaelTakeMP) November 1, 2025

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Bringing Kyle into the fold is a transparent attempt to woo the demographic he spent over a decade mocking. They assume our memories are that short.

If Reform UK wants voters to take them seriously, hiring the king of poverty-porn is a fucking funny way to show it.

Do we really want the man who monetised human misery to be training what could be our future MPs?

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The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) has posted a peer-reviewed study which shows a ‘dramatic escalation’ in the Jewish Chronicle (JC) crying antisemitism. The JC is a right-wing British newspaper with a history of having to make public retractions. Now, the ELSC have shown that the JC alleges antisemitism more often today than it did in 1938 (i.e. during the era of Nazi Germany).

These findings confirm widespread views that the JC uses the very real trauma of antisemitism to shield Israel. Furthermore, the findings provide evidence of how the hostile state and its Zionist supporters operate. They’re using false antisemitism accusations to shut down the global protests supporting Palestinian liberation.

This is hardly a surprise. Obviously the Zionists and their colonialist buddies would want to use the victim-card to deflect from Israel’s genocide. And the more war crimes Israel commits, the more they have to double down on the smears.

Our upcoming Britain Index of Repression documents the resulting patterns of repression across all sectors of society, revealing the institutionalised criminalisation of Palestine solidarity.

The consequences are real: careers derailed, students investigated, people referred to… pic.twitter.com/zoATHq5DqR

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— European Legal Support Center (ELSC) (@elsclegal) February 5, 2026

The ELSC will release the full report on 26 February.

Jewish Chronicle — ‘Zionist notion of antisemitism’

The ELSC’s analysis covered 100-years of the JC‘s output. The hate-rag is well known for churning out potentially career-ending allegations against activists, politicians, creatives, and other professionals. The ELSC concluded that the Jewish Chronicle deliberately uses a ‘Zionist notion of antisemitism’ to stir up a moral panic intent on diminishing solidarity with Palestinians. As a result, the ELSC have concluded that the pro-Israel paper plays an active role in the UK in working to repress support for Palestine liberation.

Below are just a couple of the pages showing findings of the peer-reviewed analysis by Professor Neve Gordon:

Michael Rosen, the beloved Jewish author and poet, has often spoken out against the alleged antisemitism crisis created by Zionists. Pointing to the Labour Party, Rosen recently stated:

At the height of the claim that the Labour Party was riven with antisemitism and/or institutionally antisemitic, I pursued a theory as follows: ‘If people are combatting antisemitism only in the Labour Party and not in the Tory Party, they’re not combatting antisemitism, they’re combatting the Labour Party’.

To expand that slightly, I was in effect saying that it’s hard to take such people’s definition of antisemitism seriously if it’s only directed at people in one organisation.

Rosen further added:

Could it be, I wonder, that my theory – as expressed above – could in any way be possibly slightly true? Could it be that some kind of double standard or two-tier policing of antisemitism had been and perhaps still is in place?

False victimisation: real abuse against Palestinians

The Zionist fury over the recent Fitton 6 acquittal underscores how Israel’s protection drives these allegations. The defendants faced trial for their anti-genocide efforts as part of now-proscribed Palestine Action, a non-violent direct-action group. Nevertheless, the trial and subsequent acquittal by jury has led to yet more allegations of antisemitism. Seemingly, the intent now is to label the UK’s criminal justice system as ‘antisemitic’. Our own Skwawkbox wrote:

Of course we must never forget that Israel and its lobby are always the victim. Even when they’re slaughtering innocent Palestinians and making up bollocks in court to imprison people trying to stop them.

We all know the story of the “boy who cried wolf”. It’s crucial that allegations of antisemitism come from genuine instances, or we risk exposing Jews to a backlash from people who equate Judaism with Zionism.

As we’ve reported, such a backlash is already happening within the American right. Over there, prominent figures like Nick Fuentes openly arguing that Israel has made a mockery of America, and that the correct response to this is antisemitism. We can’t let such bigotry fester over here.

It’s also crucial that Muslims and others are able to speak freely of their support for Palestine without fear of being harassed by the media.

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Political prisoner Umer Khalid, one of 24 ‘Filton 24’ prisoners jailed for up to 19 months and counting for opposing genocide, ended his hunger strike last month. His decision came after prison authorities agreed to review the punitive conditions in which he is being held. These included banning his religious observance and restricting visits.

But his family say little or nothing has changed and they’re still being blocked from seeing him. In fact, it’s worse than before as he’s now deprived of meetings with his lawyer.

Umer Khalid: desperate situation

In a statement, they asked supporters not to call or visit the prison or risk anything outside “formal routes” that his family is pursuing. However, they say they can no longer remain silent over Umer Khalid’s situation as they are “terrified for [his] life”:

For now, we please request that nobody calls into the prison, tries to locate Umer, or escalates this beyond the formal routes being followed by Umer’s legal team. Updates with actions you can take will follow as they are received.

We’ve stayed silent long enough, but now I’m terrified for my son’s life. My son has been on remand for seven months. During this time, we have had daily contact. After a 17-day hunger strike and four days without water, he was hospitalised on Monday, 26 January.

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Since then, the prison has kept him incommunicado. We have had zero contact for over 10 days now. They are blocking him from his family and, alarmingly, from his solicitor.

A mother should not have to wonder whether her son is alive or dead while he is in state care. Access to his solicitor and contact with his family are basic human rights — especially during a medical crisis. We are demanding answers and the right to hear his voice. Please share this and amplify our voices. We cannot let him be forgotten in that hospital bed.

The Starmer regime’s political persecution of the Filton humanitarians has been further exposed and disgraced recently by the refusal of a jury to convict the first six to go on trial on any of the trumped-up charges against them. The trial exposed the lies of the state and of arms manufacturer Elbit to smear and criminalise them.

Yet despite this, the regime continues to hold the others – and even one of those acquitted – in prison without trial. This is as clear a case as could be of ‘making the process the punishment’ and Starmer wants to end jury trials to withhold justice. All of this is to protect Israel and its ethno-fascist genocide.

Enough is enough. It’s long past time for Starmer’s authoritarianism and collaboration in genocide to end. He and his cronies are the ones who should be behind bars.

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Keen to divert attention away from the fact he’s a massive fucking pedo, Donald Trump announced a new drugs initiative yesterday. TrumpRx will apparently give users “the world’s lowest prices on prescription drugs”. However, as with most of the pervert in chief’s plans, this will benefit very few average Americans.

TrumpRx is too good to be true

TrumpRx is a direct-to-consumer marketplace that gives discounted drug prices direct from manufacturers. This is done using Most Favoured Nation pricing. This basically ensures a consumer gets the product at the lowest possible price in other countries. Customers get a coupon card which they can take to participating pharmacies.

The prices listed for drugs are, by all accounts, huge discounts, anything from 33-93% off. But as a British person, it also brings into stark focus just how much disabled Americans are expected to pay per month for vital medication. What do you fucking mean it’s five hundred dollars a month for an asthma inhaler?!

There is, however, of course, a catch. The discounted drugs can only be purchased in cash. This means only those who can afford to buy the medication in the first place can access it. Most sick and disabled citizens rely on health insurance or government schemes such as Medicaid to afford their sky-high medication.

It’s also not clear yet whether buying these drugs in cash will count towards health insurance deductibles in the way that traditional prescribing will. Which means patients could be shelling out what they think is a lower price every month, whilst facing higher-than-usual insurance bills.

This means that, once again, while Trump is appearing to help all Americans, he’s only serving the wealthy few.

Trump stretching the truth again

The TrumpRX site boasts

Thanks to President Trump, the days of Big Pharma price-gouging are over. Leveraging the full weight and power of the United States of America, the President has ensured every American gets the lowest prices on prescription medications in the developed world.

This is, however, not true. According to Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker analysis, four other countries sell Ozempic for less than the $100 TrumpRx is boasting. These are also the manufacturer prices – not what the consumer often actually ends up paying. TrumpRx also has to warn that those with insurance could actually end up paying more than usual.

CNN pointed out that some of the medications listed are already available at the discounted prices Trump is bragging about

For instance, GoodRx lists multiple pharmacies where consumers can pick up Pfizer’s Duavee, which is used to treat menopause symptoms, for $30.30 without insurance – the same price as on TrumpRx.

This isn’t even Trump’s idea, as many pharmacies and manufacturers already do this. As CNN also points out, Mark Cuban has been running Cost Plus Drug since 2022. Pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk also has NovoCare, and Eli Lilly has Lilly Direct.

TrumpRx could drive up the drive of medication for those who need it most

There’s also the fact that you don’t require a prescription to purchase the drugs on TrumpRx. With a huge array of very popular and profitable drugs on offer, it could drive up the price for those who desperately need them. This could particularly be true in the case of Ozempic and other “weight loss” drugs, which are actually vital diabetes medications.

There are also fears that with these drugs being readily available at “knock-down” prices, greedy insurance companies might stop covering them. After all, if the government is claiming they’re cheap, you don’t need insurance for them, surely.

Stacie Dusetzina, a health policy professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center told a briefing hosted by KFF [also in the CNN article linked]

Even when you have very large discounts provided for brand-name drugs, they still end up with prices that are not really that affordable to the average person. We know from research that once a price goes above about $100 a month, that a lot of people stop filling their drugs at that price point.

Let’s face it – Trump doesn’t serve the average American

The fact of the matter is, this won’t make much difference to those actually struggling with the costs of medications. It won’t do anything to ease the pressures of sick and disabled Americans who have to fight with insurance companies and their own government to get the medication they need to survive.

But it will once again benefit the rich, because let’s not forget who Trump really cares about.

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Israel have been accused of spraying mysterious chemicals inside Lebanon.  Now the Lebanese PM and rights groups have called the attack a ‘crime’ after it emerged the chemicals were a potentially cancer-causing compound.

Prime minister Joseph Aoun called it an act of “aggression”:

This is an environmental and health crime against Lebanese citizens and their land.

These dangerous practices that target agricultural lands and the livelihoods of citizens and threaten their health and environment require the international community and relevant United Nations organisations to assume their responsibilities to stop these attacks.

Israel accused of yet another war crime

Unifil, the UN mission in Lebanon, said shortly after the attack that they’d been told about the airborne operation. They also said that it had stopped peacekeepers carrying out their duties:

Peacekeepers could not perform normal operations near the Blue Line along about a third of its length and were only able to resume normal activities after over nine hours.

The Blue Line is a 120km strip which marks the line of Israel withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000. The UN and Lebanese army tested the chemicals. Those tests now seem to have come to a conclusion.

The Guardian said:

Lebanese authorities said that laboratory analysis identified that the spray contained glyphosate, a potent herbicide that was in 2015 classified by the World Health Organization as “probably carcinogenic to humans”.

Lebanon’s ministries of agriculture and the environment said some samples showed glyphosate at:

20 and 30 times higher than normal [use].

They said such high concentrations would:

damage vegetation in the targeted areas, with direct repercussions on agricultural production, soil fertility and ecological balance.

Others said this was another example of Israel’s scorched earth policy.

War crime?

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said the “deeply alarming” attack may constitute a war crime:

The deliberate targeting of civilian farmland violates international humanitarian law, particularly the prohibition on attacking or destroying objects indispensable to civilian survival.

They added:

Large-scale destruction of private property without specific military necessity amounts to a war crime and undermines food security and basic livelihoods in the affected areas.

Euro-Med said they directly observed the spraying, which they considered part of

a systematic destruction of agricultural land.

The NGO warned:

This incident cannot be viewed in isolation from the scorched-earth policy pursued by the Israeli army.

Israel sprayed farmland with “pesticides of unknown composition in Syria in January 2026, causing:

widespread crop destruction, posing a serious threat to economic and food security and violating farmers’ rights to work and to an adequate standard of living by destroying their primary sources of income without military justification.

Strip aways Zionist claims about birthright and indigeneity and you’ll find nothing more mystical, historical or religiously motivated than an old-fashioned settler land grab. From Syria to Lebanon, Gaza to the West Back, the Israeli state will keep displacing locals and expanding its territory by whatever means it can, for as long as it can, until someone stops it.

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The Israeli occupation sent a grisly delivery to what’s left of the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza yesterday, 5 February. Bags were delivered containing dismembered bodies and body parts.

Speaking to al-Arabi, hospital director Dr Mohammed Abu Silmiya said that the occupation had delivered 66 bags of human body parts along with 55 Palestinian corpses to the hospital. On opening the bodies, shocked hospital staff found they contained skulls.

None of the bodies or body parts bore any identification. The bodies returned showed clear signs of severe mutilation consistent with systematic organ theft and medical experimentation. Many of the skulls also bore surgical incisions.

At least ten thousand Palestinians are detained indefinitely without charge in Israel, where many suffer starvation, rape and frequent torture. Thousands more are officially ‘missing’, many of them likely still buried under millions of tonnes of rubble. The occupation refuses to allow bulldozers and other clearance equipment into Gaza so that bodies can be recovered.

Abu Silmiya said that this latest horror is yet more evidence of Israel’s serious and systematic violations of human dignity and international humanitarian law during the Gaza genocide.

No western ‘mainstream’ media have bothered to report it.

This is not the first such incident. Israel has routinely dumped large piles of its Palestinian victims’ bodies on waste ground in Gaza. Many bear marks of torture, execution and organ theft.

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Anti-genocide direct action activist Drew Robson has today, 6 February 2025, won his appeal to quash his conviction for criminal damage. Robson occupied the Manchester office of Fisher German, at the time property manager for Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems. The firm eventually cut all ties with Elbit after a sustained pressure campaign.

Drew Robson wins his appeal

Drew Robson’s appeal victory comes hot on the heels of a jury’s refusal to convict six members of the ‘Filton 24’ group of anti-genocide direct action activists. They were the first of their group to face trial and won despite the attempts of a judge to pressure the jury into convicting. If found guilty, all could have faced sentences of up to 20 years prison. The 24 have been jailed for up to 19 months without trial. Some face more than a year’s further wait as Starmer seeks to protect Israel by punishing protest and free speech against genocide.

 

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Spectators at an All Elite Wrestling (AEW( Dynamite wrestling match in Las Vegas had a message for Donald Trump. It was certainly not one that he will have enjoyed, particularly from a sport popular with what’s left of his base.

As the wrestlers posed and glared at each other before the start, a chant from the crowd quickly grew to a volume where the message couldn’t be missed – “Fuck ICE”.

The commentators were silenced. The wrestlers’ glares turned to raised eyebrows. But not in disapproval – at least in one corner of the ring. Challenger Brody King is a vocal opponent of Trump’s Gestapo thugs, organises anti-ICE fundraising and community organising and wore an “Abolish ICE” t-shirt before a recent match.

His opponent ‘MJF’ – real name Maxwell Friedman – might be more of a mixed bag. He has described Palestinian resistance as terrorism – but at the same time said that:

I don’t support terrorism, Zionism, genocide [or] genocidal governments, dead innocent Palestinians [and] dead innocent Israelis. I don’t support people — any people — dying because of hate.

However, he then repeated typical Israel lobby talking points, claiming that:

people are calling for the death of Jews over something that’s happening on the other side of the world.

Given ICE’s strong links to Israeli terrorist forces, who knows what he made of the chanting.

You’ll definitely enjoy it though:

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