Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Shooting in Minneapolis and the graciousness of Trump

The shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis surely must bring to mind Stalin’s comment: "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

On Sunday on BBC 1 television Laura Kuenssberg interviewed the UK’s former ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, who was sacked as ambassador because of his close friendship with Jeffry Epstein.

It was an interesting interview. Mandelson painted an alternative picture of President Trump. He said he was a man who takes risk, a clever man, he even said he was a gracious man. He gave the impression he is the right man for the job in the current geopolitical chaos.

Mandelson is suave, comes across as clever and wise. One must remember when he was secretary of state for Northern Ireland he was dubbed as the Prince of Darkness.

If you can manage to find the clip it’s well wort a listen.

2 comments:

Brian Hickey said...

Mandela....Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. I think I would have remembered that :-)

Michael Commane said...

Once again, thank you Brian; keep up your good work. The change has been made. Mandela appears instead of Mandelson, on the Prince of Darkness, there other the Prince of Peace and Hope.

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