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Absolutely spot on. Very astute, clear summary of the unfortunate situation we find ourselves in.

Clear eyed, serious analysis. Spot on in every word.

Iran Crisis: They Wanted Sovereignty. Just Not Like This If anyone has ruined the special relationship, it's not Starmer- it's Trump

No legal basis. No clear objective. No exit. And much of Britain’s political class spent the week calling Starmer a coward for noticing.

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“Senior military figures in the UK have told us we need to start thinking of ourselves not in a post-war state, but in a pre-war state“

Are we in the early days of WWIII?

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The whole dancing in Westminster thing another example of the snark filled rage-bait which powers social media. Yeah it’s a silly and maybe ill-timed. It’s also meaningless and doesn’t really say anything about MPs, Parliament or anything else. Anyone worked up about it should calm down.

Badenoch has knocked Starmer around the park week after week at PMQs all year. Not today. Unfocussed and tone completely wrong, given events.

Those lessons are far deeper and broader than the danger of boots on the ground.

It’s being said a lot that the shadow of Iraq is hanging over Keir Starmer and the Labour Party during this Iran crisis.

It absolutely should. What’s remarkable is how little much of the British media and the rest of politics seem to be thinking about it at all, or learning its lessons.

Has Trump just ended the 'Special Relationship'? | The News Agents YouTube video by The News Agents

Best commentary yet on the ‘special relationship.’ If we don’t abide by international law, we have nothing. Quite so. And especial 👏 to @lewisgoodall.com -every word.

“For all we know, we could be in the middle of Keir Starmer’s finest hour”.

Starmer’s critics say he is imperiling the UK’s special relationship with the US...

But is it Donald Trump who's doing the damage?

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What they’re basically saying is that Starmer and the UK isn’t allowed to operate an even moderately independent foreign policy outside of the United States. That is both ahistoric, wrong and weird for people who constantly tell us how sovereignty is what matters most.

The number of commentators/journalists salivating at blaming Starmer for ruining the “special relationship” is genuinely pathetic

If anyone ruined it- if it even really exists- here’s a reminder of who did it.

The Chancellor announces what the OBR thinks growth and per capita GDP will be in 2030. It’s not her fault but current events emphasising again how utterly meaningless these medium to long term economic forecasts really are. Policy making for a different, more settled age.

Couldn't agree more with @lewisgoodall.com & @jonsopel1.bsky.social's takes on the controversy around John Davidson's appearance at the BAFTAs on today's @thenewsagents.co.uk.

The total lack of empathy on show from some of the world's wealthiest, most privileged people is frankly disgraceful.

My Grandfather had Tourette’s. I know that he experienced prejudice and attempts to bully him. I’ve been pretty stunned that in the reaction to the Davidson episode, we’ve seen a lot of the ignorance that he, a man living his life in the mid 20th century, would have recognised only too well.

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"Get it in your heads - Trump has not done this for the people of Iran.

"He's done this because he likes the idea of war when he thinks it will profit America."

What's Trump's endgame after US strikes on Iran?

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Best analysis I have read yet.

Starmer wants to be Macron. He risks becoming Hollande. And why Conservative/Reform shrieking about the rise of "sectarianism" rings hollow

Starmer set himself up as Macron. Today he looks more like Biden or Hollande.

And why claims of the rise of sectarianism in British politics ring hollow. Apparently British Muslims, uniquely, aren't allowed to decide who best represents them.

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“There’s a long litany of sadness, tragedy and listlessness in the Royal Family - let them free!"

Lewis Goodall on the monarchy as an institution, and the "wayward souls that have no purpose in life" that form it

Big test for much of the media today as to how this victory is covered vs a Reform by election win, or any revolt on the populist right. It’s as important and as meaningful. Something tells me the tone might be a touch different!

Starmer’s entire approach, from his project’s earliest days, rested on the new core coalition of younger, more urban and ethnic minority voters had nowhere else to go. That idea is in tatters.

As I wrote yday, it arises from Labour not valuing the coalition it has and romanticising one it does not

Of course dynamics at a general election will be different. But it was Starmer who set up idea that the litmus test of success in politics is who can defeat Reform. And for now the answer appears to be- not him and not Labour. This inevitably destabilises him further.

Labour’s coalition and strategy is fraying in every direction. Starmer’s has anchored that strategy in saying only Labour can beat Reform. And (like Caerphilly) that’s just been shown to be nonsense. What’s left?