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Dear journalists: Shut up about the “special relationship”. There is UK reliance on the US but for the time being there is no special relationship in any meaningful sense and talking as if there still is sounds ridiculous

Everyone in the UK should be forced to see Faslane. It's a short train journey from Glasgow. It's impossible to miss.

The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall As the Iran disaster escalates, the US president should be seen as an enemy whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdal...

"The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump"

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Well, this aged exactly how I was afraid it would

Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.

Drone footage captures the devastating destruction to the building right next to Glasgow's historic Central Station. Part of it has collapsed after a fire started in a vape shop and ripped through the whole structure.

This is a rare ‘fire rainbow’ spotted over the Rocky Mountains, created when sunlight hits ice-crystal clouds at just the right angle. Seeing a fire rainbow requires extreme luck.

Image from Twitter

Why should the people of this planet respect the #USA ever again? We should stand united and boycott all #American-made goods and their poisonous fast food chains.

Allowing the US to use UK airbases for defensive but not offensive attacks on Iran is a half-pregnant theory of war

What could possibly explain the intensity of Western interest, over the past century and more, in this region?

Screenshot of a tweet by Jessica Grace (@IsIcaLynn). The text reads: “I find that a lot of anti-socialist sentiment boils down to a basic belief that people are lazy and won’t do good in the world or work hard unless they are suffering. I believe the opposite. I think most people would do amazing things if they weren’t in dire straits constantly.”

One of the biggest divides in politics is what you believe about people. Some think humans only work if they’re desperate. Others think people thrive when they’re secure. I’m firmly in the second camp.

Happy #socialistSunday to those who observe 🙂

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Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...

I see that prick Jenrick has the Reform plc's seat on the Kuennssberg propaganda programme today.

The end-times theology driving US intervention in Iran – Baptist News Global Today, there is a part of American foreign policy that is influenced by apocalyptic evangelical theology, says Josh Olds.

for years, US leaders have stirred fear over their misunderstanding of the word jihad, convincing us that Muslims are a universal existential threat, when the truth is, they've been quietly planning their own theocratic crusade in the name of some distorted interpretation of christianity

And once again I wonder if those photos are of children or family pets.

Trump now needs help from Ukraine, a country he hates, to destroy drones from Iran, a country he ripped up a peace deal with, guided by intelligence from Russia, a country he loves, in a war started by Israel, a country with obvious blackmail over him.

Meanwhile, Nero golfs.

Amos Goldberg, Professor of Genocide Studies at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem "Yes, it is genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. Jewish history will henceforth be stained"

Is there anyone more qualified and unbiased?

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"I said it's quite bold of Nigel Farage to go to the US to side with Donald Trump against his own country. What did I say Roy?"
"You said he's a treacherous self-serving sack of shit"

Traitorous little shit!

Screenshot of Daily Mail double page spread. The headline on the first page reads: "New wave of Iranian migrants crosses the Channel... and warns a lot more are coming", alongside a picture of a boat packed with people. The second headline reads "How many of Tehran's feared Revolutionary Guard will be be sneaking inhere on small boats?", with a picture of a group of men walking on a beach.

Today's Daily Mail has found a way to turn the attacks on Iran into yet another scare story about refugees...

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Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

Illiteracy & poor education
isn't the fault of people
living in poverty,
failed by schools,
kept underfunded
to stop them learning
to think for themselves,
and brought up by parents
who experienced the same

Writing them off as "stupid"
is just what tax-avoiding
divide-and-rule millionaires want