Danielle Turney

The British Right’s Permanent War Fantasy How the Telegraph, Mail and GB News turned a dangerous global conflict into another excuse to shout “weakness” and a supplicating audition for Trump’s approval.

Trump bombs.
The Telegraph screams humiliation.
The Mail screams betrayal.
GB News screams weakness.

And all of a sudden a complex global crisis becomes yet another loyalty test to American power.

The UK deserves better than this performative war hysteria.

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The British right’s messianic zeal for a war that is illegal, has no clear goals, and has nothing much to do with the UK (beyond defence) is not the biggest story right now, but it is one of the most baffling

"it is becoming increasingly hard to avoid the conclusion that the Trump administration has embarked on this operation without a plan, and is making it up as it goes along, as if they killed enough of the right people and destroyed enough Iranian assets everything would fall into place"

Thee's a paper to be written on the therapeutic impacts of making and consuming soup! :)

A horrible and stupid thing to insist on saying

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Sen. Warner: "This was a war of choice. There was no imminent threat to the United States. There was not even an imminent threat to Israel."

Simon Tisdall, the independent-minded journalist who was pivotal in ensuring the Guardian opposed the Iraq war of 2003, is sounding a loud alarm today…

… en route to this arresting conclusion www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"It is [...] hard to avoid the conclusion that the Trump administration has embarked on this operation without a plan, and is making it up as it goes along, as if they killed enough of the right people and destroyed enough Iranian assets everything would fall into place."

Magical thinking.

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

A radical thought!! But really quite compelling ...

This thread by @helenbelcherobe.bsky.social, in response to a post by @paulbernal.bsky.social, is worth a read for just some of the context behind how regressive, and frankly hostile, Labour is on trans rights.

Indeed - job done. And if he believes that then, at one level, it doesn't really matter whether it's true of not!

There's vile, and then there's completely off the scale vile

MSM is continually shocked and surprised by the next stupid/dangerous thing Trump says or does.

FACT: He is not fit to serve. Mentally, physically, morally, etc.

This R Congress allows him to continue this madness. If they had a red line (they clearly don’t) he would’ve been removed months ago

Evidence suggests they fully understand the ‘con’ bit - and ‘sequence’ seems to mean moving on to create the next arena of chaos …

You have to hope that the article is better than the headlining and pic ... :(

This is pretty disgraceful.

There will be Starmer supporters screaming "but Rwanda policy"* until the heat death of universe as they attempt to defend/deflect how on every practical measure Labour has just announced anti-asylum policies which go further than the previous government.

*Not to diminish cruelty of that policy

What are Shabana Mahmood’s changes to the asylum system?

🚨Inhumane, definitely
🚨Illegal, quite possibly
🚨Ignorant, absolutely
🚨Counterproductive, unarguably
🚨Inconsistent with Labour's claims to be "progress, most certainly
🚨Costly, without a doubt
🚨Risking lives, one hundred percent

That should answer it.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This article was amended on 5 March 2026. An earlier version said low-skilled workers would “receive immediate access to welfare and social housing” if Labour did not make them wait longer to apply for settlement. In fact, settlement status only gives people the eligibility to apply for welfare and social housing, it does not give them instant or automatic access to such benefits. This has been clarified. From breaking news to huge investigative proje

Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing".

Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.

I think this goes well beyond cringe into wholly new territory of awfulness! But also, why do they think Dubai needs them? And in their dressing up clothes?

If GB News is loss-making but there are people still willing to keep it broadcasting, ask yourself why. Is it because it is successful in skewing British politics rightwards, either through the broadcasts, the website, or sharing clips on social media? And that is more important than profit?

Getting better? The think-tank fuelling Farage’s ‘machine for government’ | Good Law Project Centre for a Better Britain says it’s an ‘independent think-tank’, but the echoes with Trump’s project for power are difficult to ignore

“Centre for a Better Britain is putting together a frightening blueprint for a Reform government. People say it couldn’t happen here, but when someone tells you who they are and what they want to do, believe it the first time.”
https://goodlaw.social/0431

Hi! Immigration lawyer here! Mahmood's view of the Refugee Convention as providing temporary protection just isn’t correct & AFAIK isn’t one anyone has ever adopted.

On the contrary, the Convention is clearly predicated on a long-term need for protection.
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Side note, but it is still striking how little Reform actually look like the rest of Britain in basically any polling and yet their base is treated as quintessentially authentic.

Yeah, but you would have to work full-time, which seems excessive

Opinion Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won't be able to do anything else at all Shabana Mahmood Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don't want extremes - they want a system that is managed and fair Shabana Mahmood is the UK home secretary

This is a hot mess of outright lies and misinformation from the Home Secretary, designed to try and persuade people that a government which is implementing some of the most hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies, in practice, for decades is progressive. 1/

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I was struck by the idea that what they are proposing is anywhere near "managed and fair" ... Desperate stuff.