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Sienna Rodgers @siennama... • 51m NEW: My interview with Green leader Zack Polanski X • He's been speaking to a "handful" of Labour MPs about defecting to the Greens • There is a "sensitive and nuanced conversation" around Zionism - but he won't disavow the "Zionism is racism" motion • Explains why he criticised Corbyn for Labour antisemitism but doesn't now: "I believed what I was reading" • Blames bots for the online abuse targeted at him • How his upbringing shaped his politics • Will run for a parliamentary seat - nothing outside London, and not the mayoralty - and confirms one plan is to succeed, not beat, Diane Abbott

“I believed what I was reading” is IMO perfectly reasonable for a whole hell of a lot of absolutely insane fraudulent shit in the late-Brexit era. Surely our political/media class wouldn’t unite in cynicism and/or idiocy to just foghorn drivel at the public, as if it was all real. That’s crazy!

Green MP Hannah Spencer targeted by anti-trans activists after Manchester rally speech Following the incident, a spokesperson said the confrontation had been caused by “a few angry men” attempting to “spread anti-trans bigotry”.

Following the incident, a spokesperson said the confrontation had been caused by “a few angry men” attempting to “spread anti-trans bigotry”
www.attitude.co.uk/news/green-m...

The funny / tragic thing here is there is absolutely a way to get preferential treatment but to achieve that objective you have to i) figure out what that ‘way’ is, and ii) determine if you’re willing to accept the itrade offs. Unfortunately the UK approach seems to have no clue about this.

Every time I read what a UK minister says about the EU it almost feels like they're assuming we have the same power as members. We're not negotiating, we're making representations. Only EU institutions are negotiating their rules.

For the American ruling class only the lives of Troops matter.

The invasion of Iraq killed ~1m people.

All the mainstream criticism of it revolves around ~2k Troops dying.

If Iraqis, Palestinians, Lebanese and Iranian people could be exterminated without a Troop dying Warren etc would support it.

"And we came within about 30 minutes of having a war." Israel tried to pressure Barack Obama to launch military strikes on Iran, according to former US secretary of state Antony Blinken, who said Israeli leaders warned they would attack themselves if Washington refused. Obama rejected the push for war, arguing the better approach to Iran's nuclear program was "very muscular diplomacy" backed by global sanctions rather than immediate military action. Blinken also revealed the US nearly entered another regional war after the October 7 attacks, when Israeli officials gave false information insisting Hezbollah was about to attack from Lebanon and pushed for a preemptive strike. According to Blinken, Washington came within about 30 minutes of a new conflict before the situation was halted.

Again: if you are a superpower and your crackpot, fascist-led client state has finally bullshat you into fighting its enemies for them, then that is *your* fault. You have owned yourselves.

Paul Carruthers of Gender Plus: "NHS England's interpretation of the evidence is in contrast to every reputable expert body in the field of transgender healthcare and, as such we will assess their policy document and evidence-based review to better understand how they arrived at this decision."

Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’ Exclusive: Rented datacentres and unrealised supercomputer site raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’

“Shaky accounting”, you say. Supercomputer site “still a scaffolding yard”, you say
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It’s almost like the UK’s right-wing press doesn’t actually reflect public opinion but instead the fevered imaginations of a very small group of sociopaths.

All the energy on the right is and has for years been with far right frauds and straight up white supremacists, and that was clear ten years ago, never mind now

A reminder that Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the entire Conservative-supporting press have spent the past week lambasting Keir Starmer for not joining the Iran war.

Here's what has happened since then to public opinion

The News Agents @thenewsagents....• 24m "Tony Blair is apparently pissed off that his words came out." Blair says Keir Starmer should be backing Trump's war in Iran - but does he want to be part of a conflict no one really understands "the point or purpose" of?

Tony spent most of his time as envoy for the UN Middle East Quartet telling rooms full of extremely right wing cranks Israel needed to “tell its story better”, by which he meant “tell more absurd lies, more convincingly”. So yes, this crackpot shit is what he believes and has been pushing for years.

"Does Tony Blair want to be part of this absolutely batshit illegal war of unbridled slaughter & geopolitical destruction no one really understands the point or purpose of?" is only a question you can ask if you are entirely unfamiliar with Tony Blair & the entirety of his back catalogue

Hannah Spencer: Green MP gets police escort from violent demo The Green Party MP was put into a waiting police car after a demonstration turned violent in Manchester.

The BBC goes to some length here to avoid stating that Spencer was harassed. We are told that the protest 'turned violent'.
No culprit is indicated beside in the Green's spokesperson's statement and no mention of Spencer being targeted is made.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Uk Labour's instagram account shares an image of Sir Kier Starmer standing in parliament saying "It is my duty to judge what is in Britain's national interest, and that is the judgement I made. I stand by it."

Sign of where things are going that in a shockingly competent move Labour's social media team are actually straight up promoting the fact that he had this falling out with Trump re the Iran war. The British right wing press and party establishments may have fucked up here methinks.

Shout out to Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch, and Tony Blair for their unerring skill at reading public opinion.

It isn't a betrayal of one's progressive values to witness members of a country's diaspora dancing in the street and rejoicing at news of their home nation being bombed or the slaughter of hundreds of their compatriots, and question the goodness of their intentions or clarity of their moral compass.

In the same way that I might consider dating Sabrina Carpenter, a nice concept but not really practical, plausible or likely and almost certainly ending with songs condemning it.

Remember when we had to vote for these guys to stop racism.

Tommy Robinson is writing for Jerusalem Post, and that makes some people uncomfortable - opinion When journalism abandons the debate over ideas and focuses instead on policing who is permitted to speak, the search for truth quietly gives way to the enforcement of acceptable opinion. Tommy Robinson wears a UTK logo ("Unite The Kingdom") on his clothes as he is seen at a rally in solidarity with protesters in Iran on January 11, 2026 in London, England.

ByTOMMY ROBINSON MARCH 8, 2026 18:30

Robinson had previously tried to address “the Jewish Question” in a 2022 article which he deleted shortly afterwards. He divided the Jews into two types – acceptable ones and disreputable ones. He particularly had it in for the Anti-Defamation League – in his eyes a cesspit of Jewish liberalism and subversion internationally.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

They're platforming an ACTUAL NAZI NOW

I'm laughing to keep from screaming

I just checked and this is real. We call this “a clue”

It's so cynical. It's pretty clear who's being aggressive here...

New MP Hannah Spencer was given a police escort after an anti-hate demonstration turned violent. The Green Party MP had made a speech at the Greater Together Manchester event on Sunday afternoon in Piccadilly Gardens.

I try very hard not to use the word Orwellian too much but it’s the best adjective for the mauling of language at the start of this BBC News report. “… an anti-hate demonstration that turned violent”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

every few years society reinvents the "coffee flavored coffee" rant from first principles. in fact the first known incident of coffee-flavored-coffee induced rage dates to 1534 when Ahmad bin Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati persuaded a group of listeners to destroy coffee shops in Cairo selling flat whites

Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC X.com The American Embassy is being evacuated in Riyadh because of sustained attacks by Iran against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is my understanding the Kingdom refuses to use their capable military as a part of an effort to end the barbaric and terrorist Iranian regime who has terrorized the region and killed 7 Americans. Question - why should America do a defense agreement with a country like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that is unwilling to join a fight of mutual interest? Americans are dying and the U.S. is spending billions to dislodge the terrorist Iranian regime that threatens the region. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia seems to be issuing statements and doing things in the background that are marginally helpful, but unwilling to participate in military operations to end the reign of terror coming out of Iran. Hopefully Gulf Cooperation Council countries will get more involved as this fiøht is in their backvard. If vou are not willine to

I urge more senior US officials to publicly dress down the allies they dragged into a war all of them hate, that’s getting them bombed. Really grind it home: their security is dependent on the whims of a bunch of clueless, pissy old men who don’t give a damn if they get the entire region melted.

If true that Trump is signalling an end in sight, then what we've learned from this fiasco is that the Iranian regime does not collapse even under intense pressure & the rest of the world can't endure closure of the straits of Hormuz for very long at all www.wsj.com/livecoverage... 110 105 100 95 Brent crude 90 Crude oil 85 80 75 Oil Prices Tumble After Trump Says Iran War 'Very Complete' Oil futures, which surged as much as 31% Sunday night to more than $100 a barrel, hav... • www.wsj.com 3 10 10 40 贝 ... Gaby Hinsliff O @gabyhinsliff.bsky.so... • 6m In other words, the exact reverse of any lesson the US might have wanted to teach Iran. Meanwhile the Iranians would have learned that when Trump says help is coming to rise up against the regime, it really isn't.

I imagine the urgent lesson it’s taught the Iranian leadership is: get nuclear warheads ASAP, or die. Which is incredible, slapstick stuff, when you consider the situation when Trump took over.

There are people out there who think it's ridiculous to say that killing 100,000 Palestinians and expelling 100,000s more from their land is a genocide, but that describing people coming to your country to work and start a family as genocide is totally reasonable.

What Does the Green Party Really Want? Will Zack Polanski's party become the main political vehicle of the radical left?

In this brand new #ACFM @jemgilbert.bsky.social, Nadia Idle and I examine the Green Party's shift to the left under Zack Polanski and assess it's prospects by looking at both the history of Green Parties and what's specific about our present moment.

You really can’t have this guy not going to jail for the rest of his short, unhealthy life and still be any kind of democracy, I think.

This is the most blasé admission of a war crime by a US president in history.

Trump has just disclosed, without prompting, that the US Military committed a war crime - literally just to brag & make his Republican audience laugh about unnecessarily killing 100+ Iranians instead of capturing them.