The last thing Starmer should be doing is facilitating this naked US oil grab.
07.03.2026 02:31
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The last thing Starmer should be doing is facilitating this naked US oil grab.
I would love to know what Glasman is smoking these days. Iran stopped being a constitutional monarchy when Mossadegh was toppled in 1953. As long as Trump is President the last thing he wants is a constitutional monarchy or republic it would get in the way of Uncle Sam getting his hands on the oil.
Utter tosh! Maurice Glasman, do us all a favour and crawl back under the stone you’re sharing with Nigel Farage. We don’t want a return to the 1950’s.
Donald Trump called this war. Pete Hegseth called this war. Where the fuck is Congress? They owe us, the American people, a war powers resolution. It is our family members that are fighting this war. It is our tax dollars that fund this war. The least they could do is vote.
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This war on Iran is a case study in an administration that believes it has the means - and therefore the moral authority - to do whatever it wants.
It could have assembled a case, enlisted allies, stuck to a script.
But it can't be bothered, because it feels that to all be unnecessary.
That was 'I hate Manchester anyway' by Matt Goodwin and the White Supremes, from his Bitter Loser album.
Sent to me by one of my brothers
Got to say, this is both an unedifying and an unimpressive performance from Kemi Badenoch at PMQs today. She's trying to pressure on Iran but it feels like she's entirely ignoring the answers to stick to a bizarre script. And giving Starmer free hits in the process.
I've never observed a wider gap between self-confidence and lack of any actual understanding than in Badenoch. On other topics it can be comical, but when it extends to undermining gov't on matters of national security, in breach of established conventions, it is profoundly dangerous. #PMQs
"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again".
Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means.
Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down.
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As revealed by my colleague @adambienkov.bsky.social last year, the BBC drew up a strategy to appeal more to Reform voters.
Might be waiting a while for them to do the same for Green voters...
If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...
The Republicans just voted NO TO THE BILL that requires Trump get permission from Congress, the only branch that can declare war. JOHN BRAINDEAD FETTERMAN voted with the GOP. He has to go.
Release the Epstein Files
Trump’s illegal tariffs cost Maryland’s businesses and consumers up to an estimated $4 billion.
Marylanders deserve a refund from the Trump-Vance Administration.
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A couple things…
The “conflict“ in Iran *IS* a war.
It is a war of choice.
It is warfare without conscious.
It was unprovoked.
And I’m sick and tired of people suggesting & implying the only tragedies herein are that US Service Members have died. The people of Iran are innocents in this conflict!
Screenshot of an X post by Senator Tom Cotton saying Iran has been an imminent threat to the United States for 47 years and that the president was right to act. Below is a Fox News segment with Cotton speaking while footage labeled “U.S. Central Command – Unclassified” shows a strike.
“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
"would otherwise receive immediate access to welfare and social housing" is BS.
Correct: "after 5 years working in a care home, would be eligible to apply for welfare and social housing on the same basis as the rest of us."
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Deliberately misleading/disingenous.
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Today, former Sec. of State, Hillary Clinton, will testify before House Oversight as a part of that committee's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton testifies tomorrow.
Both she & her husband insisted that their testimony be provided in a public hearing, but Rep. James Comer refused.
Excellent piece from @astrokiwi.bsky.social @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy & Laura Revell.
This one sentence is the crux of it all 👇
"There is no public mandate for a single company in one country to make changes on that scale to the planet’s atmosphere."
Highly recommended.
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Rupert Lowe's 'no boundaries on racism" policy for party members appeals to American neo-nazi Jared Taylor who tweets "Apparently you can become a party member without being a British citizen. You can be a member even if you are banned from Britain, as I am!"
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When Putin and Netanyaho say jump,the pedophile in chief says how high?
On settlement and citizenship, it is crucial that the government rethinks its major reforms. Ten years to settlement – which only Switzerland has adopted – should be the ceiling, not the norm. To introduce the longest period of “unsettlement” in any democracy – and applying it to people already here – will harm integration, not promote it. Applying these retrospectively will create an enormous constituency of grievance that will wreck any attempt to rebalance Labour’s voice on immigration. Labour may be tempted to change its tone of voice more than its policy on immigration. Indeed, the party’s comfort zone may be to try to avoid the topic, so as not to give more oxygen to Reform’s favourite issue. But changing the subject has its limits. If one of Labour’s central arguments in 2029 will be to reject importing Trumpism into Britain, it will need to find a distinct voice to articulate its alternative agenda too. What Labour needs is not a “lurch to the left” as much as a significant rebalancing of its voice to find an authentic centre-left account of how to manage immigration and integration. A liberal party membership will want to see its values reflected in policy – while remaining mindful of balancing electoral pressures across different constituencies. Controlling immigration fairly means fairness for those who come to Britain and the communities they join – with more confidence to reject rather than echo the authoritarian hard-right politics of Trumpism: remigration and racism.
Good piece by @sundersays.bsky.social on what government needs to do to get to a sensible place - politically, economically and morally - on immigration.
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''We can absolutely have a multicultural society. We would all benefit from it.''
''However, successive governments over the years have not been doing a good job of building communities.''
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