I beg everyone, please stop sanewashing this administrationβs policies.
I beg everyone, please stop sanewashing this administrationβs policies.
Just arrived in Hamburg. Any tips (where to eat, what to seeβ¦in that order π€£) are welcome.
We are currently at the intersection of 1984, It canβt happen here, and Night of Camp David. Buckle up.
@labouruk.bsky.social showing once again utter moral bankruptcy as well as a tendency to disinformation, they are so quick to spit in others.
Great to see leading legal scholars stand up for what is right. Refusing to call this illegal or engaging in hypothetical legal sophistry only legitimates further violence.
I like how a publication that helped drive Universities ranking-mad, stoke competition, helped made the life of academics more difficult is now shocked at the state of UK HE.
New euphemism just dropped for βPresident has no idea of what he is doing.β
McConnellβs as responsible for the rise of Trump as the current obscene crop of Republicans.
On fire lately.
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
Trumpβs War now providing a massive influx of cash for Iranβs ally Russia so they can continue to bomb civilians in Ukraine while we ask Ukraine for help against Iranian drones. Trumpβs foreign policy in a nutshell.
For the youth out there. This is the cycle of American politics.
So, we replace the woman who shot her own dog, with the guy who thinks the US killed Khomeini last weekend. Excellent.
Havenβt we had enough of this half-gloating articles? Look, China and Russia so weak they wonβt help their allies. Would we want them to? Whatβs the deal here? They sure benefit from the death of international order already.
www.chathamhouse.org/2026/03/iran...
Watched Dirty Business on @channel4tv.bsky.social. To say it's infuriating doesn't get close. As usual, @labouruk.bsky.social is as bad as its predecessors, having fully drank the neoliberal Kool-Aid. Great to see that one of the greatest villains is now in charge of Welsh Water.
Currently have a paper under review on the very topic. Iran-Kurds scandal coming soon (if we ever go back to doing scandals)?
Watching in Jimmy Carter.
This is a pendulum swing that has a clear precedent in recent US history. After the scandals of Watergate and the abuses of the intelligence community, voters turned to someone who was earnest and kind, who did 'look like a cinnamon roll but could actually kill you.' Jimmy Carter.
Tell me about it.
Michael Schmitt has always been adamant that as long as the US does it, itβs not assassination.
I see lessons have not been learned from the spectacular loss of Gorton and Denton.
If Labour insists on continuing down this route, then they do honestly deserve to lose the next GE.
Utterly infuriating.
Remarkable to hear Colby say to Congress that regime change isn't a war aim because killing Khamenei was an Israeli decision. In his Feb 28 statement Trump himself made clear that it was essentially a joint action. Meanwhile the administration appears to be actively arming a Kurdish ground force.
Yes, thatβs understandable. But the Trump administration didnβt even make an effort to claim this was legal. They started with imminence and dropped it, and already provided 7-8 different and contradictory justifications.
I wrote at the end of my book: βassassination is something the US government does not do, except when it does.β This process has been abetted, in no small part, by lawyers, both within the executive branch and internationally lawyers.
Also, because of this we canβt possibly claim itβs an assassination. Iβm sure if Russia had managed to kill Zelenskyy we would adopt the same rigorous standard. International lawyers continuing to make a career out of legitimating uses of violence.
Summary: a state (but make sure itβs one we like) can start an illegal war of choice. That very fact means that everything that follows is under LOAC, so said state can kill whomever it wants even a foreign head of state with limited to none military role.
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.
There is just something deeply disturbing and offensive about watching a Labour govt keep kicking the most vulnerable in our society.
And Congress has helped him.
Sure.