Starmer criticises Trump over Iran strikes, as he defends UK position The PM told MPs that Trump had expressed his disagreement with the decision not to get involved in the initial strikes.

How can he be so good at this stuff & so bad at so much else?
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Ignore the professional gloomsters and doomsters.
- Borrowing ⬇️ (record surplus last month)
- Inflation (and interest rates) ⬇️
- UK fastest growing European G7 economy
- Retail sales up 4.5% over the year
There’s lots more to do but Britain’s economy is on the mend.

I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.

Donald Trump didn't break the political system on his own.

Our broken political system is why we have Trump.

🌐🇺🇦 The World Bank plans to allocate up to $40 million to Ukrenerho to purchase equipment needed to restore the power system, — Shmyhal.

More integrity in his little finger than his detractors have displayed in entire careers.

Richard Littlejohn wrote about fly-tipping in yesterday’s Mail, today Boris Johnson turns his attention to a bus driver sacked for beating up a thief. Anything, literally *anything*, to avoid addressing the now utterly undeniable shame & humiliation of their pathetic cheerleading for Donald Trump…

So everyone on Team MAGA has ended up on Team Genocide & Team Paedophile.
Hard to fit all that on a baseball cap…

But no one believes the Telegraph , more a comic than a serious paper

Good work guys

Our partnership with Sheffield City Council is progressing well. Here’s our statement from today’s Rose Garden Cafe Partnership. @sheffieldcouncil.bsky.social

Channel 4 News close to examplary this evening. It pains me to point out that some people working for the broadcast partner of Bari Weiss's CBS News, the BBC, could learn a lot from Matt Frei & Anushka Asthana. But I also wonder how much 'balance' we give to obvious liars, however powerful they are.

The case of Andrew Milne, the London solicitor who has been demanding thousands of pounds from Sheffield leaseholders, has just been raised in Parliament.

Phil Brickell MP said Milne had been “bullying, harassing and threatening” homeowners and called on the SRA to crack down on “crooked lawyers” 👀

All proceeds to S6 Foodbank and Museum

New book celebrating made in Sheffield

We’re now up to 22 ex-Tory MPs joining reform. It’s not subtle - every day clearer this is just a rebranding of the nutty fringe of the Conservative Party offering to rerun the Truss/Johnson omnishambles

I’d have thought nothing cuts more against our precious British values than selling out your country for Russian bribes…

And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say

…funny that.

Sometimes it’s worth the risk “We will definitely bring proceedings for Defamation and Malicious Falsehood if you publish such complete and malicious lies.”

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it... I wrote last week about two villains and one hero in the battle between truth and lies. Well here’s another hero - the Sheffield Tribune, one of the Mill stable of independent news sites, had the courage to publish an important story despite legal threats..

Excellent and courageous investigative journalism.
The fact that it is (apparently) legal to do this to people is utterly disgusting.

Government to extend ban on moorland burning - closing loopholes in existing rules

Great news for nature, carbon, & people who’ll be spared from acrid smoke & flooding

Bad news for dukes & billionaires who own grouse moors 🎻

Here's my quote running on PA newswire: 1/

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Progress towards opening up land ownership data continues: Land Registry will be launching consultation on search fees, with new system in place by 2026

Ace to see this response from @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social to PQ tabled by @alexsobel.co.uk

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The Telegraph’s been reproducing versions of this same story for years. Wokeness and a ‘recipe for a crisis’ in membership. But National Trust member retention is higher than comparator organisations despite the cost of living crisis, and visitor numbers have been increasing.

Andrew Neil’s latest column of shitspangle. This time ‘explaining’ that Donald Trump’s depravity has only become clear in the last week.

The last *seven days*?
What *we* have *always feared*?
What an irredeemable fraud he is.
Gets a whole chapter in ‘How They Broke Britain’.
And here he is now, ‘seeing the light’.

Danny Dyer voiceover: “Twat.”

Defenestration in Russia: State Duma parliament member Buvaisar Saitiev fell from his third-floor Moscow apartment window and died on March 2nd. He was a 3-time Wrestling Olympic Gold Medalist.

I wonder whether they've run out of champagne in the Kremlin yet.

Grew up being in awe of The USA…

Utterly appalled by it now.

Trump berating Zelensky for his hatred of Putin…

…from the man who globally shared his hatred of Taylor Swift because she endorsed his opponent.

Russia: Air traffic at Sheremetyevo Airport closed an hour ago in anticipation of Ukrainian drone strikes in the region. It is the main airport in Moscow.

⚡️Last night, Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed a Russian thermobaric munitions warehouse in the area of Selydove, Russian-occupied part of Donetsk region - General Staff.

Ilsky oil refinery in Krasnodar region of Russia was also under Ukrainian attack.

Glory!

Remember: a vote for Nigel Farage is a vote for Donald Trump, who has just humiliated the true leader of the free world, President Zelensky