Which I wrote up here.
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With every passing day, the decision of Starmer and his cabinet a) not to join the Iranian war b) to delay access to bases looks wiser and wiser. Trump’s press conference last night shows he has no real idea what the objectives are and its duration is arbitrary.
Is it just as simple as the majority of people who support war with Iran hate & fear Muslims?
The calls are coming from the same Murdoch-Farage-Badenoch-Robinson ecosystem that has spent 3 decades portraying Islam as a civilisational threat.
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc
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
Still haven’t heard a BBC interviewer ask Farage about his various ‘boycotts’ of the BBC, at least one of which is technically still in place…
Tony Blair’s presumably unintentional illustration of his own epic vanity & the weapons grade hypocrisy of the Mail etc…
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Yesterday the government gave us a miniscule amount of time to debate a piece of legislation with far-reaching implications for social media safety, school uniform prices, and support for adopted children.
But without public service broadcaster we would be truly f**ked. It might be too late.
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Huge disservice, it’s infuriating. Same with Farage, lies going unchallenged. Looking at you, BBC.
Today, The Business and Trade Committee questioned Trade Minister Chris Bryant MP on whether Britain can afford to continue 'straddling the Channel and the Atlantic'. The answer is clear, we have the largest trading bloc in the world on our doorstep: it's time to rejoin the single market.
Three Israeli brothers, including two of NY’s top real estate brokers, were convicted of running a years-long sex trafficking operation. Victims said they were drugged, and raped, ending a high-profile trial that exposed shocking abuse.
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I wasn't intending to turn this into a thread, but it seems to have happened anyway.
It's about the great plague on our lives: the extreme wealth of a tiny number of people.
And what to do about it.
You/we have a voice.
🔥 Vic Derbyshire on #Newsnight:
Oil prices rising, inflation risks growing and then a clip of Trump saying three completely different things about the war within minutes.
Markets hate uncertainty. Businesses are households end up paying the price.
#IranWar
Good grief
#R4Today
It’s time once again to wonder if Epstein is still alive. His rejected bail for 80 million. Imagine investing that in a fake death? With Trump as his BFF and it’s NYC. 😳
Regardless, this is new about the IRS, DEA and others investigating him in 2015 after his bust. No charges filed, of course.😎😡
Trumps distractions should never distract us from the horror of climate change, if anything as gas and oil prices shoot up his war reinforces the need to change to green energy.
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You mean, MAGA isn't queuing to sign up to show their patriotism and loyalty to the orange mussolini? Wow
“He is, of course, a serial liar & prone to espousing completely contradictory positions within moments of each other.” It is extraordinary to me that journalists continue to ‘analyse’ Donald Trump without adding this constant caveat. It does readers, listeners & viewers a grave disservice.
Images published by Iranian state media show remnants of a US Tomahawk missile at a girls’ school in Minab.
It’s not possible to independently verify the provenance of the remnants from this imagery alone. But Bellingcat previously detailed how a Tomahawk missile hit a structure next to the school.
Batshit crazy
“Trump told Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene […] that he opposed the release of the Epstein files because his “friends will get hurt,” Greene said in a New York Times Magazine profile”
(MS NOW, Dec 29, 2025)
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Ohio State president resigns over 'inappropriate relationship with someone seeking public resources'
So far, the war in Iran is playing in Russia's hands, and Putin will, no doubt, use this situation to weaponize Russian oil further and use it as a tool for blackmail.
Putin: Oil production, which depends on the use of the Strait of Hormuz, risks coming to a complete halt as early as next month.
An illegal war by USA & Israel, propped up by missions from UK air bases.
Supported by Nigel Farage.
Over 1000 civilians dead & now the threat of global economic fallout. Trump's disaster makes us all less safe, less secure - and we will remember those who backed it.
Camilla met with rape survivor Gisèle Pelicot and appeared moved - but we can't take the royals seriously until they confront Andrew's actions
Aqua the tiger underwent the two-hour root canal treatment in a bid to save its top two 7cm long canine teeth,at Noah's Ark Zoo Park in Wraxall,Bristol,after keepers spotted he was having problems eating.The tiger,was rescued from illegal traffickers in 2019. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
To show his lack of respect, Trump wears a campaign baseball cap to the return of fallen American soldiers.
Ukrainians kneel to show respect at the final passing of their defenders.
Tell it like it is my Gov Newsom
There is #NoHonor here 👇
