The government is asked if it will review trade ties with Israel, suspend the 2030 Roadmap on bilateral relations or impose targeted sanctions on Israel.
The Foreign Office ignores all of them.
#DCUKparliament
👉NEW -- Inside the Cypriot campaign to kick out British bases
by Phil Miller
Long before a drone struck RAF Akrotiri, opposition to one of Britain’s last colonial outposts was already growing in Cyprus
www.declassifieduk.org/inside-the-c...
Want to know how broken our media is? We are in an illegal war, & reporters/anchors are getting on the phone with Trump daily & just…relaying his words to their viewers, like stenographers. No challenging questions or follow-ups, no discomforting of Trump.
Try independent media:
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Yes, it’s a misnomer - Large Language Models are basically machine learning with a probability engine. That isn’t intelligence
Israel's closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque is an act of war - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-closure-al-aqsa-mosque-act-war
💥 WOW - this is HUGE news!
See —> www.ft.com/content/e5cb...
Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
Also important to note that the Home Office's *own figures* imply that care workers/dependents are a fiscal *benefit* in terms of the government's fiscal rules (and on every year for next 30 years).
It is Mahmood who has a fiscal "black hole" to fill.
"The Real Religious Fanatics Behind the Iran War"
They're not in Tehran, they're in Washington DC. I bring receipts in my lede piece for today's First Draft morning newsletter from Zeteo.
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Iran confirms attacks on US bases in Kuwait, vows strikes are ongoing - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-confirms-attacks-us-bases-kuwait-vows-strikes-are-ongoing
BREAKING: New documents show that Trump was accused of raping a child with Epstein, but don't worry, Trump is going to make amends by bombing the women and girls of Iran ♥️
Thanks to The Friday Poem for republishing this. I'd forgotten how open and honest I'd been! #writingcommity
Honoured to join The People's Congress For The Hague Group in Amsterdam this weekend.
We must hold Israel accountable for its genocide in Gaza — and help bring about justice for the Palestinian people.
Join us: buff.ly/dZV324F
Pete Hegseth: "It was unfortunate that the Brits didn't, from day 1, say go ahead & have access but we got there, we got there, & thats now part of the way that we're operationalising bomber runs, and when we say more to come, its more fighter squadrons, its more capabilities.."
Circle trip! Circle trip! We're making a special trip to see our Ewan Downie's The Bacchae in Glasgow tonight. Dates across Scotland this Spring and Summer at the link below.
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The AI bubble has to burst at some point, we just don't know exactly when and how badly. This might be the first sign of it? Certainly a major war and accompanying economic disruption will not help.
And none of this took into account the fact that there is currently a massively spiraling conflict in the middle east that threatens to upend global trade and create an energy crisis. If China invades Taiwan, say hello to the great depression part 2.
The biggest private capital firm behind most of the AI hyperscale deals such as Meta's Hyperion and xAI's Colossus, is seemingly in financial distress as it shops its debt holdings at a discount. It's not looking good.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...
Shabana Mahmood accused of mimicking Trump as she announces immigration plans
It's absolutely mental that Israel is getting caught red-handed carrying out one false flag after another against its so-called allies and the corporate media is just acting like it isn't happening.
Should note: Most of Reform's cash this quarter - £3m - comes from one donor, Christopher Harborne, who is based in Thailand.
As do Israel, with a transparently obvious motive.
They should first verify that it came from Iran since it seems that drone attacks on a Saudi Refinery and on Cyprus were actually false flag operations?
Not great that so much of the commentariat is absolutely dug in on the idea that advocating for a green transition was a sort of "luxury belief" and not the most hard-headed of realism and now that we're once again seeing how wrong this is, none of them want to draw attention to how wrong they were.
Is Francesca Albanese being punished for being principled? - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/francesca-albanese-being-punished-being-principled
While the govt approves Trump’s use of UK bases to strike Iran, it is denying the public basic information about the US military/intel presence here.
Incredibly, it says “the overall US force composition across its UK footprint is a matter for the US”. ❗️
www.declassifieduk.org/we-deserve-t...
The "immediate access" to social housing is particularly bad misinformation - it's a scarce resource that many people would like but can't access. They're all too ready to believe that immigrants skip the queue. In reality of course they get access only to the housing register, like everyone else.
America is the only Real Country, all the others are Non-Player Countries:
WILL YOU SIGN THE LETTER? Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community notinourname.org.uk Sign held by Zack Polanski
Awesome to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social supporting the @nionwomen.bsky.social campaign of women opposed to transphobia.
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