This is not only incredibly weak, its false equivalence between Farage and Polanski is dangerous. One of them is a threat to liberal democracy, the other one is not. The text is a prime example of how radical centrism and the profound arrogance of self-declared liberals legitimize the far right
The inhuman deciding who is human.
I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.
I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.
When the inevitable happens, and some US special forces or regular soldiers are captured, does that mean the Iranians do not need to abide by international law in relation to those POWs?
The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.
Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
'in 1924, the prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, sought to appease rightwingers by appointing Sir William Joynson-Hicks as home secretary. As Martin Pugh notes in his 2005 book, Hurrah for the Blackshirts!, Joynson-Hicks had “established himself as an unapologetic antisemite”.' 1/2
If the war ends up as a debacle for the US, it is clear that Israel is going to be blamed, and by extension also American Jews, and Jews in general, in a manner surpassing similar accusations regarding the Iraq war. The infrastructure for antisemitism is just far more developed and mainstreamed.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers
An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.
theintercept.com/2026/03/02/t...
“This could turn into a regional war of a scale that will make the past 25 years of forever wars in the Middle East seem like a walk in the park,” says Narges Bajoghli, associate professor of anthropology and Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University.
I don’t disagree, but also: a lot of ink is being spilled to try and ‘explain’ the Labour position, as if scepticism about Trump’s ‘plan’ for Iran is an unusual or hard to fathom conclusion.
CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.
At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.
Just when you thought Labour couldn’t get deeper down in the gutter, when Mothin Ali was subject to a false and blatantly Islamophobic attack by a Tory MP, Starmer went along with it
As the Kurds who had depended on US support, were betrayed and massacred in their thousands in the 70s, Kissinger famously dismissed the deaths: "covert action should not be confused with missionary work."
it's pretty much just the Greens + the Lib Dems if you care at all about trans rights in England now. Greens have been stronger and more consistent - and looking more likely to be a real force at the next election.
If you know your British including British colonial history, you might be a bit appalled.
"'We are reduced to collateral damage': Under the missiles, the Arab part of Jerusalem has no shelter."
The Artistic Journey:
2021: celebrated as I published one of the best books of my career.
2025: watched Anthropic steal it, with millions of others, to train its model, without compensation.
2026: watched Anthropic sell that model, an AI killing machine, to the US government.
Human progress!
Patrick Wintour @patrickwintour X.com This from Speaker Johnson seems now to be an official US administration explanation for why it went to war. Rubio has also said the US had to act preemptively to prevent US casualties. Israel was going to attack regardless so the US would then become a target. Netanyahu told Fox News this allegation was ridiculous, and Trump made his own decisions. Iran was rebuilding its nuclear program. He said "This is going to be a quick and decisive action, and we're going to create the conditions first for the Iranian people to get control of their destiny to form their own democratically elected government." So regime change. an objective ruled out by Hegseth. Day 4 and Operation Epic Muddle as to why the US went to war continues. Josh Rogin • @joshrogin .9h Speaker Johnson after receiving a classified Iran briefing says essentially that Israel dragged Trump into the war by threatening to attack Iran: "Israel was determined to act in the...
Netanyahu does not have magical Hebrew-beams that he uses to ensorcel and compel US officials, and it’s wrong and dangerous to pretend otherwise. By all accounts, he personally is charmless and repellent. Nobody has forced the Trumpers to do anything they didn’t want to do here.
Good lord. What an abject failure the Blue Labour strategy has been.
“Many senior U.S. officials remain skeptical that the U.S. and Israeli military operation against the Islamic Republic will lead to a regime change”: www.reuters.com/world/middle...
My usual query in response to Israelis making this fatuous argument is—fine. Where is Israel's FW De Klerk?
(Or if I'm in a trolling mood, it's—you're right! We need a Palestinian Mandela to facilitate transition to a single democratic state. So glad you, too, have ditched the two-state bullshit.)
I’m not the first one to point out that 1- Israel has a Palestinian Mandela, Marwan Barghouti who polls very favourably among Palestinians, in prison
2- Israel is an Apartheid state and figures like Desmond Tutu regularly compared Israel to Apartheid South Africa
The UK's permission for the US to use its bases in attacking Iran amounts to complicity in the crime of aggression. It drags us into what could be an endless war, without democratic or even parliamentary consent.
It feels like a few people are beginning to wake up to the true nature of the Labour right.
This is not new. They've always treated migrants, disabled people, unemployed people, as expendable for political ends.
It's not new.
Genius.
"Unquestionably blindly following the Americans is, in my view, the wrong thing to do.. I'd pass legislation that said military action could be taken if.. the lawful case for it was made.. there was a viable objective &.. you got consent of the commons"
When's the vote, Keir?
Five minutes after losing a by-election when voters defected en masse because of their pandering to the right: what if we were *more* racist
Any voting irregularities should be investigated. It’s a really important issue
But the idea that 4k+ votes were ‘stolen’ is Trump level nonsense
V worried British media could end up in same place as US, legitimating ‘stolen votes’ claims by parroting BS lines from Farage and Co
