Ivor Middleton

Like seriously what’s the plan

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok.

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok. Stay calm, everyone is safe.

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception.

I wonder if a drone has hit Dubai Marina. Or whether it was just
debris from a successful interception.

If only loads of Dubai based accounts, including Isabel Oakeshott's, could tell me.

Maurice Glasman, founder of Blue Labour - suggesting Iran becomes a monarchy and joins the British Commonwealth alongside Ukraine.

And people listening... like this is normal..

One of the really mysterious recurring situations in my life has been learning that yet another person I know has done cocaine and considers it basically normal as a thing to do and have done. People are so fuckin' dumb, man.

Christopher Harborne has cemented Reform’s status as a mo... New political donation rules won’t stop him giving as much as he likes

In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand.

Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules.
observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...

We need to #TakeTheMoneyOutOfPolitics

Looking forward to seeing proposals for that in the Green Party #GE2029 manifesto ,
@zackpolanski.bsky.social .

😀

We'd survive without BBC news. The rest is pretty damn good.

Not sure BBC news qualifies as news.

Im a historian of vaccination.
Every semester/year since 2015, I teach the histories of smallpox vaccination.
And every semester/year, I have had anti-vaxxers/vaccine hesitant people in my classes.
If I want to change their minds, telling them how evil or stupid they are isn't going to cut it.

Remember, these are the "grown-ups" in charge now.

Roll on #GE2029

‘The memories stay behind’: hundreds of thousands flee the Israeli bombs in Beirut With one text message, Israel made half a million people homeless, leaving the city’s southern suburbs a ghost town The ding of half a million phones, a pause and a collective gasp: in an instant, more than 500,000 people had just been declared homeless. Shooting in the air, panicked phone calls and honking filled the streets of Beirut as people began to flee. Thousands abandoned their cars and began the slow march to the sea, desperate to escape the Israeli bombs which they knew would soon fall on their homes – whether they were in them or not. Continue reading...

‘The memories stay behind’: hundreds of thousands flee the Israeli bombs in Beirut

Yes, all well and good having a UN and a rules based international order, but when the largest power refuses to submit to it, refuses the supremacy of an international court, it all goes for nothing.

And that superpower claims to represent civilisation.

if only there were some kind of peacekeeping force, possibly pur together by several nations united in purpose

As one of the fifteen or twenty genuine Liberal Internationalists in the US, all of whom are active on this site, I do think we really need to confront the fact that a genuine liberal-democratic "rules based" international order cannot be underpinned by arbitrary and hegemonic US military might.

CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than “in a Burqa” Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.

Republican political operative says that the little girls killed by the US military in Minab, Iran are better off desd than wearing “burqas.”

These people have no souls newrepublic.com/post/207415/...

I don’t think we give the Trump Regime sufficient credit for finding out where Iran actually is, though to be fair, they probably had to ask Israel.

Black and white photo of young man in a white shirt, holding a pen, and wearing glasses. Bernard LaFayette is pictured during a Freedom Riders planning session in Montgomery, Alabama in May 1961. Lee Lockwood/WSPI/Getty Images

Bernard Lafayette, ¡Presente!

In 1963 when Bernard & Colia Lafayette organized a mass meeting in Selma for voting rights, Sheriff Jim Clark burst in with deputies, armed with a warrant from the circuit judge to prevent “insurrection.” 🧵

See @sncclegacy.bsky.social: snccdigital.org/people/berna...

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NHS maternity care budget £18billion
Maternity negligence claims £27.4billion
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which refuse to #TaxTheRich
yet say there's no money for our NHS
are letting mothers & babies die
in substandard neonatal units
to enrich lawyers

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CCTV video showing the moment a missile struck next to a boys’ school in Iran’s Qazvin, causing panic amongst students and staff, has been released by IRGC-affiliated media.

Iran blamed the attack, which reportedly took place during the first day of the war, on the US and Israel.

"Netanyahu’s goal is clear – regime collapse and state implosion." "Israel couldn’t care less about the future…[or] the stability of Iran.”

There’s this feeling that if gay Palestinians are murdered for the immutable characteristic of being gay then that’s reprehensible, but if they’re murdered go the immutable characteristic of being Palestinian that’s fine

Pretty sure that aint "kiss"

Dana Bash • @DanaBashCNN X.com 1/7 I just got off the phone with President Trump where he rated the war with Iran at a 12 or 15 out of 10. He told me, "We're doing very well militarily - better than anybody could have even dreamed."

Sometimes the level of stupidity is too much. It’s like listening to the permanently drunk guy at the end of the bar.

"Britain’s 2nd-richest family have begun giving money to Reform UK after years of supporting the Conservatives.

"A company linked to the property tycoons David and Simon Reuben donated £100,000 to Nigel Farage’s party-the first time the brothers have given to any party other than the Tories." Times

WAR CRIME BY THE US.

An unarmed Iranian ship was takIng part in an Indian naval exercise, alongside the US.

The US withdrew and torpedoed the Iranian ship.

THEN the US refused to rescue the sailors, letting them drown.

This is treachery, cowardice, cruelty and a war crime of the highest order.

Of course, as with any large group, aggregates can be damgerous.

Depleted oil reserve leaves US exposed as Iran war pushes up prices Donald Trump has not fulfilled a vow to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve that was drained by Joe Biden

Depleted oil reserve leaves US exposed as Iran war pushes up prices ft.trib.al/vQLjYIK

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

Israel orders more than 500,000 people to evacuate Beirut’s southern suburbs Order comes as Israel continues to bomb Lebanon and Iran, while Tehran launches retaliatory strikes

"Israeli defense minister Israel Katz said on Thursday that the decision to assassinate the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was taken in November, far predating the breakdown in the nuclear programme negotiations that Donald Trump claimed led to the US launching a preemptive strike on Iran."