Ian Quayle

If we have to have a second house in parliament we need better people to fill it.

Why would they lose the Court Martial when it can be clearly shown that the orders they were given to follow were illegal?

It's a puzzle. Every top military officer has a team of lawyers on hand to advise on military law, international law and constitutional law.

Why hasn't at least one US general or admiral broken ranks on this illegal and unconstitutional conflict?

And why hasn't the press asked the question?

It is a volunteer military. We haven't drafted people yet.

These are people engaging like members of ICE in immoral choices.

I have very little empathy for those following orders to kill little girls.

But all that is not quite true, is it. The US has a vast military machine that, if it had sufficient courage and professionalism, would reject illegal orders. It utterly failed to do so. It wasn't Trump who killed all those children, it was serving military personnel who decided it was OK to fire.

Farage delivers energy sermon at the pump – just don’t mention the war Reform leader’s Derbyshire petrol station stunt grinds to halt when questions on Iran leave him short-tempered

“While Nige has been brown-nosing Trump with his warmongering, he’s missed that most of the country doesn’t want to follow the orange narcissist into an illegal war with no fixed objectives other than continue till The Donald gets bored”
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It's an old US tradition. They have to do it every year.

Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.

This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.

44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

Cahoots = Utter stupidity and callousness

Millions in England to pay higher water bills after suppliers appeal Anglian, Southern, Wessex and South East allowed to raise charges more than originally allowed by watchdog

I just don't believe this

FFS renationalise now - without compensation

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True. Some US military person must have pushed a button to blow up school children and someone ordered them to do that. I had always thought of the US military as being tough and highly professional, like our British forces, but no longer. I guess too many must be more like ICE: trigger-happy thugs.

The biggest problem is that the entire military chain of command is gleefully following illegal orders - every one of them violating their oaths.🤬

There are two sorts of faith. One is trust based on factual knowledge and reason. The other is the religious kind. Faith in science is the former, based on copious observations (such as the existence of the ISS). Anyone can see that science works.

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.

Today the United States wasted another #1B on an illegal war in Iran, money that could have been spent on funding health care or providing SNAP benefits or cancer research or academic scholarships for minorities. I could go on and on but I think you get my point. #endtheiranwarnow

And if he were a dog . . . ?

He is a balding, fat, wrinkly old man clearly,obsessed about his image. Take away the comb-over, the orange make-up, the lift shoes, the flattering suits etc and all that is left is a pathetic demented husk of a human being who would be better off in a retirement home for the terminally bewildered.

When people say this moment feels alarming, they’re right.

But it’s important to recognize something else:

This didn’t begin yesterday.

It began the moment a presidency decided that truth was whatever the president said it was.👇

I’m Keir for you: The PM is visiting a community center in London to discuss the impact. Expect a pooled interview with broadcasters mid-morning. There’s one quote on rising bills in his words trailed overnight that warrants chasing up: “I will always be guided by what is best for the British public. And no matter the headwinds, supporting working people and their families with the cost of living is always top of my mind.”

I mean, this just isn't true, is it? If Starmer was focused on the cost of living crisis he wouldn't insist on no customs union and no single market? Nor would he embrace the negative economic consequences of his anti-migrant policy?

Like everything else about Starmer, this is empty rhetoric.

WE ARE the BAD GUYS Now YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

Americans waking up to the reality that they were always the "Bad Guys"...!

Faith IS manipulation. Once you accept belief without evidence, you can believe anything.

All religion is irrational and each branch of the Abrahamic religions teaches believers that only it is the one true religion. Beliefs prevent understanding.

What's new? Religion poisons everything. Always has and always will.

Here's the thing about brown & black people. They're people.

Will flag shagging be on the Reform manifesto, then, along with many equally important policies?

The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall As the Iran disaster escalates, the US president should be seen as an enemy whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdal...

Simon tells it the way it is. Strong stuff, but hard to disagree with any of it.

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Time for revolution and mass mobilisation then.

People don't like Americans because many are uneducated and arrogant, due to that lack of geopolitical education. They are taught American elitism in school. It's great to be proud of your country, but never be arrogant, and ignorant, at the same time, it's not a combination that is admired.

"Speaking American" is the way many US movie actors mumble, in an effort to convey sincerity, for which English speakers on the European side of the pond often require subtitles.

‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

A raving lunatic in the White House

And an even bigger one in the Department of Defense (War!)

Coming to you soon - the Gileadification of the US....

.....or Civil War

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