Has Tony Blair learned nothing from the Iraq war which destroyed his reputation? There were no WMDs there & there is no nuclear weapon in Iran. Neither was Iran directly threatening anybody other than its own people. Starmer must stay out of it & Blair should get back in his box.
“Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment,” Cardinal Cupich continued, “as if it’s just another piece of content to be swiped through while we’re waiting in line at the grocery store.“
As a Labour supporter, I find it very difficult to understand the proposed changes to the immigration system. We are already suffering staff shortages in the NHS & care system, not to mention hospitality. We need immigrants. Stop trying to emulate Reform & do something left-wing!
Gullible Glenn did much more than just that. He is basically incapable of not falling for obvious Trump lies. Remember when he was crowing about Trump cutting the military before Trump called for--as anyone with a brain could predict--a massive increase?
'We're not going to take it any longer': Trump confirms US strikes on Iran Donald Trump has confirmed that the US has launched "major combat operations" against Iran in an eight-minute video on Truth Social. He said Tehran's "menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world". "For 47 years," Trump adds, "the Iranian regime has chanted 'Death to America' and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed." He references the US embassy crisis from 1979 and 1981, where 66 hostages were held for 444 days. "It's been mass terror, and we're not going to take it any longer. We'll bring you more of his words as we get them.
Sooner or later Trump’s going to stop boasting about all the wars he's ended and start boasting about all the wars he's started instead.
A fact which the BBC carefully overlooked in reporting Labour’s ‘crash’. The left-wing vote held up despite being split, while Reform came nowhere near winning.
Jon Sopel to Robert Jenrick ⬇️
"You were a Remainer when David Cameron was PM. You were a Brexiteer when Boris was."
"When the Tories are languishing in the polls, you’ve gone to the party that is leading in the polls."
Meanwhile, the decision to Brexit has never been less popular.
30% Right to leave
58% Wrong to leave
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The US is not our friend.
In the light of another couple of days of US tariff madness a reminder that survival is the only real aim when a kleptocratic psychopath is given ridiculous amounts of power by the richest and most armed country in the world.
You don't have a "special relationship" with a psychopath like the UK government may think. You shouldn't really take the moral high ground with others as some in the EU want to do. You don't loftily declaim all grubby deals.
You survive another day.
As we near the 10th anniversary of Brexit, with evidence the damage to our economy is even worse than predicted, time to remind ourselves of Brexit Battalions ‘Media Corps’ who pushed for and celebrated this. Good time to tag them in. Any apologies?
Rubio's speech at the MSC was not (and should not be) in the least bit reassuring for Europe, the fundamental substance not different to Vance last year
This US Admin and Europe no longer share the same values
This will continue to throw up risks in Ukraine, Greenland, big tech etc
Jim Ratcliffe’s greatest offence surely is making his billions off the UK & then buggering off to Monaco to avoid paying British taxes. And if he is going to criticise his country, he might at least get his figures right.
I’m not playing this stupid game with Reform or any of their multimillionaire groupies, vilifying immigrants and moaning about the benefits bill from their tax havens and Dubai penthouses. Then lying about what they said and why.
Reform is a racist party. Relying on racist votes for power. End of.
Wes Streeting saying on Today that Mandelson is ‘not the man we thought he was’ but the trouble is, he is exactly the man we thought, just on a much worse scale than almost anyone thought. And there is an alternative world where none of this is this govt’s problem, because they never gave him a job
I’m not sure ‘our national security developed vetting technique can be beaten if a candidate is prepared to lie’ is an especially helpful line to push.
One of the things about Mandelson and others mentioned in the Epstein Files is how untouchable they all believed themselves to be to commit so much damaging material to email.
Hard agree with Peter Jukes.
Article is by Iain Overton and Max Colbert, 25 April 2025.
Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.
The Economist coverage is grim but this is exactly how it should be reported.
economist.com/united-state...
Yes, the GOP controls Congress. That's why it's key to show Congress COULD stop the madness. And it's not just the DHS bill. Congress could repeal the prior multi-year $75b for DHS; set up a special investigative committee (cf. Watergate); amend the Insurrection Act; etc.
In any other country, what is happening right now in Minneapolis would be called ethnic cleansing.
Hey, we're getting to Greenland.
"I was going to leave it out of the speech..."
Apparently Greenland is going to be American because they defended it from the Nazis in World War II, which is bad news for Paris I guess.
At what point will Republicans acknowledge that their leader has some mental health issues & needs to be removed?
Right-wing journalists are appearing on Question Time more than twice as often as left-wing reporters, fresh research suggests
Imagine how much coverage this story would have received in normal times…
