Sam Green 🌻

I detect an alarming rise in food-based political commentary

Proposed law change will protect abusive men who push women to suicide, campaigners warn Charity criticises new measures that would make it harder for inquests to pass verdict of unlawful killing

"Ministers want to make it harder for inquests to pass verdicts of unlawful killing, which have been crucial in getting justice for women who committed suicide after suffering abuse."

I don't think anyone expected Labour would change course after its electoral drubbing but this is 🤯

That's it? A reporter got expelled for that picture, seriously. I'd hate to see what a truly unflattering picture of him would look like.

Labour government's comms have been woeful, and they've got a lot of stuff just plain wrong. But also:

They do realise that there are parts of this country where the union flag is irrelevant as a symbol. I'm thinking of Wales specifically.

Could be worse. In order to avoid controversy, all Euro notes feature bridges. In order further to avoid controversy, they're all fictional. Or they were until the folk of the Dutch town of Spijkenisse took it upon themselves to build them. Now all Euro notes feature bridges from just one Dutch town

This being said, however... The UK's 'defence only' stance doesn't stop our bases from being offensively by the Americans. The Spanish approach is very much the exception. So Polanski is half right, the UK is not involved but we could still be indirectly complicit in Amero-Israeli war crimes.

Old farthing with bird on it

Animals on money?

Perish the thought that patriotic British people would ever countenance such a thing.

Labour has been hoping that it can abandon left wing and progressive politics, and that the trade unions they were founded by – and who pay their bills – would just put up with it. Looks like that is no longer the case.

Given how utterly obnoxious LED signs and billboards are, I'm kinda surprised that no-one has developed a one that uses a giant e-paper type display.

I get it, modernist architecture isn't to everyone's taste but things would get very boring if everywhere looked like Poundbury.

What, what? Ground troops in Iran?! I knew Trump was crazy but I didn't think he'd be *that* crazy.

I loathe Mahmood.

Everything she does is about performative cruelty.

Racist, performative, cruelty.

That's it.

"write to your mp"
They ignore me for 3 weeks then send the latest copy/paste from HQ
"then call your MP"
After waiting on hold a staffer tells me to email instead.
"then turn up in person"
Shes never there
"then vote in a better MP"
You told me if I don't vote labour then I deserve the Reform camps

Morons. Jesus Christ, how low do we have to go before someone says 'ENOUGH'?

Trump & US military showing just how dumb they really are.

Looking back at planning horizon for this war, it implies just a few months after dismissing 🇺🇦's anti-drone technology, Trump and Hegseth were starting to plan attacks against 🇮🇷 ...
a country that had major stockpiles of Shahed drones 🙃

Three professional drone teams from Ukraine have arrived in the Middle East in order to support efforts to neutralize Iranian drones. The first 3 countries being supported are Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates.

This has been confirmed by President Zelenskyy.

New More in Common poll finds that 55% of British voters want Keir Starmer to prioritise "standing up to Trump", compared to just 27% who say he should prioritise working with him.

74% say they want British forces to have either no involvement in the Iran war or to just offer defensive cooperation.

It's nice that YouGov are publishing to Bluesky but they've been rocking an Invalid Handle for about a week and it's bugging me.

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Every country should start punishing the US immediately. Sanctions. Sell treasury bonds.

It's an environmental issue. It's a humanitarian issue. It's a production issue. That pedophile demon loves talking shit about every single country that isn't his. He's no ally. So give him a dose of reality!

It’s cool that this generation gets to find out the answer to “what would you have done when we started interning the Japanese?” and “what would you have done when we invaded Vietnam?” and “what would you have done in Watergate?” all at the same time.

Unfortunately, racists of colour are a phenomena not unique to the United States. See the UK

4 of the 6 most recent British Home Secretaries were
Black or Asian, and all have promoted racist policy.

The chairman of Reform UK is Muslim but his party promotes 'Remigration'; race based deportations.

Yeah, no shit. Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth ICC indictments, when?

As many who follow me know, I have been a strong critic of Starmer, for solid and logical reasons.

But his decision, albeit grudging and late, to find a backbone and stand up to Trump is one I endorse unequivocally.

(That doesn't give him a magic pass on all the unrelated stupid stuff he's doing.

This being said, however... The UK's 'defence only' stance doesn't stop our bases from being offensively by the Americans. The Spanish approach is very much the exception. So Polanski is half right, the UK is not involved but we could still be indirectly complicit in Amero-Israeli war crimes.

What part of stay firmly out of Trump's mess doesn't Keir Starmer get. He started out with the right words but he is gradually drifting towards complicity in a war crime that will cause damage for years.

To see the right in the UK demand the country follows a US leader in his requirements for tribute to aggression with no plan devalues them and their arguments on any foreign relations. The radicalised traumatised right of politics resemble the revolutionary left of my childhood.