Billions spent, lives lost, nothing significant achieved.
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Hungary's minister on the seized Oschadbank cash: "We will not return the money"
Budapest handed back the armored vehicles — but kept $40M, €35M and 9kg of gold, citing Ukraine's suspension of Russian oil transit through Druzhba euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/12/h...
Next stage of US tariffs just dropped - formal investigations into countries with goods trade surpluses with the US. Foregone conclusion it leads to tariffs.
But as with military adventurism - simplistic action and hype only delivers bad outcomes. www.hinrichfoundation.com/research/art...
Donald Trump at an election campaign stop in Pennsylvania in August 2024:
“Energy costs, all of it, air conditioning, heating, all of it, including gasoline, will drop by more than 50% within the first 12 months”
Concerns grow about the UK’s dependence on the US for its nuclear deterrent as the “special relationship” wobbles - my piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/politic...
"Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
one through-line for this administration is destructionism - destroy everything that actually improves or protects people's lives, from USAID to law-of-war obligations and beyond. it's not only incompetence, though it is that; really, it's malevolence.
The Trump administration currently has no viable way of reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Military escorts for tankers and other civilian ships are too dangerous to try, U.S. officials and military analysts told us: www.wsj.com/world/middle...
By sticking to the correct and popular position on Iran, even under relentless attacks from the right-wing press, Keir Starmer has forced his political opponents into an embarrassing reversal.
It is a lesson his Government should learn from bylinetimes.com/2026/03/10/n...
"In the last 24 hours both Farage and Badenoch have U-turned on their previous support for Britain joining Trump’s war, with both even daring to suggest that they had never really backed joining it in the first place."
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/10/n...
Almost 700,000 displaced, 84 children killed after Israeli strikes on Lebanon, UN agencies say reut.rs/4sHFmpf
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Reform UK Party Ltd is still overdue on submitting its (legally required) confirmation statement to Companies House.
But they have found time to, umm, fire and rehire a director...
The clearest indication yet of how extensive the UK-EU SPS agreement will be. Covers almost everything.
It also shows you where the current differences between the UK and EU lie (ie, what isn't included on the list): precision breeding/NGTs, veterinary meds, and (to a lesser extent) animal welfare.
The impact of Brexit on UK immigration - new research by @johnspringford.bsky.social & me for @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukandeu.bsky.social
Brexit
a) reduced EU-origin employees by 785K (2.3% of workforce)
b) increased non-EU origin employees by 992K (2.95%)
www.cer.eu/insights/imp...
Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
This is what ecocide looks like.
Coincidence or what? Around the time Thai resident Christopher Harborne, aka ‘Chakrit Sakunkrit’, made his first £9 million donation to Reform UK, Nigel Farage started repositioning the party as the most crypto-friendly British party. Harborne’s 12% stake in Tether is worth around $65 billion.
Iran-US war latest: Israel threatens to kill new supreme leader as strikes continue across Gulf
If Iran’s leadership is decapitated, what comes next? From regime survival to civil war, the futures now facing Tehran could reshape the Middle East. Read more: bloom.bg/4ue275E
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Glad people are finally talkinga bout white Christian nationalism more...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...
Reform UK under fire for selling Kent County Council's art works
The sale of more than 360 art works shows 'utter contempt' for local history, it has been claimed.
www.kentlive.news/news/kent-ne...
⚠️ Iran says the US attacked a desalination facility.
If true, this is a war crime.
A bunch of tweets all saying "No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris debris from a successful interception"
LOL looks like the bots are out in force
NEW: Watch this report just in from CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen. It is raining oil in Tehran this morning.
A city of 10 million is being actively poisoned.
(🎥 CNN)
Starmer’s Love Actually moment was deliberate because he believes in the rules-based world order - he was not bullied into it by Ed Miliband. My piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the rupture in the special relationship observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
However, more issues remain relevant today. In particular, the ongoing Operation Epic Fury is a US military operation. It will not be possible for the UK to exert any significant influence in its planning. Any participation will be - as it was in Iraq - in subordination to the US. As the Iraq inquiry report noted: "The US and UK are close allies, but the relationship between the two is unequal." Despite the UK providing significant military assets and personnel to Iraq, it failed to exert any significant influence on US decisions.
Would Farage, Badenoch, Johnson, Hannan, Blair, the Daily Mail, the Sun… like to comment on this?
No?
Thought not. Because their own raging inadequacy, dishonesty, arrogance, wrongness and startlingly cynical irresponsibility prevents them from being credible actors in this fireball of menace.
