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Badenoch denies calling for UK to join US-Israeli war on Iran Conservative leader accused of taking confusing position after she said Starmer should ‘do more than catch arrows’

Keir Starmer attacks Tory leader Kemi Badenoch for “screeching u-turn” on US intervention in Iran.

“If she were Prime Minister… we would be in the war, and she would be coming back to Parliament a week later to say, oh, sorry, I got that one wrong.”

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Looking back - Hatch at Crufts - Mary Rose In 2010, Hatch, the ship's dog of the Mary Rose, was exhibited at Crufts.

Sixteen years ago, 11th March 2010, Hatch, the ship's dog from the Mary Rose, made a starring appearance at one of the world's most prestigious dog shows, Crufts!

He didn’t win any prizes, but he did make a lot of new friends!

Upper Tribunal politely declines to hear the majority of immigration judicial reviews in Scotland - Free Movement The Upper Tribunal has held that judicial reviews should only be transferred in rare cases where it will benefit from its expertise.

New from FM: Upper Tribunal politely declines to hear the majority of immigration judicial reviews in Scotland | Iain Halliday

DON’T MENTION THE WAR!

#NigelFawlty

How and when to see the first Mandelson Files today Documents relating to Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to the United States will be released on Wednesday

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The documents should drop here on the gov.uk site.

Image showing the dictionary definition of “double standard.” The entry defines it as a set of principles applied differently, usually more strictly to one group or situation than to another.

The Achilles’ heel of our democracies

Is that too much to hope for? I am tired.

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Richard, you're certainly not alone. How did we get in this horrifying situation? I still believe in the United Nations because talking is always better than fighting. Sadly, the rich nations have ensure that the UN is not able to function as intended.

This is the reason Baillie continues to dog our NHS opening the doors down the road to privet health insurance 😡😡

You really should be using Alt Text.

A satirical statue of Donald Trump and late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has appeared in Washington DC

The statue was placed by anonymous artists who also erected one of Trump and Epstein holding hands titled 'Best Friends Forever' back in September

Some cattle on a Dartmoor country lane, having a snack before embarking on the long journey to Todmorden in West Yorkshire, which one of them had heard was nice.

The same cattle further on the lane, including Carol at the rear, who is already having misgivings and missing home.

People in cities think nothing dramatic ever happens in villages but that’s not true. In our village the summer before last the cattle pushed over a fence and escaped from John and Rita’s field and lots of people still talk about it to this day and some of those people don’t even live in the village

58% say YES to Scottish independence. That’s not a fringe—it’s a majority. Yet Westminster clings to economic control while Scotland fuels the UK’s energy, whisky, and exports. Independence isn’t a dream—it’s overdue. #Scotland #IndyRef2

I think we all know YES is really in the 60% region.

We need to start taking a leaf out of the MSM's book in how they present Reform as the next UK Government, based on polling (even though they currently only have 8 MPs), and therefore talk about #ScottishIndependence as inevitable.

So ol' Petey Warcrimes hasn't gotten his new shoes yet?

"YOU'LL GET YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU GET THEM! STOP ASKING ME ABOUT THE GODDMAN SHOES!"

Marco Rubio greets Chuck Schumer in January 2026 at the Capitol Visitor Center

A close-up of his foot shows his shoes are too big

hmm

JD Vance says Trump crudely mocked politician’s manhood after asking his shoe size Vice President JD Vance related a below-the-belt joke by Donald Trump, saying he wouldn’t publicly “embarrass” another politician by talking about his small shoe size.

They've reportedly been telling him their shoe sizes are about 13 or so because they're scared he'll say they've got tiny willies.

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Hearsay but very funny hearsay bsky.app/profile/ditz...

Right, it’s time to start explaining this to the public in straightforward terms, before things get any worse. Starmer is getting the chop anyway, so there’s nothing to lose.

Do you notice how that entirely accurate summary also implies these dorks then went along with the genocide, because *not* then going along with it would’ve been very awkward and would’ve raised difficult questions? It does! And no need for any weird racist implications either.

“We, your smart political/media class, all hate the left and wanted them destroyed, so we all quietly agreed to play along with the bullshit and shenanigans of a pack of none-too-bright party insiders pushing an extremely cynical and deeply unpleasant fraud”. Boom! Explained in full.

I go back to what I said in 2023/24: you are going to have to explain all of this absolutely appalling insane shit to the public in blunt and simple terms, or the job of explaining it will fall to racists and other shitehawks. And it’s not even that hard to explain!

Josh Glancy @joshglancy X.com Something quite poignant about seeing someone whose erudition you admire descend into rank and banal conspiracy theorising William Dalrymple • @DalrympleWill •7h Hence the shameful support for ethnic cleansing & genocide. "Israel lobby funded half of Keir Starmer's cabinet. Labour's top team has accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds from pro-Isra... 08:51 • 11/03/2026 • 4.9K Views {7 4 5 Relevant < 50 5 Josh Glancy @joshglancy •1h There is, btw, an influential pro-Israel lobby and donors in Labour politics. As well as many other lobbies and donors. But the idea that Zionist money has an iron grip on policy is pernicious nonsense

This guy 100% knows this is what happened by the way, since the same party clowns then did much the same shit to his own colleague *because that guy published a story about the same secret bung from the same squillionaire*. What I’m saying here is no revelation, to him.

This looks bad; it is a goldmine for the worst conspiracy theorist racists. But! It wasn’t the conspiracy theorist racists who secretly did all this stuff, and it wasn’t them who airhorned McSweeney’s drivel at the public while pretending not to see the shenanigans, then pretending it didn’t happen.

Ultimately, you have to deal with the reality that Morgan McSweeney took a huge secret bung from a rabid Israel partisan millionaire; used it to fund a series of abysmal stunts aimed at helping the Tories to beat his party, then Labour helped to facilitate the destruction of Gaza.

Hmm, well. It is IMO true that the driving factor in Labour politics for years has been the factional shitehousing, viciousness and open hate of its ruling right wing faction. On the other hand, they couldn’t have tied themselves more tightly to the most crackpot Israel wingnuts.

Dear everyone,

As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.

A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

I will never forget when Trump had a campaign style event on a ship and the US Navy clapped and cheered him on. Made me sick to my stomach. The Navy owes the American citizens an apology.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now, according to sources familiar ..

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