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Trump begs other countries including UK to help defend oil tankers in U-turn Less than a week ago, the US President declared the war in Iran was "already won" - dismissing reports the UK was preparing the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales to deploy to the region

Donald Trump begs other countries including UK to help defend oil tankers in humiliating U-turn
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We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.

A company being awarded UK Government contracts👇🏻

We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.

Farage forgets which country he aims to govern In domestic and foreign policy, the British right’s vulnerability is its America-worship

"Because he dresses like a cartoon Englishman of the counties, the extent to which Farage is a creature of the US has been overlooked by the public. No longer, perhaps."

We may have six destroyers but only three are operational. The other three are in maintenance or refit

Badenoch said if she was prime minister HMS Dragon would have left a week ago. Presumably with its doors hanging off and with no weapons onboard.

Culture war latest: the Bank of England has announced that after a public consultation, to which it received 44,000 responses, the next new banknotes will feature native wildlife.
Tories: "It is deeply depressing that under Lab our national heroes are considered too 'divisive' to be on bank notes."

Nigel Farage accused of U-turn as he says UK should keep out of Iran war Reform leader’s latest comment contrasts with earlier statement that ‘gloves need to come off’ * UK politics live – latest updates Nigel Farage has been accused of making a U-turn after he said Britain should not get involved in Donald Trump’s war with Iran. His comments on Tuesday contrasted with his previous assertion that the “gloves need to come off” when dealing with Iran. Continue reading...

Nigel Farage accused of U-turn as he says UK should keep out of Iran war

Nigel Farage's Humiliating Iran U-Turn Should Be a Lesson for Keir Starmer By sticking to the correct and popular position on Donald Trump's Iran war, the Prime Minister has now forced his political opponents into an embarrassing reversal, argues Adam Bienkov

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...

Cuba?

Would this be the same Iran conflict Kemi Badenoch has just spent an entire week calling Keir Starmer a coward for not wanting to join?

Helluva way for the president to refer to dead soldiers — soldiers killed in a war he started.

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Lewis Goodall: 'You would welcome Iranians on small boats?' YouTube video by LBC

A reminder that if you back regime change (morally) you ought to accept the likely consequences. www.youtube.com/shorts/Uuber...

Kemi Badenoch accused of insulting armed forces for saying RAF 'hanging around' in the Middle East The Tory leader said British forces needed to stop Iranian missiles being launched rather than just intercepting them.

If you ever had any doubt about the political ineptitude of Kemi Badenoch then her interventions on Iran should surely settle your mind

I'm very much against historical whataboutery but if the historically illiterate Trump wants to play that game I've got my fucking tennis shorts on

At least this clarifies matters -if the government pursue Mahmood's proposals on "earned settlement"/ILR they will be explicitly allying themselves with Lam and Jenrick's ethnonationalist agenda.

Zelensky has done everything he possibly can to satisfy this admin while he fights a war of survival for his people. And the Trump admin has done nothing but repeatedly treat him with disrespect, scorn & ridicule. 2 days ago, Trump called him “PT Barnum.” This is how Z responds.

Those proud bastions of free speech Reform UK banned @willhaycardiff.bsky.social from their manifesto launch because they are scared of the scrutiny he would provide. Imagine what these cowards will do in power.

Zelensky highlighting the moral and strategic poverty of the USA under Trump. In the last year Trump has ended all military aid for Ukraine, has undermined Ukrainian air defense, has tried to bully Ukraine in handing over territory, and has rolled out the red carpet for Putin.

And now the USA is desperate for Ukrainian help because the Trump administration is incompetent in defense matters and Ukraine knows what it is doing.

Any chance Trump has the decency to say thanks?

Teachers are underpaid so I’m going somewhere where I don’t have to pay the taxes that pay them.

There are currently 2,200 No Kings Day events planned in all 50 states, DC, and a dozen countries.

Find your local event (or start a new one) and join us on March 28 for the largest protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

This article was amended on 5 March 2026. An earlier version said low-skilled workers would “receive immediate access to welfare and social housing” if Labour did not make them wait longer to apply for settlement. In fact, settlement status only gives people the eligibility to apply for welfare and social housing, it does not give them instant or automatic access to such benefits. This has been clarified. From breaking news to huge investigative proje

Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing".

Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined They don't know what they want to achieve, why they're doing it or what the consequences might be. They are lost in the void.

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

The Wrexham, Shropshire and Midlands Railway would restore a direct link to the capital from North Shropshire and would bring huge benefits. I was pleased to make this case to the Government when I joined neighbouring MPs and others at Downing Street earlier this week.

Get yourself a cuppa, sit down, and spend 5 minutes on this (yet another excellent Emma Monk) thread.
You will learn how certain parts of the press and media, and some political talking heads, work.
And hopefully you will then call them out for ever more.

Superb column John, thanks very much

I've got a tip for the PM that's going to blow his mind. If he thinks about the documents he puts his name to, he'll have to spend less time distancing himself from them.

Paul Conroy’s Last Photo Essay: Cuba’s Moment of Reckoning Veteran war photographer and correspondent Paul Conroy died of natural causes a day after returning from Cuba with this report of another city under siege. He never stopped bearing witness

🔴 Paul Conroy’s Last Photo Essay: Cuba’s Moment of Reckoning,

Veteran war photographer and correspondent Paul Conroy died of natural causes a day after returning from Cuba with this report of another city under siege. He never stopped bearing witness

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