Ground troops were set in to the Gallipoli peninsula to clear the Turkish defences, so that the British ships could pass.
The result was an unimaginable quagmire.
timeline cleanse
The world is rightly concerned w/a potential water war in the Gulf, but there is silence (outside of expat media) of the crisis currently happening in Cuba. W/regular blackouts that can last for days & the lack of fuel to pump water, diseases are spreading & taps are running dry. Where's the media?!
Former political prisoner Nasrin Parvaz reads a letter to Keir Starmer signed by more than 100 pro-democracy, pro-justice and anti-war British-Iranians, including other former Evin detainees Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Aras Amiri. Full list of signatories is at togetherforiran.org
When is Global Britain not Global? When being Global involves black and brown people coming to the UK.
Expect someone is already planning a Masters course in International Stupid!
The experts can but laugh
@msnowreports.bsky.social
youtu.be/aLCGK4894MI?...
“This war increasingly feels like a contest between an "all hardware, no strategy" United States and a "less hardware, lots of strategy" Iran, at least as far as the war of words is concerned.”
Laura Tingle
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago.
Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago
Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.
Fascinating convo with Rana Dasgupta. Long but well worth listen.
@novaramedia.com @aaronjbastani.bsky.social
youtu.be/Mo88imJNWkU?...
The Size of the country on whether it’s susceptible to interference is irrelevant, what matters is the checks and balances in place, how it copes with its own internal problems etc….
This thinking is worth your time.
The World Order is About to COMPLETELY Change | Aaron Bastani talks to author Rana Dasgupta for @novaramedia.com
about his book "After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order" harpercollins.co.uk/products/aft...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo88...
Autumn 🍂 🇦🇺
Cavalier
"I miss the Greens under Caroline Lucas"
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This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?
Not sure about the clickbait headline but this was a thoroughgoing analysis by AS and KK
@restispoliticsus.bsky.social @scaramucci.bsky.social @kattybkay.bsky.social
youtu.be/UPty4473dTY?...
He will spend billions of our hard-earned dollars killing school girls in Iran to distract from all the school girls he and his buddies raped on Epstein Island and at Zorro Ranch.
We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.
Buy the sky and sell the sky
And bleed the sky and tell the sky,
Don't fall on me (what is it up in the air for?) (it's gonna fall)
Suzanne Maloney "To understand where the Islamic Republic is headed, it's important to understand how the Republic came to be." Talk delivered one week prior to the joint US-Israeli strikes of February 28, 2026 and the war that has subsequently broken out.
Q&A 👍
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed1A...
Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario:
Hello from haulage where tomorrow I'm phoning every customer to jack up their rate cards which otherwise would last for the year. Cheers Don, useless wanker.
