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📌 ICYMI — 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
"Hands up if you flew 4,400 miles to kiss the arse of a tangerine turd, only for him to ignore you"
No principles, no morality, no information, no expertise, just endlessly appeasing Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and assorted billionaires and foreign oligarchs or chasing the next headline, until suddenly colliding with reality. Bang, oof.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
I'm a 63-year-old cis progressive with no personal connection with any trans people and I absolutely loathe the government for this too.
It's completely unacceptable and entirely in opposition to what one would expect from the Labour party.
I generally assume that political parties know what their constituencies think better than the rest of us do: they spend so much money on polling and focus groups.
But I would be *amazed* if they understood how viscerally they are loathed by young progressives for pushing trans people under a bus.
Green MP Hannah Spencer with a ton of post, smiling in front of a brick wall
New Green MP Hannah Spencer just picked up her post in Parliament - there's a lot of fan mail (judging by the postcards). She has her maiden speech on Thursday.
It's reassuring to see though that genocide is a disqualifying condition.
As an #ActuallyAutistic person, telling me I must learn something pointless just to prove I'm willing to do so is guaranteed to elicit a no from me.
I'm absolutely not willing to waste my time learning something pointless.
Maybe HMG should start testing people on their actual abilities instead?
Why the hell does anybody need to know the height of the London Eye?
I'm a UK citizen of Anglo-Saxon/German descent, one of whose ancestors was the English novelist Samuel Richardson (1689-1761).
I have no idea how high the London Eye is.
🔴 Nigel Farage’s Humiliating Iran U-Turn Should Be a Lesson for Keir Starmer
By sticking to the popular position on Donald Trump’s Iran war, the Prime Minister has now forced his political opponents into an embarrassing reversal, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/10/n...
Screeching 180 from Reform leader Farage who’s gone from Trumpian “Bomb the Islamists” to “We cannot get involved directly in another foreign war, we don’t have a Navy, we can’t even defend our own military base in Cyprus” overnight.
He’s seen the polling showing the public don’t support the war.
You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.
I hope Ukrainian companies stay away from these two chumps. Or let them get swindled in the worst possible way by some scammers; that'll be some justice.
Keir Starmer is privatising the NHS 🚨🚨🚨
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/whos-makin...
Would you trust Kwarteng with £215,000 of your money?
Thank God for Cameo, eh?
Keir Starmer wants to undermine and restrict a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy - a shameful act of constitutional vandalism for which he has no mandate.
Labour MPs must see through his outrageously dishonest propaganda pieces and VOTE AGAINST it
"Falsehood flies, and Truth comes limping after it; so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late."
Swift: never one to an infinitive split.
But also, this.
"Falsehood flies, and Truth comes limping after it; so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late."
From 1941 to 1952 in the UK, the top rate of income tax was 98%. A luxury goods purchase tax introduced in 1940 later rose to 100%.
Result? The share of incomes captured by the richest 0.1% fell from 7% in 1937 to just over 1% in 1975. That's what we need today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wasn't intending to turn this into a thread, but it seems to have happened anyway.
It's about the great plague on our lives: the extreme wealth of a tiny number of people.
And what to do about it.
It probably shouldn't be legal for politicians to receive gifts, donations or pay from other governments. Particularly not ones that have been spying on us.
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Yes indeed.
Kwarteng is exactly the kind of guy I would trust with £215,000 of my money!
What does it say about Farage that he would trust Kwasi Kwarteng with his money?
There is no accountability for these grifting charlatans. Nothing. They torch the economy for everyone else, make everyone’s life harder, fail abysmally, lie to us all and yet, on they go. Scamming away.
No shame. No comeuppance.
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
UK democracy in action.
Thousands of unpaid carers prosecuted for inadvertently breaching benefit rules.
No Post Office exec prosecuted for false prosecutions of postmasters.
In 2017, 72 people died in Grenfell fire. Execs “deliberately concealed” the fire risks of cladding. No one prosecuted.
We are facing an energy crisis. Britain is the worst exposed in Europe with only 2 days gas supply stored. If only we had our own gas to exploit. Or our own oil. Or our own coal.... Blame @Ed Miliband (Allison Pearson on X)
If only we had clean, renewable energy and were not beholden to a dirty, expensive, dangerous commodity that pollutes our environment and is the source of most of our geopolitical woes.
From mandatory ID cards to arresting pensioners for holding up cardboard signs to cosy deals with US tech spy firms:
It's good to see lawyers pushing back on their increasingly authoritarian Govenrment.
We must protect jury trials.
thought the name rang a bell and though he's poshified himself - once upon a time he was "Craig Dillon" - I interviewed this guy back in 2019 as he was doing social media for MPs in a vaguely interesting way - crucially, he seemed entirely normal back then! yet another radicalisation case
