Iona Craig

Phil Miller, the best doorstepper out there.

Let's not forget. The U.S. has form for lying about using Tomahawk missiles, especially when they kill lots of children.

This was 2009 under the Obama administration. 41 civilians killed including 21 children. The lie and coverup went on for years.

A reminder from 10 months ago, the last time Britain and Starmer signed up to a deadly Trump bombing campaign. A 53 day-long air war that resulted in more than 700 civilian casualties, a number the US and Israel has already surpassed inside a week.

And with such action comes consequence.

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Really can't be left unacknowledged that every single state in the region that houses US military personnel, except for maybe two, do so against the will of the supermajority of their own public's opinion but it does not matter because most of these states are US backed dictatorships.

I hate to say I told you so...

19 February: "UK has not given US permission to use RAF bases for Iran strikes"

1 March: "Keir Starmer gives United States permission to use UK bases to strike Iranian targets"

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4️⃣ Most worryingly, it was clear in Trump’s bombing of Yemen that the threshold for civilian harm was reduced.

At least 238 civilians were killed including 24 children in 342 US strikes. A further 467 civilians were injured including 31 children
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ENDS (for now)

3️⃣ Britain’s base at Diego Garcia was previously used by the US to deploy B-2 Spirit stealth bombers for multiple bombing runs into Yemen in 2025. It’s therefore unwise to rule that out on this occasion, no matter what the British govt says.
More on that 👇
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How Starmer aided Trump’s deadly bombing of Yemen Exclusive: Britain provided aerial refuelling for US jets during Yemen airstrikes that killed 53 people, including women and children.

2️⃣ Today Starmer talked about British “defensive operations” in the region. MoD said similar when I asked about RAF refuelling US fighter jets during bombing of Yemen. It was done “to aid the self defence” of the US. Britain went on to carry out its own strike.
www.declassifieduk.org/how-starmer-...

A few thoughts to throw in at this stage, going on recent history (2025) of a Trump air war.
1️⃣ Trump is unlikely to stick at this for the long and can/will declare victory when there is none. (see his 52 day-long bombing of Yemen that ended as quickly as it started and in so called “victory”)

Several major oil companies and trading houses have suspended oil and fuel shipments through the Strait of Hormuz amid the ongoing U.S.–Iran conflict, according to four trading sources.- Reuters

Almost a quarter of the 129 journalists and media workers killed in 2025 were Yemenis.

On 10 September 2025, in a single Israeli strike that deliberately targeted media outlets in Sana'a, 31 journalists and media workers were killed.

As one Yemeni friend in Aden put it recently:

“We’ve gone from being 50% occupied (by the UAE) to 100% occupied (by Saudi Arabia). Occupied always.”

- the latter being a reference to previously being “occupied” by the north since 1994.

Aden tonight.
Saudi Arabia may have made the STC leadership announce its dissolution while being strong-armed, but that Saudi forced abandonment hasn’t transferred to the streets of Aden. Their attempt to erase the STC from behind a microphone in Riyadh is backfiring.

Footage purportedly from tonight in Aden outside the Maashiq Presidential Palace compound. Reports of injuries.

*⚠️warning: sounds of heavy gunfire in this video⚠️*

Alarming video footage coming out of Aden tonight. Heavy gunfire directed at pro-STC protesters in front of the presidential palace.

Gaza death toll in early part of war far higher than reported, says Lancet study Research suggests more than 75,000 killed in the first 16 months of conflict, 25,000 more than announced at the time

More than 75,000 people were killed between 7 October 2023 and 5 January 2025 in Gaza, at least 25,000 more than the death toll announced by local authorities at the time, according to a study published in the Lancet medical journal www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving.

More on what happened after the turkeys voted for Christmas…

cc @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Israel demolishes the HQ of a UN agency in Jerusalem, and the UK government's response is to "condemn", "urge", "reiterate", and "call on" Israel.

With no sanctions or policy changes.

#DCUKparliament

So, to be clear...it IS ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety & to seek refuge in another country after all?.. Interesting 🤔.

Single male of fighting age no less, leaving wife & kids at home. Wonder if he stopped in the first safe country or kept moving? Bloody immigrants.

🔗 Read the full investigation here: raseef22.net/article/1101... 🧵 5/5

Such important work on Yemen by Mohammed Hafeez.

Thousands of demonstrators on the streets of Yemen’s capital Sana’a on 27 January 2011. The beginning of a year of protests and violence that brought to an end 33 years of rule by President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

On this day 15 years ago in Sana’a, Yemen.
27 January 2011. The start of what was to be a very long year of witnessing history unravelling.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the STC’s failed Southern Arabia ambitions have been replaced by southern Yemen being more aptly named: Southern Saudi Arabia. The kingdom now controls the government, the military and all entry and exit. Annexation is a strong word but it’s not far off the mark

In one of the pettier moves by the UAE, they’ve remotely shut down the two solar electricity stations in Aden. Not so petty if you’ve ever had to live through the heat and humidity of coastal southern Yemen without electricity.

The fallout from the Saudi-UAE confrontation that began in Yemen is now playing out in Sudan:

'Journalist Eiad Husham reports...“UAE support for Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces has increased” following recent developments in Yemen and is “expected to reach unprecedented levels in the coming weeks.”'

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Even the UAE’s football club is getting humiliated. Can’t blame the Saudis for this one…

MbS is now going after the UAE’s gold supply chain. The KSA-UAE confrontation was already well beyond ‘Gulf tensions’ but this is the next level.

A data visualisation illustrating the average rates of civilian harm in airstrikes carried out in Yemen in 2025, comparing the rate in Israeli strikes: 15.3 civilian casualties per strike and US/UK strikes: 2.02 civilian casualties per strike.

A graph illustrating the numbers of children killed and injured in air raids and strikes in Yemen every year since 2019. In 2025, Yemen Data Project recorded the highest child death toll since 2020.

A slide showing the total numbers for 2025 in Yemen: 393 strikes and 1,334 civilian casualties.

A data visualisation illustrating civilian casualties in strikes in Yemen during 2025, broken down into killed and injured by actor (US-UK or Israel). 327 civilians were killed, 1,007 killed.

Annual review of Yemen airstrikes.
In 2025 @yemendataproject.org recorded:
⚠️Highest number of civilian casualties since 2022
⚠️US responsible for >50% of 1,334 civilian casualties
⚠️Highest child death toll since 2020
⚠️Israeli strikes resulted in highest ever rate of civilian harm
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