@petesalopian
Loves: tech, Wado Ryu, music, my Harley. Hates: Tories, Reform, Brexit. #FBPE. Views amalgamated from greater intellects. I miss Chris Hitchens dreadfully. Fund-me-bios blocked, 🚫bio=🚫Follow. Pics: Tolpuddle martyrs/Prisoner.
Nigel Farage aide George Cottrell is betting $41,000 that the US war with Iran will last for another four months, despite Reform UK calling for an end to the conflict.
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Obama. He made a deal with Iran, with international observation on site included. In 2015
Trump couldn't stand that. So he tore up the agreement with Iran in 2018. And bombed its centrifuge project last year. And now again.
Just because he could. And to deflect from the Epstein files Nothing else
Trump picked a racist antisemite for the state department.
Is anyone surprised?
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Gold edges higher on safe-haven demand ahead of US CPI data reut.rs/4lvsi3W
My second List in 24 hours. Marking major reform as the Hereditary Bill has finally passed. A new Civil Society Council is formed and the majority of water bill increases have been stopped. Good news for UK startups and those producing wind turbines. Labour is rebuilding Britain
#BBCNews - First Mandelson files expected to be published on Wednesday
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BBC is suggesting 15 new Tory life peers....by also alongside some retirements of existing life peers (probably the more inactive ones).
I agree with the variety of experts but not on them being clergy. A diversity of representatives from different faiths but not declaring any a state religion.
The next step should be removal of the Bishops. Religious seats have no place in a modern country.
COLLINS: Even the Heritage Foundation said they only found 100 instances of non-citizen voter fraud since 2000. That's out of 1.5 billion ballots.
SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: So, what are you afraid of? What are Democrats afraid of?
⚡️Moscow's own assessments reveal staggering losses in Ukraine, intelligence suggests.
According to classified Russian documents obtained by Ukraine's intelligence networks, more than 1,300,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and wounded since the start of the war in February 2022.
A bus caught fire in a Swiss town and police say at least six people were killed.
As US President Donald Trump expresses interest in talks with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, Reuters found China is moving to deepen its influence over North Korea through trade, diplomacy and new border infrastructure reut.rs/4sye0l7
When Robert Jenrick was Housing Minister, he rolled out a “Green Housing Revolution”:
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It includes Heat Pumps, reducing fossil fuels, solar, preventing climate change etc.
He’s now pretending he’s Mr Reform anti-Net Zero.
#BullshitBobby
Here he is!
Reform UK’s Leader in Durham Andrew Husband has posted boasting about Reform UK Councillor attendance.
What it’s highlighted is that his deputy Darren Grimes isn’t anywhere to be seen…
Not really breaking any news here.
It’s already clear that Hegseth is going to blame Iran for the bombing of the girls school since it was located near a military base, just like many American schools.
Satellite firm extends Middle East image delay to prevent use by US adversaries reut.rs/4bgYnYh
If Trump relied on Jared Kushner’s opinion that Iran was weeks away from a nuclear bomb when making his decision to go to war like he claims, that totally makes sense because Kushner is the most reliable source for intel on Iran nuke capabilities.
A new art installation by the anonymous artist collective Secret Handshake appeared this week on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., depicting figures representing President Donald Trump and the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
⚡️Russia committed crimes against humanity through deportation of Ukrainian children, UN inquiry finds.
The forced deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children by Russia throughout its full-scale war in Ukraine amounts to crimes against humanity, a UN investigation published on March 10 found.
Macron to host G7 leaders call on Iran crisis, energy prices reut.rs/4s4l8G4
The US will gain from this. Hollywood has been starved of material for ages. They need another "Black Hawk Down" moment.
In fairness to Trump, Netanyahu has not yet decided if US troops will be on the ground in Iran.
Democratic Senator Blumenthal said after a Trump administration Senate briefing on the Iran war: "I am more fearful than I have ever been. We may be putting boots on the ground." He said administration priorities remain unclear across nuclear capacity, missiles, regime change, and terrorism. #Iran
They won't... the current Iranian crisis is part of Putin's plan. Trump is lifting sanctions as oil goes through the roof. Russia will have money to conscript troops & rearm. The US surplus patriots bypassed Ukraine & went to various Gulf states ages ago, this has been a plan for a VERY long time.
Well done Ukraine.
I hope you now get something back from the countries you are helping - like extra funding or weapons to kick Russia out of Ukrainian territory!
Despite having to defend against Russia's ongoing full-scale invasion, Ukraine sent drone experts and Ukraine-produced interceptor drones to protect US bases in the Middle East from Russian-produced advanced Shahed drones. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Looks like the Tories are being offered 15 life peers¹ as part of the compromise; I am guessing the crossbenchers are being offered a similar proportion (10); which means the number of peers is decreasing by about 64.
¹ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
