In the words of Jon Sopel: "What the actual fuck?"
GB News has suggested migration in the UK is a "genocide" of white Brits.
Is conspiracy theory the only thing that can get through its guests' "dull, dead synapses"?
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“Yesterday Trump was, even by his own standards, the most rambling, downbeat and punctured I've seen him in years.”
Is calling the Iran war 'very much complete' - moments after oil prices spiked - Trump beginning to panic that his war has backfired?
"Tony Blair is apparently pissed off that his words came out."
Blair says Keir Starmer should be backing Trump's war in Iran – but does he want to be part of a conflict no one really understands "the point or purpose" of?
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"Tony Blair is apparently pissed off that his words came out."
Blair says Keir Starmer should be backing Trump's war in Iran – but does he want to be part of a conflict no one really understands "the point or purpose" of?
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"Tony Blair is apparently pissed off that his words came out."
Blair says Keir Starmer should be backing Trump's war in Iran – but does he want to be part of a conflict no one really understands "the point or purpose" of?
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“In Iran, if you cut off the head of the monster, other heads appear”.
As the war sends oil prices skyrocketing, is Trump preparing to stand down?
And if so, has any progress been made - or could the world, and the Iranian people, actually be worse off?
"It's clear Starmer has learnt from Iraq. Blair does not seem to have done so."
Tony Blair has said that Keir Starmer "should have backed America from the very beginning" in the Iran war.
Is the PM wise not to listen?
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"The Epstein Files have come and gone, as far as Trump is concerned – I don't think they've really touched him."
Would Trump invade Iran, and potentially go to the brink of World War 3, to distract from 38,000 mentions in the Epstein Files?
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"I've had people in my family on long term sickness benefits," says Lewis Goodall.
"I don't think that's a good place for them to be, and they themselves might say, over the long term, it's not a good place for them to be"
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Pete Hegseth celebrating the deaths of 100 Iranian soldiers was a "repellent" example of "bloodlust" never seen before, say Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall.
But is his big mistake thinking US military is loyal to Trump, over the Constitution?
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"Trump is going to claim victory in Iran, but he's going to stop the bombing within a week or two."
"Oil prices will be going up at the pumps in America, and Americans will start asking 'what the fuck are we doing in Iran?'"
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Keir Starmer describes the Green Party as extreme – but that might make sense if Hannah Spencer hadn't won the recent by-election on a cost of living message.
"When it was Reform winning, he treated those voters with respect," says Lewis Goodall
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"It shows the vapid insincerity and shallowness of Hollywood. They will stand and cheer a film about Tourette's, but don't want to be around a bloke who has it."
Has debate about John Davidson's N-word use at the BAFTA turned into a bullying campaign?
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"The Epstein Files have come and gone, as far as Trump is concerned – I don't think they've really touched him."
Would Trump invade Iran, and potentially go to the brink of World War 3, to distract from 38,000 mentions in the Epstein Files?
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“Senior military figures in the UK have told us we need to start thinking of ourselves not in a post-war state, but in a pre-war state“
Are we in the early days of WWIII?
"Real military commanders aren’t going 'woohoo, look how many people we killed today' - yet that was the tone of Hegseth yesterday."
"It was, frankly, repellent."
Is Pete Hegseth "revelling" in the deaths of Iranian sailors?
Pete Hegseth celebrating the deaths of 100 Iranian soldiers was a "repellent" example of "bloodlust" never seen before in US government , say Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall.
But is his big mistake thinking its military is loyal to Trump, over the Constitution?
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"The decision of the Netanyahu gov to act, drove America to act - as a supporter of Israel, I still find that very troubling".
Senator @markwarner.bsky.social says the US pursued "a war of choice" in Iran, and Trump can't expect allies to "to fall in line".
“It feels Trump has to chide Starmer for not playing ball, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that relationship rebounds”.
As Trump says Starmer is 'no Churchill', is this a turning point for the special relationship?
Or is Trump just teaching him a lesson?
"I've had people in my family on long term sickness benefits," says Lewis Goodall.
"I don't think that's a good place for them to be, and they themselves might say, over the long term, it's not a good place for them to be"
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"Trump is going to claim victory in Iran, but he's going to stop the bombing within a week or two."
"Oil prices will be going up at the pumps in America, and Americans will start asking 'what the fuck are we doing in Iran?'"
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"There's nothing left-wing or progressive about allowing people to be on benefits and lose the most fruitful, productive, years of their lives to a half-life."
With working-age welfare at £145b a year - is the system failing young people?
"The shadow of Iraq is hanging over 10 Downing Street," says Lewis Goodall.
"But that shadow isn't being cast on right-wing political parties and much of the right-wing press."
They, he adds, are beating a "steady drumbeat for war"
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"Netanyahu has tried to get every US president since the late 90s to act against Iran - none of them did," says @lewisgoodall.com.
"But this time, Trump basically bends over backwards to do whatever Netanyahu wants."
"I suspect in Starmer's mind he thought, 'I'm not going along with that'."
Keir Starmer describes the Green Party as extreme – but that might make sense if Hannah Spencer hadn't won the recent by-election on a cost of living message.
"When it was Reform winning, he treated those voters with respect," says Lewis Goodall.
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“Reform has become too online. They’re giving in to their more extreme fringe forces.”
A new poll puts the Green Party 2% behind Reform.
Is this because Reform is being driven by algorithms, and is their by-election loss last week proof of that?
"Keir Starmer responded to Reform wins by treating those voters with respect," says Lewis Goodall.
But when it's the Green Party, he says it's "extreme".
Why does Labour seem so shaken by the rapid rise of a "credible alternative" on the left?
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“For all we know, we could be in the middle of Keir Starmer’s finest hour”.
Starmer’s critics say he is imperiling the UK’s special relationship with the US...
But is it Donald Trump who's doing the damage?
"It shows the vapid insincerity and shallowness of Hollywood. They will stand and cheer a film about Tourette's, but don't want to be around a bloke who has it."
Has debate about John Davidson's N-word use at the BAFTA turned into a bullying campaign?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/how-...
