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US has burned through ‘years’ of munitions since start of Iran war Rapid depletion of stockpile including Tomahawk missiles raises pressure on Trump over cost of conflict

Apparently the USA used about two and a half years of their recent new supply of Tomahawks in the first 100 hours of this conflict

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13.03.2026 06:43 👍 84 🔁 30 💬 5 📌 5

❗️The US has issued a 30-day sanctions waiver allowing countries to buy Russian oil currently stranded at sea, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced. The license covers roughly 124 million barrels across 30 locations and runs through April 11. #Russia

13.03.2026 06:53 👍 140 🔁 40 💬 28 📌 5
Letter To The Editor headed "We're not broke", which appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 13 March 2026. The author refutes a previous correspondent's assertion that the UK is "almost bankrupt" and so cannot afford to be a member of the European Union. A closer trading relationship with the EU and eventually rejoining will create great opportunities to boost the UK economy, this writer argues.

Letter To The Editor headed "We're not broke", which appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 13 March 2026. The author refutes a previous correspondent's assertion that the UK is "almost bankrupt" and so cannot afford to be a member of the European Union. A closer trading relationship with the EU and eventually rejoining will create great opportunities to boost the UK economy, this writer argues.

Is #Brexit Britain "almost bankrupt", meaning we can't afford #EuropeanUnion membership?

Or...

Is the state of the #UKEconomy so precarious we can't afford to ignore the opportunities #EU membership would open up?

👇 Letter in today's @yorkshirepost.co.uk 👇

#RejoinEU #BrexitReality #Yorkshire

13.03.2026 06:08 👍 38 🔁 16 💬 4 📌 0

Complaining about & blaming Keir Starmer for a long-scheduled, still uncertain, six month distant increase in fuel prices literally *hours* after calling for more war in the Middle East is quite the flex. These are not serious people.

12.03.2026 09:21 👍 2759 🔁 525 💬 103 📌 10
Staggering Revelations in the Epstein Files!
Staggering Revelations in the Epstein Files! YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner

The walls are closing in.

youtu.be/uwkoXi-NA3Y?...

12.03.2026 21:28 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Russia’s deportations of Ukrainian children were crimes against humanity, UN probe concludes Nearly 80 percent of the children documented to have been snatched by Russia have not been returned to Ukraine, a U.N. report finds.

Russia committed crimes against humanity by deporting Ukrainian children, a United Nations inquiry said today — with President Vladimir Putin’s involvement in the policy “visible from the outset.”

12.03.2026 21:30 👍 81 🔁 37 💬 4 📌 4
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CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than “in a Burqa” Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.

Disabled people tried to warn you.

We said the “better off dead” narrative being weaponized against us would be used for other groups of people.

The fascists won’t ever stop. They see everyone else as less than. Expendable. Not worthy of life.

Its eugenics on a massive scale

08.03.2026 09:39 👍 592 🔁 312 💬 27 📌 16

What a thread.

08.03.2026 11:41 👍 610 🔁 175 💬 27 📌 3

Belgium is a smaller country than the UK & obviously in EU. It can't really control it's land borders however FOM is controlled through IDs & registration. Successive UKGovs could have made the case & put in place a system but haven't.

06.03.2026 17:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Iceland locks in on date for EU referendum | Euractiv As a member of the European Economic Area, Iceland is already aligned with much of the bloc's legislation

Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.

A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.

06.03.2026 12:26 👍 11755 🔁 2315 💬 223 📌 126
GB News has lost £131.5m to
date
Cumulative losses in £

GB News has lost £131.5m to date Cumulative losses in £

Keep not watching GB News guys... it's lost £131.5m to date but I'm sure it can do a lot worse than that.

04.03.2026 21:54 👍 1144 🔁 255 💬 109 📌 35

Surely an injustice! No doubt this statement means Goodwin is "deeply concerned" that some voters, egged on by Danny Kruger's ideas of 'traditional family values', may have coerced their relatives into voting for the "sectarianism" of Reform.

27.02.2026 18:42 👍 61 🔁 17 💬 7 📌 2

As revealed by my colleague @adambienkov.bsky.social last year, the BBC drew up a strategy to appeal more to Reform voters.

Might be waiting a while for them to do the same for Green voters...

04.03.2026 16:08 👍 298 🔁 78 💬 6 📌 0
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AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do

05.03.2026 01:34 👍 21550 🔁 5922 💬 393 📌 220

The tendency observers shaped by GWOT-era failures to reach back to Pape's work in criticising US DoD belief in airpower's ability alone to achieve specific strategic objectives has led to less attention to the broader impact of the sheer carnage American airpower has unleashed since 1941

05.03.2026 08:32 👍 80 🔁 19 💬 5 📌 3

Er, she’s right. As ever.

05.03.2026 21:35 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

In 2020, trump said it was “stupid” that America spent trillions on Middle East conflicts while our healthcare, roads, and schools needed fixing.

Now look what he’s doing.
Same wars. Same costs.
Same neglect at home.

The only thing that changed was the excuse.

05.03.2026 05:45 👍 1135 🔁 541 💬 72 📌 22
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NEW: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the United States has asked Ukraine for help intercepting Iranian-made Shahed drones, citing Ukraine’s battlefield expertise. Zelenskyy said any assistance will come only if it does not weaken Ukraine’s own defenses.

04.03.2026 23:34 👍 5668 🔁 1517 💬 761 📌 409
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If these people are found to be working for a foreign power, Keir Starmer will be personally responsible. Whereas when a senior Reform colleague is jailed for ten years for taking bribes from Russia, that is nothing to do with me.

04.03.2026 18:17 👍 489 🔁 130 💬 14 📌 1

If Trump really can’t control Netanyahu, it seems at least feasible that Iran becomes Gaza 2.0, up to & including the hideous pretence that they bomb a land to smithereens to somehow help the people living there.

05.03.2026 07:44 👍 925 🔁 188 💬 89 📌 6
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Rep. Thomas Massie has claimed that key members of his team were offered prestigious jobs in the Trump administration in an effort to stall legislation that would have forced the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files...

04.03.2026 12:57 👍 1462 🔁 600 💬 75 📌 34
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Is the BBC biased against Keir Starmer? Polls suggest that people think that this government, and Keir Starmer, are in permanent crisis. Is that because the BBC told us this?

A new analysis of 95 posts by BBC political editor Chris Mason suggests the issue may not be accuracy – but framing.

No single headline is inaccurate. Impartiality rules appear unbroken. But repeated talk of “predicament”, “backlash” & “U-turn” frames a misleading story of permanent crisis..

05.03.2026 07:19 👍 159 🔁 53 💬 28 📌 6
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The reality behind the Home Office's latest announcement on asylum work and study visas The Home Office has made another announcement ahead of tomorrow’s statement of changes.

I have written up some context and analysis of the latest Home Office nonsense

open.substack.com/pub/thoughts...

04.03.2026 09:08 👍 36 🔁 25 💬 4 📌 8
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

05.03.2026 07:15 👍 17229 🔁 6008 💬 517 📌 493
Advert for a new bus company Gipsyy for a Paris to Bourdeaux (sic) trip available for 25% off with code TRIP25

Advert for a new bus company Gipsyy for a Paris to Bourdeaux (sic) trip available for 25% off with code TRIP25

Ah yes, the famous town called Bourdeaux

03.03.2026 06:45 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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The real ‘immigration crisis’ If we genuinely want to reduce immigration, perhaps we should look at the root causes, and stop funding foreign wars

The real ‘immigration crisis’

If we genuinely want to reduce immigration, perhaps we should look at the root causes, and stop funding foreign wars

By Jenny Harrison

03.03.2026 06:54 👍 83 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 1

🚨🚨 I hope this finally put an end to the incredibly non-sensical and factually distorted narrative of "Russia is winning the war". On the contrary, it is losing and will lose faster if #west and the traitorous #trump regime gives military and financial backing. /1

02.03.2026 16:59 👍 93 🔁 49 💬 3 📌 0
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Reform UK tables £65m in cuts and council tax rise in its first county council budget Reform UK run Lancashire County Council has set its first budget, promising better services for residents while making £65m in cuts.

The people of Lancashire are discovering that a Reform council expects them to pay more for less. Is anyone surprised?

www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/2590095...

03.03.2026 06:58 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Announcements from our Labour Government - most unreported by BBC, radio and the media.

The big one is the crack down on public sector fraud saving taxpayers £7.5bn.

Share far and wide we need to do the job of our media.
👏👏👏👏

03.03.2026 06:24 👍 90 🔁 58 💬 9 📌 1
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Suella Braverman Handed Brutal Reality Check By Leader Of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo pointed out she even got his job title wrong.

Suella Braverman Handed Brutal Brexit Reality Check By Leader Of Gibraltar

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/suella...

01.03.2026 07:54 👍 64 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 4