Neil Jeffares

I can't help wonder if Trump's conversion to foreign warfare is driven by the need to keep up with his friend Bibi, who has a battle-hardened military with an outstanding record of efficient slaughter and destruction. A must-have for Trump, with actual experience a major selling point for industry

Quite. Perhaps the thought of (the first 5000) US troops putting "boots on ground", and the first bodybags coming back, will bring this home to them. Maybe they should ask their grandparents about Vietnam

This has always seemed to me the silliest category confusion

But it is not the sound one expects to hear from a Labour government headed by a supposedly left-wing human rights barrister

See also entry in the online Dictionary of pastellists: www.pastellists.com/Articles/Bas...

Do read my entry carefully as this is not a straightforward copy

And anyway, when did you last see a bank note?

I shall have all prizes, as Humphy-Trumpty said

Rosalba's little boy, hitherto known only as Le fils du consul Le Blond J.21.065, executed 1726/27
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can now be identified as Charles-Gaetan-Marie Le Blond (Venice .iii.1724 – Charly-sur-Marne 29.ix.1739),
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Home Office Home Office refuses to exempt exceptional students from tough immigration rules Exclusive: Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper concerned about student visa ban on female Chevening scholars from volatile countries such as Afghanistan Pippa Crerar Political editor Tue 10 Mar 2026 The Home Office rejected an appeal from the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, that would have protected outstanding students in some of the world's most dangerous countries from changes to the UK's immigration system, the Guardian understands.

That Starmer keeps Mahmood in post shows this is not just the actions of an inhumane Home Secretary, but a deeper rooted ideology of hostility and xenophobia within this government. No-one benefits from blocking Chevening scholars. This is cruelty for sake of it.
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I think we all know the answer to this question.
Including as to why the BBC (Robbie Gibb et al) won’t be disclosing it.

But on one condition: the victims must not want to die, however ill they are and however much pain they are in

Those (including Starmer) who can now see that the attack on Iran must be opposed as a breach of international law must explain why they ignored Israel's illegal conduct for decades, creating a climate in which international law could be disregarded by "civilised" Western democracies

Pope Leo XIV Sees What America Won’t Admit Cardinal Parolin warns of a world “set ablaze.” Cardinal Cupich questions the war’s legitimacy. Pope Leo prays for disarmament. And the New York Times traces a school massacre to American bombs.

The question for Americans is whether we will have the courage to look at what our government has done and call it what it is.

Pope Leo asked today: “Would you imagine what a world without wars would be like?”

One hundred and fifty girls in Minab will never get to imagine anything again.

“I would like to address the powerful of the world with an ever-timely appeal: never again war!” — Pope Leo XIV

Bishop: And how do you find our war, Mr Starmer?
Curate: Legal, my Lord, in parts...

Bishop: And how do you find our war, Mr Starmer?
Curate: Legal, my Lord, in parts...

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

Excommunication

There has been no harsher critic to U.S. military action in Iran than Pope Leo:

“War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading. The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined.”

It's a misfortune that the White House is occupied by a madman. But it's more than careless that No. 10 is occupied by a follower whose unconditional support normalizes the shredding of international law and sets back geopolitics by decades, to the jeopardy of all of us

Quite - but that is exactly what Starmer has done. All principles abandoned on entering No. 10

I wonder (if so) for whom they voted?

Israel closes crossings into Gaza Strip, including for humanitarian aid workers, Israeli government agency says Crossings into the Gaza Strip, vital for the delivery of humanitarian aid and the movement of patients in need of medical evacuation, were closed on Saturday as Israeli and U.S. forces attacked Iran, ...

And… all the Gaza crossings are closed including for humanitarian aid. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

The tragic awfulness of this government is that it has extended a factional war against the left of the Labour Party into a war against almost all the good things we might have expected of it. It cannot respond to the crisis it faces, because its hatred of the Labour left is definitional.

Bravo: an excellent candidate

Perhaps he should leave well alone

Spot on