Doubt much of the electorate have noticed but the mess Badenoch and Farage have got into over Iran shows just how beatable they are.
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Doubt much of the electorate have noticed but the mess Badenoch and Farage have got into over Iran shows just how beatable they are.
Ukrainian forces have pushed Russian troops out of most occupied areas in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast after several weeks of counterattacks along the section of the front where Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts meet.
"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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Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
Fixed the headline
That also astonished me when checking. The Strategic Dialogues were:
2021: Raab - Maas
2022: (meeting postponed over snowstorm)
2023: Cleverly - Baerbock
2024: Cameron - Baerbock
2025: Cooper - Wadepfuhl
So Baerbock was the only minister to make two Strategic Dialogues, whereas Lammy made none.
Which could also be any war the US and West has been involved in over the last 30 years
Bonkers. "One western official said that the proposal to send the ship [HMS Dragon] did not cross the desk of the chief of defence staff until 9.30am on Tuesday — four days after the war started and nearly two days after RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus was hit" www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...
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Please to provide evidence to the Defence Committee on the Arctic and High North yesterday. I'm convinced that a war between NATO and Russia will likely originated there and so it needs to be given our full attention.
The willingness of major European states such as Britain and France to send their military forces to actively defend counties in the Middle East but not to defend Ukraine shows how Europe has a distorted sense of its own interests.
More evidence of Europeans happy to protect other partners but not Ukraine
Watch: British F-35 scores first recorded combat kill
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I mean, it is ludicrous that 🇬🇧 did not do this sooner...
NATO Secretary Mark Rutte: "The commander in chief, the leader of the free world, President Donald J Trump -- I really commend what is happening here."
Norway is willing to start talks with Paris on how French nuclear weapons can contribute to the continent's security, Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said today.
Russian air and missile defenses may soon be able to intercept British and French nuclear weapons, according to new analysis by the U.K.-based think tank RUSI.
It is very funny how Mandelson’s fury over his arrest has led to the Met apologising profusely, but to someone else entirely.
UN General Assembly resolution in support of Ukraine adopted today. Out of all EU member states, only Hungary abstained... as did the US.
"It has been all about demonstrating....that his voice is still needed on the international stage - that he can make a difference. Except that it’s an illusion. What’s left for the historians is a blackened shell.
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Just another in a long line of examples of UK defence and security major mistakes
Obviously challenging for the PM but the problem was his own making - Chagos was not a domestic or international priority but he made it one. HMG have made somuch of the deal being 'absolutely necessary' that if they shelve it, it proves the underlying argument was false.
On top of this, it really risks tipping Reform into a US oriented, Christian nationalist, socially conservative party in a way that is uncomfortable for a lot of UK voters. The question is if those voters notice or care.
I would also suggest collection wasn't their strength as early 2022 showed. Blindspot towards Russian intentions
About time. Unlike military capabilities, you cant spend your way out of intelligence deficiencies. They take decades to build and considering all military plans are based on intelligence, its pretty fundamental
Sorry, but the guy who has survived longer an achieved more of his priorities than anyone else in politics over the past two decades, who has outmaneuvered multiple leaders of two larger parties and reoriented politics around his priorities is not “bad at politics”. This is cope.
The workload facing MPs and their staff is growing, in ways that aren't visible to the public: casework and the inbox.
For @thehousemag.bsky.social, I delved into what the workload looks like, why it's growing, and what this means for how MPs can balance the different aspects of their role
Good piece but only the PM and Chancellor should be making these arguments. Has to come from the top
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