James G-C

The graves dug for 153 Iranian female school children who were killed by an Israeli-American strike.

Photo: IRNA

⚡️ President Zelenskyy warns that Moscow is preparing a massive strike campaign aimed at crippling water infrastructure.

“Communities must focus on this challenge. We must obtain more missiles for air defense,” he said.

I spent 6 years of my life writing a PhD about UK policy in Persian Gulf in the 1960s, including the role of the Anglo-American alliance.
Key to the Persian Gulf policy of both countries: AVOID a power vacuum under any circumstances &keep Iran&Saudi Arabia from attacking the smaller Gulf States.

They should sue the US and Israel. This was entirely predictable but no reasonable defence preparations appear to have been made.
Kuwait inadvertantly shooting down F15s tells you how involved regional allies have been.

"Just larks!"

"Unquestionably blindly following the Americans is, in my view, the wrong thing to do.. I'd pass legislation that said military action could be taken if.. the lawful case for it was made.. there was a viable objective &.. you got consent of the commons"

When's the vote, Keir?

And I'm not sure security agreements kick in for illegal warmongering by your supposed allies!

This pair of psychos are not people to align yourselves with mid psycho-rage...
How could this possibility help us??

UK soft power

Thousands of pollution incidents in England downgraded without site visit, data suggests Exclusive: Whistleblower figures show large rise in ‘serious’ to ‘minor’ downgrades based on water company evidence

Corruption in England's water industry and its regulation

2,778 serious pollution incidents reported in 2024.

Officials downgraded 2,735 (98%) to minor incidents.

Only 496 attended before downgrading; the rest were deemed minor.

Regulators collude with industry, inflicting harms to people.

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

The Green Party has won more elections than Reform have.

Why are Reform constantly on TV and the Green Party is ignored?

The electorate says it should be the other way around.

At least 40 killed in Israeli strike on girls' school in Iran, state media reports The reported deaths are the latest in the region after the United States and Israeli begun its attack on Iran this morning.

At least 40 people were killed in a strike on a girls' school in southern Iran, Iranian state media has reported.

A provincial official said Israeli strikes hit the school, according to state media jrnl.ie/6970531

I’m sure he’ll resign in protest.

Weird that #Trump has billions to defend #Natanyahu and Israel’s interests but can only SELL weapons to #Ukraine to defend European interests…

🥔🇺🇸 Trump stated that he has "great respect" for Lukashenko.

"We have a good relationship. And the leader is someone I have great respect for. We have a very good relationship with Belarus. And I really like their leader," Trump said.

Voters yesterday did exactly what they did in the GE in 2024 - voted tactically to keep Reform and the Tories at bay. Such a shame Labour hadn’t remembered that. Hopefully now they do and will start governing and communicating as if centre and left leaning voters matter, because we bloody do!

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Successive interviews by Nick Robinson this morning perfectly sum up the BBC:

with Zack Polanski: sneering, aggressive, constantly interrupting.

with David Bull, Reform's Chairman: polite, nodding along, barely any interruptions.

Amazing. Will share the link when it's up so you can listen too.

Paperback incoming… Can’t deal with the bad karma of posting a link to Amazon - available for pre order via Bloomsbury so far at the same price anyway. @pikegrey1418.bsky.social

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In reality the result was not a victory for sectarianism or "cheating" but for the unity of most voters in the Greater Manchester seat to reject the politics of Reform. Just as in the recent Caerphilly by-election where an expected Reform win ended up as a decisive victory for Plaid Cymru instead, voters are starting to show their determination to work together in order to reject Nigel Farage's party and the politics it represents. The truth is that if such tactical voting is replicated across the country at the next general election then current national opinion polls showing a clear lead for Reform would be unlikely to translate into a parliamentary majority.

Lovely. And what we now need to collectively shake off is the rightwing determination to tell us what we want and need. They don’t speak for us at all.

This result is our voice and it needs to get louder and listened to…

These fake headlines are becoming obvious

...Made a note in my diary on the way here. Simply says: "Bugger".

#ReleaseEveryDamn
#WordIfThe
#EPSTEIN
#FILES

Streamlining decisions?
Like this crime was probably committed by someone like you, and you were nearby at the time, so you're guilty?

Labour Accused Of By-Election Dirty Tricks Over 'Fictitious' Tactical Voting Group A leaflet sent out on the eve of the crunch poll has sparked a furious backlash.

Remember the bullshit Tory HQ 'fact-checker' website run during the last General Election campaign? Well, Labour HQ has taken a leaf out of its playbook with a bullshit 'tactical voting' website.

Different rosette, same party.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

They killed him.

It takes a lot to infuriate me and break my heart only because you have to be able to tolerate a lot when covering Trump and fascism and try your best to stay centered and hopeful.

This story I can't let go.

They chose to let him just die.

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