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NEW: The Lib Dems are demanding MPs get a vote on allowing the US to use UK air bases.

Leader Ed Davey says:

“No matter how the Prime Minister tries to redefine offensive as defensive, this is a slippery slope. He must not let Trump drag Britain into another prolonged war in the Middle East.”

I CAN'T BELIEVE MY EYES.
I haven't seen this green cat since December. That what I've meant when I sad that spring would be easier. But I didn't consider that it's gonna happen at the first day of the spring.
#Ukrainianview

Also: "The people that we were specifically targeting and trying to con into voting leave in 2016 are still having voting rights???"

One thing I am shocked about today is that I am no longer *at all* shocked about seeing Shahed drones hitting buildings.

I just went to the BBC news website, saw a 1 minute video by Sarah Smith where she is referring to Trump's last year's "successful" attack on Iran, and I am now regretting to ever have gone to the BBC news website.

View through rainy bus window with some more distant buildings in the evening sunshine.

Bus window #Edinburgh

Comparison from comrade @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social on Ukraine & Iran.
-Russian forces "enter" Ukraine, US & Israel make "illegal attack"
-Russia excused cos of NATO. US & Israel are "rogue states"
-Russia created a "crisis" & offered diplomacy. US & Israel "endanger us all"

The Polish president is a criminal 🤷

Labour MP Ian Byrne: "The lines from the PM and Cabinet today essentially labelling the Green Party as extremist is appalling, desperate and frankly embarrassing.

"It also makes very clear that the leadership has zero understanding of where it has been going wrong."

🇺🇦 Zelensky: I think I’m quite strong — like our people. I always loved Ukraine. I can’t say I love it more. But I respect more — the resilience of our people is unbelievable.

Bad Loss For Goodwin.

Even his name is a lie.

M Gessen and The Colonial Gaze Last Saturday I was walking around Kharkiv with a young Ukrainian journalist, when he suddenly noted that before coming to Kharkiv he’d read a New York Times article by a Russian-American journalist M...

vika4good.substack.com/p/m-gessen-a...

Excellent reply to Masha Gessen's recent article in the NYT and a brief explainer why looking at Ukraine through the Russian colonial gaze is very problematic.

🇳🇱 The Netherlands has refused to hold the European Paraswimming Championships due to the admission of athletes from the Russian Federation and Belarus

I very much this poll becomes reality. We need some Europe wide celebrations when Orban finally will have to move to Moscow, like all his other creepy friends in treason.

St Andrew’s House lit up in blue and yellow this evening, in solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

Today and always, Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦

Paris is full of rich Russians who clearly have found a way of accommodating themselves to the current situation very well. Imagine if those people were forced to fight to stop the war instead? 🤷

Today marks four years since Putin launched his illegal, full-scale invasion of Ukraine, bringing unimaginable destruction.

Scotland stands in unwavering solidarity with the people of Ukraine and we will do all we can to support a peaceful, sovereign future for Ukraine. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦

Do you remember that very night -- the night before the day of all days, four years ago?

How many of us didn’t sleep at all.

We sat in the dark in silence, in front of our laptops, refreshing news feeds.

On February 24, 2022, it was early morning when we woke up to the sounds of explosions. At first, there was no panic, just a kind of shock, a strange slowness.

We couldn’t comprehend that russia had attacked us. We didn’t understand what was happening and simply didn’t know what to do.

Tomorrow, many of you will think of Ukraine.

As Ukraine faces pressure to accept capitulation, remember: there will be no peace without justice.

We owe justice to every innocent life taken by russia's war.

For every fallen defender. For every murdered civilian. For every atrocity committed.

He didn't derail ceasefire talks. Don't believe Russian bs

Ukraine is the biggest and most consequential of all the American betrayals | Simon Tisdall As the war enters its fifth year, it’s time for Europe to take the fight to Putin on its own terms and tell Trump to get lost, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Never thought I'd ever fully agree with Simon Tisdall on something but he's become more sensible after 2022.

Russia attacks Ukraine with 50 missiles and nearly 300 drones Russian forces carried out a combined strike on critical infrastructure facilities across Ukraine on the night of 21-22 February. The Ukrainian Air Force recorded 345 aerial attack assets, including 3...

🤬 Russia attacks Ukraine with 50 missiles and nearly 300 drones

‼️ Movement of missiles and drones during the attack on Ukraine

Ukraine honors the Heavenly Hundred heroes who died fighting for freedom during the Revolution of Dignity.

🧵 1/10 ⬇️

Tony Blair applauds…

YouTube video by Giovanni Grasso Bach BWV 106 Actus tragicus - Sonatina (trasc. Kurtag)

Hungarian composer György Kurtág turns 100 today. I only need the flimsiest of excuses to post him playing Bach duets with his late wife Márta, and this is not a flimsy excuse.

youtu.be/O85lwrca-_c?...

OTD in 2022 i denied any invasion would happen.

So you can believe my promises about peace now.

Zelensky: "I don't need to waste time on historic issues, reasons why he began, all this bullshit he's raising with Americans, things about Peter the First, etc. I don't need it. Because to end this war and to go to a diplomatic