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By this logic, the US has been at war with Iran since 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mohammed Mossadegh to ensure that western oil companies, and not the Iranian people, controlled Iranian oil. It’s brutal puppet the Shah tortured & killed for 25 years. That’s why they chanted DEATH TO AMERICA in 1979

NICK CANDY: Why - even as missiles fly over my head -| feel safer in Dubai than in Sadiq Khan's London.... There's more chance of getting stabbed on the capital's street than of being injured in an Iranian attack in the UAE

Proof once again that you can have lots and lots and lots of money and still be thicker than a whale omelette stuck in a submarine door.

Kemi Badenoch has said the unsayable on multiculturalism Kemi Badenoch’s latest speech was a crisp break from the omerta that binds together our gutless establishment

The stench of authoritarian illiberalism now defines the UK right including Badenoch's Tories. This Spectator piece takes aim at multiculturalism forgetting the UK is a multinational state of diff ethnicities, cultures & nations. spectator.com/article/kemi...

It’s not difficult to imagine what Winston Churchill would have made of Donald Trump…

Andrew Tate on Twitter dancing and saying "me in dubai while the bombs fall dancing emoji" micah erfan on Twitter QTs it with "please @iran just do this one thing"

I did classics at the Australian equivalent of A level. We didn't get anything as fabulous as this podcast in our studies. If you have the slightest interest in why we talk about things like Pandora's Box, give it listen. You will learn a lot !

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something

Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

Trump is wrong. "Sharia courts" in the UK are not actual courts. They are not part of the judiciary & have no legal authority.

They are private bodies that offer Islamic guidance & mediation to Muslims.

Christians & Jews have Beth Din courts & ecclesiastical tribunals that operate in the same way.

Important also to understand the key place that Dubai has come to take in populist right propaganda

The Trump Family's Immigrant Story | HISTORY For decades, they denied their German roots.

If this article is accurate, Trump (and his father) used to lie and say their family was from Sweden, and also the grandfather tried but failed to return to Germany before having children.

So I guess he's very used to telling lies, but this is an odd variation.

Britain did the right thing in 1939 and 1940.

We weren't bullied into submission by a lunatic.

If Trump wants to invoke WW2 and Churchill I've got hot takes to give.

I may have my frustrations and disappointments about Starmer as a domestic politician, but internationally, I think he’s serious, responsible and trying to do his best for U.K. in unbelievably complex int’l environment, despite treasonous ghouls like Farage doing their best to undermine him.

If you haven’t read this, you really really should.

Do you think there is a big shy Reform vote among Asian Muslim women, that is being unlawfully pressurised against voting for Zia Yusuf's mass deportation agenda?

MPs’ basic salary to rise to £110,000 by end of parliament, watchdog says Ipsa cites rising abuse and constituency workloads as reasons for above-inflation increase of 5% from April

MPs’ basic salary to rise to £110,000 by end of parliament, watchdog says.

This should be accompanied by a total ban on second jobs, which in most cases is a corporate bribe. Must end all conflict of interests.

Being a MP is a full time job. MPs must act exclusively as MPs.

Say there was someone born on the day the US is considered to have begun, and who lived to be 102, and then someone else born a month before the death of that first person, who then lived for a month or two past the celebration of the US centennial.

Don’t sound like they’re actually committed to actual investment.

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There is no evidence that ivermectin works as a treatment for cancer.

"A Reform UK council deputy leader [Darren Grimes, Durham County Council] has been caught using a fake AI-generated photograph to stoke tensions over housing and migration, exposing the shameless tactics deployed by politicians willing to deceive their own constituents"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Starmer at odds with Trump in biggest disagreement yet The prime minister told MPs that the government

You can sense Chris Mason’s frustration. He has to report statesmanship from Starmer & signs of economic success for Reeves. There’s a terse, brusque tone unlike his enthusiastic gushing over Labour difficulties.

Starmer at odds with Trump in biggest disagreement yet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A really odd thing has happened to British conservatism. It has surrendered its national sovereignty and become part of the MAGA cult.

Note that in this poll the left-liberal bloc has an absolute majority (21+16+14=51%) and a huge lead over the right bloc. This would be a stunning defeat for ethnonationalist politics if it wasn't for the vanity of a party that won't do deals or consider changing the voting system

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

NEW -- The FBI director fired a dozen members of an FBI counter-espionage team with a speciality in tracking Iran threats. Not the best time: when Trump last bombed Iran, it spawned several Iranian plots here to kill Trump
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Up in the moneysphere, things look calm, profitable, stately and stable. Down below, where we live, it’s a scrabbling mess. Nothing actually working. But always changing. Not for the better, just for the sake of it.

It’s like being colonised by an alien species who breathe our discomfort.

Growing up in the online world: a national consultation We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential age restrictions on social media and other services such as ga...

Morning all, please consider filling this in. I want my kids safe online but I'm against age verification generally and especially for VPNs. better to enforce against the companies creating an environment of harm, radicalisation and enshittification I would think, yes?

www.gov.uk/government/c...

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

Was going to ask about the sharks in the canals. Guess that’s my answer.

I see the papers which screamed ‘tAKe bACK ConTRol’ now want the UK to be nothing but an obedient servant of the USA