Mike Phelps

Ought to win the internet today

Brilliant in these increasingly dark times

Becoming a truism but remarkable how the many dimensions of Make America Great Again are making it poorer, making Americans die younger, and cutting it off from what the world has to offer.

Donald Trump's war with Iran is going global - this is a chaotic and dangerous moment Reports are emerging of Russian forces providing intelligence to Tehran that could help the Islamic regime target US forces in the Gulf.

In what sane world do we hitch our wagon to this insane huckster? news.sky.com/story/donald...

#bbclaurak interviewed the Israeli president & the Iranian ambassador

She repeatedly challenged the ambassador. Do you think she did the same with the Israeli president e.g. maybe mention a UN commission of inquiry found he incited the commission of genocide. What do you think?

This Hungarian Jewish girl was gassed as soon as she arrived in Auschwitz. She was 8 years old, and would be 90 today had she lived.

Spanish PM "If we really care about Iranian women we need to stop blowing them up."

Exclusive: the progressive voters abandoning Labour Daily Politics Daily Politics from the New Statesman > ٠١٠٠٠ ٠ • 17m Labour is losing the voters it used to count on, a new study reveals. In the aftermath of the Green Party's triumph in the Gorton and Denton by-election, and with local elections in London councils and other major cities coming up, Labour is losing the left progressive voters it could once rely on having "nowhere else to go". Now, the biggest study ever of these voters - shared exclusively with the New Statesman - reveals the true risk to Labour's future of leaving them behind. This work, done by surveying 10,000 voters and a randomised control trial style approach, has found out who the so-called progressive defectors are, why they're deserting Labour, and what impact this could have on Labour's electoral prospects.

Worrying news at the NS podcast, where the lads have discovered millions of younger, mostly educated left/lib people get all upset and offended if you relentlessly insult them, tell them to fuck off and implement policies that they find appalling.

New Ayatollah just dropped.

Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

U.S. forces likely bombed an Iranian elementary school on Feb. 28 during an operation targeting a nearby military base, a New York Times analysis suggests. It is the deadliest known episode of civilian casualties since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran — and no side has yet taken responsibility.

Starmer is now so far to the right that he is relying on the votes of the most extreme rightwing Tory government in history.

Tells you all you need to know.

Superb open letter to Labour’s next PM by Peter Kellner is the latest issue of @prospectmagazine.co.uk
Plan how to be PM, not just to become PM
Don’t delay the tough decisions
Honour Labour’s past
Admit your mistakes
Present a coherent vision of the UK’s future

They say, "Iran is striking all the countries around it."

Iran is striking all the US military bases in the countries all around it.

30% of the world's refugees are Muslim.

While about 66% of the world's refugees are in Muslim countries.

With nearly 30% in the largest 7 Muslim countries alone.

I understand the pressures on Rutte but he really has turned into a hapless buffoon. Helping to eradicate the rules based order he believes he's upholding.

Jack (@pendelino) I’ve written about the Gorton and Denton by-election as the final denouement of Peter Mandelson’s “they have nowhere else to go strategy”, calling your (ex-)voters extremists, racist tropes of ‘Muslim...

Enjoyed this on the idiocy of Labour continuing to kick its own voters (perhaps Starmer really is very bad at politics 🤔) and the tortured logic behind claims of sectarian voting. substack.com/@pendelino/n...

This what Badenoch expects Starmer to endorse? Really?

Reed's defence, saying Hartlepool should learn from what he did as leader in Lambeth, beyond the political/human geography of the comparison speaks to a concerning temporal slippage for the Sec State for Local Gov. Council finances circa 2008 ≠ council finances 2026

No, but it is Harold Wilson.

And trying to put off Normandy landins

Like Paul Mason's Russian network one?

Churchill has retrospectively been turned into a cartoon like superhero who could do no wrong and who we all owe a debt of gratitude forever.

The gold standard of leadership.

A man of supreme wit and gifted with statesmanship unrivalled by any other

It's far more complicated and interesting 1/3

Prof Robert Pape (@professorrobertpape) Events are now confirming the Smart Bomb Trap thesis in real time. Operation Epic Fury achieved textbook tactical success. Iran’s Supreme Leader was killed. Dozens of senior regime figures were elimi...

See also his substack substack.com/@professorro...

Two minutes on why America and Israel won't win and why the weight of world history in the last 100 years is against them.

Unlikely Trump, his administration, or anyone else, has an "exit strategy". There don't seem to be any cohesive objectives beyond Trump bragging he bombed Iran.
All this at a time when EU, UK et al are imposing ever more draconian anti-asylum policies, just when there is likely to be increased need.

Live Updates: War With Iran Escalates as Israel Strikes Hezbollah in Lebanon

I need you to know that Israel has violated the ceasefire with Lebanon 15,400 times since it was struck in Nov 2024.

That is 31 times EVERY DAY on average.

This barely gets reported by western media. Why do you think that is? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

@elliechowns.bsky.social : "What we've seen here is the action of an Israeli govt led by a man who is himself a war criminal responsible for a genocide & a US govt led by a man who is a loose cannon... & the risk is that the UK is going to be drawn into this"

Kind of incredible. I was just sitting down to write about how Starmer should be given credit for keeping us out of this mess when he does this. Unutterably foolish and obsequious. Why in God's name should we have anything to do with this shortsighted madness.

Including me