A 'legal position' is very different from comprehensive legal advice that addresses the legality of the US & Israel initiating an unprovoked attack in the first place. MPs and peers should demand the PM & Defence Sec release the full legal advice on the UK's active participation in this conflict.
02.03.2026 07:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And here we go...
bsky.app/profile/ps97...
The US & Israel have launched an entirely unprovoked war on Iran which has already killed over 200 people many of them innocent children. It has been condemned by the UN Sec General as in clear breach of the UN Charter. Starmer has just made the UK complicit & put our forces & citizens at risk.
02.03.2026 07:26 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1One of the best clear eyed analyses of Trump's motivation to go to war against Iran with the help of Israel. It's about the money and with the Trump crime family it's always about the money.
01.03.2026 09:16 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail.
Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections
Given that all the major figures associated with Labour Together - a shadowy 'think tank' that tried unlawfully to hide its wealthy backers from public scrutiny - have been forced to resign, the best thing that could happen is for it to be dissolved.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
OCASIO-CORTEZ STATEMENT ON TRUMP'S COMBAT OPERATIONS IN IRAN "The American people are once again dragged into a war they did not want by a president who does not care about the long-term consequences of his actions. This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic. "Just this week, Iran and the United States were negotiating key measures that could have staved off war. The President walked away from these discussions and chose war instead.President Trump flippantly acknowledged the possibility of American casualties, stating "that often happens in war.' "Mr. President: this was not an inevitability. This is a deliberate choice of aggression when diplomacy and security were within reach. Stop lying to the American people. "Violence begets violence. We learned this lesson in Iraq. We learned this lesson in Afghanistan. And we are about to learn it again in Iran. Bombs have yet to create enduring democracies in the region and this will be no different. "In moments of war, our Constitution is unambiguous: Congress authorizes war. The President does not. I will do my part to uphold our Constitution by voting YES on Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's War Powers Resolution. Every member of Congress must join us in rejecting this aimless war.
My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️
28.02.2026 16:46 — 👍 10991 🔁 3280 💬 361 📌 246
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez:
Spain rejects the unilateral military action by the United States and Israel.
BREAKING: Norway says Israeli strikes on Iran breach international law.
This is the correct response to US-Israeli war crimes not sucking up to Trump & Netanyahu.
Israeli-US strikes destroyed an elementary school in southern Iran which has killed at least 40 schoolgirls.
Not just indiscriminate bombing but a war crime with which the people of Gaza are all too familiar.
Instead of condemning it the UK Prime Minister boasts of the RAF supporting 'our allies'
The 'rigorous training' that the apolitical volunteers receive is a 3 hour online module a/c to a recruitment ad from UCL students union. There appears to be no way of independently verifying the volunteers' neutrality. No election officials identified 'family voting' as an issue in the by-election
28.02.2026 12:56 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Democracy Volunteers is led by John Ault a failed minor Lib Dem politician & an 'expert on by-elections in Cornwall'. Ault claims to be a lecturer at the University of Exeter but there is no mention of him as academic staff except in connection to a 'political historian' by the same name from 2013
28.02.2026 12:48 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Open, naked racism and Islamophobia from the world's worst 'newspaper' and its foreign funded political wings who are genuine threats to democracy
28.02.2026 11:55 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It is hard to see how a party that still has a handful of decent MPs like Ian Byrne in it can co-exist with unrepentant Blue Labour fanatics like Shabana Mahmood who has promised to double down on her performative cruelty against asylum seekers and refugees to court racist voters. The gig is up.
28.02.2026 07:19 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Peter Oborne's expert analysis on how Starmer hollowed out Labour's soul & bet the Labour house on Netanyahu's Israel.
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/elec...
Largely unreported, the US has imposed a complete oil blockade on Cuba. There are power blackouts and food & medicine shortages. The island which is no threat to the US is on the brink of a humanitarian crisis according to the UN. Once again the world stands back and lets Trump do whatever he wants.
27.02.2026 18:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Starmer's letter to Labour MPs might as well have been written by the journalists behind the Mail's 'Green Menace' campaign. Nonsense fear mongering around drugs and NATO but failing to address why voters like the Greens' message on fair taxation & getting billionaires out of our economy & politics
27.02.2026 13:43 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I imagine most Labour MPs are in absolute despair. 70% of the electorate in Gorton & Denton voted for parties Starmer called 'extremist' - blaming the electorate for your failed leadership is profoundly stupid politics.
27.02.2026 11:43 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Starmer has finally spoken and describes the result as 'very disappointing'. He doesn't get why people do not see the Labour Party as the party of change. Only offers platitudes and more of the same. Compare & contrast with Angela Rayner's call to 'be braver' by putting people first. Revealing.
27.02.2026 11:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0No comment from the PM on this catastrophic defeat in Labour's 6th safest seat. No sign of the usual Labour Together outriders Steve Reed or Pat McFadden. Shabana Mahmood has gone AWOL. It's very hard to spin this result as midterm voter backlash. Starmer the Burnham Blocker must take the rap.
27.02.2026 09:57 — 👍 29 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov
The Guardian: "tightly contested race"
The Byline Times: "Huge victory"
It's almost like they're talking about a different election... The Guardian has to do some serious introspection if it wants to even pretend it stands against the far right
Telegraph absurd headline generator say what? 😂🤣
27.02.2026 07:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm calling it.
The Greens have won the Gorton and Denton by-election.
Hannah Spencer will be the constituency's new MP.
Michael Gove smeared Zack Polanski over his opposition to Israel's genocide.
So I wrote him a letter 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/dear-micha...
A hell of a graphic from the Economic Policy Institute
26.02.2026 10:33 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0It's quite revealing who Lord Rothermere now regards as the mortal enemy of oligarchic wealth and power. Hint: It is not the current party of government.
25.02.2026 11:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's not the job of the health service to discipline labour but Streeting & his friends at Palantir for whom the disgraced Lord Mandelson was a paid lobbyist want to use our confidential medical data to do precisely that.
Only the Greens have promised to kick Palantir out of our public services.
The state of it has revealed that cabinet ministers privately believe the greens are hammering us by deliberately raising the salience of Gaza in the constituency.
The Labour government object to us talking about Gaza.
Genocide is serious and they should hang their heads in shame for arming it, not complaining to journalists.
Not surprised they're distracting from their other failures - like addressing the cost of energy bills and rent.
