Mark Berry

Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat

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On #trevorphillips show: lets get an American to comment on the US/Israeli attack on Iran. Who? Let's get Portuguese based writer & hard right-winger Lionel Shriver. She knows ZERO abt the Middle East. But she does like the sound of her voice & punting her intolerant, fact-free dogma.

It certainly won’t be for the want of reposting himself.

When will the ‘challenging’ installation
‘John Rentoul’ finally win the Turner Prize?

@rentouljohn.bsky.social is in the independent saying that labour needs more far right whackjobs like shabana mahmood.

at a certain point ppl need to come to terms with the fact that 'centrism' does not exist. these ppl are just far right nutters.

mahmood's policies are just far right policies.

Oh how wonderful!

The Cunning Little Vixen

In Alexanderplatz. Gazing at once at the Weltzeituhr, the television tower, and the surgery where I had my wisdom tooth extracted. The clock has stopped. Somehow that seems significant, recalling Frank Castorf’s Ring, all the more so when I see the word ‘Teheran’.

That Nigel Farage thinks it is more important not to endanger his backing from the US government than take a position that reflects the overwhelming sentiment of the British public reflects underlying structural contradictions that could split the British Far Right

Israel can’t go one hour into a war without bombing a school.

And there’s more… (from someone who appeared out of nowhere to hurl puerile abuse at me).

Starmerroid charm at its most rancid

Well, because an anonymous far-Right account on social media says so, it must bd right. Thank you for informing me.

Has anyone else heard the apologies of those who relentlessly defamed Jeremy Corbyn and his movement, and supported the rise of Starmer and his? Deafening.

Keir Starmer’s response to the Gorton and Denton debacle should be a government that truly, finally, reflects him | Tom Baldwin In the past he has been urged to follow strategies that don’t really match his core beliefs. That’s changing, as it must, because he knows the clock is ticking, says the prime minister’s biographer, T...

In which Starmer's biographer writes that Sir Keir has been lead astray by evil advisors and simply not been able to do what he *really* wants in spite of a massive parliamentary majority and ruthlessly purging anyone who disagrees with him for the last 5 years.

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A picture of British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmoud, a British Asian woman, standing next to rows of bunk beds in an extremely austere dormitory with whitewashed walls and black curtains. She is wearing an ankle length black coat and looking menacingly at one of the bunk beds.

The ~optics~ of this image is so blindingly obvious it is impossible Mahmoud, Labour and the British government not to know how reminiscent of images of genocide this is.

And they've chosen to make it the image they promote in the aftermath of a severe by-election defeat.

Bendix-Balgley/Delepelaire/BPO/Sokhiev - Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Berlioz, 27 February 2026 boulezian.blogspot.com/2026/02/bend...

Saying something else in a different place is not the same as not having said this. You do precisely what I said in the post I quoted.

Conflating ‘exile Iranian acquaintances’ with ‘oppositional forces in Iran’…

As in the Iraq war, the assertions by Potus to claim preemptive self-defence end up being false, only this time US intelligence seems to say that as well (source: CNN).
It is worthwhile pointing out that that capacity alone would not be sufficient to justify self-defence anyways.

In a crowded and overheated bar towards the end of the evening a few months ago, I received some strange parenting advice from one of those "Labour strategist" types. We were discussing - maybe arguing - over the government's position on Gaza. Eventually I asked if he could provide me with a decent explanation to give my son who had shown me stuff on his phone a couple of days earlier about how Israeli army officers were still being trained by Britain's military. "Here's what you say to your son," began his reply, followed by a portentous pause that made me lean in closer. "You should tell him to fuck off"

TBH it’s instructive to know this is how these wankers talk *to one another*
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Angriff auf den Iran: Deutsche Politiker rechtfertigen Angriffe, Besorgnis im Nahen Osten Die Angriffe auf den Iran hätten eine Chance auf Erfolg, finden deutsche Politiker. Russland kritisiert die USA, Libanon ist besorgt über eine Ausweitung des Konflikts.

The attack by USA and Israel on Iran is unlawful, but that doesn't seem to matter

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That’s what Netanyahu lives for. Genocide.

Lads you stuck him in charge because he was a willing mouthpiece for this kind of "crush the left" stuff. You all *loved* this 18 months ago. You thought it was the hottest new sounds of the summer. You cannot now be pretending that you were sold a pig in a poke.

Nick Cohen's article about the shamelessness of Zack Polanski

This might surprise people who aren't from the UK, but over here there's a publication that, in order to write for it, you have to be a sex offender.

With the UK pathetically begging to be included.

Eight months ago.

Solidarity with the people of Iran. The whole world is with you in your struggle against the evil empire.