Catio Miles

NEW: Keir Starmer tells MPs the UK govt remembers the "mistakes of Iraq" and will always operate on a "lawful basis" and with a "viable thought through" plan when it comes to Iran. Clear implication from PM is that he thinks the initial US/ Israeli strikes on Iran were neither.

Striking Hegseth press conference. In his effort to insist war is limited and bounded, he frames war aims almost entirely around Iranian missiles, essentially ignoring everything Trump has said about regime change. Naturally, he insults and belittles journalists who quote Trump's 4-5 weeks comment.

During my time in the U.S. Air Force in the mid-80s when I was assigned as a prosecutor in Europe at the height of the Cold War, I was tasked to American air bases in Spain as a part of my legal duties. I have great admiration for the Spanish people and they have been great allies in the past. However, the current government in Spain is becoming the gold standard of pathetically weak European leadership that has lost its moral way, apparently reluctant to condemn the terrorist regime in Iran and have nothing but criticism for the United States. The Spanish have righteous indignation for Putin's invasion in Ukraine, as they should. But when it comes to the long suffering people of Iran it appears that Spain is, at best, indifferent. In times like these, you learn the true nature of your allies. I'm hoping this current Spanish government is an aberration, not the norm. History will note where Spain was as @POTUS and others try to bring down the most bloodthirsty regime since WWII.

Lindsey Graham taking a swing at Spain.

And the land area is 3 times bs Afghanistan and 4 times vs Iraq

Wait, what?

Fortunately this is after winter.

So maybe people can reflect that investing in wind and solar is not that a bad idea after all.

Will petrol and diesel prices go up because of the Iran war? If oil prices remain high for some time, the knock-on effects could affect the costs of fuel and food

Maybe investing in wind and solar is not such a bad idea.

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NEW: Families who live at RAF Akrotiri are being moved to alternative temporary accommodation in Cyprus as a precautionary measure, defence secretary John Healey says.

yes, they can also enter the chat, but are they going to support Israel?

U.K. has frozen some £25 billion of Russian assets.

The idea was to give it to Ukraine, but now what would be the process?

Ex-Yukos investors can enforce $65 billion arbitration award against Russia in UK, court rules Former Yukos investors can seek to enforce an arbitration award against Russia now worth more than $65 billion over the seizure of the defunct oil group, London's High Court ruled on Monday.

Some news from the Yukos award, the largest ISDS award ever made... www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

They can help, but Spain alone can close it.

And if they want to, they can also close the Gibraltar entry into the Med.

Oil and gas prices up massively today so yup, renewable energy such as wind and solar doesn’t seem too expensive now, does it?

As Dubai and Doha are problematic as business hubs, maybe Nairobi, Kenya, can make a case as an alternative?

I didn’t think about this, but yup, it’s a possibility! 😜

Yeah, but can our schools and our NHS cope with this influx of 200,000 people coming from a Muslim country? 😜

Net immigration from a Muslim country to grow by 200,000 in the next few days!

Also a share of our defence budget.

Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

Fortunately the winter is over in Europe, but need to start replenish reserves for next winter as the war with Russia will unlikely end by then.

Rough rule of thumb: 10% *sustained* oil price rise adds about 0.4/0.5% to inflation and reduces GDP growth by around 0.1/0.2%

Bam is an Iranian city!

"The military actions obliterating Iran's nuclear capacity once-and-for-all were becoming more frequent."

Yes, indeed.

But there are some in known locations such as in ports on the Caspian Sea, which have been targeted by Ukraine in the past.

I assume Iran does have a Shahed factory and stockpile, which should have been bombed years ago.

-nervously watching rapidly depleting stock of interceptors all over the region-

"How could we have known Iran might have a lot of Shaheds!?"

I do expect the British Police to arrest this memoir just before the May elections because surely she did something illegal and she is the only and the most corrupt politician in Britain ever.

And then of course is the obsession with France.

When in reality France has a policy not to collect data / statistics on race and ethnicity, but apparently they can see better from England what France’s problems are…