Natasha Devon

When Donald Trump says ‘nuclear weapons’ it sounds like ‘no clear weapons’. So when he said ‘Iran has no clear weapons’ it might be the closest he’s ever come to telling the truth.

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China had SARS and now everyone wears a mask at the first hint of a sniffle. That’s because their culture is focussed around duty to fellow citizens more than individual rights (not saying that’s better or that China doesn’t have its issues it’s just interesting to note the difference).

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It’s completely stupid to pretend there is a ‘good guy’ in this scenario.

Also I’ll be taking no lectures on women’s rights from anyone who supports Trump, thank you.

Oh good it’s ’trying to work out if that person who just sneezed on me on the train has hayfever or the plague’ season.

No one is defending the Iranian regime & its brutalisation of its own people.That doesn’t make it any less true that this war was started by a man desperately distracting from the Epstein files and a man who is wanted for war crimes. Two old men who’ll send young ppl to die so they can avoid prison.

Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris In Gorton and Denton, I heard again and again that people wanted seismic political change – Labour and the Tories are no longer part of that conversation, says Guardian columnist John Harris

"Whereas so-called 'red wall' residents who have moved to the right have been lionised by Labour insiders as 'hero voters' to be chased and never criticised, Labour-Green switchers must apparently be scolded for being seduced by indulgent and reckless gesture politics."

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Also mysteriously transphobes are saying I (who have nearly two decades’ experience working in education) and Ashley (who is a parent of a 5 year old boy) ‘aren’t qualified’ to talk about this.

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Reflecting on my show last night and the number of times a caller confidently stated ‘you said…’ and then went on to say something that I either didn’t say or was the total opposite of what I actually said…. it’s okay just to have an opinion. You don’t have to create a straw woman first.

Fashion Policing, Misogyny and Why the Right Wing Doesn't Want Our Boys to Have Empathy There’s a lot going on this week, not least of all Trump starting a war with Iran (and then subsequently saying he was looking for an ‘off ramp’ because if he couldn’t own the entire country he couldn...

Wrote a new Substack about the right wing media’s hysterical response to the Ed Sec saying it’s okay for a boy to wear a dress to school and why it’s all a) very silly and b) steeped in misogyny - tashthinks.substack.com/p/fashion-po...

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Thank you - it was A LOT

The news that Donald Trump is seeking an ‘off ramp’ from the war in Iran and was apparently never genuinely interested in regime change (unless he could ‘own’ the country like in Venezuela) sent me over the edge on air tonight…. 🤬🤬🤬

Natasha in lbc studio

Join me from 6pm on LBC (Sat 28th Feb) -

- Commentators have characterised the strikes on Iran as Netanyahu and Trump trying to distract from domestic scandal, making the world less safe in the process. Do you agree?
- Is it realistic to expect the Iranian people to implement regime change alone?

Brendan O’Neill on the other hand, is like a….

Well quite.

‘If you want us to take you seriously about fascism now maybe you shouldn’t have cried fascism for so long before’.

OR, hear me out, fascism takes ages to imbed in a population in incrementally less subtle stages….?

Starmer wants to be Macron. He risks becoming Hollande. And why Conservative/Reform shrieking about the rise of "sectarianism" rings hollow

Starmer set himself up as Macron. Today he looks more like Biden or Hollande.

And why claims of the rise of sectarianism in British politics ring hollow. Apparently British Muslims, uniquely, aren't allowed to decide who best represents them.

New substack from me

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Also as a bisexual mixed heritage woman the number of times I’ve been told ‘Muslims’ wouldn’t accept me by a white ‘Christian’ person who disapproves of my existence are too many to count.

Yes I agree - they’re trying to evoke terrorism because that’s really the only context that word is used.

When they use the word ‘Islamist’ they are evoking something different from ‘Muslims’. Knowingly.

lol at Reform thinking a ‘coalition of islamists’ voted for an outspoken white working class woman in a party led by a proudly gay Jewish man.

I know and I’m not complacent but please just let me enjoy this moment before getting back to fighting the good fight tomorrow?

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There’s an irony that had Labour selected Burnham for this by-election he probably would have won. They blocked him for fear he could replace Starmer. But that decision has surely only strengthened Burnham’s position and weakened the PM more drastically.

G&D and Caerphilly painting quite the picture about how the public really feel about Reform - despite much of the media’s desperate attempts to persuade us that a Farage premiership is inevitable come the next GE.

Gorton and Denton by-election result:

GRN: 40.7% (+27.5)
REF: 28.7% (+14.7)
LAB: 25.4% (-25.3)
CON: 1.9% (-6.0)
LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1)

Green GAIN from Labour.