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It took months of national and international debate, diplomacy, parliamentary scrutiny and public protest before Blair managed to involve the UK in an illegal war.

Starmer has done it within a single news cycle.

That's just how supine he is to Trump.

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...

The Guardian is wheeling out the 'centrist' cheerleaders in a bid to shore up their guy. A party based on Starmer's personality would resemble the faint shadow of a cardboard cut out leant against the side of a wheelie bin in a back alley.
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That's because they don't have the imagination to make stuff up.

Oh. And the VA might not take care of their injuries, invisible or otherwise.

‘Cash cow’ Send schools backed by firms linked to Bono and Sheikh Mansour Analysis shows private equity funds, including offshore entities, are making millions while councils struggle to meet Send demand

Private equity companies linked to Manchester City owner, and Bono making millions in profit through taxpayer-funded special needs schools.

20%+ profit margins. Children are cash cows.

Councils pay up to £350,000 a year to support pupils.

Money ends up in offshore tax havens.
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Just so we're clear: Americans are GROSSLY under reacting to what is happening in America right now.

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The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

Breaking: Key figure in the Epstein Files, known for his friendship with Epstein, launches a war in a bid to distract from Epstein Files.

Skinner wrong meme Is it they don't like my policies No, it must be sectarianism. Principal Skinner looks a lot like Keir Starmer

More alarmingly, it seems to imply that they don't believe people with religious beliefs are real people.

Switzerland has been prescribing heroin to dependent users since 1994. The results? Dramatically reduced illicit drug use, less crime, better health, more stable housing and employment.

The Netherlands and Germany adopted the same model. Same results.

I'm not sure the armed forces would want him anyway. The guy sounds like a bigger psycho than his dad.

BREAKING: Ed Davey responds to the ongoing situation in the Middle East

A great opportunity for anyone who enjoys writing accessibly about law.

If Anas Sarwar has been told not to commentate on UK politics, how exactly does he expect us to believe he'll function as a First Minister? Westminster will make some awful policy decision and the FM will go - "I'm not allowed to talk about that."

The FIFA Peace Prize selection committee members nod solemnly and say they’ve never been more proud

It is possible to recognise the Iranian regime is hideous, murdering their own citizens, and ideally would be replaced by a more democratic government, and that the US bombing a city of millions is a bad thing and starting an illegal war is really bad. You don't have to support either government. 1/

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

I feel like such a fool that for so long I failed to interrogate what I was taught at University: that the law exists to protect the weak from the strong. 54 is very late to arrive at Audre Lorde's immutable truth, that his Master's tools will never dismantle his Master's house.

The second point to note is that deference to the judgment of the legislature cannot be taken too far in the context of equality and discrimination cases. As Lord Bingham observed in A v. SSHD, at [68], what needs to be justified in a discrimination case is the discrimination and not simply the underlying measure. Furthermore, it is an important function of the courts to protect minorities, in particular small and perhaps unpopular minorities, since their interests may sometimes be overlooked or perhaps even deliberately violated by the majority. As Lady Hale observed in Ghaidan v. Godin-Mendoza [2004] UKHL 30, [2004] 2 AC 557, at [132]: "democracy values everyone equally even if the majority does not". In other words, the concept of democracy which is inherent in the Convention system and the HRA is not a majoritarian view of democracy. The protection of the rights of minorities is built into the scheme of the Convention and the HRA.

"It is an important function of the courts to protect minorities, in particular small and perhaps unpopular minorities, since their interests may sometimes be... even deliberately violated by the majority."

Court of Appeal: discussing the structurally disadvantaged class of private school pupils.

My line on BBCr4 Today on the Iran strikes was this. Last June there were intensive US/Iran talks under way. Aborted by Israeli strikes on Iran which US joined. I think this is similar. The US-Iran-Oman talks seemed to be going well. Netanyahu preempted, and Trump felt he had to follow 1/5

Seven-year-old Mathias Bermeo, a detainee at Dilley wrote: “I’m writing this letter so that you can hear my story. I need you to help us I have been detained for 23 days with my mom and my 3-year-old sister. I cry a lot I want to get out of here go back to my school they don’t treat us Well here there are many children we are kidnapped help!”

“I’m writing this letter so that you can hear my story. I need you to help us... I cry a lot I want to get out of here go back to my school they don’t treat us Well here there are many children we are kidnapped help!”

- Mathias Bermeo, Dilley detainee, 7yo

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In Trump's mind, Iceland and Greenland seem to be interchangeable, as are Armenia and Albania. It's a truly horrific mix of dementia and not really giving a shit because they're all foreign.

Not just the Prime Minister. Replacing Starmer with the likes of Streeting would make no difference.

Keir Starmer's attempt to paint the Greens as extremists yet again reveals his intolerance of political difference. His instincts are illiberal and authoritarian.

What they’ve said afterwards suggests that they will not. Which only lends further credence to the idea that their leadership *want* to be right-wing, racist, transphobes and not that they’re doing it reluctantly because they think they have to.

These Tory ministers sold profitable harbours like Ardrossan to enable shareholders to milk rather than to maintain them, Labour then did nothing and now the SNP Government is blamed for not buying it... Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON For more than two years now Scotland’s media h…

These Tory ministers sold profitable harbours like Ardrossan to enable shareholders to milk rather than to maintain them, Labour then did nothing and now the SNP Government is blamed for not buying it back and repairing it quick enough?
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