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BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.

This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.

(🎥 Vahid Online)

It really is something to see politicians, commentators and media outlets whose whole identity is based on being so-called ‘patriots’ frothing with excitement as they line up to back a deranged megalomaniac who consistently attempts to belittle and bully the country they claim to love

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper responds to President Trump’s latest outburst.

“The job of the British PM is to take decisions in the national interest of the U.K., not in the interests of other countries… we don’t outsource foreign policy to other countries”.

#bbclaurak

What do you make of Trump's appalling comments to Starmer, Shashank?

God help us if it was you having to make the decisions right now. Pathetic political point scoring at this stage is beyond contempt.

So he can do one, then. We can do without the cost of deployment of a carrier to the region. Let them stew in the horror show they have created.

Time to make Turnberry Golf Club a huge windfarm.

This is against international law: it's a war crime; it's evil.

Badenoch wants to resurrect 2 child benefit cap to pay for soldiers. Farage wants to do same to pay for reduction in beer prices to save pubs. But they also want to emphasize that poor white boys do worst in UK academically. How do they think that is tackled, if not by addressing child poverty?

Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...

He's really enjoying this, isn't he? The man is sick.

No wonder why the world hates us:

“The only ones who need to worry are Iranian do you think they’re gonna live.”

How the right-wing British press became Trump’s trumpet Churchill would be appalled by the kinds of things Donald Trump says and does. But Fleet Street is happy to ignore history for the sake of some political point-scoring, writes Alan Rusbridger

“You’d think he’d be busy monitoring the wildfire consequences of the war he’d just started. But, no, he entertained himself by slagging off the British leader to any British journalist who’d listen.”

And they did more than listen. They disgraced themselves.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump...

> @benstiller.redhour.com

A brilliant #climatefiction panel this evening at #yorkliteraturefestival with @johnironmonger.bsky.social author of #thewagerandthebear and @amylilwall.bsky.social author of #thewaterthatmaycome #Books

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

Well, well... Will Trump have something insulting to say every day for the next week with regard to Qatar's leadership? Or is that just reserved for Spain and the UK? @lewisgoodall.com @mrjamesob.bsky.social @jonsopel1.bsky.social @hugorifkind.bsky.social

Reform won big in Durham in May 2025 but a 10% swing to Labour here.

* Reform have held one, lost two (LibDems, now Labour) in by-elections
* Reform have lost four through defections (Advance, Ind), gaining one

"The dumb, politically correct wars of the past were the opposite of what we're doing here. They had vague objectives with restrictive, minimalist rules of engagement. No more." — Hegseth yesterday.

Almost nobody in the media reported on the former Tory Government's sweeping power grab of the electoral commission. This week Labour have announced that they will reverse what Boris Johnson did and return the commission to independence.

Ofcourse Labour will get absolutely no credit for doing this

Leak from secret UK meeting on US attacks on Iran an ‘absolute travesty’, says Lammy Justice secretary calls for inquiry into disclosure of cabinet splits at national security council over use of British bases * Middle East crisis – live updates David Lammy has said it is an “absolute travesty” that details were leaked from a top secret national security meeting on the US-Israel attacks on Iran and has called for an investigation. Cabinet splits at a national security council meeting, which is protected by the Official Secrets Act, over allowing the US to use British bases for the strikes against Iran were reported over the weekend. Continue reading...

Leak from secret UK meeting on US attacks on Iran an ‘absolute travesty’, says Lammy

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com @jonsopel1.bsky.social @vicderbyshire.bsky.social

At the end of a week where the official opposition and UK's media have dedicated their time and column inches to slagging off the PM for not supporting the US, comes this embarrassment. Perhaps the media could ask Badenoch what she thinks she is supporting. This? Justice the American way? No thanks.

Fantastic council by-election result.

Labour gain from Reform, with increased vote share for Labour.

This is an area where Reform have been in charge for 10 months and it's seeing votes switching from Reform to Labour.

Exactly as we said would happen when people experienced Reform!

Join @janicewarman.bsky.social to hear from her new collection 'These are the things we have lost' alongside an online open mic on the 12th of March!

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Passcode: poetry

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Whisper it, but Starmer might be getting it right on Iran In a highly personal column, our writer argues that, though Starmer’s policy may look indecisive, he might be more in tune with the public mood than critics suggest

"On this issue, it seems like Starmer might be exactly where the public is... Most of us didn’t want to be fully involved in this war. Few of us want to see British bases left exposed to danger. Starmer might, for once, be the man in politics who is most in touch with the public mood."

Good old British media continue to take the side of the US president against their own Prime Minister.

Best-selling author Miha Mazzini is coming to Sheffield Waterstones this May! Join us to go on a journey with this chilling thriller about bureaucracy as violence, and one mother’s battle against the state.

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I've now caught up and want to draw attention to three brilliant Northern indies on the list here - @saraband-books.bsky.social @deadinkbooks.bsky.social and @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social Absolutely cleaning up. This is LOVELY news.
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'new routes to connection' The Others by Sheena Kalayil Book Review: The Others by Sheena Kalayil

Now that the Women's Prize longlist is out, it's a great time to look back at some of the fantastic reviews of The Others by Sheena Kalayil! www.northernsoul.me.uk/others-sheen... A stunning novel about migration, love, and revolution. #womensprize #booksky 💙📚