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Senior Research Officer in Swansea University. Writer and corresponding editor for Joyzine. Writer for Louder than War, GIITTV, Vive Le Rock mag and Hiapop. Frustrated artist. MD ANT https://ioanhumphreys.wordpress.com/
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09.03.2026 11:34 — 👍 3537 🔁 1137 💬 245 📌 109
Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.
09.03.2026 05:24 — 👍 2022 🔁 1059 💬 73 📌 111In which Richard Tice gets a very big pot of paint and then starts painting himself into a corner
09.03.2026 08:56 — 👍 452 🔁 118 💬 38 📌 8
It's a bit like one of those Adele songs where she keeps ringing her ex boyfriend in the middle of the night...
www.ft.com/content/9391...
But, rather than receiving a formal invite to meet Trump, Farage was in fact invited to Mar-a-Lago by a member of the club, according to multiple people briefed on the matter They said Farage had hoped he would be able to catch Trump for a conversation as the US president was scheduled to travel to Mar-a-Lago that evening. However, Trump had a change in his itinerary and decided to stay instead in Doral, about an hour`s drive away The Reform leader's failure to secure an audience with the US president underscores a weakening of ties between the two populist leaders who famously formed a close friendship in the vears before and after the 2016
Massive humiliation for Farage, who tipped off the UK press that he was flying to Florida to have dinner with Trump... only for Trump to decide he had more interesting things to do when Nigel arrived.
09.03.2026 08:05 — 👍 1357 🔁 464 💬 141 📌 66
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If fascists meet in Mar-a-Lago, and no one is around to see it, does it make a Nazi salute? 🤔
08.03.2026 22:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A draft!
That should galvanize that lagging MAGA support!
Excellent.
I think western influencers need to be clear about why they seem to be posting messages that so closely align to a coordinated campaign by the autocratic UAE leadership.
youtu.be/-giBHZ31RMU?...
Great to find this footage of Goldblade on Ant and Dec's Saturday day morning pop show 'CD:UK' playing our hit that never was 'Hairstyle' in 1998. We had loads of radio play as well and then the record label went bust! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlD0...
06.03.2026 09:22 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Put Trump’s criticism of Starmer and other democratic leaders against his consistent syrupy praise for authoritarian, brutal leaders.
Starmer is in good company. Just remind yourself how Trump praises authoritarian antidemocratic leaders in this thread. It’s an eye opener 🧵 1/
I'm sure it's just a massive coincidence that they used all the same words, ideas and punctuation.
08.03.2026 09:15 — 👍 1391 🔁 369 💬 88 📌 6
"chaotic, grungy, punk-infused mayhem"
Hayley Foster da Silva reviews the "loud, messy, and brilliant" power of 'Reality Star' the new album from Surfbort.
Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.
08.03.2026 09:52 — 👍 1851 🔁 387 💬 61 📌 9
Nigel Farage is celebrating Reform UK shady donations, whilst jetting off to Washington.
On the day MPs head to their constituency to do the job they were elected to do.
was nine years old when a Labour government followed the US into an illegal war in Iraq, sold to the public on lies. Twenty-three years later, we're back on the streets opposing another Labour government and another illegal war - this time against Iran.
We have suffered our worst national humiliation since the Suez debacle, if not the fall of Singapore. This time, though, we lack the excuse of having been pressured by alies or attacked by foes. The decision to cower and plead neutrality even as Iranian proxies were lobbing ordnance at us was entirely our own. Sir Keir Starmer's pusillanimity has left us looking weak, needy and duplicitous. And all for what? Anxiety about anti-lsrael voters in constituencies like Gorton and Denton? Fear of crossing our human-rights obsessed Attorney General, Lord Hermer? Paywall down.
In a desperate attempt to make Trump and Netanyahu's war all about the UK government, you simultaneously have the Your Party tendency sowing a narrative that we're already fighting on America's side... and the Ladybird Libertarians calling it the greatest humiliation since the Fall of Singapore.
08.03.2026 08:56 — 👍 309 🔁 68 💬 34 📌 6A juxtaposition for the ages…
07.03.2026 22:58 — 👍 956 🔁 200 💬 55 📌 4
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
The King is supposed to be visiting the USA *next month*. This is the definition of a diplomatic nightmare. In all seriousness, I would urge him to pull a sickie.
08.03.2026 08:35 — 👍 4602 🔁 734 💬 336 📌 55Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...
07.03.2026 12:10 — 👍 1771 🔁 562 💬 148 📌 38
A little bit obsessed with all the nut clusters currently ‘ashamed to be British’ because Starmer didn’t sign us up to this shit show.
07.03.2026 12:33 — 👍 2556 🔁 464 💬 276 📌 32BREAKING:Democrat Alex Holladay defeats Republican Bryan Renshaw in the Arkansas House District 70 special election, flipping the GOP-held suburban Little Rock seat from 🔴 to 🔵.
06.03.2026 23:41 — 👍 5647 🔁 829 💬 97 📌 57I'm a vicar in a small rural village. I could never say this to my flock because of the outcry, but Reform are blatantly opposed to genuine Christian values and it's clear that anyone considering voting for them has not been listening to a single word I say each week
06.03.2026 20:20 — 👍 1319 🔁 180 💬 122 📌 16Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
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In the last three days, the Brexiters have been losing their shit because "MPs were dancing while the war in Iran was going on."
Here's Farage yesterday.
And nothing...
youtube.com/shorts/BLG7X...
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"
06.03.2026 20:09 — 👍 24537 🔁 7042 💬 525 📌 424
