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Vegan father to 3 great feminists. Strong social values. Many years working for charities. Sometimes write short stories: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0F1FRMTZQ?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
Brexit has not been good for Britain, Chancellor Rachel Reeves says, acknowledging we need to be closer to Europe.
Late but welcome.
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Keir Starmer's refusal to kowtow to the US president over his war against Iran has won public backing in Britain; and left his pro-Trump political rivals Badenoch and Farage playing catch-up.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Expert on Donald Trump's body language says he uses "gestures that are classic authoritarian ones. He is not being statesman-like."
Sounds right: Trump is never diplomatic, informed or gracious; hw's always ignorant, rude and corrupt.
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Here we go again
Matt Vickers MP made a Conservative party video about the removal of Churchill from the fiver... and Vickers says:
"As Churchill himself once said 'a nation that forgets its past has no future.'
It's a FAKE QUOTE Churchill never said that.
Vickers is a shadow minister
Britain will maintain its sanctions on Russia, despite Trump lifting US ones.
Under Trump, the US is, more than anything, an ally to Israel. And Trump is happy to support Europe's adversaries.
Is it just that Putin and Netanyahu have dirt on him?
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How it started ... How it's going
This is unprecedented for the World Cup: the leader of the hosts (Trump) telling a team not to come.
In fact, no one should go. Total boycott. The US is no longer safe, especially with ICE on the streets.
Worse, right now it's a rogue nation.
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Putin’s ‘hidden hand’ lies behind Iran’s drone tactics, UK defence secretary says.
Russia and Iran, both rogue states, remain close. But Trump regards one as enemy and one a friend.
Trump's as idiotic and inconsistent as he is corrupt.
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"A Pentagon probe has found that outdated U.S. targeting data caused an American Tomahawk missile to destroy an Iranian elementary school in the opening hours of President Donald Trump’s war against Iran."
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Trump says he's beaten Iran but he clearly hasn't. Meanwhile, the International Energy Agency warns that the world is facing the worst oil supply disruption in history.
And it's confirmed the US killed 160+ schoolchildren.
Trump's a danger to the world.
#WATO
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A UN human rights panel has demanded that the killing of a 168 people in Iran, primarily schoolgirls, must be “Urgently, independently and effectively investigated".
Trump denied responsibility but it's clear he lied.
So good to hear Gordon Brown's voice on this.
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Breaking: Government just confirmed will apply new laws tackling tax avoidance schemes to tax ‘finfluencers’ - protecting millions who have lost money or been fined following their advice.
Expect a knock from the taxman if you have been ripping people off with your financial clickbait. #trueLabour
Donald Trump has shrugged off Russia supplying intelligence to his enemies in Iran and rewarded the Kremlin with the option of lifting oil sanctions against Moscow.
Yet again, the latest moves by the US president beg the question “whose side is he on”.
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Keir Starmer needs to keep Britain out of Trump’s illegal war on Iran.
Even Farage and Badenoch are back-tracking, admitting we shouldn't be involved.
#PMQs
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Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.
Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.
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With the Iran war, Trump is "wholly unwilling to link himself to any negative consequences of the conflict, including economic hardship" and loss of life.
The whole thing's unplanned, illegal and irresponsible.
#r4today
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Iranians living in the UK tell Keir Starmer that Trump's war will only strengthen the Tehran regime and that Britain should stay out.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Flip-flopping Reform UK leader Nigel Farage recently hit out at Keir Starmer for failing to join Trump's illegal war on Iran. But today, realising how unpopular and expensive it is, he said 'Let’s not get involved in another foreign war'.
Imagine if he'd been PM.
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Trump-supporting 'host' of some sort on BBC turning somersaults to justify the US war on Iran.
Yes, it's a limited intervention but has to include regime change. No, Trump doesn't have the right to choose who runs other nations but can depose their leaders.
FFS.
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IN BRITAIN, NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW OF THE LAND!
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"It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for 'misconduct in public office,' which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with." - The Economist's Matt Steinglass
Trump claims the Iran war will be over ‘very soon’, as he realises the cost of living implications of his actions - not something his superficial, uninformed administration would have considered in advance but now fears will hurt in coming elections.
#r4today
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Trump was bumped into the Iran war by Netanyahu, Trump following along behind Israel's far right Prime Minister. Now the US will wait to see when, and if, Netanyahu is ready for the war to end.
The US strongman is remarkably weak.
But is happy if Epstein leaves the front pages.
Nigel Farage invests £215,000 in Kwasi Kwarteng’s bitcoin firm as the Reform UK leader strengthens his ties with the crypto sector, hoping to become PM and, like Trump in the US, use his position for personal financial gain.
What a con.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The Iran crisis could “bring down the economies of the world”. So why is it happening?
Because Netanyahu wants it and Trump follows him. It distracts from the Epstein files. Trump's a bully. And he is having a tantrum for not getting the Nobel Peace Prize.
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‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell.
There's so much more about Epstein, many other men and the corruption and sexual abuse they shared.
Not sure we'll find out while Trump's President, though, if ever.
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After Trump criticised Starmer for not supporting his illegal war with Iran, Starmer has shared "his heartfelt condolences with president Trump and the American people following the deaths of six US soldiers."
Which is ironic as Trump doesn't care about them at all.
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When UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson insisted on negotiating a hard Brexit, which weakened and cost Britain dearly. Following on from Tory austerity, it left the country poorer and marginalised.
Johnson was also corrupt and incompetent. We really don't need to hear his views on the Iran war.
This from the Daily Mail is quite something
The one tabloid that has done more damage to cultural cohesion, attacked diversity, migration, Islam, than any other, yet here they are praising the diversity of Dubai
It’s the psychology that makes a difference 🙄
Ex PM Tony Blair has rebuked Keir Starmer over Trump's war on Iran, saying Britain should have backed the US from the beginning.
The UK's right wing papers, and BBC, are thrilled but Blair is totally wrong. The war is illegal, chaotic and shameful.
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With the Iran-US war, Donald Trump tells UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, ‘we don’t need people that join wars after we’ve already won’.
The US invasion is illegal, ill thought-through and irresponsible.
Starmer must keep Britain out of it.
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