Clara Hayes

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#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsACriminal

Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity in Iran from February 24, 2026, to March 2, 2026. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Iran's connectivity normal most of the time period, with a sharp drop on the morning of February 28. The drop in connectivity aligns with nation-scale internet blackout imposed during joint military strikes by the US and Israel. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 1% and 1%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red horizontal arrow labeled 'SHUTDOWN', indicates the period of disruption and includes the NetBlocks logo in the lower left corner.

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has now surpassed 48 hours, leaving its population of 90 million out of touch as war spreads.

Shutdowns are a go-to tactic for the regime, with the previous instance in January lasting several weeks and masking severe human rights violations.

Weekend - Supreme leader mourned by supporters in Iran's capital - BBC Sounds Iran vows 'the most devastating offensive operation' against US bases and Israel

"This US administration lacks the attention span, the credibility, the diplomatic capacity and the resources to engage in any sort of sustained democratic transition."

Professor Janina Dill on BBC Radio discussed the likelihood of a successful regime change in Iran. 👇
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Trump has told four different journalists completely contradictory things about his aims.

It's going to be over in three days or four weeks... it's about regime change but he also wants to start talks again with the current regime...he's killed all the possible replacement leaders...

Total chaos.

This is cheap and pathetic from Badenoch - concerns about the wisdom of involvement in the Middle East conflict and participation in American wars go well beyond Muslim voters, and it's simplistic to assume all Muslim voters oppose UK involvement

Vacancy: World’s Moral Leader. Essential qualities: articulate, inspiring, inclusive vision, sees things from standpoint of marginalised, understands power and its misuse, prepared to work long hours. Remuneration, respect of billions, vile abuse and ridicule by right wing press and politicians.

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So presumably this Daily Mail campaign against "foreign-born" voters will quickly be applied to their foreign-born star columnist, Boris Johnson, and their own France-based for tax purposes non-dom owner?

"I never tried to kill a leader of another country, ever..."

You're correct. English voters and the English press will accept a Prime Minister who is a woman or a person of colour - but only if they're right wing.

A progressive Prime Minister who is also a woman or person of colour is simply a step too far.
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I’ve warned for some time that Labour can’t keep taking its base for granted, and Gorton and Denton makes that plain. People say they don't recognise the party they once trusted. We’ve moved away from communities that built us. If we don’t change, others will step into the space we have left open.

Smiling infants holding small American flags.

The League of Women Voters has joined with other civil rights groups and filed an amicus brief before the Supreme Court calling out the administration’s attempt to narrowly restrict birthright citizenship to advance its ideological agenda. We object! www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre... @lwvus.bsky.social

The Iranian regime is objectively hideous. It murders & incarcerates innocent people, threatens & attacks sovereign neighbours, routinely breaks international law, outlaws dissent & crushes free speech.
Can you see the problem with *Donald Trump & Benjamin Netanyahu* leading the attack on them?

'He changed in a very insidious way': Parents' distress at sons embracing toxic masculinity The rise of masculinist rhetoric among young people is creating new tensions within families. Mothers and sisters are often targeted by boys who have been radicalized online. Fathers are left feeling ...

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Completely with you there. We just watched the last episode this evening.

Most people will know @peteregan46.bsky.social from Ever Decreasing Circles but having just finished watching A Perfect Spy (BBC iPlayer available now) I will say he was truly magnificent in that.

Tommy Robinson visited the US State Department today at the invite of the Trump administration.

He's Britain's most prominent far-right street thug with criminal convictions for assault, violence, fraud, stalking & harassment.

He was jailed in 2012 for trying to enter the US with a false passport.

Some personal news: after 17 wonderful years at the New Statesman I’ve decided it’s time for something new.

Grateful to brilliant colleagues past and present. Here’s my farewell column from this week’s magazine. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026...

Good luck to them and I hope they join. Whatever their choice is, let's respect it. We are all Europeans, in or out of the EU.

Neutral Ireland seeks closer ties with Nato over maritime security New Dublin strategy against backdrop of heightened Russia concerns could involve request for UK and French naval assistance

Ireland is seeking closer co-operation with the UK and other Nato countries to defend its vast maritime area as Russia intensifies its surveillance of vulnerable undersea cables that criss-cross Irish waters.

“What kind of administration releases naked photos of victims, and then protects the perpetrators?”

#TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinAdministration

Teachers stop hitting children after Scottish mums complain to Strasbourg - Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights - www.coe.int <p>Grace Campbell and Jane Cosans sent their children to state schools which continued to allow the use of corporal punishment. The two mothers complained to the European court, which found that this ...

What has the European Convention on Human Rights ever done for anyone in Britain?

On this day in 1982, the @echr.coe.int ruled that teachers hitting kids in UK state schools was not OK👇

🔗 go.coe.int/tqT6M

Millions of people have since been educated without the threat of physical violence.

#ECHR

The US Immigration Industrial Complex is a Threat to Everyone If President Dwight D. Eisenhower were alive today, he very well may warn of the ever-growing immigration industrial complex.

"US immigration enforcement has evolved into a rapidly growing multi-billion-dollar industry in which profitability increasingly dictates policy and enforcement priorities."

By: @tylermcbrien.com

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Don’t have or want kids?

Reform’s Matt Goodwin thinks you should be taxed extra as punishment…

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

While on BBC2 at 9pm, there's AI Confidential with Hannah Fry, a series which begins with the story of a boy whose relationship with an AI chatbot ended with him attempting to assassinate the Queen. Fry is an excellent guide in this chilling study, which asks pressing moral & ethical questions

I love this city.

“Abolish ICE” and other anti-ICE names made up nearly 80 percent of all submissions”

Reform UK has today unveiled Donald Trump-style ICE plans.

In the meantime UK news shows continue to fail to call out Reform UK leader Nigel Farage’s completely untrue claims.

If UK media can’t get the job done let’s do it ourselves
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