Anthony Glees

But Starmer is neither ‘standing up’ to Trump nor telling him to get lost. We said ‘no’ to using UK bases & then we said ‘yes’. The Special Relationship has become an albatross around Starmer’s neck. A consequence of Brexit.

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Starmer’s inaction. Today’s must-read. The truth is that the Starmer can’t say ‘yes’ to Trump & Netanyahu but he can’t say ‘no’. He’s invested too much in his relationship with a reckless US president. Has Britain ever been so weak?

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An understandably tired Sir Keir made a reasonable defence of his policy (a) to decline to join in the US-Israel strike on Iran (b) to let the US use UK bases to take out Iranian missile sites. Badenoch was all over the place, claiming intl law had failed so could be ignored.

It didn’t ‘crash’. It was shot down. Big problem for Trump. Bigger problem for the USA.

Christopher who? In May, a party founded eight years ago, with no record in national government and only eight MPs, will fight elections in Wales and Scotland, and for control of councils across England, with every chance of winning many of them. British politics is being reshaped by Reform UK. This is a result of Nigel Farage's personality and of Christopher Harborne's money - £9m, from a fortune amassed largely through cryptocurrency investments. The party would not be able to field candidates, run social media operations or door-to-door campaigns if it weren't for the Harborne war chest. There is a template for crypto-funded campaigning - in the US, where it is viewed as having led to securing crypto-friendly legislation and sweetheart deals to enrich crypto charlatans and undermine transparency and accountability in politics. Reform threatens to destroy the Conservatives as a party of government and divide communities, increasingly along ethnic lines and with overtly racist arguments. It also poses the most serious threat to Keir Starmer's government, Harborne lives in Thailand and owns a 12% stake in the Tether stablecoin. Little else is known about this intensely private man. Yet he can influence the course of politics, seemingly without either much of a business or life in the UK. It's a lot like overseas interference in British democracy. Didn't someone once say: "Take back control"?

From yesterday's Observer.

Rod Liddle is, strangely, bang to rights

The analysis in The Sunday Times by Katy Balls, is terrific

Crikey.
Will it lead to regime change? Hard to see how.

My take on the days every via The Daily Express

www.express.co.uk/news/world/2... and www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...

His trip from Paris to Teheran on 1 Feb 1979 was the perhaps the most fateful Air France flight ever taken - & the most significant political journey since Lenin arrived at the Finland Station in 1917.

The West wasted Ukraine’s years of sacrifice Instead of preparing for war like Russia’s neighbours, we have fallen behind as Putin rearms

The West wasted Ukraine’s years of sacrifice

A compelling piece, a depressing piece. But had Ukraine & Georgia joined NATO by 2010, Navalny might now be president & Putin in gaol for corruption.

www.thetimes.com/article/69b8...

Hvor brutal er Vladimir Putins tilgang i Rusland for at sikre sin magt? Britiske historiker Antony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social er sikker i sin sag: Kreml-lederen har flere ligheder med den sovjetiske diktator Josef Stalin. Ligesom er Putin parat til at dræbe for at intimidere sine modstandere.

Matt Goodwin has stated that British-born people from ethnic minority backgrounds ‘may not necessarily be British’.That’s self-evidently racist. His final video shows he’s after the white vote, full stop.

The USA is vile right now, in the grip of a deeply vicious & sinister regime. On no account should Sir Keir require King Charles to grease up to Trump & MAGA Americans with a State Visit.

Nary a word in this long @Telegraph piece, rightly excoriating the Greens, about REF Matt Goodwin’s insistence that ‘UK born people from ethnic minority backgrounds are not necessarily British’. As his last video makes plain he’s going all out for white votes

We shall see…Badenoch’s Tories on just 6% is not good optics. Clearly many Tory supporters are now REF

Every which way Mandelson’s arrest is a national security nightmare for the UK. I continue to think Starmer is actually a decent bloke & probably more so than Badenoch or Farage. But really.,.

'Unpredictable' Trump's 'impossible' Iran dream is threatening a bloodbath: expert Donald Trump's long-term plan for Iran may not be as achievable as the president wants it to be, according to a political analyst. Professor Anthony Glees believes the Trump administration is looking ...

An attack on Iran as a re-run of the attack on Iraq. It can’t end well for anyone. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

We see how Farage has consistently claimed he's not a racist (probably correctly these days) and we should thank him for ensuring the far right vote REF and not NF etc but his obvious support for Goodwin's racist ideas implies he wants it both ways. Like Enoch Powell, any votes will do.

I truly couldn't agree with you more. Whatever they taught Matt Goodwin at @salforduni.bsky.social the history of the Third Reich does not appear to have been offer. Some 50m killed by the Nazis to support crazy ideas of racism. Nauseating.

Ex-príncipe britânico ligado a pedófilo cai nas garras da Justiça Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, irmão caçula do rei Charles III, é detido sob a acusação de vazar dados sensíveis do Reino Unido para traficante sexual. Especialistas britânicos veem desastre para a famíl...

www.correiobraziliense.com.br/mundo/2026/0... For any Portugese speakers or followers in Brazil I might have: my take on the Andrew crisis

I’ve often thought: someone should write a PhD on these folk. Oddly many academics supported ‘the Full Brexit’ yet REF claim all academic are Remainers who witch hunt them.

He could win. Tomorrow’s poll will allow voters inclined to vote tactically to know whom to back to keep him out.