“To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
Judgment of the international Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany.
They will have to wait up to 20 years before they can apply to settle in the UK – and up to 30 years if they arrived illegally via small boats across the Channel or by claiming asylum after overstaying work, student or visitor visas.
02.03.2026 08:30 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0"Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, will change the rules so that migrants arriving in the UK after Monday will only be eligible for temporary refugee status as part of sweeping reforms to deter illegal migrants".
02.03.2026 08:26 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
"Migrants’ right to permanent asylum in the UK will be scrapped from today in the most significant overhaul of immigration policy in a generation".
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰
Warning UK 'at risk of being pulled into illegal war'
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BBC *finally* report on the dozens of Iranian schoolgirls killed — about 32h later.
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Israel closes all Gaza crossings, tightens siege following Iran war - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-closes-all-gaza-crossings-tightens-siege-following-iran-war
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The world’s leading arms watchdog, SIPRI in Sweden, has been saying for nearly two years that Israel is “believed to be modernizing its nuclear arsenal and appears to be upgrading its plutonium production reactor site at Dimona” in the Negev desert.
www.declassifieduk.org/the-bbc-isnt...
Petition on pro-Israel influence in UK politics hits debate threshold
www.thenational.scot/news/2589748...
#bbclaurak: "When you have a country that fuels terror & exports terror.. they have shown for years to be completely disinterested in negotiation or respecting international rules & regulations"
So when are we bombing Israel?
Ensuring the genocide continues is also part of this.
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Israel closes Gaza’s Rafah crossing amid attacks on Iran
Israel closes Gaza’s Rafah crossing amid attacks on Iran https://aje.news/oe589h
01.03.2026 10:30 — 👍 95 🔁 119 💬 14 📌 8@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Its absolutely outrageous that they can be at the negotiating table & then our PM puts out a statement that actually condemns Iran for a retaliatory attack as opposed to Israel & America that started the bombing in the first place"🎯
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With more people joining us every day we are on course for a record election result.
Every time I knock on doors I am meeting people who are planning to vote Green for the first time! 💚
Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.
Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.
Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.
Best radio on the planet - without fail - week in week out
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If the world feels a bit dark this morning find BBC Sounds online/smart speaker and ask it to play Out of Doors. Mark Stephen & Rachel Stewart are funny, thoughtful & endlessly interested in Scotland's natural world. It'll lift your spirits. Or get up next Sat at 6am!
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Paul Conroy — a brilliant photojournalist who documented wars & human chaos for decades — has passed away. He was injured in the same attack in Homs that killed Marie Colvin & he just carried on travelling to conflict zones.
May he rest in peace.
Denmark has *far* worse outcomes - economic, social and integration - than the UK.
Just a fantasyland for those who want an excuse for their own xenophobia and/or are incapable of doing the hard work of confronting the UK's real problems.
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
This is an illegal war of aggression.
Dozens of Iranian children have been massacred by the US and Israel on its first day.
If the cheerleaders of this crime succeed, our world will descend into bloody chaos.
If you think the Trump you're deterring from invading Greenland and the Trump you're tolerating attacking Iran are different people I can't help you...
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Iran confirms deaths of four senior military officials - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-confirms-deaths-four-senior-military-officials
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Apollo with the dodgeball of prophecy
Years ago in another life I gave a guest lecture at The Hague warning “AI weapons” could be invoked to remove accountability for war crimes from the chain of command. I said “there are no autonomous weapons, only unsupervised ones,” and sadly it seems I was cooking with that one
01.03.2026 09:27 — 👍 3324 🔁 677 💬 27 📌 19Extra judicial assassination is illegal.
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Gamer silhouette facing a glowing monitor; headline about far‑right groups using gaming to recruit the next generation of Nazis.
🔴NEW: Far-right groups are increasingly using coded language and imagery on gaming platforms to bypass content moderators and radicalise young people, experts have warned.
Our latest investigation: www.theferret.scot/far-right-using-gaming-to-recruit/
Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail.
Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections
Exc: As many as 80 Labour MPs are braced to oppose the home secretary's immigration policies
Dozens of backbenchers and ministers are understood to be hostile to Shabana Mahmood's reforms. After the Gorton by-election they're pushing for a "recalibration"
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Trump promised no wars. Now he’s a Bush-style regime change president | Mohamad Bazzi
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‘He was the victim of calculated political murder by the British state’
My long read in @heraldscotland.bsky.social on the life and death of Scotland’s greatest socialist revolutionary John Maclean
Here is a taster
And here is a link to the full article www.heraldscotland.com/news/2589654...
