Warning a defensive alliance that it faces a “very bad future” if it doesn’t convert itself into an offensive alliance is not terribly compelling.
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US Military
Good at: large mechanised deployment with air superiority.
Very bad at: Guerrilla engagements.
Very bad at: Exit strategy.
Can't see this going well for the USA.
People with no idea of the risks to the mother during child birth. Need to look at mortality rates before we had modern science. Educate yourselves.
This is a dangerous policy which endangers both the mother and child. In an ideal world we all would be able to have natural births, we don't live in an ideal world.
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I signed this letter. A lot of harm has been caused by ideological approaches to birth.
“We are a democratic party and our policies are determined by our members.” is a pretty terrible way to approach health policies.
A tax barrister sued me personally for £8m for libel after we linked him to a tax avoidance scheme.
Today the High Court struck out the claim, granted summary judgment, and ruled it was a SLAPP. The judgment is highly critical.
We've won the UK's first ever SLAPP suit - acting for @danneidle.bsky.social - and made some really important law protecting the right to call out barristers whose misconduct facilitates aggressive tax avoidance.
That photograph could have been taken almost anywhere at almost any time.
Could even be AI.
It's not evidence of anything.
My first day running Ed Davey's social media accs could've gone better tbh...🫣
Who exactly has "voted to cut Labour affiliation".
Was it all members (I was one until recently)?
Or just an inner circle cabal?
I've spoken to five current members and they haven't had a vote.
Fascinating thread from a US senator.
Interesting that as he cannot say anything which was briefed and classified, he lists what was not briefed.
Clever.
Ed Miliband, famously closing coal mines as a 14-year-old minister in Thatcher's government during the miners' strike
UK government releases list of 76 EU laws that it says UK will align with under food standards treaty with EU www.gov.uk/government/n...
Gov. Departments, Ministers and MPs need to be on 🦋
Being only on X distorts their understanding of the real world.
Please pass it on.
With every passing day, the decision of Starmer and his cabinet a) not to join the Iranian war b) to delay access to bases looks wiser and wiser. Trump’s press conference last night shows he has no real idea what the objectives are and its duration is arbitrary.
Reform Party politician falsely claims Labour and Plaid Cymru want to allow children to identify as cats 🐈
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"While Nige has been brown-nosing Trump with his warmongering, he has missed that most of the country doesn’t want to follow the orange narcissist into an illegal war with no fixed objectives other than continue till The Donald gets bored"
We don't have to wait for the law to catch up with the guy who does Nazi salutes and reposts racists - we could just stop using his extremist website
Very much hope that investigation is underway re: Johnson/Fartrage/Bannon and the ousting of May.
The best way to stop a drift to fascism is to arrest the leaders and charge them with the crimes they have committed.
Far Right push via Reform etc that foreign men are danger to women but reality is👇🏼
“the greatest threat to women is not from strangers in dark alleys, but from those they know, trust and often live with", says CEO of women's charity Refuge’
Many #FarageRiots thugs had a history of abusing women
🆕 Update on Iran War 🇮🇷
The most informative pairing on all things Iran is back with what is becoming (sadly) a weekly slot. @snellarthur.bsky.social and Charlie Gammell offer actual insight rather than breathless speculation.
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I'll be talking about 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales' at New Mills Local History Society, Derbyshire, at the Town Hall on Friday March 13th, 7.45pm. www.newmillshistory.org.uk#home (Book due out Feb 26th, available for preorder).
The Prime Minister has today launched the new Civil Society Council.
Consisting of leading voices from across the voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors, it will bring civil society into the heart of government decision‑making to ensure better policy delivery and closer partnerships.
Because of course he did…
🟨 Print Edition — Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’
The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling…
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
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That LRB piece, which features those old allegations that Sarah Ferguson's Budgie the Helicopter plagiarised Hector, sent me down a right old hole..
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