Judy Webb

Inside the plan to kill Ali Khamenei Israel spent years hacking Tehran’s traffic cameras and monitoring bodyguards ahead of the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader

Inside the plan to kill Ali Khamenei - remarkable reporting here by Mehul Srivastava and James Shotter. ie "Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel." www.ft.com/content/bf99...

The American people deserved to get a clear explanation of why servicemembers lives are at risk and why their gas prices are about to skyrocket. Instead, they got this.

"It’s critical that we really consider what the impacts of data centres will be before we charge into approving them en masse" ~ @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social

We've launched an inquiry into data centres 👉 committees.parliament.uk/work/9651/ri...

Blurred background image of a traffic jam with text reading: Are current air quality targets enough to protect health and the environment?

Tens of thousands of lives are being shortened in the UK by air pollution, according to the Environment Agency. What can the Government do to protect public health and the environment?

We’ve launched an inquiry: committees.parliament.uk/work/9561/ai...

Clean Air Communities warns NSW that indoor #airpollution is a human rights and public health issue - highlighting the harms from woodsmoke, fragranced products, and indoor combustion, calling for #IAQ standards, filtration in schools and healthcare... link:
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/submi...

The @saferairproject.bsky.social argues that airborne diseases remain a major health & economic burden - calling for national IAQ performance standards, real‑time monitoring, & ventilation upgrades across public spaces to reduce infections & protect those vulnerable.
@burnetinstitute.bsky.social‬

March’s Wildlife Raffle Prizes Just Dropped 👀 Protect the Wild's big March raffle!

Still time to enter our monthly raffle!

protectthewild.substack.com/p/marchs-wil...

The PLP is predisposed to like FPTP whenevet Labour is in office - the only time it also has the power to initiate electoral reform. Anyone who thinks an FPTP strong government is desirable should consider what this would mean with Reform (or similar) in power.

'I'm losing my home over Birmingham bin strike' Striking bin worker Maxine Stanley says she will still "stand strong" despite financial pressures.

Birmingham city council should hang their heads in shame. @unitetheunion.bsky.social's message to @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social is clear, it needs to return to negotiations and offer a fair deal to its workers.

No negotiations since July 2025 - @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social should stop disgracing itself and get back to talks to find a fair resolution for the bin workers. That is the only way strikes will end.

A happier time in Iran...

Jewish children in Tehran dress up for Purim in 1964, long before the Islamic Revolution. Tonight, Jews around the world will commemorate Purim, celebrating the story of Queen Esther who saved the Jewish people from annihilation in ancient Persia.

A powerful moment captured in London, England. 🦁🇮🇱

The people of Israel and the people of Iran stand together in solidarity and in hope for a more peaceful future. Free Iran!

PPS: None of the above changes the fact that Iran has been ruled by murderous, not to mention women-hating, thugs for decades.

Fun fact: The Americans were absolutely livid when the British decided to withdraw from the Persoan Gulf In 1968. Why?
Because they were afraid of a power vacuum.

Literally all that mattered in the 1960s to both UK and US: keep the place from blowing up (and the Russians from extending their influence there).
Well.

Finally, it is possible to be extremely concerned about the current US trajectory without romanticizing a violent and dangerous
theocracy.

PS: And finally the idea that "all Muslims“ will now unite in their support for Iran, is not only racist, it is ludicrous and shows a complete lack of any historical understanding of the Middle East.

That said, this whole thing is mad, infinitely explosive and dangerous.

I spent 6 years of my life writing a PhD about UK policy in Persian Gulf in the 1960s, including the role of the Anglo-American alliance.
Key to the Persian Gulf policy of both countries: AVOID a power vacuum under any circumstances &keep Iran&Saudi Arabia from attacking the smaller Gulf States.

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International Law and the Regulation of Protest This book provides a systematic analysis of the international legal regime governing protest from a human rights law perspective. Through it, readers gain an introduction to the idea of protest and ho...

All #protest #FoAA #publicorder law lovers...

A cracking new book has just come out...why, yes, I do have a chapter in it
Edited by @mariaosullivan.bsky.social & @azdastyari.bsky.social

www.routledge.com/Internationa...

Indicative/hypothetical shares

White voters (about 23.5k)
Reform 36% (8500)
Green 33% (7750)
Labour 22% (6300)
Cons 2.5% (550)
LD 2% (400)
Others 1.5% (350)

Minority 13.5k (9k Asian, 3k black, 1k mixed)
Green 55% (7500)
Labour 28% (4000)
Reform 14% (2000)
LD 2% (200)
Cons 1% (150)
Other * (100)

There will have been around 30,000 UK-born and around 6,000 foreign-born *eligible* voters. It is entirely implausible that this is why Reform lost (by 5000). It is plausible it increased the Green majority - probably by about 3000 voters

Ask Reform for number of Commonwealth voters and voters born abroad (by citizenship) if they are "absolutely certain" of what the numbers show is a xenophobic fantasy they could disenfranchise & deport their way to victory from 29%

Breaking News!
Code Yikes!

February, 2026, finished as the 5th warmest February since 1940, at 1.50°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline, and likely the 5th warmest February in the last 120,000+ years.

Hot times ahead!

📷 Azizieh, #Aleppo (Syria), 1898

🖍️ Young Ottoman Grooms Carrying Beys’ Caparisons, 16th Century

Also, is #womenshistorymonth not a hashtag on Bluesky? I mean, I'm not surprised, but at the same time, seriously people?

A few years ago I did a Twitter thread for International Women's History Month about women psychologists through history.
You can read the thread here. It was one of the most fun things I've done on social media, and the most educational #womenshistorymonth
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