John McTernan

actually, foreign affairs is his strong card

If the US attacks then we have to protect.

Do you really want British bases unprotected?

Trump may strike Venezuela. His team makes that very risky. Take a close look at who is advising the president on U.S. policy.

The Iraq War unleashed unintended consequences. Every war does. This one will. This is not the A-Team or even the B-Team. Wrote this about Venezuela but applies equally to Iran. Pete Hegseth is the key node in the chain of command. Again. 5/5 goodauthority.org/news/trump-m...

Thread. NB: “The Iraq War unleashed unintended consequences. Every war does. This one will. This is not the A-Team or even the B-Team.”

Indefinite Leave to Remain - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : 'Indefinite Leave to Remain' on Monday 2 February 2026.

The Westminster Hall debate has dozens of MPs explaining why those affected feel the changes are not fair when applied retrospectively: these include contributions from Doncaster & Grimsby & Kent, as well as inner city seats. The government sounds in denial

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When 232,000 people and 107,000 people signed two petitions about the settlement reforms - against principle of retrospective application- and over 150,000 people responded to the consultation, it came up on the Denton & Gorton doorstep because its obvs a big issue in a hundred constituencies

Thanks John.

Surely that says AI?

Give Me My Macaroni!!

I have certain phrases that rattle around in my head, and one of them is @sgoodyear.bsky.social saying that walkable neighborhoods have become a luxury good. Many people want them. But they can't afford them.

“immediately begin the process of dismantling our nuclear weapons, cancelling the Trident programme” goes further than that

AI has driven investors to hallucinations [FREE TO READ] Competing visions on the next big technological revolution are discombobulating markets

Tech tizz time! Is the AI tech overvalued and shit? or is everything else overvalued because it's about to eat your job?

"A market that moves 3 per cent on a blog is a market that does not know"

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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

A party that is resolutely anti-bourgeois while being staffed and supported by the bourgeoisie is an intriguing and inevitably impossible strategy.

Anyway good luck attracting those Reform voters who hate you.

I think it fails to understand the coalition of voters that just voted Green, and why. And as usual you won’t get very far by implicitly slagging off the voters. The Green voter coalition was your coalition five minutes ago.

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the Labour party trying to paint a picture of why you shouldn't vote Green and it's "everyone will take drugs all the time and also engage in fundamentalist Islam"

of course people voted for that, it's Dune. you've invented Dune!

Essential read.

Labour after Gorton and Denton It wasn't even close. While the pollsters kept coughing up the Gorton and Denton numbers that put the three parties inches from one another,...

On the occasion of Labour's 126th birthday, Starmer's gift to the party has been a new historic low. One that, on its current trajectory, could be the first of many.

Totally avoidable but sadly totally predictable.

Naz Shah MP on Gorton and Denton Claims: ‘How Do Supposedly “Sectarian Muslims” End Up Voting for a Radically Progressive Party with a Gay Jewish Leader?’  The Labour MP told Byline Times that, from her experience of 'clan-based politics', it was not present in the Manchester by-election as Reform UK claims

📌 ICYMI — Naz Shah MP on Gorton and Denton Claims: ‘How Do Supposedly “Sectarian Muslims” End Up Voting for a Radically Progressive Party with a Gay Jewish Leader?’

The Labour MP told that, from her experience of 'clan-based politics', it was not present in the Manchester by-election as Reform UK…

I do think Keir should have added that the Gorton and Denton by-election was a great example of delivery.

He didn’t want Andy Burnham to be an MP - and that was delivered this morning.

I don't agree. Both are indefensible.

I think essentially, even now enough of Labour’s lost voters say they are open to a return. Do I think a fresh leader who disavows the blunders and goes “we need to seize our European destiny” can repair enough of the damage for Labour to survive as bloc leader? Yeah, absolutely.

The misogyny is real and rooted in the real patriarchal elements of labourism.

To be fair, that is the NEW Conservative party

Denton and Gorton

It’s not always misogyny, but it’s not not the patriarchy.

You are right, comrade.