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Should the U.S. have taken military action against Iran? (Among MAGA) 🟢 Yes: 90% 🔴 No: 5% NBC poll | 2/27-3/3

Every single time:
1. Trump does something hawkish on foreign affairs
2. Breathless stories are written about MAGA being mad and schisming, quoting the same three people (Tucker, Bannon, Greene)
3. Polls show that MAGA Republicans support Trump's move 160%-3%

Lads, I'm beginning to think that the US has no idea what it is doing with Iran.

But Spurs do not compete in the Deloitte money league, they compete in the Premier League (for now). If Levy had been good at his job, Spurs would not currently be about to get relegated.

Spurs are where they are this season almost entirely because of Daniel Levy. It's the squad he built and he appointed Thomas Frank.

I like your style 😜

Maybe if Starmer showed this sense of humour more often, people would like him a bit more.

I’m glad we’re not going to war with a fundamentalist death cult.

I cannot wait for the insights on this! He's going to:

1. Sample some local street food.
2. Ride a train.
3. Visit a temple.
4. Not mention the pogroms that the serving Prime Minister presided over.
5. Smile at some elephants.
6. Top up his kids' private school fees.
7. Say "India is changing".

We will let others do the work as we express ourselves through the mediums of music, dance and mime.

What form does the support take? Because against a regime that has killed upwards of 30,000 of its people in an effort to stay in power, it’s going to take more than folk songs to be of practical assistance.

All this does is demonstrates Starmer's total lack of any kind of political understanding.

If your political strategy is to alienate your entire voter base and pave the way for a hard-right government, sure

Spain's "pacifist" (the FT dixit) government is sending a frigate to assist fellow EU member Cyprus with air defense

Incredibly telling Kemi Badenoch interview on Today:
- can’t say what she’d actually want UK forces to do
- no idea what objective her proposed military action is to achieve
- hides from reality that single biggest constraint on British military = her govt’s defence cuts

Kemi giving a truly abysmal performance on Today, deeply out of her depth, insisting she's opposed to escalation whilst arguing for escalation, unable to actually articulate what she thinks should happen next. Just reflexively oppositional.

If I was the US, instead of attacking Iran, I would kidnap the scientists who are capable of developing a nuclear weapon only months after the US had completely and utterly destroyed all Iran's capabilities to develop a nuclear weapon.

These scientist sound like miracle workers.

"Few Reform supporters have voted for Labour at any point in the 21st century. This is true if we look at where Farage’s parties drew votes between 2015 and 2025, and across twenty years of voting history" This type of conclusion is not specific to the UK.

It comes a day after chancellor Rachel Reeves vowed to "reduce pressures on the cost of living" in her spring forecast. Referring to the war in Iran, the chancellor said she would "secure our economy against shocks" as well as "protect families from the turbulence that we see beyond our borders". Helen Miller, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said that the UK had "become accustomed" to governments propping up household incomes when shocks come along, such as Covid and the war in Ukraine. "While there can obviously be benefits to this, protecting household incomes in this way is not costless," Miller said, noting it was "a key reason that debt has been rising in recent years".

The Chancellor does have a knack for digging holes to fall into.

Top tip - instead of engaging with conspiracists, loons and cranks, just block them!

Every word is true. But the culture of mediocrity at Spurs - created from the top over a sustained period - is such that the players are now not capable of giving everything. They don't even know what that is.

I was 100% wrong in my criticism of Starmer at the weekend over his position on Iran. He has called it correctly. That, in and of itself, makes him a PM of consequence historically. Domestically, he remains terrible (sorry, he does), but internationally he is the best we've had for a long time.

The Brexit tendency seem to be absolutely losing their minds over the government's refusal to get bullied by America into an illegal war.

Quite something from the people who wanted "independence" and to "take back control."

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

I may have my frustrations and disappointments about Starmer as a domestic politician, but internationally, I think he’s serious, responsible and trying to do his best for U.K. in unbelievably complex int’l environment, despite treasonous ghouls like Farage doing their best to undermine him.

‘No to war’: Sánchez doubles down after Trump threat to cut off trade with Spain PM says his country will not be complicit in growing conflict in Middle East ‘simply out of fear of reprisals from someone’

Spanish foreign minister Albares refutes Leavitt claims that Madrid now backs US / Israeli attacks on Iran

"She may be the White House press secretary, but I’m the foreign minister of Spain and I’m telling her that our position hasn’t changed at all.”

This.

One of my feelings is that accountability on policy/deliverism has collapsed to such a extent only entering office makes it a key part of how politicians are judged

It's Spurs or Forest. You'll be fine.

The writing has been on the wall since the start of the year. We are, by far, the worst team in the league. It's not even close. The bigger question now is whether we'll bounce back. I wouldn't bet on it.

Put another way, Miliband, Cooper, Reeves and Starmer all agreed.

Every true Spurs fan on Planet Earth knew West Ham would win tonight. Fulham were never going to turn up against them. Not after Sunday. Palace tomorrow. More dropped points. We are so going down. ENIC and the grim group of money-grabbing, clueless, hangers on who run the club deserve nothing less.