controlling what you see.

Not suggesting it. Not implying it. Confessing it.

Speaker Johnson calls Islam a misguided religion from the House floor. The CIA arms Kurdish militias for regime change.

And now CNN confirms Israel is managing the visual narrative of a war American taxpayers are funding

YouTube video by Middle East Eye Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett says ‘Turkey is the new Iran’

In case you were wondering if that Armageddon, WW3 talk was overblown...

This is a former Prime Minister of Israel.

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Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 3 StrengthInNumbers
New polling on strong “framing effect” of trans issues.

Should minors be able to get GAC?
Opposed 57-28% net -29%
Should minors be be able to get doctor-recommended GAC after diagnosis.
Supported 44-28%, net +16%

That's a 45% swing.

This is how to answer that toxic question (With slightly different wording if you’re not actually the governor of Minnesota)

Russia says ready to ship 9.5 million oil barrels to India amid supply crisis India has witnessed a vulnerability in terms of its crude reserves, following the breakout of the Middle East crisis. At present, it has crude stocks covering 25 days of demand along with low inventor...

Remember when Trump promised that India would stop buying Russian oil? Well it turns out that Trump's decision to bomb Iran has had the exact opposite effect, leading to a surge of Russian oil being sent to India. www.indiatoday.in/india/story/...

‘Rising anti-trans hatred’ in the UK creating ‘hostile environment’, report suggests 99 per cent of trans people say media coverage of issue has harmed their mental health

A new report and survey of trans people reports that 99% of them have had their mental health negatively affected by the barrage of anti trans stories in the UK media. 64% avoided medical care due to discrimination. This is a crisis.

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The Eye has it ....

Bowen: A dangerous moment, but US and Israel see opportunity not to be missed Israel and the US believe Iran's regime is vulnerable, dealing with an economic crisis and the aftermath of protests.

BBC International Ed Jeremy Bowen: : ‘Even if this becomes the first case of air power alone collapsing a regime, the Islamic regime will not be replaced by a liberal democracy that upholds human rights. There is no credible alternative government in exile waiting in the wings.’ #Iran

Jeremy Bowen reminding viewers how, in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, George Bush stood on an aircraft carrier in front of a massive banner proclaiming 'mission accomplished' when there was years of fighting, war & disaster ahead.

He's obviously right. The Tory position on this is nuts. Why on earth would you want to tie yourself to a President who is clearly not capable of rational decision making and has no idea what he's doing?

It's already not a popular conflict + it's only going to get less popular if it drags on.

Unlike the German Chancellor, the president of the 🇪🇺Council has expressed full solidarity with Spain in light of Trump's threats to embargo the country.

Spain’s PM: “If we truly believe in the freedom of Iranian women, the answer cannot be more violence. NO TO WAR.”

BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

Does anyone remember when people were insisting that only Trump could rein in Netanyahu?

That was about six months ago.

Now we're talking about Netenyahu having forced Trunp into war with Iran.

Gavin Newsom: Some are talking about Israel “appropriately as sort of an apartheid state.”

On whether the US should rethink military aid for Israel:

“…the current leadership in Israel is walking us down that path where I don’t think you have a choice about that consideration.”

Green win exposes myth of ethnic ‘bloc voting’ Reform campaign was too narrow: in a constituency where six out of ten voters were white, they focused on one-third of the constituency, in white working-class areas

There may be some logic in Reform wanting to disenfranchise the voters who they want to deport in large numbers. But Reform cannot execute their “deport and disenfranchise” policy before a general election in which their targets have a voice and a vote too.
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But what about international law – continued. 4th March 2026 * Hello and welcome to The Empty City blog, the new name of which is explained here. * From time-to-time this law and policy blog touches upon international law.  The last time a pos…

But what about international law – continued.

A new post at The Empty City on how Western one-sidedness in what they openly condemn as a breach of international law is neither coherent nor compelling

Personal blog: theemptycity.com/blog/2026/03...

Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/but-what-a...

Please tell me this isn't true.

If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...

Excellent question. Is this just another Tory choosing Twitter twattery over science & expertise?

Most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds Nigel Farage’s recent efforts to woo centre-ground voters may cause tension in party’s right flank, says Hope Not Hate

Do recent recruits not realise that their own voters want to deport them and/or their parents or do they just not care?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Badenoch has knocked Starmer around the park week after week at PMQs all year. Not today. Unfocussed and tone completely wrong, given events.

Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want.

Great blog post by @gelliottmorris.com which is backed by decades of academic research. How you ask a question impacts how people answer the question!

This has important consequences for how to think about puic opinion and how to treat opinion polls. Short 🧵

IRGC Destroys Second US THAAD System in Gulf, Wipes Out UAE Radar and $1.1 Billion Qatar Early Warning Shield — Iran Declares Missile Dominance - Defence Security Asia IRGC precision strikes reportedly destroy a second US THAAD system, its UAE radar, and Qatar’s $1.1 billion early warning system, exposing fractures in America’s Gulf missile defence architecture and ...

so Iran has apparently knocked out and destroyed / disabled to some extent two U.S. THAAD batteries

This is a massive deal. Aside from the expense, this is not a weapon system we just have a ton of lying around. You don't replace these easily.

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A reminder: Matt Goodwin lost heavily in spite of an almost total lack of tactical voting, not because of it.

The combined Green/Labour vote was 66%, versus 28.7% for Reform.

If Labour and the Greens split the vote 50/50 – a total coordination fail – he'd have finished third, not second.

Agreed 👇

It was just a misspoke you guys

(From @atrupar.com )

The last 15 years have been a loop where people notice Farage’s parties have policies indistinguishable from the BNP, briefly say “that’s disturbing,” then go back to treating him like an eccentric John Major, while worrying about NR and AFD every time an election occurs in France or Germany.

Should the phrase "special relationship" be banned?

Yes. Yes it should.

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“We can’t have parallel communities,” say the right-wing figures who support private schools, private hospital, gated estates, social housing kept well away from them, and refugees in tents miles from anywhere.

But apparently that isn’t segregation.