Dermot O’Riordan

Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran, according to two sources familiar with the matter. https://cnn.it/3OKIl1o

it's crazy how the Right was like "we want to destroy DEI" but instead they just invented affirmative action for racists and pedophiles

If I were Labour, I'd be using the cushion provided by having 400+ MPs to race to implement PR in time for the 2029 GE.

It could literally be the party's last ever chance to participate meaningfully in UK politics if they don't shake the electoral system up.

Just more evidence that the UKs “first past the post” voting system does not reflect the diversity of our politics. Time for a change

Anyone would think that US has no leverage over Netanyahu/Israel to stop them attacking Iran in the first place?!

Trump has told four different journalists completely contradictory things about his aims.

It's going to be over in three days or four weeks... it's about regime change but he also wants to start talks again with the current regime...he's killed all the possible replacement leaders...

Total chaos.

Guy who said he wouldn’t start a foreign war and attacked former Presidents for starting foreign wars and begged like a small child for a peace prize starts foreign war to distract from his guilt sexually assaulting under-aged girls with Jeffrey Epstein.

Who could have seen that coming?

Everyone.

Thou shalt not kill schoolchildren to distract from your crimes against children.

What are the inner and outer circles?

Fabulous

Love that the US used to conduct classified operations in the Situation Room or a SCIF, and now it's just a little curtained-off area in a private members' club.

I am hopeful that the war in Iran will bring needed democratic change to … the United States of America.

Operation Epstein Fury

Mad that everyone from Stewart to Starmer to Badenoch to Farage is talking about sectarianism when all the Greens did was consider how British Muslims might vote. Is it sectarian to think about faith groups? Do MPs not visit synagogues, gurdwaras and churches? Is Tommy Robinson not sectarian?

Man who said he wouldn’t get involved in foreign wars starts foreign war over nuclear capability he claimed was totally obliterated a few months ago In a bold display of consistency that experts are already describing as “technically impressive in its audacity,” the man who built his political brand on “no more foreign wars” has officially star…

NEWS! Man who said he wouldn't get involved in foreign wars starts foreign war over nuclear capability he claimed was totally obliterated a few months ago newsthump.com/2026/02/28/m...

The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

Trump had no choice but to act. The Iranians were just weeks away from obtaining the missing Epstein files.

Clippy says: Look's like you're trying to start a global thermonuclear war. Would you like me to decide when to launch?

This 'correction' from @lewisgoodall.com regarding accusations from Reform and the Conservatives that the Greens engaged in sectarianism, deserves to be widely read.

#c4news

I literally signed up last night for annual subscription to #Claude Pro/Claude Code
Quite staggered how amazing, powerful & intuitive it was
This dangerous & petulant strop from Trump with @anthropic.com just confirms I made the right choice for me

I’ll take that

Not sure Mamdani is “normal”. He’s abnormally talented, likeable, effective etc

Good for them. Coincidentally I took out a pro subscription with them today. This sorry saga helped me feel Anthropic/Claude was the right choice for me

Nurul Amin Shah Alam was a blind refugee, unable to speak English. DHS improperly detained-but finally released him

Instead of bringing him home, they dropped him miles away-without regard to his disability or notifying his family

Unable to find his way, he died on the streets of Buffalo

Alone

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

To answer my own question, he apparently meant to say new suppliers not supplies. This is just restricting competition to allow their mates in existing companies a continued monopoly and to price gouge. Not quite so hideous but still on brand for this corrupt administration

Why would you even think of doing this? Have prosthetics become woke?

monstrous

That’s fair. Same applies. In summary it’s only the reactionary bits of Labour that they support