Deep Square Leg🏏

I'm glad the "special relationship" 'twixt UK and US is fading...I mean, who wants a "special relationship" with a lying, paedophile, rapist, felon? Best out of it...

Unrequited love and deep envy respectively.

"When unfairness in sport affects men (carbon shoes, sharkskin swim suits) it gets sorted in weeks, so far in women’s sport it’s been over 10 years since males self ID’ing & 26 years since males with a DSD weren’t stopped, by a single once in a lifetime sex screening cheek swab." Sharron Davies

"Trump expects Britain (and other European countries) to blindly follow each of his rash decisions. But Starmer is right not to do so when:
- the UK was not consulted beforehand
- the professed aims constantly change
- there is no exit strategy
- it breaks international law"
Richard Corbett

British Airways
Rolls-Royce
British Steel
Associated British Ports
British Airports Authority (BAA)
National Freight Corporation
British Petroleum (BP – government stake)
MANWEB
NORWEB
ScottishPower
Scottish Hydro-Electric
Railways

That worked out well didn't it?

PowerGen
Northern Electric
Eastern Electricity
Midlands Electricity
Southern Electric
South Western Electricity
London Electricity
Yorkshire Electricity
British Aerospace
Cable & Wireless
British Telecom (BT)
Enterprise Oil
Britoil
British Gas

Thatcher sold:
Council housing (Right to Buy programme)
Thames Water
Severn Trent
Anglian Water
Yorkshire Water
North West Water
Northumbrian Water
Southern Water
South West Water
Welsh Water
National Power

On the BBC News website HYS sections, Starmer supporting posts are getting approx. 10:1 'likes' to 'dislikes'.

Starmer normally gets absolutely slated there.

Not at all scientific but an indicator of the national mood. Brits dont like to be bullied and Starmer is standing up to the BIGGEST bully.

It's the "single issue" obsessives that'd rather see ReFUKKK in power than Labour because Labour are wearing the wrong colour socks today, and yesterday they ate soup without salt.

Idrees Ali @idreesali114 X.com COPENHAGEN, March 4 (Reuters) - Maersk said on Wednesday it is temporarily suspending most cargo bookings in and out of the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia until further notice. 9:54 AM • 3/4/26 • 30K Views

Maersk suspends shipping into and out of most of the Middle East

A navy torpedo detonates under the target, lifts it out of the water and cracks the hull. The people who aren’t thrown overboard by the blast are knocked unconscious and buried alive in their compartments when the ship sinks. We did that to 141 people today for no reason.

Once you start torpedoing ships in international waters, that are not involved in conflict, you cease to have a limited theater of war.

You have taken a war global.

Every single US asset and citizen, worldwide, just became a target.

Catastrophically reckless.

(🎥 Department of War)

No one is blaming the Conservative government who acted unlawfully under British laws

And that is down to our highly partisan media landscape

So keep those critical thinking skills sharp when you see headlines like this!

Watch out for the red flags and ask all the right questions!

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The FOI found: 32 Asylum seekers have received compensation so far, totalling £210,600 This works out at ~£6,590 per person. 41 additional claims remain outstanding. Which could bring the compensation bill to ~£481,000 A potential 1,323 people may have been impacted during that time and could be eligible for compensation, but have not so far started the claims process. It cost the Home Office £735,000 to fight the case

The FOI found👇

Remember, this is compensation and legal fees that were a direct result of Patel’s Home Office acting unlawfully, rather than because of anything the asylum seekers did themselves...

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The text outlines legal rulings: It was unlawful to do a blanket seizure of every arrival’s phone for the purposes of harvesting data or sifting through material without the necessary powers. It was unlawful to demand PINs “under threat of (non-existent) criminal sanctions.” The Policies were generally unlawful because they were unpublished. The seizure and retention of phone data was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) AND was unlawful under the Data Protection Act 2018.

The judges ruled there was no parliamentary authority for seizures and data extractions.

Basically, the Tory government didn't bother to write legislation to seize and search phones, and were in breach of both Human Rights laws AND UK Data Protection Laws

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🚨 The FACTS 🚨

This was a Sun "exclusive" following an FOI, but the story itself is a couple of years old

In 2022, the High Court found that the Home Office and the then Home Secretary Priti Patel, had been acting unlawfully with respect to asylum seekers from April to November 2020

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Byline Supplement article by Dr Charles Kriel is well worth a read. It touches on how the multiple changes day to day of objectives, narrative and methodology of the US/Israel/Iran war feed into a situation where end points don't exist. Talks about Vladislav Surkov, Russian political strategist.

Imaginary creatures for an imaginary enemy. Or have they been binge-watching and concluded they have to "get down wiv the yoof?".

Government launches landmark gender pay gap and menopause action plans to help women thrive at work Action plans supporting women to succeed at work launched by Minister for Women and Equalities ahead of International Women’s Day 2026.

Women are to benefit from employers taking robust action on the gender pay gap and menopause support, as the Minister for Women and Equalities commits to ensuring women can thrive at work this International Women’s Day.

Beautiful, useful and when done by people who know what they're doing (ie the majority) damage to concrete etc doesn't happen. Even encouraging people to install plant troughs outside their windows makes a difference. The Japanese are particularly good at this urban gardening.

Mum was the one collecting cuttings and seeds...National Trust gardens were her favourite! I've accidentally broken off a side shoot of a nice geranium here and there...or even picked on up off the floor.

The tall plants on the right are coronaria lychnis which self-seed and then flower 2yrs later, such a fab colour, grow fast enough to outwit slugs. I just collected some seeds off someone's plant one day out on a walk (I take small paper bags out specially). There's lots you can't see in this photo.

Photo up a narrow garden with grass down the middle and dozens of different plants in flower either side, a small metal chair half way up and a green shed at the end.

It kinda looks like this in peak flowering season...

I have decades of experience of finding just a bit more room for a few more plants in my small garden! I've also now got troughs and pots that hang off my new lovely fence and my neighbour doesn't mind me planting in her garden, so it's ok to get a bit carried away...honest!

20 mini plugs of callebrachoa and trailing mini petunias...soaking at the moment and I'll leave them to harden off a bit before planting them out in pots and troughs I've already prepped. I want to do it now but must restrain myself. Besides, some pots still have yellow/orange violas in, doing well.

Your own purrsonal assistant! 😬😺

Oh, yes, I found a packet of cavolo nero, a relatively small version but sowing isn't til much later in the year and harvesting over winter. I have some spots designated in garden and my lovely neighbour's garden. Have Candytuft, Nigella, Eng and Fr marigold to sow soon too.

Ahem. I only went out to my fave garden centre for 2 bags of farmyard muck...and found 2 plants at £2 each in dire need of rescue, sage and a low growing euphorbia. Then I spotted 6 aubretia...all but one of mine died (again), oh and sweet pea seedlings - good value. Mini plugs were next...

C4's "Dirty Business" hides that in 2024 Labour was well aware & acted immediately.
The Water (Special Measures) Act (2025) created stronger powers, automatic fines, banned bonuses & created criminal charges.
Govt's Cunliffe Review wrote a 464 page report with 81 changes accepted by Govt

Had to Google it, but Starmer actually opposed the Iraq War, specifically citing its illegality.