Garrie Coleman

HMS Prince of Wales unlikely to head to the Middle East It comes after defence sources said the crew had been told they must be ready to leave in five days.

Prince of Wales: couldn’t get a more apt name - not going anywhere near a war zone despite it looking very military-like and costing UK taxpayers an absolute fortune. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour in ‘deep trouble’ with Black voters, Operation Black Vote chair warns David Weaver says proposed jury reforms and slow progress on equality risk eroding support in marginal seats

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Blimey. Must’ve been some canyon-level mid-season dip we had. We lost to this QPR team then came back up to squarely beat this Boro team. #pusb

I see the key to the weight training room at Rockcliffe is still missing then. #QPRMID

Dan Ballard spent this game sauntering around as if his Mam had just told him to go and tidy up his bedroom. That just about sums up Sunderland’s afternoon. Good on Port Vale. #FACup #pvfc

Foreign Secretary doing the rounds this morning confirming the UK is conducting offensive military operations against Iran and that the UK is at war in what is now being termed Gulf War 3.

Israel kills father, daughter in Gaza as genocide continues amid wider war

Israel kills father, daughter in Gaza as genocide continues amid wider war https://aje.news/7hx1jp

‘Street brawlers to be stopped from knocking one another’s teeth out by pacifist police officers’

Five grand cheque to the striking miners’ welfare fund off the back of the proceeds from this song. Original accompanying letter still displayed at PW functions/exhibitions whenever/wherever they appear.

Maurice Glasman is a name that sounds like the love rival to Mr Arkwright’s intentions on nurse Gladys Emanuel.

See. I knew Magnus Pyke was right all along when he was on Scientific Eye and Nationwide reckoning 100% of the UK’s own food supply needs could be produced in the UK.

The irony of a conversation about how to steer a sensitive path around the topic of war’s death and destruction with children, including what older teenagers have access to online, when we still allow 16 and 17 year old children to enlist into our armed forces to learn how to kill other people.

As US stealth bombers land at UK airfields, we now know Starmer’s line ‘we’re not involved’ in [most probably illegal] offensive operations against Iran is now no longer the case.

BBC World Service/BBC Verify detailed coverage of the Israeli/US slaughter of 168 school children in Iran last week puts their domestic news editors to shame. No wonder the warmongering bastards in control are so keen to see BBC World Service gone forever.

Senior Labour figures warn government amid fears of ‘political earthquake’ in London Exclusive: Senior party figures share data suggesting Green surge could put Labour in fourth place in capital in May

The might of the Labour progressive movement in London, knowing full well the direction of the Starmer project within weeks of his election as leader, and their MPs only just picking up on this now? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Cyprus raises doubts about future of British bases on island after drone strike Foreign minister wants ‘conversation’ about closing UK military sites following lack of warning of impending attack on RAF Akrotiri

If your county & compatriots are at grave risk of missile or drone attack all because of a foreign country ‘owning’ 98 square miles of your territory, then why wouldn’t you want them gone? Cypriots could well do without. Time for Brits to pull out is well overdue. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Been trusted with the school run for the granddaughter. Music teacher I know from local bands wheeling a cart full of instruments to the back of his car, ready for the next LA school on his weekly roster. Now ingrained, austerity was an act of criminal neglect by our own Governments.

Not looking good for Spurs, is it? They’ve already played all the teams from 15th place downwards who they might be expected to beat apart from Leeds. (Discounting Wolves as already down).

Harold Wilson didn’t commit military forces to offensive operations in Vietnam. Keir Starmer did the same (so far) in regard to Iran. That’s where the similarities mostly stop. Starmer’s Govt is ‘more Wilson than Blair’ on that point and that point only.

Torn up basically because Trump had a problem with the heritage and akin-colour of his predecessor, who was instrumental in securing that agreement.

Headline Desperate and deluded from the front of the daily mail in response to the Govt’s decision not to look or sound as through the UK is actively involved in offensive military operations against Iran.

Proved through ever-diminishing participation in plastic poppy season, Remembrance Day, Armed Forces Day and the army’s perpetually dire recruitment and retention problem, sadly for these Daily Fail, the war fetishism element of faux-patriotism is the reserve of a tiny minority.

Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won’t be able to do anything else at all | Shabana Mahmood Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don’t want extremes – they want a system that is managed and fair, says home secretary Shabana Mahmood

I agree with the Home Sec that Labour values include fairness, tolerance (inclusion), and patriotism.

But these values don’t mean we should threaten to forcibly remove refugees who have lived here lawfully for 15 or 20 years. That breeds fractured communities.

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I’d be just as content seeing my team, now sitting on top of EFL, win every week here next season as I would be watching them getting hammered every week in the EPL.

Cov City fans only now just coming through our 20-year long new stadium curse. Spurs fans’ll be hoping there’s will be nowhere near as long. #thfc #pusb

It’s what your party stands for now, Stella.

Cruelty to immigrants is not what my party stands for. It’s time for True Labour, not Blue Labour | Stella Creasy We must get back to the party’s roots before it is too late. That means embracing difference, rejecting division – and fighting for opportunities for all, says MP for Walthamstow, Stella Creasy

“Cruelty to immigrants is not what my party stands for. It’s time for True Labour, not Blue Labour”
Stella Creasy

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YouTube video by Zoe Gardner The TRUTH about this week’s asylum changes

The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood sure has put on a show…

But how much is really serious & how much is just a theatre of cruelty?

Here’s the TRUTH about this week’s asylum changes

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Still doing it. Popped up a couple of years ago opening for a one-off Prisoners gig I was at.

Awesome contributor. The context of 20 million people being pro-regime in Iran, all with access to weapons and ammo, whilst everyone else is armed with nothing but a wing and a prayer, gives us a slight clue as to how ‘regime change’ might go there. Probably best contrib of week, in a crowded field.

Staple in my set whenever I’m allowed anywhere near a set of decks.