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My line on BBCr4 Today on the Iran strikes was this. Last June there were intensive US/Iran talks under way. Aborted by Israeli strikes on Iran which US joined. I think this is similar. The US-Iran-Oman talks seemed to be going well. Netanyahu preempted, and Trump felt he had to follow 1/5

The Mail living up to its reputation again.
Vile, racist and deliberately divisive.

Too many who should know better are backing this war. It wouldn't be happening if a) Trump were a remotely serious president who knew the risks of embarking on something whose aims he still can't specify, and b) Netanyahu wasn't embracing regional chaos as his get out of jail free card.

Shurley you mean "shallow"?

Using boilerplate messaging that would use for George Galloway about Hannah Spencer personally & how she will approach being an MP is tin eared, graceless, implausible to the immediate audience (Labour MPs) and esp the broader one (Labour waverers/switchers) underpinned by the wrong strategy

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Labour has to be much more precise in crticising Green policy - focusing on issues, particularly defence, where there is a genuine uneasiness from progressive bloc voters.

Labour have alienated the voters they had on the left, and failed to win over any of the voters they have courted on the right. Now their core appeal is all but gone and ever growing numbers of voters have exit options on the left, right and in the centre.

Welcome to the Valley of Electoral Death.

Extraordinary that in these fractious & divided times, so many of us can unite around the single, simple fact that Matthew Goodwin is an irredeemable twat.

Hi @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social as if you are not busy enough...

It's all, ultimately, about #Brexit. Until the lies, delusions and fantasies are addressed, and the liars and charlatans are held to account the country cannot move on

'On devolution, Labour is on the wrong lines' - LabourList Repeated delays to the Leeds and Bradford tram undermine growth, green policy and trust— real devolution is the only answer.

Add this to the inexplicably moronic decision to delay the #Leeds tram and you have a government determined not to improve transport links in some of its most important constituencies. It's dreadful policy and awful politics labourlist.org/2026/01/devo...

I'm coining the term Midland Mainline man (and woman). There are dozens of marginal seats along this rail line from Leicester and Nottingham to Sheffield and Labour is currently telling them they will continue have a 19th century railway. Breaking decarbonisation promises and pissing off voters....

I don't want to over interpret #HeidiAlexander but it's shocking that the Tories electrified 100s more miles of our railways than the last Labour gov and she cancelled the Midland Mainline electrification saying it's "not affordable right now" researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN...

Keir Starmer's government have opted for caution to the point of cowardice and unpleasant reaction that only benefits the right. There's no angry denunciations of the #Brexit catastrophe, only a wail that it was botched. Truly the politics of the inept and incompetent

When you're elected on a pledge of “change”, however vague, and then carry on with the previous government's awful policies you have a credibility problem. When those policies were manifest failures and are contrary to other parts of your own manifesto, then you have a much more profound problem.

Well done @labouruk.bsky.social. Despite all efforts, you still managed to get nearly 9000 votes. Keep up with the Reform lite policies and lies and we can get down to single figures. What a strategy!

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shotgun not me but think there's scope here for a proper, lengthy, meaty feature looking at every single policy area in Britain that's currently fucked specifically because of a decision George Osborne took, reckon you could make it an actual mag cover, his fingerprints are everywhere

This is a fantastic idea. Tempted to go away and devise a complete map on this basis (is this evidence for an ADHD assessment? I think so). Enfield North would be Freezy Water. Dagenham & Rainham would be Whalebone. I’d probably still be in Holborn as there’s a deficit of funny names here.

Orpington should be renamed Pratt's Bottom and North Cornwall should be renamed Brown Willy, to name but two suggestions...

Lisa Nandy says that the government is now considering quitting X.

"The first job of government is to deal with the really serious issues around regulation" ... "But I do think symbols matter - the question you ask is very much up for debate. Its a debate we are having"

James Butler · ‘Need a lord on the board?’: Mandelson and the Lobbyists Why​ did a man whose political expertise was acquired in the departed era of broadcast television maintain such...

This, by @piercepenniless.bsky.social is probably the best explanation of the #Mandelson debacle and Labour's travails I have read. Thoughtful and painful to read www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry As the drama shows, private firms no longer able to pollute the coast of England of Wales just switched to rivers instead

Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry

Brexit campaigning turns 10. Here's how promises to voters hold up Brexit campaigning kicked off on 20 February 2016. The trail saw big promises made to voters. A decade on, how they stand up?

“The Brexit campaign kicked off a decade ago. Here's how 10 promises made to voters hold up today” www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

Starmer’s real leadership crisis. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Fatuous media coverage aside, Starmer’s challenge is to make good on his claim that Britain isn’t the country of the Brexit years in the face of rising ethno-nationalism: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/star...

If he's looking for the bright side, at least Andrew Mountbatten Windsor won't have to worry about where he'll be living for the next few years....

Well said. Osborne is a particularly egregious example of someone failing continuously upwards

X is absolutely cooking the brains of the entire political class that remains on there. The ones who think they're immune are probably the most affected.

The @bettertransport.bsky.social is right. Trams can get Britain moving again bsky.app/profile/bett...