Right, so the Conservative Party has given up on international law AND #democracy
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

I know everybody is worried about PM Farage, but I'm not. And this (transposed from USA) is why.

Yes, he's disturbingly popular. But his policies aren't, they're getting less popular by the day, he has to defend them for 3 years until an election, and the "Not Farage" vote is already huge.

Netanyahu on how Israel is different from Iran: "Here's the difference ... these mass murderers in Tehran target civilians."

Netanyahu is wanted for crimes against humanity, including the murder of between 75,000 and 186,000 civilians, at least 20,000 children or babies.

An Animated History of Cats: How Over 10,000 Years the Cat Went from Wild Predator to Sofa Sidekick Dogs sees us as their masters while cats sees us as their slaves. - Anonymous The next time your friend’s pet cat sinks its fangs into your wrist, bear in mind that the beast is probably still laborin...

An Animated History of Cats: How Over 10,000 Years the Cat Went from Wild Predator to Sofa Sidekick

I particularly resent rags like Daily Mail gleefully reporting Trump’s bullying of Starmer. It’s disloyal and hypocritical - they’d be screaming from rooftops if U.K. meekly followed European diktats, yet would have us unquestioningly kowtow to Trump. Starmer’s task is incredibly difficult.

Shades of WMD! Déjà vu anyone?

Important to remember that the people most enthusiastic about bombing Iran are almost always the people most hateful towards refugees.

Uh oh

Robert Jenrick is currently hosting a press conference attacking Rachel Reeves for meeting with Arshad Khatana.

Does he know Nigel Farage did too?

Green MP Ellie Chowns on the elections bill last night: "It is really quite extraordinary that the Thailand-based crypto investor Christopher Harborne has been allowed to donate £9 million to Reform UK. I notice that its Members are still not here" (2/3rds of the way into the debate)

Pedro Sanchez continues his run as the only world leader convincingly acting like he cares to defend a rules based world order

Sobering to think that we would have joined a reckless war in the middle east over the weekend had Badenoch or Farage been PM.

And we would be refusing to embrace an energy transition away from reliance on a deeply unstable region.

Starmer's sobriety definitely an asset in the last few days.

He really is the dregs of the earth.

A linoprint of a hare, filled with flowers, by my mum, Jo.

To celebrate March, here's a meadow hare linoprint by my mum, Jo, from my book Ring The Hill (which is a medieval term for hare).

More about my mum’s work here: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...

Nine months later, it’s confirmed: a complete failure – maybe even a complete absence – of editorial standards. The judgment is quite strong, but the consequences pretty minimal. bsky.app/profile/liam...

Religious extremists in white

ublications are expected to demonstrate what steps they have taken not to publish inaccurate information – this shows compliance with the Editors’ Code, and a commitment to high editorial standards The publication had not provided any evidence of adequate pre-publication checks, and within hours of publication it had evidently been able to establish that it could not stand by the story. In these circumstances, IPSO found that there was a serious failure to take care not to publish inaccurate information and a breach of Clause 1 (i). The Committee acknowledged that, given the unusual circumstances of the case, the publication could not identify each specific inaccuracy in the article and correct it; this followed from its earlier failure to take care. Nonetheless, the consequence was that the publication could not verify any of the remaining details in the article in a manner which would allow it to adequately correct the record in the manner required by the Code.

Telegraph is forced - finally - to publish a proper apology for simply inventing a story.

Of course they continue to do this about immigrants/immigration pretty much every single day...

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/teleg...

"A Reform UK council deputy leader [Darren Grimes, Durham County Council] has been caught using a fake AI-generated photograph to stoke tensions over housing and migration, exposing the shameless tactics deployed by politicians willing to deceive their own constituents"
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ESG bonuses removed from paychecks of Apple executives Apparently, Apple removed an 'ESG modifier' from its top executives' pay packages last year - joining other big brands like Procter & Gamble and Starbucks in a trend thought to reflect a decreasin...

ESG bonuses removed from paychecks of Apple executives.

Pretence of concerns about the environment, sustainability, ethics, good governance dumped by companies, to appease Trump.

We are light years away from Quaker capitalism. Public backlash overdue. Don't buy their products.

Oil price rises further after new Iran threat to Gulf shipping Iranian official threatens to

Oil and gas prices soar as supplies become vulnerable. Meanwhile the wind turbines keep turning, the solar panels keep working and the batteries keep on storing cheap off peak power.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Maybe don't threaten to invade Greenland then, you absolute tit.

The death toll from the Iran school tragedy has hit 148, mostly children aged 7–12, with 95 others wounded. A staggering, unforgivable loss that defines our current moral decay.

Reform UK has been reported to the Electoral Commission for possible campaign overspend in the Gorton and Denton by election.

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:

"Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

An aerial photo shows three diggers excavating the ground for graves. More than 65 graves are already dug. Those not yet dug are marked out by chalk.

Not a single US newspaper will publish this photo. No news channel will broadcast it.

The graves are being prepared for more than 80 young children killed in the US/Israeli strike on the school in Minab, Iran on Saturday.

(📸 Middle East Observer)

Nigel Farage's Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party's election defeats on "cheating" by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found

Every time Nigel Farage's parties have lost an election he has blamed it on "cheating" by ethnic minorities and every time he receives huge amounts of media attention for doing so.

The only problem? No evidence of cheating is ever found
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

This is actually a pretty good summary of where we’re at, and how we got here.

The money behind the new Iran War In private calls over the last several weeks, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urged President Trump to attack Iran.

1. According to multiple reports both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to attack Iran.

Both countries have increased their influence with Trump by investing billions in projects that personally enrich Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Brexit-by-the-Sea: England’s poorest town in Nigel Farage’s heartland Essex Letter: Jaywick, in Reform leader Nigel Farage’s constituency, tops UK government rankings for deprivation

Brexit-by-the-Sea: England’s poorest town in Nigel Farage’s heartland

Don't hold back.

If you rob a bank and your getaway car runs over a wanted serial killer as you make your escape, that doesn't turn you into a hero.

The world's better off without Iran's top leadership, but that doesn't magically make Trump's idiotic decision to attack a good one retroactively.