Bank of England was under broad civic pressure (supported by 2 Tory Chancellors & Home Secretary in May+Johnson governments) to put an ethnic minority on a banknote after half a century. That is part of the context in which it decided it can't choose people anymore but found out animals are popular!
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.
This is learned today:
Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
New from Free Movement: Afghan national’s job too remote from counter-narcotics objectives to qualify for relocation | Aiya Nakash freemovement.org.uk/too-remote-c...
The United States and Iran have signaled no quick end to their war, with Trump saying it was necessary to finish the job and Iran warning that the world should be ready for oil at $200 a barrel after striking tankers in Iraqi waters and other ships near the vital Strait of Hormuz reut.rs/4bioYUX
This case, laughable in many ways, and struck out in forceful terms by Mrs Justice Collins Rice, still cost me six months and over £100k in fees. I should be able to recover this from Kamal - I don't know if in practice I'll be able to.
Bellingcat founder on verifying footage of deadly strike on girls' school in Iran
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
A strong & brave intervention from Zubir Ahmed on the depressingly familiar discrimination and abuse Muslims face in public: online but also at work & on the streets. That Islamophobia is racism is shown his case: there can never be a good or British Muslim, even when they save people's lives
9/ This is why there is a 'world war' aspect:
Ukraine war has bombs in 2 combatant countries with more countries involved in sanctions and military support
Iran war involves military action by & in at least 18 different countries already! EIGHTEEN!
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-decl...
Why the US is facing strategic defeat @policytensor.bsky.social
“The Trump administration needs to understand that there are no military solutions here. Talk to the Omanis. Find a diplomatic solution before this brings the whole house down on your heads.”
policytensor.substack.com/p/why-the-us...
17/ "Never start a bombing campaign that will completely halt shipping in the Strait of Hormuz" is right up there with "never get involved in a land war in Asia” in terms of the classic blunders. -- Nate Silver
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After endorsing President Donald Trump in 2024, podcaster Joe Rogan said the war in Iran has people feeling “betrayed” by a president who “ran on no more wars.” bit.ly/4lowNgA
Video geolocated by CNN shows explosions coming from the direction of Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport.
Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4cM9rzj
UK government releases list of 76 EU laws that it says UK will align with under food standards treaty with EU www.gov.uk/government/n...
The IDF killed 41 people in Lebanon while trying (unsuccessfully) to recover the remains of an airman shot down 40 years ago.
A water desalination plant is presumptively a civilian object & it is an object indispensable to survival.
Targeting a civilian object is a war crime.
Targeting an object indispensable to survival can implicate the starvation war crime.
NB: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
Thread on a no good very bad day for donald who really is panicking after Iran punched back
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true
Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Oh man we are HAVING A NEWS DAY I see
*BLACKROCK’S $26 BILLION PRIVATE CREDIT FUND LIMITS WITHDRAWALS
Far-right manosphere content is now staple fodder in papers like the Times, and no one seems to give a fuck.
On the one hand, a clearly deranged lunatic in the White House starting a dangerous illegal war on Iran with already-serious repercussions for the region and world...
Or having a pop at Keir Starmer.
You just knew which side the Right would come down on.
A clear decision from the ECSR, on a complaint brought by @feantsa.bsky.social and others, about France's **many** municipal anti-begging laws. Sets out clearly how "poverty" and "socio-economic status" are grounds of prohibited discrimination in the Charter.
www.feantsa.org/resources/an...
BREAKING Indonesia to ban social media access for under-16s, says minister
"U.S. intelligence analysts have assessed that this campaign has a low likelihood of creating a stable, modernizing government," David Ignatius writes. https://wapo.st/3OOXi2x
Exclusive: Trump on rising gas prices during Iran operation: 'If they rise, they rise' reut.rs/4aRAHuN
"You're dealing with a lot of lawyers in your own country, I'm sure. You have my permission not to listen to them."
hahaha
No need to indulge in the presumption that this administration's uses of military force—against supposed narcos or otherwise—are lawful.
Gas is expensive. Everyone will rush to buy solar, EVs and batteries i.e War will ACCELERATE energy transition.
"More renewables will be built in the next 5 years than in the last 40 years" - IEA, lashing forecasts for US & raising forecasts for EU, India, Asia AND MidEast
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I *think* Kemi Badenoch is currently arguing for a first strike approach to nuclear war.
Pathetic by kemi badenoch on the Today programme
