Ivor Middleton

Greens deputy leader calls for apology from Starmer over false claims that led to death threats Mothin Ali fears for his life after anti-war protest was wrongly described as being in support of Iranian regime

When the Prime Minister spreads lies about people - there are consequences.

He's made some outrageous smears. It's debasing our politics.

Anything to try to quieten dissent about the US and Israel starting an illegal war.

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It is absolutely heart breaking watching years of relationship building, interface and quality monitoring NHS work just recklessly binned (along with many of the staff) by this government for no good reason.

Nowhere is perfect, but this makes me extremely grateful for the huge changes that have happened in philosophy of science, the women who worked for them, and the allies who worked alongside.

How to stop a dictator I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.

I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward

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Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/

The Steve Bannon emails demonstrate that has been very much the case for a while.

Interesting that he uses this expression 'not going after arrows, going after archers' - exactly the unusual (?) term used by Badenoch at PMQs. As with Trump's repetition of her linkage of Starmer's policy with the G&D by-election there seems to be two-way traffic in sticks with which to beat the UK

Failed asylum seeker families to be offered up to £40k to leave The home secretary says the

This morning in seminar I was explaining to students that a key difference between Enoch Powell and mainstream 1960s Tories was his plan for financing re-emigration. An hour later a student put her hand up and told us all that this had just been announced. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Screencap of New Statesman article by Shabana Mahmood: "I spent three days at a refugee camp. Here's what I learned.

And here is that article...

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Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Stripping support from people seeking safety while continuing to ban most people from working is outrageous.

People seeking asylum receive £1.40 a day in hotels, or £7 a day in houses. These poverty-inducing levels of support push people into exploitation and irregular work to survive.

I only registered Orius there. He seemed to be making the fair point that the wider population can't claim complete innocence.

Don't get me started on marshmallow "fluff" mind. That stuff is a breach in the fabric of the universe 😀

Starmer "will stand firm in his principles".

He hasn't got any though, so another empty claim.

#Iran2026

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#1930s, Labour style.

i understand we're long past subtlety but could she at least have worn something less directly leaning into "futuristic SS-Sturmbannführer"

Otiose served a purpose, just not the one intended.

AOC: He impulsively went in on Venezuela. He impulsively went in on Iran. It led to increased global instability and every time he’s done that, it has been consistent with a spike in what is happening with the Epstein files. I think that he feels existentially tied to it.

"you can't halt progress"

One of many good lines to come out of Porpoise Spit. Muriel's Wedding.

Otiose? Verbose. How did that sneak in.

I'm happy to take a side.

There is a structural problem. The USA has a problematic history of imposing and interfering in other countries.

Not going to take sides here (scroll up and down the quoted thread), but I just wanted to say that "Trump is the problem" versus "Trump is just the worst symptom so far" seems to be the number one source of disagreement in the otherwise somewhat homogeneous ideological world of this website.

How do they do this, over at Private Eye? Almost every edition's front page is a banger.

One thing I've noted as well is an insistence in so much US discourse on strategic bombing that is was "precision", that the USAAF somehow had clean hands and that area bombing was just a thing those terrible sloppy British did. It has always struck as defence mechanism by denial of the realities.

"people who can’t see a war without hoping that the wrong people win it"

By implication Rifkind thinks Trump and Netanyahu are in the right here, and the left are wrong to oppose this war.

That, or Hugo is just making yet another bad faith argument, something he's been doing for years.

Nothing from the Europeans and UK, just letting Israel commit war crimes all day everyday

"we should join the US in an offensive war that violates the UN Charter" -> the UK op-ed class

Just popping to a war zone and risking getting my head blown off because otherwise I'll pay too much tax ...

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Another datapoint for why Polanski’s “soak the rich” vibe resonates with voters www.ft.com/content/80bf...