I may have my frustrations and disappointments about Starmer as a domestic politician, but internationally, I think he’s serious, responsible and trying to do his best for U.K. in unbelievably complex int’l environment, despite treasonous ghouls like Farage doing their best to undermine him.

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

So, Labour involves us in America’s aggression and simultaneously plans to make refugee status temporary. Does politics really have to be this dangerous and cruel? They take such unforgivable risks with people’s lives. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

No, Shabana Mahmood, people seeing failing state support and crumbing infrastructure don't have either legitimate concerns or a legitimate grievance against immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers. They have a legitimate grievance against governments.

Farage cannot cope with his own unpopularity. At all. With the media’s help and huge foreign donations, his ego has been massaged into such a state of entitlement that he thinks he’s answerable to no one and simply owed power. It’s become a national imperative to prove him wrong.

If you could distill disapointment into an elixir It would be called Kier Starmer UK will allow US to use bases to strike Iranian missile sites, PM says

UPDATE: Hezbollah enters #Iran war, reportedly firing missiles at Israel from South Lebanon. Israel now retaliating across Lebanon including in Dahiye (S. Beirut). The 2024 ceasefire was already shaky but this is what many in Lebanon hoped to avoid. Latest: www.al-monitor.com/live-blog/tr...

Dear world leaders…please, say NO to Trump & Netanyahu (who reportedly fled to Germany yesterday) Within hours of UK PM Keir Starmer allowing US to use their bases, the UK’s Akrotiri air force base in Cyprus was reportedly hit by a drone. #Israel #USA #UK #Iran www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

this policy is cruel and will make minimal difference to immigration numbers (as refugees are only a small % of overall immigrants, and most of them come from countries that aren't going to be safe any time soon [e.g. eritrea;afghanistan]). It will actively harm integration and finding work.

thehill.com/homenews/adm... Vance: ‘No chance’ any Iran strikes would lead to long war in Middle East Absolutely. Just like there was no chance that Putin’s special military exercise in the Ukraine would take more than two or three days.

Stunning and historic result in the Gordon and Denton parliamentary by-election in the UK. The anti-genocide Green Party led by Zack Polanski has won the seat from Keir Starmer's governing Labour Party. Nigel Farage's Reform UK and its odious candidate Matt Goodwin beaten.

Last month, a Pennsylvania farmer rejected $15M from data center developers to sell his farmland. Another in Wisconsin turned down $80M. America's farmers and others across the country are pushing back on Big Tech. This is what integrity looks like.

A reminder that white nationalism isn't just abhorrent, it's stupid.

Canada is the first non-European country to be granted membership in SAFE. This is unlocking new export markets abroad for producers across Canada’s defence industry and better equipping our military with the resources they need.

Tomorrow, 24 February 2026, from 4:30pm until 5:30pm, Parliament will be debating the Impact of the 2016 EU membership referendum on the UK organised by Stephen Gethins MP (shown). Over 11,000 of you have written to your MPs to urge them to attend - it's going to be a lively one.

Dude, what are we doing in the US?

Netanyahu is a war criminal who belongs in the Hague, but it was non-Jewish Poles who defined Polish identity to exclude Jews, and imposed Polish surnames on Polish Jews that were not deeply rooted in their families or identities. You don't have to deny Jewish history to oppose Israeli war crimes.

This is a massive shift which would upend the lives of millions - not just the nearly half million directly threatened but their families. It would abandon a basic principle of law that changes are not retrospectively applied.

Meanwhile in the richest and most powerful country in the world where an insurance system bankrupts hundreds of thousands of people a year... life expectancy is lower than all its peer nations... and falling. Currently 76 and in places like Mississippi it's 71.9.

Life expectancy in Louisina - where Trump claims his AI hospital ship has set sail from - is a shocking 72 years. That's below US national average and lower than Greenland, where it's 74.5 and on an upward trend. Trump is pledging medical care from a place that needs it to one that doesn't.

Racial abuse is routine for any person of colour in Britain with any kind of profile. Literally nothing is being done about it. BBC News - Arokodare third player racially abused this weekend www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Political people love to debate who the worst modern PM in modern times was but it's unquestionably Cameron. 10 years ago this week he gambled the prosperity and fragile unity of the UK on a referendum on an issue that most people didn't even understand to placate back benchers and fucked us all.

This story is absolutely nuts. www.thetimes.com/article/63d9...

Holding an advisory referendum in 2016 was an abuse of a UK parliamentary democracy. It led to parliament abstaining from any meaningful debate, considering it to be a decision already made and handing the decision making power over to the government to wreak whatever havoc they wished. #RejoinEU

Americans are told low taxes equals freedom. But freedom that disappears when you get sick, lose your job or age is conditional. The real question is not what you pay. It's what you get in return.

Very good from @verybrexitproblems.bsky.social

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

Multimillionaire Brexiter, Tim Martin, urges pubs to back Reform. Just like he urged the country to vote for Brexit. Too bad if it makes you poorer. Too bad for the children he’ll push back into poverty. Tim wants more money. And he couldn’t give a shit about the cost for everybody else. (iPaper)

Around the world, politicians and businessmen are resigning from their positions because of the Epstein Files. Except in the United States. Here: Zero shame, zero consequences. We need resignations, investigations, impeachments, and punishments now. Should have been years ago.

Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

Andrew Schulz, "I didn't think what's happening now with ICE could happen in America" "I thought our constitution would hold up"

🚨 Only 🔟 days before the "Earned Settlement" consultation on new rules for settlement (Indefinite Leave to Remain) in the UK — closes on 12 February 2026. The consultation matters because once these rules are written into law, they could shape settlement for a generation so have your say now ! 🧵

Epstein's sex empire was 'KGB honeytrap': Paedophile financier had multiple talks with Putin after conviction - with Russian girls flown in to harvest 'kompromat' on world-famous figures www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Extraordinary: Mandelson told Epstein that JP Morgan should "threaten" then cabinet colleague and chancellor Alistair Darling over tax on bankers' bonuses. In plain language: "Minister conspired with US bank against own government". More brilliant FT reporting www.ft.com/content/91e8...

Prohibition never works and in fact drives harder drug use courtesy of the "iron law of Prohibition." Everyone knows that in government but they're too scared of the tabloids to do anything about it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

On the anniversary of the UK leaving the EU, it is worth hearing once again the many benefits of Brexit, clearly articulated by those who voted for it.

🚨BREAKING: MASSIVE ANTI TRUMP RALLY IN DENMARK

We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org. www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...

They are as bad as each other. Neither has a clue how to revive our economy.

Oh LOOK!!! It's the 'man of the people' at a party of billionaires, kissing their arses! 🙄🙄🙄 #Farage is a complete fraud, a conman, & a charlatan. Don't fall for his or #Reform 's lies.

Or better still, vote Lib Dem, the party of sense and sanity

Boris Johnson and Suella Braverman are constant reminders of just how deeply unimpressive you can be as a human being and still get incredible power - and how useless and complicit our supposed systems of checking are - I don’t give us long

By the way, the other big story of today - bigger than the latest recruit to Reform, whatever Mr Mason thinks - is the launch of Prosper, a new moderate and pro-EU Tory group.

🌏 This is part of our second investigation in the #GreenCrimes series, focused on environmental crimes. 🔗 Read the full story here: forbiddenstories.org/projects_pos... 🧵 11/11

Let public by war bonds to raise £20bn for defence, say Lib Dems https://www.europesays.com/uk/718878/ Setting out his party’s proposal, Sir Ed said: “Now is the moment to be clear-eyed about the threats…#uk #news #uknews

Andrew is spot on. The vast majority of the British population, some 80% now agreed that Brexit was a lousy idea. But there is still a small proportion who find it almost impossible to admit they were wrong And it’s costing us £286 billion every year @thetimes.com @bbc-politics.bsky.social

By the sound of things, if the Hillsborough Law is watered down then Labour will be dead in Liverpool/Merseyside, and I hope they are. Starmer is on a suicide mission and he's heading right off a cliff.