BREAKING: War on Iran starts. Israel has just hit Tehran.

This is terrible from Starmer. Just absolute trash. And any normal voter looking at the new MP and then reading this description will think him mad.

Breaking news: the ‘Today’ programme is broken ft.trib.al/dX0vz6G | opinion

Which is why it’s going to be used by the Defense Dept

exclusive: Rachel Reeves will on Friday sign off a £1bn defence contract that will be crucial for the survival of Britain’s last military helicopter manufacturing site in Yeovil www.ft.com/content/a915...

Tommy Robinson visited the US State Department today at the invite of the Trump administration. He's Britain's most prominent far-right street thug with criminal convictions for assault, violence, fraud, stalking & harassment. He was jailed in 2012 for trying to enter the US with a false passport.

Larry Ellison is buying CNN. That’s a disaster www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEwy...

This cottage in Hertfordshire is yours to rent for £1450pm... ...as long as you don’t register to vote. What a red flag – landlords can't deny your democratic rights. The big surprise is that the letting agent thinks it’s okay to include in the advert www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Inevitably

Earlier in the year I was worried about CON/REF tactical voting but I think it is looking like that is now already happening and maxed out. There is actually not much wrong with British politics except a stupid electoral system we are stuck with because the party which could change it won't.

Nobody here needs to be told that Reform's claims of cheating are utterly absurd but it's worth noting that the anti-Reform vote was so large that even if the Greens and Labour had split it 50/50 Reform would still have lost — in fact they would have come third. They only value democracy if they win

The new Green MP seems very likeable and I am all for more people from normal backgrounds becoming MPs. But… her party has bad policy ideas premised on a destructive ideology.

France is hitting on Sweden for real: it wants to buy up to 4 Saab GlobalEye planes, hoping that Sweden will choose Naval Group‘s FDIs for its new frigate in exchange. Now aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is visiting Malmö. A local newspaper reports ”1800 baguettes are baked on board every day”

If your political base is soft, pro-European centre-left, and you push Eurosceptic and hard-right cultural policies, what the fuck do you think is going to happen? Only those with their heads up their political arses would think otherwise. www.ft.com/content/aa7a...

The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win. The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong. Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

You’d think Danny Kruger would actually be very supportive of patriarch led, family voting

Well done to Nigel Farage for convincing Matt Goodwin to run for an urban seat with a large ethnic minority population. I think we now can be sure who did the numbers for Revolt on the Right.

The “silent majority” has now been tested more than once. And when it is summoned to the ballot box, it turns out the majority isn’t silent. And it isn’t Reform. @theleaduk.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...

I am pleased Reform lost. But the reality of many Green policies would be disastrous for us - for example in relation to defence and security, nuclear power etc Beyond seeing off Goodwin there’s not much to take comfort from here

Yeah, if you are doing populist politics you want to find non-political people who look good in the local community. But Reform have an obvious challenge with that, because of who they attract.

Pakistan supported the Taliban’s return and wanted them to evict the Karzai govt as they said Karzai etc an Indian proxy Now Pakistan is bombing the Taliban because… it says they’re a proxy for India It’s almost as if the problem here is really Pakistan www.ft.com/content/840f...

Net migration has collapsed even before implementation of draconian Blue Labour policies OBR projections will be shot and fiscal issues worse Need a surcharge to voting for these outcomes - you can hv fewer immigrants but you’ll have to pay a lot more tax as a result www.ft.com/content/7408...

This is an excellent tip from Giles

LOL

Labour’s only seeming governing philosophy has been trying to plot the 2029 GE 4/5 years ahead As a result they have wasted a vast majority But they have at least 2.5 years to work with Get on with it ffs

Andy Burnham right now

Labour's swing toward racism is perhaps the biggest unforced error in British political history; burnt their base to ashes and won them not a single vote on the right.

Smh, Trump getting the credit for Reform dabbling in election denial. Total disrespect for Nigel Farage’s long years of blaming every result he doesn’t like on postal vote fraud

"The forgotten majority" being the 71% who didn't vote for you.

Less important who won than who didn’t. I hate to take pleasure in failure. But I do make exceptions. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

Jesus. Netflix calls it quits, the Ellisons and Paramount will get all of Warner, including CNN. Bari Weiss's sphere of influence grows. And no matter what you think of CNN or news in general, it's a big legacy brand with a lot of reach, that will now shift rightwards pretty hard.

'Sectarian voting and cheating'. Britain's Trump.

NPR tells us what we already know. Price Stickiness is a real thing. The Republican Party has pushed the price up of everything from a pickup truck to an avocado sky-high. Those prices aren't going down ever. The Golden Age for the rich has arrived. www.npr.org/2026/02/25/n...

What should be an easy win for HMG is completely beyond Starmer.

Currently.

Global Britain latest

Gove-ism is thriving in the US

Viktor Orban is now 20 points behind in the polls - and so he has ordered the military to guard “key energy facilities” against a possible Ukrainian “attack.” Hungarians fear he plans a fake national security emergency or false-flag incident before the April 12 election apnews.com/article/hung...

Apropos of Hesgeth, AI and news AIs seem to like using nukes in wargames medium.com/ai-ai-oh/198...

So much for British sovereignty! Much better to share our sovereignty with European allies… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

would love to be a fly on the wall in Reform HQ this morning www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

If the GOP Defence Production Act’s Anthropic then Dems can/should do same in due course to SpaceX

In the past 2 days senior(ish) Reform politicians have called for: - opponents to be murdered - to undo the sexual revolution and a regulated sexual market - mass purges of the civil service - to undo renters and workers rights - mass deportations This is a party that is entirely spinning out

Really do think its under-discussed how much the popular position in Europe and the UK isn't just becoming anti-American but actively pro-China by extension.

Reform: There's too much state interference. Also Reform: We will force you to marry, stop you getting divorced, make you have babies, dictate your religious beliefs, control your sexuality, penalise you if you are disabled and deport you if you don't look right. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So then... here's some good news!

Trumpeter are doing a 1/48 Vulcan!?!? This is not a drill! 🚨🚨🚨🚨

This post is the single best advert for the fact that proper local journalism matters. If Jim’s team hadn’t put the pieces together quickly, this wouldn’t have been stopped.

This is soft power evaporating