Get ready to be annoyed when petrol prizes go up and a) a bunch of politicos declare the government's poll ratings have gone down because Starmer didn't go in with the US on Iran and b) a bunch of politicos who support the war blame the government for increased energy costs.

Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...

A little bit obsessed with all the nut clusters currently ‘ashamed to be British’ because Starmer didn’t sign us up to this shit show.

Senior administration figures from the President on down are all shrugging their shoulders over evidence that Russia is helping Iran target US military personnel. All claim it doesn’t matter. There is no floor, nor any explanation for Putin’s hold on these people.

WAPO: “.. Since the war began Saturday, Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft, said the three officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I think it would cost roughly one billion dollars.

‘British expats, he claimed, were refusing to fill out evacuation forms provided by the British government “just in case it somehow turns into a tax form instead”.’ No notes. as.ft.com/r/65cf2b43-6...

Spanish PM Sánchez on Trump's threat to end trade: "We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and contrary to our values and interests simply because of fear of reprisals... We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional & moral strength of our country."

LOLOL

It's not Roosevelt we're dealing with. Hell, it's not even Nixon.

It’s not difficult to imagine what Winston Churchill would have made of Donald Trump…

'The relationship is obviously not what it was'. First true thing I've ever heard him say.

If Isabel Oakeshott is thinking about fleeing Dubai, I hope she stops in the first safe country.

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

Exactly this...

I wonder what she'll think, when she's out of government in a few months time. Was it worth it? Persecuting refugees in order to satisfy an electoral strategy even she probably doesn't believe in. Pissing away the last dregs of your integrity for a plan which has already been shown not to work.

Trump faces growing fury within MAGA over his war-of-choice in Iran. And tells Americans that U.S. military casualties are "the way it is'. Mine with @mrjamesob.bsky.social on the UK's @lbc.co.uk 🎧: audioboom.com/posts/886823... #Iran #trump

Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

Lord Peter Ricketts, former head of the Foreign Office: “If you’re going to attack a country you have to show it is in self-defence and that there is some kind of imminent threat. You can’t make that case here…An indifference to international law is dangerous.” www.ft.com/content/b988...

Did bombing London in 1940 work? Vietnam in the 1960s? Iraq? Afghanistan? You cannot impose a government from the air.

If ever you needed a front page to capture the crass yet also dangerous silliness of so much of our media, and the impact of right wing nationalism which has done so much harm through a history from which some seem so unable to learn

Evening.

BREAKING: Iranian drones have attacked the Kuwait international airport several injuries are reported.

Don't be daft, it's not a war. It's a special military operation.

Remember: Donald Trump created this crisis. He walked away from the Iran nuclear deal that was working, promising a "better deal." He didn't deliver. He escalated, abandoned real diplomacy, and has now led us into a conflict that puts us all at risk.

We need a ticker showing the cost to the American taxpayer every time a bomb is dropped, a jet takes flight, a warship moves etc Seems to be plenty of cash for that, not for, you know, actual living.

Thoughts and prayers.

OK this is quite funny

You can have no idea where this sentence is going as.ft.com/r/4860d9c4-7...

Extraordinary that in these fractious & divided times, so many of us can unite around the single, simple fact that Matthew Goodwin is an irredeemable twat.

UK headlines from 1996

What first attracted a man accused of using a highly offensive racial slur aimed at black people & making a derogatory remark about Jewish women to a party led by Nigel Farage? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

support the free press www.ft.com/content/8cc9...

New: Drones are redrawing the map of war in Ukraine. Relentless surveillance has pushed the battlefield 20km beyond the front, in both directions. Supplies arrive by drone; the wounded leave by robot. This is the “kill zone” — and the future of warfare. 👉 ft.com/kill-zone

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

"Be nice to people on your way up because you will meet them again on your way down."

This is absolute gold

we go live to Heard Island:

The Supreme Court:

At least the right-wing podcasts can fulminate about another alleged crime committed by a second generation immigrant...

👇🏻

Feeling quite patriotic. This is what equality under the law is meant to look like.

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british