Again, Farage, Badenoch and their fellow travellers on X are wildly out of touch with the public on Iran. Even the majority of Reform supporters oppose their position.

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Tugendhat sold out when he joined Liz Truss’s cabinet. He went along with a lot of the bonkers stuff. I don’t know if there is anyone in the Conservative Party I would vote for now. If there are any decent people, they are keeping very quiet.

Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor of White Bear Lake, MN was killed in Kuwait while serving our country. She was an avid gardener who made salsa from peppers and tomatoes in her garden with her son. She also loved rollerblading and bicycling with her daughter. Here she is with her husband Joey. 🙏

It was, once again, a performance that could only be delivered by someone who is terminally online on X. That's Badenoch's only view of the world and I suspect her PMQ "performances" are increasingly aimed at the purpose of clipping content for engagement on X.

Sir Edward Leigh appears to be the only one who ever offers any sort of rebuke to her. I'm really disappointed in Tugendhat. I thought he was at least a real Tory but they have all gone down the rabbit hole. It's tragic. The Lib Dems are now essentially what the Tories used to be.

And it is even sadder that there does not appear to be a single person left on the Tory benches willing to stand up and say so.

I've never observed a wider gap between self-confidence and lack of any actual understanding than in Badenoch. On other topics it can be comical, but when it extends to undermining gov't on matters of national security, in breach of established conventions, it is profoundly dangerous. #PMQs

The Tories' YT channel, meanwhile, think SHE SMASHED IT.😂 It is embarrassing. She is embarrassing. Suggesting welfare is why we don't have more missiles is embarrassing. Philp jeering while PM is trying to list evacuation flights is embarrassing. They are embarrassing, yet somehow NOT embarrassED.

You don’t have to be ignorant to be a Republican these days but it sure as hell helps. www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...

I don't think it's well understood in the general public what an insanely devastating weapon a torpedo is. This shows it. This is a standard torpedo impact.

They don’t understand war. That’s the whole problem.

Meet the 3rd Gulf War. Even more poorly planned than the 2nd Gulf War.

The Green Party is starting to look like Respect with better PR. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

The special relationship hasn’t been ‘what it was’ for years.

He’ll be having a go at someone else tomorrow.

Seriously? You’re just mad. Starmer has rebuilt the UK’s international reputation by working with European allies & Canada to manage Trump, protect Ukraine and do as much as possible to stop the atrocities in Gaza. So that’s not how I’d characterise it at all.

'I never thought a despotic regime would try to harm me', says man who moved to a country run by a despotic regime for tax purposes.

And we are involving Palantir in the development of our defence infrastructure. A company close to Trump and to what is rapidly becoming a hostile foreign government.

Like father, like son.

Not bone spurs this time.

Defiant Starmer tells Trump ‘I stand by my decision’ not to join attacks on Iran www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

So policy of France and Germany is similar to Starmer’s. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

The sooner Starmer realises Trump is the enemy and acts accordingly the better.

This is a good read. I hope Scaramucci is right. My feeling is that Iran is more likely to do for Trump than the Epstein files are. (All the more reason for us to stay out of it.)

We need to stay out of this. A maniac has started a war with another maniac. Don’t get involved! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Its genuinely mad that we are, arguably, the most successful multicultural state on earth and instead of celebrating that we... ...keep trying to copy nations who have very evidently done worse at it than us

This is pretty bold stuff from somebody who got 552 more votes than Sir Oink A-Lot.

Gove-ism is thriving in the US

A significant number of Americans think that being racist should be free speech but calling someone racist should not be.

When will the police look into Johnson ditching his protection officers to party in Italy with a KGB agent? Also what about Johnson & Farage in cahoots with Epstein to oust PM May & secure Brexit?

Victimhood poker.

there's a competitive victimhood in British politics. voters can only be seen as worthy if they are 'left behind', so everyone has to claim that status

kushner could have made deals with him for trump

I’d be surprised if Matt Goodwin wins in Gorton and Denton. He’s just that bit too weird.

“.. Trump has come close to exploding one of the great myths of the investment world, namely that sovereign bonds are safe, risk-free assets. .. undermining the role of US Treasuries as the world’s ultimate capital market hedge.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/33df...

The US is evacuating its troops stationed at bases in the Middle East, writes The New York Times. This may indicate the imminent start of a major war with Iran. 1/2

Cowardly little man. leftfootforward.org/2026/02/rupe...

I bet Rupert Lowe is delighted that Andrew Bridgen has joined "Restore Britain" - should add some gravitas.

Like one of those paintballers who turns up in full cam kit and acts like he’s got more real like action than Rambo, when his total military service was that he drove past Otterburn once.

Try being stood to attention when the bloke next to you starts cracking up. Focussing on a pipe on the wall, saying my times tables and biting my tongue got me through. Just. theconversation.com/why-its-funn...

Draft dodger Donnie has never done anything extremely brave in his entire life.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.

Farage - grifting multimillionaire and highest earning MP Tice - family money multimillionaire Yusuf - multimillionaire Jenrick - millionaire Zahawi - multimillionaire But they want to cut the National Minimum Wage down from £12.21 per hour. (It goes up 50p in April.) God, they’re hideous.

This sort of framing of stories about 'left behind' places is getting very tired. How have they been 'failed' by politics? They are the product of political choices - which organisations like the BBC have often failed to explain to people.

What he said.

He looks a bit like Laurence Fox from this angle.

As you process the Epstein files, remember: Palantir received early funding from Jeffrey Epstein. It was also backed by the CIA’s venture arm, In-Q-Tel. Then came the defense contracts. Then mass data analytics at scale. This isn’t separate stories. It’s one ecosystem: the Epstein network.

France correctly approaching the exposure of an international pedophile ring as a prosecutorial problem; not taking the American route of doing damage control for the elite.

Where is the UK investigation?