BREAKING: Keir Starmer has given US permission to use UK bases to launch “defensive” airstrikes against Iran - destroying its missiles “at source” to prevent them firing across region.

“We cannot say that the United States’ actions are against international law, but we condemn Iran’s retaliatory actions as against international law,” is neither a coherent nor a compelling position.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

250 foundational trials in critical care, reviewed. Pretty cool @criticalcarereviews.com criticalcarereviews.com/collections/...

This nonsense of ‘allies of’ spinning BS and getting it regurgitated by senior journalists really needs to end Josh Simons resigned before a full independent investigation could examine how he paid PR to investigate journalists when running Labour Together That’s the story

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

Manchester United fans unveiled a pro-immigration banner during Sunday’s fixture against Crystal Palace in response to comments from minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe. More from @lauriewhitwell.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/707...

Thread. Whatever you think about Danish immigration policy the claims made about its impact on politics are just wrong.

Nearly 150 school girls, murdered by Israeli armed forces in unprovoked attacks in the middle of diplomatic negotiations. One of the most deadly school massacres in history. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Pope Leo: "I am following with deep concern what is happening in the Middle East and in Iran in these dramatic hours. Stability and peace are not built with mutual threats or with weapons, which sow destruction, pain, and death, but only with reasonable, authentic, and responsible dialogue.”

Microsoft bought 93% of all the carbon removal credits globally last year. This is absurd, and no way to determine which method might actually work and scale. Carbon dioxide removal research and development should be government-funded and government-led.

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

On the subject of minority groups influencing politics, groups who have been kept separate from the rest of us from a young age, taught very different values bsky.app/profile/caro...

Farage’s mind-boggling call in today’s Daily Mail to disenfranchise a large chunk of our brown and black population even if they’ve been living here decades, should be the wake up call that Starmer needs to stop equating the Greens & Reform as somehow comparable or in any way similar threats.

Re Environment Agency budget being 80% funded by orgs it regulates, worth noting that Care Quality Commission receives similar proportion from public and private healthcare providers that it regulates. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So presumably this Daily Mail campaign against "foreign-born" voters will quickly be applied to their foreign-born star columnist, Boris Johnson, and their own France-based for tax purposes non-dom owner?

stick your thumbs up if you make baseless and racist claims of voter fraud & want to restrict postal voting

Pep Guardiola didn't back down about the boos at Elland Road as play paused to allow Muslim players to break their fast for Ramadan. “It’s a modern, modern world, right? You all [saw] what happened in the world again today, right? Respect the religions, respect the diversity, that is the point.”

Once again.

🔥 Might be a good time to drive this over 100,000. Link —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

“I’m not going to beat around the bush. This book is about evil.” “It’s about the mundane, humdrum, self-assured, self-justifying, pocket-lining, smug & arrogant lies & disinformation that communications ‘professionals’ spread daily.” Read #DarkPR by @grantennis.bsky.social. #UrbanismBookClub

The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

> @covie93.bsky.social

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Ireland - Nobody is armed or gets shot - No medical debt - Work ~40 hour weeks, 6 weeks holiday - I can walk places - I have neighbors and speak to them regularly - People by-and-large mind their own business (few "karens") - Anti-imperial culture and a general compassion for the downtrodden

Congressman Thomas Massie COURAGEOUS. LEADERSHIP.

This. So much.

It’s a running joke in academia that Matt Goodwin is bad at maths. This sort of thing is why: the combined Labour/Green vote could have split in any way possible and Goodwin would have finished 2nd or 3rd. He did not lose because progressives coordinated. He lost *in spite of them not doing so*.

This is a massive scandal. Labour has invented a made-up tactical vote organisation to trick Gorton and Denton into voting for them. How can this even be legal?

They just don't get it. The Home Office clearly has not engaged with dual nationals affected by this move on passports. If they had, they would never have imposed a £589 fee simply to make an electronic linkage to your other passport. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Today is the day. Hope vs hate. Green vs Reform. Vote Green in Gorton & Denton.

Those of us who have tried to research public-private partnerships will, I suspect, read these words by @davidallengreen.bsky.social and say Amen

Hey, so all those rocket launches people love cheering on are probably destroying the upper atmosphere. Repairing the ozone layer in the 90s is one of our all-time great achievements as a global civilization; private rocket men seem intent on reversing that.

Never ceases to amaze me that AI technology is so widely relied upon in areas where it fundamentally doesn't work (example 1001 here, making up case law!) observer.co.uk/news/science...

The first five words of this are enough to induce an anxiety attack in anyone who knows even a little bit about cobol and the systems that still run on it.

when broadcasters repeat Mandelson claim he was “not motivated by financial gain” please also report the $75,000 of financial gain Mandelson received from Epstein in 2004 and 2004 and the £10s of thousands Mandelson’s husband received from Epstein in 2009/10 plus free flights & mansion stays

Completely agree with Jennifer, who has been excellent on local govt reporting in both current and former roles. Seen from slightly afar (I work in social housing) but was clear back in 2010s the long term damage being done by the coalition govt funding cuts. It all flows up stream, eventually.

They say "Invasion", "National Security Emergency", the language of Reform is the language of the exception. They want to generate a sense of crisis to enable them to sidestep legal norms. They then directly link this to defending "Christian heritage". The dog whistles are fog horns at this point.

I keep finding myself wanting to emphasize the extent to which Iran has never once attacked the US, and no one is even pretending that Iran has ever attacked the US. And then I'm angry that I want to emphasize that, because lord knows the US has already committed tremendous violence in Iran.

They say "hang it in the Louvre". So we did #princeandrew

Taxing cycling is just a silly idea and it should be derided, not debated irishcycle.com/2023/03/16/t...

2 more brave women ('Lindsey' & @donnamclean.bsky.social) give evidence this week to #spycops inquiry. Both were deceived into an intimate relationship by Met police gang member Carlo Soracchi. This is neither old news nor historic. State-sponsored sex by deception must be made illegal.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.—Nelson Mandela Pic of the day #photography

Final weekend. One last push. This is about whether you want local plumber Hannah Spencer or the extreme Reform candidate. It's hope vs hate. It's Greens vs Reform. Hope can win.

“The effort to quiet Paris complements the wider campaign to make Paris greener, cleaner & less car-dependent, which include vehicle restrictions in the center, crackdowns on polluting vehicles, & an ambitious expansion of bike networks. Those have cut the city’s average noise level by 2 decibels.”

Very powerful thread.

Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/