Louis Mosley of Palantir says critics of the company in the UK are putting ideology over patients. 1. Company founded on "defend the west" ideology. 2. Controversialised by Trump, but respects his mandate for mass deportations 3. Would "trigger red lines" if persecuted minorities/broke rule of law

Recommend this extra Saturday Trump Report with compelling and critical analysis from the indefatigable @scottlucas.bsky.social.

Many of the biggest names in international law on this list.

Read+😭 'This week, something broke. Maybe Trump does not understand the link between the past and the present, but other people do' 'They can also hear the president lashing out, as he has done so many times before, trying to get other people to take responsibility, threatening them if they don’t'

As it is Good Friday what do Britons think Christian values are? Top is ‘treating others as you would like to be treated’, forgiveness and compassion for those who are suffering. While values associated with debates around ‘Christian Nationalism’ come to the bottom of the list

Meryl Streep: The SAVE America Act will make it harder for women who have changed their names to vote She’s right. Text SAVE to 63033 to tell your senators to vote no on the SAVE America Act.

'chief of staff Susie Wiles now sees deportations as a liability for the midterms, per the report. That Trump is siding with her on the politics here is a sign of political panic & a rebuke to Miller, who apparently delights in flaunting the administration’s vicious sadism & overt white nationalism'

Strategists, advisers and media personalities who were key to Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party have flocked to the Green Party in recent months, as the once “tepid” environmental group has veered to the left www.ft.com/content/e38d...

Seen 'Keir Starmer: Where Did It All Go Wrong?'? channel4tv.bsky.social Good piece by @lewisgoodall.com on Ch 4. I regret joining Labour to support Starmer as leader based on his leadership pledges. Deeply disappointed and disillusioned. Gone Green @greenparty.org.uk Could've done without Gove tho!

5 weeks until polling day in #Birmingham and the Greens are surging in the polls showing we're only ones who can defeat Reform. On May 7 #VoteGreen in Birmingham. #VoteGreenInBrum #GreenParty

Over 100 international lawyers (including me) warn that U.S. strikes on Iran violate the UN Charter and may be war crimes. Read the letter here: www.justsecurity.org/135423/profe...

Thanks Dave Musgrove for having me on the podcast to discuss the origins of the international order, why it’s unravelling and what’s to be done. The story starts in WWII with 🇬🇧 diplomats shaping the future, as my new book Peace Makers relates. geni.us/PeaceMakers podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

The Greens have now overtaken both the Conservatives and Labour, according to the latest polling average

Pam Bondi and Donald Trump may think her firing gets her out of testifying to the Oversight Committee. They are wrong - and we look forward to hearing from her under oath.

President Trump fires the attorney general. www.nbcnews.com/politics/just...

"This is not a show. We are talking about war and peace and the lives of men and women," the French president told journalists upon arrival in South Korea for a state visit. "When you want to be serious you don't say every day the opposite of what you said the day before," Macron added.

🎥 Donald Trump posts a video that appears to show the aftermath of a U.S. attack on civilian infrastructure in Iran.

So as Reform UK announce their plans for the "biggest benefit cuts ever", whilst cutting taxes for the wealthiest, their Treasurer has just sold his Chelsea Mansion for a record £275million www.ft.com/content/8daf...

Grotesque comparison. Insane idolatry.

Farage's Britain - BRITAIN’S BOOZE-FUELLED FLAG-SHAGGING YOBS ON A NIGHT OUT! Mob Harasses Woman in Street, Giving Nazi Salutes and Shouting Racist Slogans

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

The Government has absolutely no mandate to do this. Labour never mentioned in its manifesto that it planned to undermine and restrict a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy - the right to trial by jury - a move which will place us on a path toward authoritarian justice youtu.be/x6NIiM9G5ag?...

@lordrickettsp.bsky.social clear on #BBCNews at 10 too: "Trump has never understood what NATO is from the very start of his first presidency. NATO is a defensive alliance - it's to have collective defence against an attack in Europe or N America against one of its members -very clear in the Treaty..

The more Trump moves towards leaving NATO, the more Europe and Canada accept that the Western alliance is effectively dead and increase their own capacity accordingly. In that sense, yes, it's a positive. The alternative of telling themselves NATO is ok and the US will be there if needed is worse.

A polite but forensic discussion and dismantling of the government's incoherent/inconsistent argument for the "earned settlement" proposals from @sundersays.bsky.social. As he says, media reporting/discussion has been lamentably ill-informed. ukandeu.ac.uk/unsettled-st...

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

"Earned settlement creates, by design, a hierarchy of status in terms of what different migrants deserve." ✍️ @sundersays.bsky.social looks at the consequences of the government's proposed overhaul of settlement rules in the UK 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/unsettled-st...

🚨BREAKING: Litigation against Trump's latest power grab is imminent. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Fantastic to see 3 @nottspolitics.bsky.social academics cited in the UK Foreign Affairs Committee report 'Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy' Take a look at the evidence provided by Rory Cormac, Dan Lomas & Natalie Martin 🔗 tinyurl.com/c5hfaa8u

The royal visit to the US should not go ahead inews.co.uk/opinion/king...

BREAKING: “It is increasingly clear that as the world continues down this volatile path our long term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union.. Brexit did deep damage to our economy” Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏

Farage 'walks onstage to pumping music and finishes his speech with confetti guns firing & giant sparklers flaring. The whole event, attended by more than 1,000 people (not all of them party members), feels like a cross between WWE & a Butlin’s holiday camp. Darren Grimes, 32, warms up the audience'

They have won byelections and local elections, but are they ready for a general election? @carysafoko.bsky.social reports on Reform UK and the Greens’ campaigning operations: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/728...

Start the fire. Walk away. Tell the world they’re on their own.

Here's what Keir Starmer doesn't want you to know about the war on Iran:

Mahmood seems to be turning into a Star Wars villain with each day she spends at the Home Office. That place is sucking her soul out of her body.

Another Labour MPs comes out against Shabana Mahmood's reactionary immigration proposals ...

Folklore geek here: if the Home Secretary thinks fairy tales were comforting, she has not read many fairy tales. Pre-Disneyification, they were usually *not* comforting. And as for law, rather than lore: this is the Home Secretary's usual hogwash.

So Israel commits war crime after war crime… Invades Targets civilians/aid workers Snipers children Land grabs Celebrates with champagne at hanging Palestinians …and the international community can’t even muster the most flaccid of responses. You have failed us all.

If I wanted more help from my allies, I simply would not have threatened to annex the territory of an ally at the start of the year. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Maybe she will be the one who finally tears up the Refugee Convention. So far it has outlasted many insignificant political careers.

Madonna, Jane Fonda, Pedro Pascal, America Ferrera, Elliot Page among dozens of Hollywood names calling for the closing of the migrant family jail in Dilley, Texas. “Children belong in schools. Not detention centers”: variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Mark Carney, "Israel's invasion of Lebanon is illegal" "It is a violation of their territorial integrity and sovereignty" "We condemn it" Anyone know if that famous human rights lawyer Keir Starmer has condemned Israel for invading Lebanon?

David Dimbleby criticises King Charles's decision to appease President Trump on a state visit after illegally attacking Iran, "Bad political moment to send him the present of the King" "And a state banquet while he's bombing the hell out of Iran?" "And people are dying all over the Middle East?"

David Dimbleby labels King Charles’ US visit ‘an embarrassment’ - urging ministers to call it off BBC presenter says he feels sorry for monarch having state dinner with leader who ‘goes out of his way’ to insult Britain, UK troops and Nato www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

If the King goes on a state visit to the USA while Trump is still President, we’re in this kind of territory.

Huge development, indicating limitless effort to rig November’s midterms. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

The Prime Minister’s plan for immigration will keep people working in key industries like care in temporary status for a decade or more, it will keep people in insecure work, make them more easily exploitable, poorer and marginalised - when did that become the policy of a Labour government?