"If casting a vote starts to feel more like participating in a lottery than making a positive and principled decision, then voters are going to become ever more frustrated." First Past the Post can't handle multi-party politics. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gort...

#BBCNews live page: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn... Israel and Iran exchange fresh attacks after Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei killed

#BBCNews - Lyse Doucet: This is an extraordinary moment Iran has been preparing for www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... an Iranian state TV presenter tearfully announced the passing of " the steadfast mountain of the Islamic guardianship" who "drank the sweet pure draught of martyrdom."

A PSA from Thomas Massie:

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I’ll go one step more blunt than @natsechobbyist.bsky.social: The US military deserves better, smarter, and more careful leadership than the ahistorical reckless cosplayers it has today. It is a tremendous fighting force, and I fear greatly for the families at risk today.

Trump not only doesn’t have any empathic thoughts in his head, he doesn’t even understand the concept of #empathy

I'm sure it's fine that the guy who just started a war posts like a 12-year-old

And of course…by “you” I mean him.

I think the thing about this I like most is that it could have been written decades ago - a passionate exposition of what British Liberal and Lib Dems are about that is consistent through the ages. Lib Dems need more of this sort of clarity and energy in our messaging.

It’s a bit hard for the people of Iran to rise up while the bombs and missiles rain down. And when the bombardment stops, the men with guns are all too likely to be ready for more repression.

Driving 4x4s up and down our chalk streams puts our local ecosystems at risk. I spoke to ITV this week about this trend of ecological vandalism and how I am calling on Hampshire County Council to take decisive action to protect our chalk streams.

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it. Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

Finally, the water companies and the regulatory environment that enables them are being given the Post Office treatment. Watching this is well worth your time. www.channel4.com/programmes/d...

The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without public support. Above all it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people, and without a plan to let them build a legitimate Iranian state. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump's attacks on Iran are dangerously illegal and a mistake of staggering scale. Has he learned nothing from decades of U.S. military disaster in the Middle East? Has he spent not one single minute studying the lives lost and trillions wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria and Libya?

They might as well call it Operation Tiny Penis. Pathetic.

Lord Ricketts states the likely outcome is chaos. Is that the objective? To distract?

A boy clutches a toy in the ruins of his parents’ house, London in 1945 by Toni Frissell. In any war it is always the children who suffer most.

The first thing DT did in 2016 was rip up the Iran nuclear deal Obama negotiated before leaving office.

Still up on the official White House website: www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Trump’s 2026 Nobel Peace Prize campaign is off to a rocky start.

Using US citizens to launder money and operate illegally in the US is basically Trump admin policy. It didn’t get enough press, but a 2025 policy update waving the need for US citizens and companies to report beneficial ownership info was basically a gold leaf invitation to Russians and drug lords.

Epstein himself wrote a very clear explanation of how Russian money laundering works and how Trump operates

Follow the money. And IIRC, Epstein accused his friend Trump of laundering money for the Russians when he bought the estate Epstein wanted in Florida.

She saw off Reform's sneering elitist academic.

Please read this live on a nationally broadcast program like Rachel Maddow and have it aired on podcasts everywhere. Your words are exactly why they didn’t want anyone to hear you.

Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

As Our History Underfoot – the new name for the old Trekking Exploration account – discovers here, the vast yards and loco depot Toton are largely derelict today. This was to have been the site of the East Midlands Hub for HS2, but that won't happen now.

BREAKING: It seems we have arrived at the We Told You So part of the program

I don’t think anybody will see this post because Bluesky is broken. But rest assured this is a problem the platform inherited from the Biden administration

MoD launches review into whether Epstein used RAF bases

One of the best parts of the SOTU. Classic.

It’s projection.

It’s projection.

Breaking WaPo: Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

British intelligence services had come across Andrew and Fergie, not because they were looking out for them, but because they were associating with people who were of interest to them. And this would have been reported back to the head of MI6 andrewlownie.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Hillary Clinton in her opening statement to the House Oversight Committee on Jeffrey Epstein: “You have held zero public hearings, refused to allow the media to attend them, including today, despite espousing the need for transparency on dozens of occasions…

More news that won’t make the headlines: asylum claims down 4%, number in hotels down 19%, claims backlog lowest since 2020, returns up 9%, net immigration down 69%. Labour is fixing the broken system it inherited from the Tories.

*Henry VIII has entered the chat*

Putin made a wise investment in Trump.

It is indeed a good piece.

Ah yes. We’ve been expecting you. The latest kick in the nuts for all the racist & racist-adjacent ‘mainstream’ UK journalists who mocked the notion that Trump’s administration was far-right & fascistic. Don’t expect any apologies, though. It’s Brexit 2.0.

British far-right activist Tommy Robinson was hosted at the US state department on Wednesday, as the Trump administration seeks to cultivate closer ties with conservative and far-right groups across Europe www.ft.com/content/032d...

Lindsay Hoyle: Master Detective. My SKETCH of Today in The Case Of the Missing Mandelson. thecritic.co.uk/hoyl...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com After widespread anti-regime protests in Iran, Times Opinion contacted dozens of doctors and nurses working there, many of whom had begun to quietly document what they saw as they attempted to provide aid to demonstrators.