They've moved the school holidays in the UAE to start next week as kids can't go into school Tells me the government here don't think this is over any time soon and i won't be in the UK for Palace Leeds Its just a minor annoyance when innocent people are being blown to bits in Tehran and Beirut

“He’s gonna have to say it out loud eventually, and it feels like he could take it in some kind of insane direction like HOOR-muzz or maybe horm-SUH,” said Arkansas resident Janet Flitchen

I think there is not enough appreciation to how good this FT visualization is the original is like this 👇

US consulate in Dubai on fire. Been in there a few times. That's right in the heart of the old part of town. Very densely populated

Community whatsapp groups during a bombing can quite qhickly move from did you hear that bang, to who didn't clean up after their dog, to has anyone got any tonic I can borrow

From the French equivalent of The Onion Seeking revenge, Dubai parachutes 3000 influencers on Tehran.

Some of our neighbours are hiding what's happening from their kids while ours are watching the news and trying to spot places they know and standing on the roof to watch drones get intercepted Twin boys are tough I guess

The cat is sheltering in place and hiding from the bangs

You may think the Americans don't have a plan to end this but Hegseth say they are praying and will be guided by God. Worked out well for George W Bush. Anyway remind me which country is run by war mongering religious fanatics? It could be any of three in this conflict

Farage saying HMG should break British law to support Trump Trumps wars have led to Qatar stopping LNG production which will push up UK electricity prices, maybe dramatically Farage will attack HMG for high energy prices blaming "net zero" This is how populism works

🚨 The death toll at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ primary school in Minab has risen to 148 dead and 95 wounded, Iranian state media reported. Most of those killed were between the ages of 7 and 12. Video via Mehr News Agency (X: @MehrnewsCom)

Not sure of the IRGC military logic of targeting civilian infrastructure in KSA and UAE. Both nations have large fleets modern of multirole combat aircraft that can be in Iranian airspace in 15 minutes, experienced combat pilots and Iran has no air defence

The Israelis have inflicted so much death on Lebanon over the years

Each year in Ramadan my work organises for Muslim employees an Umrah trip to Mecca So we now have 96 employees on a 35 hour bus trip to get back to family in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. They've just got to Riyadh after leaving at 530 pm. Roads busy as lots of other people trying to get back from Mecca

I'm behind the massive Jebal Ali port which feels a safe place to be. Any drone that gets that far goes into the port rather than the houses ten minutes flight beyond it. But it sets the dog off and the kids want to get onto the roof to see what's happening. Can hear but can't see the Air Force

That's just murder. He is retired

Being in all day due to the bombs is boring so been lookingc at local Facebook groups. People have such different risk profiles Some are talking about packing the car and driving to Oman. Others are recommending going down the beach as its so quiet with Iran and Ramadan Palace on soon

Why are panic buyers obsessed with toilet paper? Fresh produce i kind of get when airports and cargo ports shut. But loo roll?

Wife and I sitting up late and watching MAFS Australia as the shelter alerts keep going off and the explosions keep going off in the sky. Across the sea Iranians are being murdered. But you see more on English news about white people being inconvenienced

Let's be honest. This is why my kids can't sleep here in Dubai because of the interceptors hitting Iranian missiles waking them up

Hotel on fire next to where I was at lunch. Been in the Middle East 20 years. Used to the US and Israelis murdering people and being in the middle The Iranian leadership is murderous but let's be honest about which states kill the most innocent people

Trump just used the 1979 Embassy siege as a reason to bomb Iran claiming the US faced an imminent threat Which is it?

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

The Israelis have staeted bombing Iran again. Not good

Tories lost their deposit. Got 500 more votes than Sir Oink A Lot for for the Monster Looney Party What was the most successful European post war party now battling to beat a man pretending to be a pig

Farage and Goodwin are hilariously bad losers. Throwing out allegations of cheating and failing to congratulate the winner. Its not very British

Came fifth with 159 votes

Gorton and Denton is what happens in a safe left leaning constituency when a social democratic party decides it doesn't like its old voters and wants to be a populist right party. You don't beat Reform by being diet Reform with your only campaign slogan being "vote for us or get Reform"

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Today's by-election is another illustration of the problems with FPTP. The result may tell us less about what voters want to happen than whether they can game the system effectively to stop a result most *don't* want. The electoral system should not be an obstacle that voters have to work around.

Haven't watched any six nations until today. Adverts during the match? This is not America

More interested in what they think of Oliver Glasner's position #cpfc

There is part of me that thinks I'm going to end up getting bombed as Trump is a nonce and Netanyahu loves a genocide and both men looking for a distraction I live next to the new airport in Dubai and with next to the airport in Abu Dhabi. Iran attacked that one in 2022 with drones. I was on holiday

“A man in his sixties from Norfolk has been arrested and remains in police custody,” Makes me proud to be British. Genuinely.

I see Shrove Tuesday is the new Poppy Day

I see people angry on socials because football clubs said Ramadan Kareem and didn’t acknowledge Shrove Tuesday. Shrove Tuesday is a custom, like Halloween before All Saints Day. If anything, the English tradition is to view it as Catholic and Pagan. So desperate to be offended by anything

I went to Catholic school so was always guilted into giving up something for Lent. I now live in the Middle East and its Ramadan. So with Lent at the same time I'm giving up crisps, but only during the day time

Surprise, surprise British court rules that Palestine Action shouldn't have the same status as ISIS and that existing legislation was sufficient to deal with any criminal behaviour A total waste of police time and taxpayers money Of course the government will appeal

The defendants in the Palestine Action Elbit Systems break in, that led to the UK government to make it illegal to say "I support Palestine Action", leading to the arrest of countless middle class grannies, have been found innocent of all charges Bit of a mess for the government

Why does the six nations start on a Thursday? Friday was bad enough but the whole point of the tournament is to take my mind off Palace when we aren't doing well and Thursday won't help

The mob in this case being “people who dislike child sex offenders”

Not sure why I'm shocked Mandelson committed what could well be treason to curry favour with a rich pedophile. But I am. The MI5/PM must have known about this before he was made US Ambassador? Surely the CIA had the files and there is Five Eyes Anyway, police need to investigate

There are some bangers in the Rotten Tomatoes pull quotes for "Melania" reviews but this one is the clear winner:

President Xi Jinping tells Starmer he is a ManU fan but also keeps an eye out for the Palace results (according to George Parker of the FT) #cpfc

This is treason. Siding with your enemy in a time if crsis. But the Tory party has a lot ofc traitors in it.

Quite telling that the Brexit Tories/Reform have zero to say about sovereignty when Trump is using sanctions to force policy changes UK citizens disagree with

At university as part of my international relations paper I attended a series of lectures on decolonisation. This was the 90s and post the collapse of the USSR there was the assumption that the process of colonisation was only moving in one direction.

From the Orwellian name to having members whose main qualification seems to be to have funded Israeli settlements or Trump. And Tony Blair. Satire is dead

I'm uber bah humbug on NYE but my wife insisting we go to a house party Camping in the desert I enjoyed. Balloons came over at sun rise

Mumbai has opened the new airport. They've been building that for twenty years. It was a terrible airport for one is the world's most important cities