Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Tuesday is officially war crime day everyone!

QT responses to this are quite revealing. *Lots* in common with the responses I used to get when posting on Twitter/X about migration - just a basic denial of economics/logic, combined with abuse (obviously, thankfully, without the racism). BUT despite that, I'm quite sympathetic. (1/n)

Multiple weapons experts have disputed a US claim that Iran may have been responsible for a deadly strike on the town of Lamerd on the first day of the Iran war, which killed 21 people. Weapons experts say a US PrSM missile was likely used in the strike. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"We achieved independence together, we will defend it together!" Day 493 of #GeorgiaProtests 📷 @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social

ok if we just shut up and give them this one then play the long game, it opens up a lot of poetic irony come 2028

Is the US committing war crimes by targeting Iran’s civilian infrastructure? Good piece by @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

Just explained the whole near-side/far-side tidal locking physics of the moon on BBC TV with a 1980's disco-dance-around-your-handbag analogy 😂 - always face the bag (Earth) as you dance (orbit) around it. 💃 📹: NASA/Vi Nguyen

Channel crossings for Q1 2026 of the year are down 33% year on year, down 18% on Q1 2024 Dfficult to gauge how far the dip is shortterm fluctuations, potential impact of policy to impede, shift in push factors. Stat declines are rarely reported. Rises + spikes are always v prominently reported.

The US Department of War Crimes.

NEW Social media platforms have a serious legal problem And this problem pre-dates the defeat of Meta and Google in the Kaley GM jury trial Me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk on why Meta and Google lost this case - months before the actual trial www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

A Russian headline the Kremlin will love: “Trump declares he’s ready to pull America out of Nato.” Another paper concedes “US law limits [Trump’s] ability to take a unilateral decision” on this, but suggests he can still “cause a lot of problems for the Alliance.” #ReadingRussia

Trump is saying this now because he's angry that other NATO members aren't doing what he wants. But there are also medium- and longer-term questions about NATO's viability that everyone needs to face up to. 🧵

The extraordinary documentary evidence at the heart of the UK Afghan war crimes inquiry - a thread. There is currently a public inquiry into alleged war crimes by UK special forces in Afghanistan in 2011-12. The ongoing inquiry has published some interesting and worrying documents. >

Eaten by a wolf, cooked in an oven, sisters' toes cut off so as to fit into glass slipper and then eyes eaten by birds, trapped in a dungeon, cursed by witch, poisoned by a witch. Brothers Grimm or Home Office aspirations?

In today’s Russian newspapers: Russians warned not to meet with British diplomats. Plus, the “list of violations for which foreigners can be expelled from Russia” is set to expand & include ‘abusing freedom of the press.’ #ReadingRussia

"Iran is now earning nearly twice as much from oil sales each day as it did before American and Israeli bombs started falling on February 28th. It may be pummelled on the battlefield, but the regime is winning the energy war." www.economist.com/finance-and-...

On the first day of the Iran war, at least two strikes hit a residential block and a sports hall in the town of Lamerd, killing 21 people, including four children. Our investigation reveals the attack was likely a US strike, carried out with new generation Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM).

The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Washington DC

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity

Former political prisoner Nasrin Parvaz reads a letter to Keir Starmer signed by more than 100 pro-democracy, pro-justice and anti-war British-Iranians, including other former Evin detainees Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Aras Amiri. Full list of signatories is at togetherforiran.org

We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️

My resignation letter

It's not clear whether their current mode (having donations converted into cash before reaching the party coffers) is covered by what's been announced today. Trying to get clarity but I think not

A special episode of #BehindtheLines, a live event with three sanctuary scholars from @somervillecollege.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk. Three young academics displaced by conflict now changing the world, not just talking about it! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

recent attacks on public health and health research in America youtube.com/shorts/qHMwt...

My latest Reform Uncovered story for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/03/24/r...

NEW The US guided missile attack on a school in Minab in Iran looks like a war crime By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

AIPAC doesn't exactly promote Israel's interests, or even the Israeli governments. It has long promoted a right wing Jewish-American-Israeli vision. That vision conformed with most Israeli governments. When it didn't - the Rabin govt 92-95 - AIPAC was hostile to it and sabotaged its efforts. 1/

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

NEW Stewart Lee column "Is Trump just making stuff up in a panic as a smokescreen, to invalidate criticism, and to hide behind in case the trans mutilizors come for his presumably orange genitals with big scissors?" 🔗⬇️

I know people are sceptical about journalism right now but this is the kind of story that takes weeks to get to the bottom of. I hope people see the value in what we do

This is exactly why so many transparency campaigners are calling for crypto donations to be banned

For several months, people have been wondering why Reform hasn't declared any crypto donations, despite Nigel Farage saying they'd received some Now @theobserveruk.bsky.social can reveal why...

Israel Settlers are on a murderous rampage in the West Bank. This is happening with American taxpayer support. It's madness. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Y'days post: Public Attitudes to taxes and spending, and VAT zero-rating mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/03/publ... The recent unprecedented increase in the number of people wanting a smaller state may imply that attitudes to the size of the state depend crucially on the type of taxes being raised.

I don't have a Schrödinger joke ... or do I?

New episode: an exclusive extract from the audiobook (read by yours truly) of #Elemental, my new book. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

A photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went around the world. Was it real, or AI? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Eight year old Mustafa Bani Odeh. His parents and two siblings murdered in front of him by plainclothed Israeli soldiers, while he was beaten up by them. West Bank. The same unit executed two Palestinians three months ago after they surrendered. Every. Day.

“Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their hometown of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire.” Shot in the head and face. Executed with their parents. No words.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Beautiful statement from Ayman Odeh, Palestinian MK and head of Hadash-Taal. For those who do not read Hebrew, I will translate:

Israeli soldiers open fire on a car in the west bank, killing parents and two children. www.haaretz.co.il/news/politic...

⚡️Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 5, injure 47 over past day Ukraine's Air Force reported that Russia launched 97 drones overnight, including Shahed-type attack drones. Air defenses shot down or suppressed 90 of them.

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

This is one of four videos of poems for Gaza that I've written. All four are on this site. Free to watch anytime., www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFYM...