Among those killed in Israeli strikes today were 3 journalists: - Mohammed Wishah, an Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza - Ghada Dayekh, a presenter with Sawt Al-Farah in Lebanon - Suzan Khalil, a reporter and presenter on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV and Al-Nour Radio, also in Lebanon

🚨 Excellent: "In order to become less dependent on the United States", the Dutch Ministry of Defence has just announced it will work together with Dutch telecoms company and Thales to build a dedicated sovereign cloud to store sensitive and classified data. www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieu...

Spain can do this because of strongly activated anti-war base. What prevents other countries political leaders from saying that international law must be followed? bsky.app/profile/did:...

Nothing says ‘anti-elite man of the people’ like dating a princess!

The real headline: crypto crook (who pleaded guilty to breaking US money laundering rules) plans to try and buy UK politics www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Argentina MPs approve bill allowing mining in glaciers https://aje.news/5204o1

"Research finds [the] Jackdaw field would provide only about 2% of current UK gas demand, and Rosebank only 1% – with the latter containing predominantly oil that would mostly be exported" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This Reform nonsense of course misses the fundamental finding that the under-regulated flammable cladding used in Grenfell is a ticking time bomb in *every other building clad with the same material*. And there are lots of them.

Or, to put it more bluntly: "Rich people could pay less in taxes if only women would do more unpaid labor at home."

Can't suffer a strategic defeat...if you have no strategy.

Government claims to prioritise NHS recovery. Yet gvt threatens to shrink the future workforce - contradicting its own staffing plan.Using training posts as leverage turns a pay row into a gamble with the NHS’s future capacity.Starmer's own escalate to de-escalate www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

#neo-royalism. Hegseth edition

“ Responsibility rests with Donald Trump and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. The delusion that force can impose a more compliant regime in Tehran has predictably given rise to a conflict that sustains itself” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is it any wonder our media ecosystem is such a mess? The guy in charge of the supposedly impartial watchdog is slagging off the BBC to the right wing Telegraph - which is hostile to the BBC - & defending the fact his organisation has let GB News act share misinformation and constantly promote Reform

We are still feeling the effects of some of the carbon dioxide from the Titanic, from the first Model-T, from the first steam engine. This chart is the most important chart in climate policy and yet most folks don’t know about it. Carbon dioxide is forever.

BREAKING: The Houthis are officially in. Statement just issued from them confirming they have fired ballistic missiles into Israel. Day by day, the escalation trap snares more.

The personalist regime. Yuck. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...

Unhinged from the Times. Not a shred of evidence in the article that Jewish groups have been "frozen out". Plenty of Jews will be marching against racism on Saturday. Unfortunately no evidence the Board of Deputies/JLC care. archive.ph/wip/zZbn9

18/ The war is a HORROR. One side measures its cost at the gas pump. Or stock markets & electoral chances at midterms. Iranian people are measuring their loss in indiscriminate violence that kills schoolchildren, poisons air & water and destroys cultural treasures warontherocks.com/2026/03/the-...

"The best example of the news media deciding somebody is unfit for office, because of their mental fitness or unfitness, is how they treated Biden in 2024. Biden was old and rational. Right now, Trump is old and irrational, but he’s not getting the same kind of treatment." — @markjacob.bsky.social

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This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

" Britain must stay out of US-Israeli adventurism. The war’s constraint is not capability – Washington has plenty of air power and Iran offers plenty of targets. But nothing can be resolved without a politically achievable objective." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Basically the shifting goals means Iran won, and I don’t say this flippantly

Iran warned it would strike energy and water infrastructure across the Gulf if US President Trump follows through on his threat to attack its electricity grid, raising fears of mass disruption in a region heavily dependent on desalination for drinking water reut.rs/4rN5spS

A civilian in Tehran chronicles a country trapped between bombardment and repression—too terrorized to move, let alone start an uprising. @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/dispatc...

Entirely predictable and avoidable outcome. A government with 400 seats but which still cannot figure out what its MPs won’t accept and therefore what it cannot get through the Commons is not imho long for this world. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sculpting jaws, giving scores: Inside looksmaxxing's world "Clavicular attributes his looks to taking testosterone from the age of 14 and smashing his jawbone with a hammer to supposedly reshape his lower face - neither of which is recommended by health professionals" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yes, you do.

It is well within anyone’s right to oppose this war as well as the timing and goal of the U.S.’s participation. But lionizing someone like Joe Kent - with close ties to conspiracy theorists, 2020 election deniers, Proud Boys, Groypers, and other far-right extremists - is dangerous. 🧵

This is one of the best Gorton and Denton post mortems I've read, and it's two possibly winning trajectories for Labour - a centre-left quasi-alliance with the Lib Dems or a Burnham supremacy - are really well argued. By @residentadviser.bsky.social mbatangspeaks.substack.com/p/after-gort...

Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention (15-16 March 2026) Reform UK: 25% (+2 from 9-10 Mar) Greens: 19% (=) Conservatives: 17% (-2) Labour: 17% (=) Lib Dems: 14% (=) Our methodology is unchanged yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

BBC 'motion to dismiss👇destroys Trump's case (and the credibility of his Tory and RefUK supporters). www.scribd.com/document/101...

www.hrw.org/news/2026/03... In the Shadow of War, Settler Violence against Palestinians Intensifies

#BBCNews - Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement - whistleblowers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Donald Trump would like you to know that he is winning the war with Iran. So comprehensively, in fact, that he now needs Nato’s help... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dowman makes history to seal vital Arsenal win over Everton reut.rs/4bIMZWD

Great thread. The grift is astounding.

China? Send ships to rescue Trump from the mess of his own making? New levels of delusion. France, UK & Japan also very unwilling to enter a war on which they were not consulted. Sounds as if Trump is preparing to blame his allies for the mess he made - as EU officials suspected

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one. #NoBrainer www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

Bank of England was under broad civic pressure (supported by 2 Tory Chancellors & Home Secretary in May+Johnson governments) to put an ethnic minority on a banknote after half a century. That is part of the context in which it decided it can't choose people anymore but found out animals are popular!

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

New from Free Movement: Afghan national’s job too remote from counter-narcotics objectives to qualify for relocation | Aiya Nakash freemovement.org.uk/too-remote-c...

The United States and Iran have signaled no quick end to their war, with Trump saying it was necessary to finish the job and Iran warning that the world should be ready for oil at $200 a barrel after striking tankers in Iraqi waters and other ships near the vital Strait of Hormuz reut.rs/4bioYUX

This case, laughable in many ways, and struck out in forceful terms by Mrs Justice Collins Rice, still cost me six months and over £100k in fees. I should be able to recover this from Kamal - I don't know if in practice I'll be able to.

Bellingcat founder on verifying footage of deadly strike on girls' school in Iran www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

A strong & brave intervention from Zubir Ahmed on the depressingly familiar discrimination and abuse Muslims face in public: online but also at work & on the streets. That Islamophobia is racism is shown his case: there can never be a good or British Muslim, even when they save people's lives