It is absolutely vital that we protect our democracy from foreign influence - be it through political donations or on social media.
Power ought to lie in the hands of the UK public, not foreign states or individuals.
As per Barry Commoner, “there is no ‘away’.”
It's Day 4,400 of Russia's plan to destroy Ukraine and Ukrainian culture.
That's how long ago Putin ordered the capture of Crimea.
It's Day 1475 of Russia's all-out invasion.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
This is Monday's🧵
Of course, Reform would join Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war… and drag us all down with them…
Good thing that Reform isn’t in No 10…
And long may it continue
“We would be helping the Americans and Israelis in any way they saw appropriate”
“in ⚠️ANY⚠️ way ⚠️THEY⚠️ saw appropriate”
FFS. He wets his pants about an EU army and British sovereignty one minute. But would sign our troops up to god knows what, the next.
Tice is a weapons-grade moron.
The government posting a video comparing scraping your knee with a 3 year prison sentence in order to justify its undermining and restriction of a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy is one of its most absurd arguments yet.
Every Labour MP should watch this, step up and vote it down
‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell
Excellent.
I think western influencers need to be clear about why they seem to be posting messages that so closely align to a coordinated campaign by the autocratic UAE leadership.
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🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Over the past week, Russia has attacked our country thousands of times – the enemy used nearly 1,750 attack drones, 1,530 guided aerial bombs, and 39 missiles against our people.
Iranian state television has announced that the Assembly of Experts has chosen Mojtaba Khamenei as supreme leader after a “decisive vote”.
He's the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was killed by the US on February 28.
Residents in Tehran awoke to black rainfall on Sunday following Israeli-US strikes targeting oil infrastructure in the surrounding area, according to local sources.
Ed Davey is right that the U.K. should not blindly follow Trump/ USA in the war against Iran.
The vast majority of the British public agree and want any action by the U.K. forces limited to defensive action.
#Iran 🇮🇷
#USA 🇺🇸
Happy International Women’s Day
#IWD2026
The group that will choose Iran's next supreme leader has more or less reached a majority consensus, Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Mohammadmehdi Mirbaqeri said reut.rs/4uiUJWz
Tehran was already on the brink of running out of water.
Now, even the rain is contaminated.
On International Women’s Day, I pay tribute to girls and women everywhere who continue to fight oppression with relentless strength, with unbreakable courage.
This strength and courage live within all of us.
The power is in us.
I see Farage is off to Mar-a-Lago to talk down Britain and suck up to Trump.
There's nothing patriotic about cheering on a foreign leader whose illegal war is sending British families’ energy bills through the roof.
Genuine questions: could these people be in the pay of the regime? And would that, to use language some of them favour, make them both ‘economic migrants’ *and* ‘welfare scroungers’?
What could possibly explain the intensity of Western interest, over the past century and more, in this region?
Heaven forbid, their gravy train should ever disappear...
I'm sure it's just a massive coincidence that they used all the same words, ideas and punctuation.
Spot on!
Disastrous humanitarian consequences don't come into it, when there's money to be made by these wealthy, warmongering ghouls.
I will always stand by my very first instinct regarding Blair... I've never trusted him, found him predominately self-serving however well spun the rhetoric / regardless of his prominence in high office ...clearly, nothing has changed.
The entire global south with a few exceptions, and any individual on this planet regardless of location, with an ounce of moral decency, knows this. My question is @theguardian.com where is the western media? Al Jazeera, Middle Eastern Eye are calling it out. Where are you?
Explains a lot about the failure of Brexit that its main adherents should right now be prostrating themselves before the US because they think that's what an independent UK means.
A council approved plans submitted by the boss at Teesworks for a new gated community and a hotel renovation despite officers' warnings it would have a negative impact on the area.
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And pointlessly so
Trump won’t appreciate it. And we should resist leaving him holding his ugly war and its consequences alone.
Of course China is right - it’s the law of the jungle. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
