BBC correspondent reporting live re Gaza says Israel used white phosphorus.
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BBC correspondent reporting live re Gaza says Israel used white phosphorus.
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Woodland view 🌳 #trees #woodland #treeclub
A fuel duty cut of 25p would cost £12bn and instantly be lost as Oil Companies and Supermarkets raised their prices
It would mean, even before raising their prices, that the Oil Companies would make twice as much profit as you pay in tax
It's a tax cut for Big Oil
Who do they represent? Themselves.
Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman missed NINE votes in Parliament last night, all because they had a more important Reform UK rally on the Isle of Wight.
They think they are too big to do their job.
The bullshit excuses came thick and fast… while any attempt at charm quickly drained away…
More of this please, media. He’s there to be had. There’s a mess of nasty inadequacy and failure lurking behind his oh-so-confident bluster.
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Reform UK really are so lucky.
For a party of eight MPs they have the UK’s biggest news broadcaster on retainer.
Here we see their political editor doing the job of a local newspaper reporter.
For Farage.
EIGHT MPs.
Can the Govt explain why they won't decouple the cost of electricity produced by renewable sources from high-cost, volatile gas markets as this would dramatically cut our energy bills? Thought not. Can't think why...
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There should be a cast iron set of rules around foreign influence of UK politics. No donations, no influence/lobbying, just a complete ring-fencing of domestic politics away from overseas actors.
Breaches should be treated as a criminal matter, with serious prison time for those who break the law.
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Child poverty in one parent families is a national disgrace - and a big cause of that is absent parents, usually fathers, who don't pay maintenance and a Child 'Maintenance' Service that lets them.
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A fake account posing as a 13-year-old girl gained 5,000 friends and 6,700 followers – mostly adult men. #Meta’s response? Invite her to switch to a professional account and start monetising. The account was created by the New Mexico Attorney General to test the platform. The behaviour was real.
The Chilcot Checklist, for how to optimally plan and execute military operations in light of learning from the Iraq War. It states: The Chilcot Checklist 1 VISION: why do we care? What does this mean for British interests? What are the risks of acting or doing nothing, including in the longer term? What is different now? 2 ANALYSIS: what IS happeNINg NOw? What are your sources of ground truth/evidence? Have assumptions been exposed to analytical tools or external challenge? 3 SCENarIOS: what might happen next? Have you looked at a range of options, and scenarios and consequences that could flow from these? 4 OptIONS: what should we do? Have you designed your options collaboratively, built in challenge and presented Ministers with clear information on risks, opportunities and costs? 5 LegaL ImpLICatIONS: how do we eNSure actION IS lawful? What is the wider legal context? Are Ministers aware of any legal risks? What are the policy implications? How will you ensure that any international legal basis remains sound if circumstances change? 6 POLICY AND Strategy: what does suCCeSS LOOk LIke? Does a clear strategy, and a feasible course of action that will meet policy objectives, exist? Is the approach supported by analysis? 7 reSOurCE: what do we need to deLIVer? What are the resource implications of your options? 8 PLANNING AND DOING: how should we do it? Have you planned for a range of possible contingencies? Who is accountable and responsible for what? 9 POLICY perfOrmaNCE: how wILL you mONItor performaNCe? How will you measure and evaluate success/failure? 10 EVALuatION: IS the pOLICy workINg? When and how will you review this policy? Has the context changed? Have UK objectives/interests changed? Do you need to change direction?
Way beyond military strategy & operations this checklist makes sense
Like any critical situation though the emotional urge maybe to think it’s a unique crisis & you should throw out the rules, my learning from Critical Care in health is that in crises you lean into what you’ve learnt not panic away
I remember when opposition MPs went over to EU, showing their solidarity with Europeans and it was considered back channelling. Farage (how many times has he visited Trump now?), Tice, and others appear to do this regularly on world stage. Why aren't the press calling it out for what it is?
If you get passed the massive & overt corruption, the big issue with UK politics is that there are rarely any meaningful consequences for promoting & taking catastrophically wrong & self serving national policy actions.
Such behaviour in politics should be seen for what it is: treason
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A medium shot of Nigel Farage wearing a blue suit and a pink patterned tie. He is gesturing with his right hand open toward the viewer. A white text box at the top reads: "Men make sacrifices many women don't for top jobs, Farage says".
A close-up, low-angle shot of Nigel Farage speaking into a microphone. A white text box at the bottom contains the following text: "Nigel Farage has praised the misogynist influencer Andrew Tate for being an “important voice” for the “emasculated” and giving boys “perhaps a bit of confidence at school” in online interviews that appear to be aimed at young men over the past year. The Reform UK leader spoke in favour of Tate for defending “male culture” in a Strike It Big podcast that aired in February, while acknowledging that the influencer had gone “over the top” and elsewhere that he had said some “pretty horrible” things."
Nigel Farage and another man are walking outdoors, surrounded by people holding light blue "I'm voting REFORM UK" signs. Farage is on the left in a green jacket and red tie; the other man is on the right in a dark suit and light blue tie. A black text box at the bottom reads: "Reform’s by-election candidate suggested people who don’t have children should pay more tax".
A head-and-shoulders portrait of Nigel Farage wearing a blue suit, pink shirt, and patterned tie with a red poppy pin on his lapel. A white text box at the bottom reads: "Nigel Farage has previously taken aim at UK abortion laws, saying they are “totally out of date”, arguing it is “ludicrous we allow abortion up to 24 weeks”."
PSA: the far right don’t like women.
We’re not going to stand by while any man tries to make misogyny normalised in this country.
Wake up, Nigel – it’s 2026, not 1956.
March with us on 28 March if you agree.
In a mixture of #SaxonSunday & #SundayStonework thought we could use a thread of some of the fantastic things on display in St Mary's Church, Wirksworth in the Peak District
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This is one result of the 7-year-long, £10 million Chilcot Inquiry: a comprehensive, detailed & crucial guide to avoiding another disastrous war like Iraq. You can understand why Tony Blair ignores its lessons, but every other warmonger in the UK?
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Screenshot from Hope Not Hate's latest annual report: https://hopenothate.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/state-of-hate-2026-it-could-happen-here.pdf#page=34 The headline reads: "Normalising hate / The role of the British media" and features a whole section on GB News
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There is nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain’s foreign policy to Donald Trump.
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage want Britain to blindly follow Trump into his reckless war - even though the President has no plan for what comes next.
So, Johnson, Farage, Badenoch, the Telegraph… howl about the UK being “an irrelevance on the world stage”.
Remind me again who decided to isolate us with a strategically and economically idiotic Brexit, relying on a trade deal with the US to save us from exactly the kind of weakness they now bemoan.
Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels.
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This is superb, as ever from @bbcrosatkins.bsky.social who should be in charge of political content in the BBC.
Head and shoulders above all domestic political commentators.
Unemotional fact based unpeeling of bullshit
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Finally, let's take a look at the human impact of the Home Office's actions...
You're fleeing your old life, hoping to set up some semblance of a new life in the UK
Your phone is everything📱
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Sun headline about £500k compensation for migrants, discussing human rights, and public outcry over payouts.
Did you see this headline?
Did you feel the requisite anger and rage at asylum seekers that The Sun was asking of you?
Did you maybe blame Starmer because.... um... it was probably his fault🤷♀️
Would you like to know the reality behind the headline?
Course you would!😜
Let's take a look
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Dana Perino bragged about the Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner pretending they were negotiating with Iran while the Pentagon planned an attack. Witkoff is part of the Ukraine/Russia negotiations .Kushner is part of the plan to rebuild Gaza. Who would trust them after this?
