So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.
That's roughly $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
People do not want this.
They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
Any Labour Home Secretary ought to hang their head in shame for receiving the endorsement & parliamentary votes of the most right wing Conservative Party in living memory in support of preventing those fleeing persecution from ever integrating into British society. Performative cruelty at its worst.
The recent flurry of policy announcements by the Home Secretary aiming to change “perceptions of what the refugee offer is” has been creating huge anxiety and distress among our client group.
the rich “really value the ability to move and work wherever they want, when they want, and when something like the Iran war disrupts it, they don’t like it”
Gov Tim Walz criticises Trump and his admin, saying they target immigrants, and then says,
"There are no Somalis in the Epstein files"
Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists?
Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy.
Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists?
Noem: My condolences to their families
Raskin: You lied about them.
Mahmood is ripping up the Refugee Convention without a debate or vote using the draconian powers afforded to her under the immigration rules & forcing those seeking sanctuary to live potentially indefinitely suspended lives to create a deterrent that won't work
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
"The YouGov weekly voting intention poll puts Reform UK on 23%, down one, Greens on 21%, up four, Labour and the Tories tied on 16, both down two, and the Lib Dems unchanged on 14."
Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you | Owen Jones
At least Blair held a parliamentary vote before pledging UK forces to a US war against Iraq. We now know he lied about Britain being in imminent danger and about the existence of weapons of mass destruction. Starmer must be calculating that MPs won't be so easily fooled again #Iran
This is bad you might say but what has it got to do with Trump?
Polymarket adds Donald Trump Jr. as adviser ahead of US return share.google/liwauCVXGGFh...
At least 6 other Polymarket accounts profited over $1.2 million by betting on US military strikes in Iran.
H/T to Ryan Stygar over on Threads for this story (usual disclaimers apply)
A Polymarket account called “Magamyman”placed a bet on when the U.S. would drop bombs on Iran
… exactly 71 minutes before the first strikes.
They turned an $87,000 bet into $515,000
cont.
🚨 BREAKING: The Government is working on plans to evacuate hundreds of thousands of Brits from the Middle East
More than 76,000 Brits have registered their location and contact details with the Foreign Office
A 'legal position' is very different from comprehensive legal advice that addresses the legality of the US & Israel initiating an unprovoked attack in the first place. MPs and peers should demand the PM & Defence Sec release the full legal advice on the UK's active participation in this conflict.
And here we go...
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The US & Israel have launched an entirely unprovoked war on Iran which has already killed over 200 people many of them innocent children. It has been condemned by the UN Sec General as in clear breach of the UN Charter. Starmer has just made the UK complicit & put our forces & citizens at risk.
One of the best clear eyed analyses of Trump's motivation to go to war against Iran with the help of Israel. It's about the money and with the Trump crime family it's always about the money.
Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail.
Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections
Given that all the major figures associated with Labour Together - a shadowy 'think tank' that tried unlawfully to hide its wealthy backers from public scrutiny - have been forced to resign, the best thing that could happen is for it to be dissolved.
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OCASIO-CORTEZ STATEMENT ON TRUMP'S COMBAT OPERATIONS IN IRAN "The American people are once again dragged into a war they did not want by a president who does not care about the long-term consequences of his actions. This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic. "Just this week, Iran and the United States were negotiating key measures that could have staved off war. The President walked away from these discussions and chose war instead.President Trump flippantly acknowledged the possibility of American casualties, stating "that often happens in war.' "Mr. President: this was not an inevitability. This is a deliberate choice of aggression when diplomacy and security were within reach. Stop lying to the American people. "Violence begets violence. We learned this lesson in Iraq. We learned this lesson in Afghanistan. And we are about to learn it again in Iran. Bombs have yet to create enduring democracies in the region and this will be no different. "In moments of war, our Constitution is unambiguous: Congress authorizes war. The President does not. I will do my part to uphold our Constitution by voting YES on Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's War Powers Resolution. Every member of Congress must join us in rejecting this aimless war.
My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez:
Spain rejects the unilateral military action by the United States and Israel.
BREAKING: Norway says Israeli strikes on Iran breach international law.
This is the correct response to US-Israeli war crimes not sucking up to Trump & Netanyahu.
Israeli-US strikes destroyed an elementary school in southern Iran which has killed at least 40 schoolgirls.
Not just indiscriminate bombing but a war crime with which the people of Gaza are all too familiar.
Instead of condemning it the UK Prime Minister boasts of the RAF supporting 'our allies'
The 'rigorous training' that the apolitical volunteers receive is a 3 hour online module a/c to a recruitment ad from UCL students union. There appears to be no way of independently verifying the volunteers' neutrality. No election officials identified 'family voting' as an issue in the by-election
Democracy Volunteers is led by John Ault a failed minor Lib Dem politician & an 'expert on by-elections in Cornwall'. Ault claims to be a lecturer at the University of Exeter but there is no mention of him as academic staff except in connection to a 'political historian' by the same name from 2013
Open, naked racism and Islamophobia from the world's worst 'newspaper' and its foreign funded political wings who are genuine threats to democracy
