Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
Last year Jessica's son got ill after playing in the River Thames. Her message to Environment Minister? Don't let our children get ill. Stop the illegal sewage.
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Image inside a polling station showing voting booths, with an inset image of Paul Bristow
The secret ballot exists for a reason.
If someone stands with you in the polling booth, influencing your vote, that’s now a criminal offence.
So why are allegations still emerging?
John Elworthy reports
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We should be asking British politicians this question. Answers provide a powerful indicator of integrity. Not sure I’ve ever heard it put to Farage, for example.
The Trump regime has abandoned the constitution:
- declared war without Congressional authorization
- ignoring multiple court orders
- impounding Congressional authorized funds
- ignoring the freedom of speech and assembly
It’s a lawless regime that has no legitimacy.
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
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.
Oh WOW, Trump is blaming Obama and Biden for the Iran War 🙄🙄 Because apparently every problem that has ever existed, does exist, or will exist in the future can be traced back to those two. No one could have seen this coming... except, you know, literally everyone.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.
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A woman draped in a flag faces the Senate House at night, onto which the colours of the Ukraine flag are projected.
Letter to the editor: It makes Paul Browne “sick” to hear Donald Trump suggest Ukraine surrender territory for peace.
Aggression cannot be rewarded.
Europe’s security depends on that principle.
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The Institute of Government says that the FPTP voting system has become "dangerous". Switching to PR should now be top of the government's priority list.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Russian units retreat as Ukrainian forces expand control across front
RFU News
Mar 3 2026
Ukrainian forces have broken through Russian positions north of the main stronghold & Russian defenses are falling apart, allowing even deeper penetration by Ukrainian forces.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=laED...
I know what war does to families. It doesn’t stay “over there”; it will be felt here too, for years to come. I don’t know how anyone who claims to love this country can support this
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What's shameful is: Speaker Johnson is not loyal to the constitution of the United States. He should be investigated for falsely swearing his oath of office
Trump et al. made a big deal when several Dems warned the military it was their duty NOT to obey illegal orders.
However, they evidently needed reminding since recently Trump ordered an attack on Iran w/o Congressional declaration of war.
THIS was an ILLEGAL order. The military failed their duty. 💙
We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.
That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.
Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.
Brit here. That's not quite true. We know there's lots of US citizens who are against Trump (which means "Fart" in British English, as in: #PresidentFart, boy I wish that would catch on in the US). But there's no point in supporting Demonic Project 2025 & everyone connected with it. #StopFascism
Spain is standing up to #Felon47.
From a UK perspective: When a US president starts a war, we have no choice. We just go along with it, because you're far more powerful than us. This time, we're beyond caring. Trump is a despot and we lose anyway, so he can bog off. #StopFascism.
Tillis: You decided to kill that dog because you had not invested the appropriate time in training it, and then you have the audacity to say it’s a leadership lesson. You killed a goat and said it was behaving badly. You’re a farmer — you don’t castrate a goat, they behave badly.
"The things that will DESTROY US are:
POLITICS WITHOUT PRINCIPLES;
PLEASURE WITHOUT CONSCIENCE;
WEALTH WITHOUT WORK;
knowledge without character;
BUSINESS WITHOUT MORALITY;
SCIENCE WITHOUT HUMANITY;
and worship without sacrifice."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
For once Republican Mike Johnson is telling the Truth. If Vance was even President he would also become the dreaded Lame Duck President who can’t get funding for anything. 🗳️🗳️🗳️🇺🇸. Vote Democratic 👊🙏😎🇺🇸🗳️🗳️🗳️
If it’s true Reform UK’s Treasury spokesperson Robert Jenrick told a business audience last night that renewable companies are "screwed" if Reform get in, it tells you everything about their readiness to inflict national self-harm in pursuit of ideological war on climate action.
Trump and everyone in his administration who has broken the law should be arrested, tried, and imprisoned for their crimes.
Admittedly, we were almost bullied into submission by a lunatic in 1938... but we snapped out of it a year later. Ironically it took the Labour opposition to actually take us into war (Chamberlin was on the phone to Hitler on Sunday, 3rd Sep, still trying to sweet-talk the lunatic). #StopFascism
Britain did the right thing in 1939 and 1940.
We weren't bullied into submission by a lunatic.
If Trump wants to invoke WW2 and Churchill I've got hot takes to give.
Haven't seen the data to back this, but it's plausible. On a mostly unrelated note, what's the cycling rate in Ireland? It's gone from 1% of all journeys in 1990 to 1.6% in 2023-2024.
