Qatar’s energy minister has warned that war in the Middle East could “bring down the economies of the world”, predicting that all Gulf energy exporters would shut down production within days and drive oil to $150 a barrel
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Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
Love that the Sensible consensus is that sinking an unarmed Iranian vessel is completely legitimate and good but Iran striking airbases used to stage attacks against them is unreasonable escalation.
"You recognise.. if a school was targeted that would constitute a breach of intl law?"
David Lammy: "This is a febrile war zone"
"That doesn't excuse hitting schools.."
"... its for the Americans to comment on what's happened there"
So you've never commented on Russian war crimes, right?
Lammy is asked if UK forces are attacking sites in Iran. He confirms that yes, if we anticipate being attacked by Iran, we can attack sites there
See how it works. We 'defensively' stop Iran retaliating after being attacked by the US/Israel, they respond so we start bombing them
AJ is reporting that they're hitting Iranian water infrastructure, something I'm sure the gulf states, with their big undefended desalinization plants, are thrilled to hear.
Migration is part of what makes this country great.
We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours.
The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.
This new cycle of violence was all too predictable. For months, Israeli officials had signalled an escalation of their campaign against Hezbollah. Despite a ceasefire that ended a devastating 13-month war in 2024, Israel had continued with its bombing of Lebanon almost every day, saying the group was trying to rebuild its capabilities. Hezbollah, however, had remained quiet, aware that any move would inevitably be met with a powerful retaliation.
Interesting admission by BBC
ok so that’s confirmed the UK government are rug pulling my ILR and citizenship from me at the ten year mark. so that’s another 3 years and £3-£7,000. if you voted for Labour i hope you never sleep again 👍
Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.
It's absolutely mental that Israel is getting caught red-handed carrying out one false flag after another against its so-called allies and the corporate media is just acting like it isn't happening.
TRUTH BOMBS by General Richard Shirreff, former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe was interviewed on Sky yesterday evening
Its been TAKEN OFFLINE by Sky
We are SLEEPWALKING to NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION cos JOURNALISM has FAILED
Sure seems like it would buy a whole lot of everything without killing a whole bunch of everyone if we defunded the military.
A couple things…
The “conflict“ in Iran *IS* a war.
It is a war of choice.
It is warfare without conscious.
It was unprovoked.
And I’m sick and tired of people suggesting & implying the only tragedies herein are that US Service Members have died. The people of Iran are innocents in this conflict!
All five of the last five Presidents signed-off on war crimes.
Biden participated in a genocide.
I'm happy to hold people accountable, but it's not just Trump breaking the rules.
It is looking increasingly likely that Israel was responsible for the drone strikes on RAF Akrotori. False flag alert
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
"We can always tell" woman fails to identify Chinese Intelligence Asset she married.
So glad we have a grown up STATESMAN in charge. Sir Kier Starmer has decreed the US can only use our bases for defensive strikes, keeping us out of this illegal war and proving once and for all not all parties are the same. Centrism has been vindicated. In other news...
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keir starmer is doing that thing where he just says something and expects ppl to accept it as true even tho his actions are literally the opposite.
lying. i think it's called 'lying'.
It's just nonsense though. We have no way of vetting what missions are flown from here, and even if these are "defensive strikes" that facilitates capacity to hit anywhere else the US likes. This is desperate and pathetic from the UK government.
This is madness and history will judge us for it.
Labours attitudes towards water companies is one of the starkest examples of how they'll do anything to protect the status quo.
The case for water nationalisation is so bloody obvious to everyone - yet they'll do anything they can to keep the failed privatisation experiment.
Trump prefers the quicker, Mafia-like take-out-the-top-guy-negotiate-with-his-replacement approach to war. Buy Netanyahu prefers a longer "destroy all infrastructure and rule the ruins". Which makes the US-Israel (and now UK) war plan hard to predict
Any other Labour leader would be only 20 points behind.
A vote for Labour is a vote for Farage. Labour voters need to stop with their endless purity tests and fall in line with the Greens to stop fascism, or they'll forever be remembered as fascist enablers
Blimey. Sky News reporting YouGov / Sky News / Times voting intention
*Greens leapfrog Labour into second place*
RefUK 23% (-1)
GRN 21% (+4)
LAB 16%(-2)
CON 16%(-2)
LDEM 14%(nc),
Pollster note: This is the highest we've had the Greens, the first time we've had them in second
