@jeremysmith
Co-director PRIME Economics, author of "The Great Brexit Wrench" (PEF, 2019). Past: Gen Secretary of European & international local govt associations, CEO Camden Council, barrister, law centre founder, factotum at ABC tea-shop on Earl's Court Road 1966.
"A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible – and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying."
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It would be strategic lunacy for Europe to support the US/Israeli war on Iran. It is an illegal war that comes with huge costs: regional spillover, higher energy costs, helping Putin in Ukraine. It risks drawing Europe into a new regime change quagmire
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Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026
Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.
STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Smotrich in genocidal mode again, threatening to turn Beirut into Khan Younis.
Mark Sedwill was disgraceful on BBC Today programme this morning. Arguing we must always kowtow to American "ally" when the whole world knows Trump is wholly treacherous as well as dangerous.
Rightwing monopolists will Rightwing monopolize.
I wonder what lies the drunken Fox News presenter will offer us today.
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:
It is clear that the US and Israel plan to do to Iran what Israel has done to Gaza.
There is something evil that is emerging.
Europe can't just stand by while 90 million people are carpet bombed. Sanchez is right.
FFF - Foreign Funding for Fascism
It's depressing to see how the British establishment remains so deeply committed to humiliating itself - and thus us as UK citizens - before the not-golden idols of American and Israeli imperialism. As if this were in our 'national interest'.
Mark Sedwill still can't understand that the US under Trump is not a reliable ally (if ever) but a rogue state. No way should we allow our bases or territory to be used by Hegseth and Trump for their illegal war.
Again, Farage, Badenoch and their fellow travellers on X are wildly out of touch with the public on Iran.
Even the majority of Reform supporters oppose their position.
I once met a woman whose father was born in the 18th century.
Remember: what Trump and his administration are doing is only possible because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional functions of check and balance.
True. Crazy people do have nuclear weapons and bad things do happen. To wit,Trump and Netanyahu.
Amid these crazy days, it's time for a full moon photo, taken by me a couple of days ago in Suffolk.
Badenoch & Farage - Trump's grovelling unpatriotic toadies, for whom the 'special relationship' means doing whatever Trump's whims require
How would I recognise a cache-misere? I can't recall ever meeting one.
Excellent news for UK.
"He had a big grin on his face when he said all of this which made his message seem even more crazy."
American NCO to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, reported by @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
We are all in deep shit.
An incredible retraction by the Daily Telegraph today. They have apologised for publishing an article last year headlined: “We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t afford to go on five holidays.” The entire story was fabricated; the family did not exist.
Israel has become a psychopathic warmonger state under Netanyahu.
So we've outsourced our self-defence to the judgement of the illegal aggressor. While being insulted by the self-same illegal aggressor.
This is awful news for anyone not in one of these hideous machines.
www.gbnews.com/lifestyle/ca...
Day 1: we're for a rules-based international order, and against illegal war of aggression.
Day 2: we support Trump & Netanyahu's illegal war of aggression.
We have total faith that Trump has the best interests of the Iranian people at heart, not self-enrichment or imperialist aggrandisement...
Meanwhile, Israel refuses to release the Palestinian Mandela, Marwan Barghouti, who is stuffed deep into an Israeli dungeon specifically for that reason.
Lapid was very supportive of Netanyahu launching a war against Iran last June too
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”