Francis Sedgemore

We cannot become the vassals of a semi-deranged Donald Trump Conservative “patriots” betray their country – again!

"We cannot become the vassals of a semi-deranged Donald Trump"

@nickcohen.bsky.social

One of these days, Pete Hegseth is going to be snapped while dressed in bondage gear, with a baby's dummy in his mouth, and a butt plug up his arse. You know this to be so.

Russia is providing intelligence to Iran on locations of US military assets in the Middle East — US officials. (WaPo)

In other words, Putin is helping Iran kill American service members.

Now would be a good time for the US to restart intelligence sharing with Ukraine on Russian military assets.

One of these days, Pete Hegseth is going to be snapped while dressed in bondage gear, with a baby's dummy in his mouth, and a butt plug up his arse. You know this to be so.

Yeah, Orwell said that. I think it's the opening line of his famed "Homage to Catatonia." In his first novel, "The Road To Cory's Leer," he also wrote, "Some things seem to look good from one end of the bar, but if you get close and there's just lip filler and hair extensions? Run the fuck away..."

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Real war and culture war. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog analyzing the Brexit imprint of domestic responses to the Iran crisis, the hypocrisy & sectarianism of Reform's response to the by-election and the questions it poses for Labour: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/03/real...

EU ambassadors reject fast-track Ukraine accession plan EU ambassadors on March 5 pushed back against a proposal to fast-track Ukraine's entry into the European Union, rejecting a European Commission idea known as "reverse enlargement," Politico reported.

⚡️EU ambassadors reject fast-track Ukraine accession plan.

EU ambassadors on March 5 pushed back against a proposal to fast-track Ukraine's entry into the European Union, rejecting a European Commission idea known as "reverse enlargement," Politico reported.

A pipeline from the Gulf to Latakia looks like a pretty good project for EU Global Gateway right now

GB News has never made a profit because it doesn’t exist to make a profit. It exists to exert pressure to push broadcast news channels further rightwards. It is about further poisoning the information environment. That’s why it exists.

I suspect that this NSC meeting leak was actually a briefing issued by consensus of its participants. Politically, it suits both Starmer and the cabinet members who supposedly overruled him.

Good morning , and thank you to Paula Sanders for sharing these two for your #FoxOfTheDay !

#GRU

Poetry is a bird
perched lightly on the back
of all that is fickle
and dangerous in this world...

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Americans - lock up your dogs!

Badenoch gives a borderline disgraceful performance at PMQs on Iran | John Crace At times like this you have to thank your lucky stars that the opposition leader is not in Downing Street

"The Unbearable Lightness of Kemi"

Yet week after week we have to bear it. Still, Badenoch provides a living for parliamentary sketch writers, so she has some value in her miserable existence.

Big-brained execs are outsourcing decisionmaking to AI : Survey of UK bosses find 62 percent of bosses rely on LLMs for help

"Big-brained execs are outsourcing decisionmaking to AI"

If there's no diminution in management quality and effectiveness, surely we can dispense with these supposedly big-brained execs.

Lawsuit: Google Gemini sent man on violent missions, set suicide "countdown" Gemini allegedly called man its "husband," said they could be together in death.

"Lawsuit: Google Gemini sent man on violent missions, set suicide 'countdown'

"Gemini allegedly called man its 'husband,' said they could be together in death."

#AI

Pro and anti-Iran protesters face off at Ayatollah vigil in Manchester Regime supporters waved Iranian and Palestinian flags, burned a picture of Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and blamed “Zios”

"Pro and anti-Iran protesters face off at Ayatollah vigil in Manchester"

That should read 'Pro and anti-regime protesters...'.

Failed asylum seeker families to be offered up to £40k to leave The home secretary says the

How will this go down in the country?

Circumcision classed as potentially harmful practice in new CPS guidance Controversial plans to class procedure as potential child abuse in latest guidelines for England and Wales dropped

A wise move from the CPS. Defining male circumcision as child abuse would be excessive, whereas declaring it to be potentially harmful is accurate. It is open for health experts to campaign sensitively against the practice.

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The crazy stuff this Yew tree has seen. Already an elder statestree by the time of the Norman Conquest. Born before King Alfred burned the cakes, before Bede wrote his Ecclesiastical History Of The English People. Oh, to listen to its gnarly anecdotes and its withering opinions on today's world.

IDF takes out Iranian regime's special internal security force headquarters Among the other targets were ones belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Basij forces, and a central command center for the armed Internal Security forces.

The IDF completed its twelfth wave of strikes against Iran, targeting, among other locations, the headquarters of the regime's special internal security forces, the military said.
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Greens deputy leader calls for apology from Starmer over false claims that led to death threats Mothin Ali fears for his life after anti-war protest was wrongly described as being in support of Iranian regime

Mothin Ali attended a rally that had strong input from the pro-Iran regime Islamic Human Rights Commission, and he has done nothing to disassociate himself from it.

He can go whistle.

Mae Cymru Goch wedi gorgyrraedd ei hun.

Хейл Бірді!

I had no idea that Virgin Media's call centres were controlled by Ukraine 😉

FT comment on the US war on Iran.

How should one deal with a country led by men of extremely low emotional intelligence and an immense amount of explodey power?

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?