John Hamer

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

One Nation Under a Groove. Now thats a memory, that takes me back,quite a few years!😁 Those were the days.

It’s almost like we didn’t think this through.

1/ Russian bloggers are waking up to the fact that they live in an oppressive dictatorship with declining living standards. 14 years after Vladimir Putin was reelected as "a strong leader for a great country," commentators are asking: what has Putin ever done for us? ⬇️

Yes. Meanwhile, away from Trump's war, in the real world of the vast majority. Stuggles grow. 😡

Imagining Trump will be on the phone, to give Putin, a rather stern, piece if his mind!🙄

🎯🎯

Iceland locks in on date for EU referendum | Euractiv As a member of the European Economic Area, Iceland is already aligned with much of the bloc's legislation

Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.

A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.

I am frankly more concerned about the apathy of the American public and even more importantly the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party.

This is not a dress rehearsal. Every single American must speak out against this Facist administration.

Like clockwork.

I remember when ‘Brexit Means Brexit’ became a way for silly people to insist that they supported something they could neither justify nor explain. Obviously the context is very different, but something similar is already happening with the ‘war’ in Iran. And it’s mostly the same people doing it.

Kemi Badenoch presses Starmer to strike Iranian missile sites RAF jets have been shooting down missiles fired by Iran, but are not taking part in strikes on its sites.

Now clear that Badenoch wants to be in Trump's pocket. The UK was not consulted on the pre-emptive attack. Has been treated badly by the Trump regime but we should blindly follow the meglomaniacs lead. She should never be let anywhere near government.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Those criticizing (Badenach) deployment time to Cyprus. HMS Dragon has just had it's 1st 14 week post build refit, following 140000 nm at sea. Including intense NATO exercises & protecting UK coast from Russian assets. If Tory Party had not run down th R.N. perhaps UK would have more active ships!

You have to hand it to Badenoch, on the News, this morning. Torys spent 14 years running down the Navy. Reducing it to 11 first line ships, to protect an island nation.

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.

I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

What happens if they kill this one? Is there another smaller younger one inside him?

EveryDoctor is starting a new project looking at whether private equity is now moving into NHS in-sourcing (a system where private companies are paid to do NHS work). 🚨🚨🚨

I’ll tell you more later but please watch this space- this matters! 💙💙💙

On the one hand, a clearly deranged lunatic in the White House starting a dangerous illegal war on Iran with already-serious repercussions for the region and world...

Or having a pop at Keir Starmer.

You just knew which side the Right would come down on.

Fears for council staff morale over Reform 'boots on neck' remark It comes after the Reform UK leader of Warwickshire Council tells a podcast of his approach to working.

Every day Reform Ltd leaders
feel more emboldened
to use fascist language
& Nazi tactics

"Concerns have been raised over staff morale at Warwickshire County Council after the [Reform Ltd] authority's leader described "boots on neck-type" methods to get things done."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Also worth noting that a large number of commercial flights are still flying into Gulf states & Riyadh. Does not appear too much of an issue to return. After all they went their to earn more money & not pay UK taxes.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

-Dwight Eisenhower 1953

Wondering how much more wealth will be made by Trump , his family & associates, will make from the current Iran 'special operation'?

Wondering exactly & whose instruction manual is now in play. Putin, Trump and/or the Epstein cabal?

Trump tells Starmer handing Chagos Islands to Mauritius is a ‘big mistake’ US president had recently said the plan was the best deal Starmer could make

FFS...

22 May 2025: Trump calls Chagos deal "a monumental achievement".

20 Jan 2026: Trump labels deal "an act of great stupidity'.

5 Feb 2026: Trump calls agreement "the best deal" Starmer could make.

18 Feb 2026: Trump calls handover "a big mistake".

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

I just left a classified briefing on Iran, and here's what I can say: it is so much worse than you thought. You are right to be worried.

If it is taking days to work out where to land. Might just be, you are not really defending 'your' country but started a war few really want or can justify.

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

Probably. Epstein running a honey trap?? But who for? Would be the question.

George Orwell saw all this coming, so many years ago. 'Doublespeak'!😔

O.K. Mental health, can be used as an excuse for Trump but what are the problems for the rest of his government & congress?