Tomorrow's wrap-around front page of The National.
This is the human cost.
As the UK Government talks a big game of being ready to join the US and Israel in war, over 150 families are mourning their children.
Their little girls were mostly aged 7-12.
Israeli army just ordered all of Dahiyeh residents to evacuate. Yesterday the entire south, now all of Dahiyeh (Beirut's southern suburbs).
Still have yet to see comments on proportionality from the international community. Macron asked Israel not to launch ground invasion but seems too late
Well well well, FIFA manages to profit off of the ravages of climate change: "FIFA to allow cut-away TV commercials during 2026 World Cup ‘hydration breaks’." There will be two hydration breaks per match. By @henrybushnell.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/708...
New for @josimarfootball.bsky.social. I wish to express thanks and my admiration to Zohreh Abdollahkhani, who found the courage and the strength to write this heart-rending piece, commissioned before Iran was attacked by the US and Israel.
josimarfootball.com/2026/03/05/s...
Big money has bought British politics
75% of Reform’s money has come from three rich white men
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
Very convincing call to cancel your ChatGTP subscription if you have one. There are very good reasons, it's painless as there are alternatives, and it may form part of an effective boycott!
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Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:
"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river
The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.
They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.
The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.
You're very welcome to join me at The Volley, Old Street, on the evening of Monday 23 March, with MC @migueldelaney.bsky.social, for the launch of my new book, "The Mbappé Project". And admission to the event is *free*! All details in link.
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"The powers involved.. should immediately stop hostilities.. the rest of us should act in a coherent way, defending the same values we defend when we talk about Ukraine Gaza, Venezuela & Greenland"
Unlike the UK Spain has refused to allow the US to use Spanish bases to bomb Iran
Fantastic work as always from Fossil Free Football. The climate crisis needs to be to the centre of the debates around sport and governance, and work like this will make that happen.
Isabel Oakeshott: anti-migration commentator, economic migrant to Dubai, possible future evacuee of the very British state she insists is broken.
Isn’t it funny how mobility becomes acceptable when it’s your own?
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
He's trying to restrict millions of people's right to vote, based on made up statistics and outright lies, and nobody who is in a position to ask him to prove what he's saying is doing so.
Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them
Keir Starmer either hasn't checked the Rome Statute or is banking that international law is dead and nobody is ever going to accuse him of executing an act of aggression by allowing US planes to use UK military bases to strike Iran.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez doing what UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has chosen not to do, criticise the US and Israel for their attack on Iran which breached international law
No more illegal wars. Introduce a prevention of military intervention act and put human rights at the heart of foreign policy. Review all UK arms sales and make us a force for international peace and justice.
The majority of people in this country do not want us to be involved in this war.
Keir Starmer of a few years ago wouldn't have supported this war.
The only reason he does now is he will do anything Donald Trump wants - and it makes us all less safe.
Faced with a serious racism scandal, Infantino vows to crackdown hard on privacy. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Look how Laura Kuenssberg refuses to examine Farage’s own specific history of hatred, despite it being at the core of his offering. In 2026, that’s not only a choice, it’s wilful normalisation.
There is something metaphysically monstrous about becoming a part of the State. Your eyes see strange things, looking past inconvenient atrocities. You speak with a strange voice, say words that aren't yours. Your soul contorts itself in strange shapes, trying to appear beautiful when it is ugly.
As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.
Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.
I’m not sure Iran will care much about being isolated. It already is.
That neighbourliness did not earn it the exemption it had hoped for. Arab-Muslim solidarity did not help Gaza either. I don’t think it’s a strong selling point.
The death of possibly more than 100 little girls in a primary school. How is that not a central news story today across all serious outlets?
And thank you, FT, for being one of only a few newsrooms driving attention to what happened there.
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Mail on Sunday front page, with the headline "FOREIGN-BORN VOTERS STOLE BY-ELECTION BLASTS FARAGE"
Today's Mail on Sunday is going full-on MAGA with a claim that "foreign-born voters" stole the Gorton and Denton by-election...
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Watching MOTD highlights of NUFC-Everton, I see that Newcastle, who had ditched illegal betting partner FUN88 at beginning of season, have now teamed up with 8Xbet (also partner of Sunderland, Bournemouth, Villa, Forest...), an even worse operator, linked to cyber slavery compound in Cambodia.
Churchillian resolve from Dubai's Isabel Oakeshot.
Starmer has argued cases at the International Court of Justice. Today he expressed implicit support for unprovoked US/Israeli aggression, which killed more than 70 young girls at a primary school and god knows who else, and condemned Iran's response as "indiscriminate". No backbone. No principles.
Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."
Once again.
