From FT comments
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From FT comments
I may be a tad biased but good choice @shelaghor.bsky.social
Got a new president?!
"We are freeing Iran from religious fanatics".
A prayer for Trump in the White House.
We are urging strongly that Iran's statehood be preserved. We do not want to see a Syrian scenario here, but rather we want this state to become functional from within itself. And that is why I also appeal, both in Washington and in all talks with the Israeli government, to create the conditions as quickly as possible for this country to be stabilized, for it to get a democratically legitimized government, and for it to be able to continue to exist as a state. It is a country with over 90 million inhabitants, and we naturally also have a high self-interest in this in order to avoid new refugee flows from the region.
Finally someone mentions the upcoming refugee problem that I raised here about a week ago - this should’ve been considered BEFORE the strike.
Merz:
So you don't heave a missile into an elementary school, then fire a second missile into the school to finish off the survivors is why a professional military engages in dumb, politically correct rules of engagement. But no, American exceptionalism > 175 schoolgirls.
It’s time to end Britain’s first-past-the-post election lottery ft.trib.al/ba3mQJ6 | opinion
dear god
The nature of human rights is that they apply to, you know, all humans
Some of the FT comments section is higher quality than nearly all the paid for opinion writing in the 'quality' papers
People who are not tax resident in the UK should not be allowed to donate to UK political parties.
Companies should not be allowed to donate to UK political parties.
No one should be allowed to use crypto to donate to UK political parties.
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran, according to two sources familiar with the matter. https://cnn.it/3OKIl1o
it's crazy how the Right was like "we want to destroy DEI" but instead they just invented affirmative action for racists and pedophiles
If I were Labour, I'd be using the cushion provided by having 400+ MPs to race to implement PR in time for the 2029 GE.
It could literally be the party's last ever chance to participate meaningfully in UK politics if they don't shake the electoral system up.
Just more evidence that the UKs “first past the post” voting system does not reflect the diversity of our politics. Time for a change
Anyone would think that US has no leverage over Netanyahu/Israel to stop them attacking Iran in the first place?!
Trump has told four different journalists completely contradictory things about his aims.
It's going to be over in three days or four weeks... it's about regime change but he also wants to start talks again with the current regime...he's killed all the possible replacement leaders...
Total chaos.
Guy who said he wouldn’t start a foreign war and attacked former Presidents for starting foreign wars and begged like a small child for a peace prize starts foreign war to distract from his guilt sexually assaulting under-aged girls with Jeffrey Epstein.
Who could have seen that coming?
Everyone.
Thou shalt not kill schoolchildren to distract from your crimes against children.
What are the inner and outer circles?
Fabulous
Love that the US used to conduct classified operations in the Situation Room or a SCIF, and now it's just a little curtained-off area in a private members' club.
I am hopeful that the war in Iran will bring needed democratic change to … the United States of America.
Operation Epstein Fury
Mad that everyone from Stewart to Starmer to Badenoch to Farage is talking about sectarianism when all the Greens did was consider how British Muslims might vote. Is it sectarian to think about faith groups? Do MPs not visit synagogues, gurdwaras and churches? Is Tommy Robinson not sectarian?
NEWS! Man who said he wouldn't get involved in foreign wars starts foreign war over nuclear capability he claimed was totally obliterated a few months ago newsthump.com/2026/02/28/m...
The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost
Trump had no choice but to act. The Iranians were just weeks away from obtaining the missing Epstein files.
