I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
With every passing day, the decision of Starmer and his cabinet a) not to join the Iranian war b) to delay access to bases looks wiser and wiser. Trump’s press conference last night shows he has no real idea what the objectives are and its duration is arbitrary.
Coons: "Right now, the clearest winner from this war in Iran is Russia. It's stunning that President Trump is on the phone with Vladimir Putin and spending more time consulting with him than he is with Congress and the American people."
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
"New Israeli poll shows young Jewish voters most right-wing, fanatically religious, and pro-genocide in Israeli history"
www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/isra...
Labour's core voters, on which its re-election entirely depends, are crystal clear about this: they absolutely hate its illiberal, intolerant, draconian, rightwards turn. Hence the total collapse in support. So how does the government respond? #SuicideMission🤦♂️
thesecretbarrister.com/2026/03/07/k...
Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.
Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.
🚨On Tuesday the Prime Minister will order MPs to vote to undermine and restrict a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy - the right to trial by jury. It’s a move that will set us on a path to toward authoritarian justice.
MPs must step up and tell him NO
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Supporting this war means, in Lebanon, backing attacks on apartment buildings, and on Ghanaian UN peacekeepers , and, in Iran, backing attacks on 4 schools and 13 hospitals. So far.
The reality of this war is in front of our eyes. If we don’t want more, we need to stop the war.
Our favourite summer opera festival, the Grange Festival near Winchester, has reduced tickets for those aged 18-35, with some costing just £5 for 18-25 year olds. It's lovely to see so many young people in the audience. Booking opens Monday.
thegrangefestival.co.uk/under-36/
The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data share.google/kkNR0gKnT6wZ...
Who on earth does this prick think he's appealing to?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There have been some very bad developments today.
History is going to judge McSweeney very badly for being so close to this
Quite. A despicable creature, done so much damage to Labour.
Turns out I was right.
We've just learned that the person at the MHRA whose letter caused Wes 'I follow the clinical evidence' Streeting to cancel the puberty blockers trial is Professor Jacob George, the GC who enjoyed mocking trans people on his social media account.
Why did Wes Streeting cover up his name?
Use @pscupdates.bsky.social new e-action to report UK Lawyers for Israel to the Charity Commission today: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/uklfi-charit...
Russia is sending election operatives to Hungary to prop up Orban. The dirty tricks to support Putin’s puppet in the EU will be off the chart.
If it’s true that the United States bombed an elementary school and killed scores of children it is an unfathomable crime. I have never been more disgusted to be an American.
🚨🚨 Unusual with such moral integrity for a European political leader: Spanish PM Pedro Sanches insists that #Spain won't temper criticism of #Trump's attacks on #Iran over fear of reprisals and commercial pressure. 👇
www.politico.eu/article/pedr...
When David Mencer says on Channel 4 News ‘This is not a war of our choice’ I guess we can take it he's not telling the truth.
The Pentagon is spending $1,000,000,000/day to distract you from Donald Trump's alleged pedophilia.
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.
Pogroms in the West Bank continue, each day a little more.
Via Politico Influence today: "Reform UK [has] banked a further £3m donation from billionaire crypto investor Christopher Harborne.
"[It] comes after the former Conservative donor handed Team Farage a whopping £9m in November last year — the largest-ever cash donation in British political history."
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
I love how Ipsos show the margin of error on their charts. Should be industry standard!
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
This is actually very bold (and unexpected), given the very strong Zionist contingent in California.
