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Your reminder that after President Trump posted genocidal remarks Keir Starmer didn't find time to criticise Trump He posted about a concert Then only posted after a ceasefire Is this really the leadership the country wants?

Left: JD Vance, "I'm not telling you exactly who to vote for" Right: JD Vance, "We have got to get Victor Orban re-elected as the Prime Minister of Hungary, don't we?" 🤷‍♂️

The IDF have admitted blasting a Tehran Synagogue into rubble as 'collateral damage' yesterday, but you will still not find a report of this Israeli attack in any Western media as far as I can see. This really should go viral!

Who started this mess, you idiot?

Lebanon is one of the most surprising clean energy stories in the world. Solar went from <1% of electricity in 2020 to nearly 30% by 2024. Not because of policy - because the state grid collapsed and people installed rooftop solar out of sheer necessity.

Why are @BBCScotlandNews and @STVNews refusing to publish the statement from Calmac? Is it because it doesn't fit in with their SNPbad agenda? 👇👇👇

If this is honestly the worst thing that can be said about Zack — and we are talking about a politician without the funds to take out super injunctions — then I reckon he stands head and shoulders above anyone on the Labour front bench.

Head of Iranian Jewish Community on Rubbles of Israeli-Hit Synagogue: “Shameful” “All the Israeli regime’s claims about defending Jews are nothing more than a shameful lie,” said Rabbi Younes Hamami Lalehzar, calling Israel's attack on a synagogue in a residential area an “inhumane and terrorist” act.

Tomorrow's front page 📰 John Swinney denounces Donald Trump's horrific 'a civilisation will die' threat

Keir Starmer has come under fire for allowing the UK to be an 'accomplice' to Donald Trump’s war in Iran and has been urged to suspend the US military from using Britain's bases #Echobox=1775636824-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thenational.scot/news/26002655.…

The Spanish PM: "The govt of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket" In other news Starmer is in the Middle East today.

Since 2012, Drax has received £6–8 billion in public subsidies as a bridge away from coal toward a cleaner system. But that bridge was never properly secured. Carbon capture was never guaranteed, the end point was never locked in, and now Drax is stepping back from its climate plans, yet the subsidies continue. At the same time, farmers are being taxed to raise c £500 million over a decade. This will force many farms into selling up and global corporations will buy up more of Britain. So we’ve spent billions on a system without a guaranteed outcome, while squeezing the sector that actually feeds the country and looks after the countryside. We’re paying for a bridge with no landing, while undermining the foundations of our food system. politico.eu/article/energy…

Things can only get better as SNP councils boost their income fairly with second home taxes of up to 500% more talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/18/fur…

BREAKING: French President Emmanuel Macron has welcomed the ceasefire between Iran and the US but warned the situation in Lebanon remains critical and urged that Lebanon be included in the deal, Reuters reports.

Los alto al fuego siempre son una buena noticia. Sobre todo si conducen a una paz justa y duradera. Pero el alivio momentáneo no puede hacernos olvidar el caos, la destrucción y las vidas perdidas. El Gobierno de España no aplaudirá a quienes incendian el mundo porque se presenten con un cubo. Lo que toca ahora: diplomacia, legalidad internacional y PAZ.

EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen of Scotland’s US-style megafarms are under investigation over suspected breaches of their pollution permits, The National can reveal

The regime is still in place Iran can now charge tolls for the Strait Nuclear material sits where it did, in same amount Iran still has ballistic missiles, now with more money to rebuild 1000s of innocents died Trump & Netanyahu failed miserably Epstein Files haven’t gone away

How could Blackrock possibly have acquired 65 GP surgeries already I wonder…

@MittensOff @bmay Oh interesting you dont think the PM of the UK should try to avert a genocide by a world power governed by a madman. … Starmer found the time to tweet about Kanye West.

@MariEdinburgh @bmay Perhaps a tad busy you weirdo.

Times of great delicacy such as these are a stark reminder that the very idea of either Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage being in charge of the UK’s foreign and defence policy is utterly laughable. Serious issues need serious people.

THE FALL by John Gray Donald Trump's self-described "little excursion" in Iran has proved to be a march to disaster. His "major combat operation" has shifted from aiming to block Iran achieving a nuclear capability that was supposedly "obliterated" last June to unblocking the Strait of Hormuz and restoring the situation that existed before the operation began. Whatever the objective may be, the pre-war status quo is irretrievable. Trump cannot declare victory and walk away without surrendering the vital shipping conduit to Iran. With its proven capacity to wreak havoc on the world economy, a bombed-out military-theocratic dictatorship has begun the final unravelling of US imperial power. In the Middle East, the war has undercut the financial foundations of US hegemony. However the war ends, the result will be the re-emergence of Iran as a major power. As the arbiter of passage through Hormuz, Iran has become the deciding force in the global oil economy. If Trump opts to "finish the job" and launches a ground operation, the US will be dragged into a debacle larger than Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq combined. While Nato may linger on in name, the transatlantic alliance is operationally defunct. America is returning to its pre-1914 trajectory as a civilisation separate from Europe. In the UK, the default position is to wait out the storm until sanity returns to Washington. Why Putin or Xi Jinping should exhibit similar patience is not explained. Could there be a better time for them to act? Ramping up hybrid warfare in under-defended Europe will give Putin leverage in any peace deal in Ukraine. With Trump having shifted military assets from the Asia-Pacific to the Middle East and running down munitions, Xi may be able to absorb Taiwan without firing a shot. This is not simply a case of the lessons of history being ignored. Trump's war looks more like an example of what Sigmund Freud described as repetition compulsion – an unconscious process in which the mind acts out what it cannot properly remember. A creature of the moment as he may be, Trump seems driven by an impulse to reimagine the past and reassert American – and his own – greatness. When an infantile fantasy of omnipotence comes up against unyielding realities, the response is inchoate rage. Psychopathology may be more illuminating than geopolitics at this point. In a more profound sense than is commonly recognised, Donald Trump does not know what he is doing. His little excursion is a point of no return in America's retreat as a global power. Cover art by Cracked Hat