Left of London

@ianbremmer “If the old is dying and the new is not yet born, then you live in a time of monsters”

OMG WHAT A FUCKING NIGHTMARE!!!! HOW WERE YOU ABLE TO GO ON????

That's a weirdly lenient way to deal with members of a new bloodthirsty Iran sponsored Shia terrorist cell 🤔

@ClaireLaaffat @Akalves01 @Microinteracti1 I think that’s been more of a happy accident than deliberate policy.

@LeftOfLondon @Akalves01 @Microinteracti1 Ruzzia.

Nobody in the Trump administration planned for Iran to shut the Strait of Hormuz. Nobody planned for sustained missile strikes on American bases across the Gulf. Nobody planned for an energy crisis. Nobody planned for Europe to look at Washington, shrug, and walk the other way. Nobody, it turns out, planned for very much at all. Read the accounts of how this war was decided and you are left with one deeply uncomfortable realisation: the people who launched it appear to have been genuinely surprised by almost everything that followed. The Iranians shot back. The allies didn’t show up. The oil price went vertical. All of it, apparently, news to them. Which leaves two questions so obvious they’re almost embarrassing to ask. What exactly did they think was going to happen? And did anyone, in any room, at any point, think further ahead than the applause? Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@Harryb22 I don’t suppose there’s any chance of us getting our ambulances back either .

@LeftOfLondon Yup.

So the two men detained on suspicion of arson in Golders Green have been released on bail. Dare we assume they’re not Iranian then? 🤔

@LBC news has the Golders Green ambulance story 4th... after a story of a woman in the US being addicted to social media. No mention now of terror or ántisemitism.

If there were any evidence at all these men were Iranian terrorists, they would not be released on bail. Plainly the arrests were total bullshit to keep the false flag flying. bbc.com/news/articles/…

🚨 LIVE NOW IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE: Palestinian: "I have documents this is my house." Ben Gvir: "I don’t care. Leave in 2 hours or die."

It’s not “the left”. It’s every major human rights group, including every major Israeli human rights group; multiple UN commissions and rapporteurs; and almost every major genocide scholar, including multiple Israeli historians of the Holocaust.

I am Romanian so I can laugh at the fact that the US president is a demented old man completely devoid of morality or basic human decency. But if I was American I would be ashamed of myself every single day he was in office. The world does not care "you didn't vote for him". He is YOUR president.

UK Defence Secretary: "Our pilots now have flown over 1,000 hours of defensive missions, our troops are pulling down Iranian drones almost daily" But we're not involved, right?

@Akalves01 @Microinteracti1 Israel.

You’re framing it as incompetence. I don’t buy that. I think it goes deeper than that, to backroom deal making that we are not (yet) aware of. When you come to the bottom of it, there really is no other explanation. Because, their own intelligence agencies and (actual) military leadership told them this was a huge mistake. They consciously chose to move forward anyway, despite all the information. Who stood to gain?

@Microinteracti1 Think of it this way, at least Trump and his pals are making billions. Every cloud has a silver lining.

Rep. Moulton says he is "disillusioned" after a House Armed Services Committee briefing by administration officials. “I don’t have any confidence whatsoever that they have a plan, a strategy, even very clear goals for what they want to do next,” says the Marine Corps veteran.

"Even George Orwell could not have made this up." Jeffrey Sachs, an economist and former special advisor to the UN Secretary-General, has hit out at countries that falsely called Iran’s retaliatory attacks against the US “unprovoked.” Speaking at a government-hosted forum in Malaysia, he said nations that made this claim – despite the fact that the US and Israel attacked first – were not “sovereign” because they host US military bases.

Judge Cannon blocked this part of the report Bondi was in such a rush to try and frame Jack Smith that she accidentally ended up releasing files that show why. Trump profited from classified information as a private citizen. He didn’t declassify it as president. He didn’t just fail to return it. He knowingly kept, shared and monetized sensitive US information, Including information that only 6 people had access to that was deemed a “severe national security risk”

Australian female doctors working in Gaza have provided these testimonies: ​"We are filming this video because we could die at any moment." ​"Between 70% to 80% of our patients are children and pregnant women." ​"I delivered a baby for a woman in her ninth month who had lost her head." ​"Please, stop this horror and terror."

Putting our soldiers in hotels puts civilians at risk. Maybe nobody cares anymore, but doing that makes it lawful to bomb that hotel, depending on the ratio of soldiers to civilians and other analyses. It makes it more likely to be targeted, as well.

Is David Lammy aware there are quotes extolling the ancient rights of Britons to trial by jury *on the windows of his actual office*?