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Once again, people are insistent on letting Miliband off the hook for the terrible things he did as leader. As if someone who was brought up by Ralph Miliband and has politics degrees from Oxford and LSE was being dominated by Chris Leslie. Miliband is just a melt, period.

Ed Miliband: "We need to de-escalate this conflict.. all the way along [Starmer's] been seeking to find ways to de-escalate this conflict" The UK govt is allowing the US to use British military bases to bomb Iran. Miliband is treating us like fools.

But how we would laugh about the kids from the posher end of town with their 'play dates', cycle helmets, and parents who cared about them.

i can think of a lot of jobs where you’d hit most of that every shift, and a lot of those people work additional jobs on top of it

Two US Air Force B-1 bombers take off from RAF Fairford in England. Fairford is one of two bases that the UK has given the US permission to use for "specific defensive operations into Iran", British Defence Minister John Healey has said

Spot on. We’ve come to fetishise “local representatives” far too much, a symptom of our politics becoming smaller and more parochial. What we need is quality national politicians. If they have to be “parachuted” in, and they spend more time in SW1 than the constituency, so be it.