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We tried to defer our Dec-born 4yo at the last minute. We didn't - ONLY because the Headteacher told us the nursery was full. Read this and decide if you think she was telling us the truth. takingparentsseriously.wordpress.com/2020/08/07/can…

@FoxNews Just two months ago the USA was making serious threats to invade & take over Greenland - part of a NATO country. And now wants NATO (a defensive alliance) to assist the USA in its unilateral, unprovoked, illegal war against Iran - begun during negotiations? What am I missing?

BREAKING: "We're very disappointed with NATO because NATO has done absolutely nothing." "I said 25 years ago that NATO's a paper tiger, but more importantly, that we'll come to their rescue, but they will never come to ours." - President Trump

Imagine if a Muslim off-duty police officer called a Jewish Chronicle reporter a "dog" and told them to "go back to Tel Aviv" Would be front-page of every major newspaper. Starmer would have to make a statement. Let's see if it's even covered at all when it's this way round...

An Amphibious Landing in Iran and the Battle of Gallipoli Any war against Iran risks repeating the classic mistake of Gallipoli: a superpower’s underestimation of a determined defense strongly favored by geography. In 1915, the British Empire believed its superior fleet would be enough to force the Dardanelles and bring down the Ottoman Empire with relative ease. Generals and politicians, including Winston Churchill, Ian Hamilton, and Lord Kitchener, viewed the Turks as a backward army of “doubtful value” that would flee at the first salvo from British battleships. Reality proved very different. The geography of Gallipoli turned the attack into a nightmare. The Ottomans controlled the steep heights above the beaches. Once the Allies landed, they became trapped on narrow strips of sand, fully exposed to machine-gun and artillery fire from above. Advancing or retreating safely was nearly impossible. This is exactly the same natural wall that Iran possesses today in the mountains that surround nearly its entire coast. Any force attempting a landing in the Persian Gulf would immediately face steep elevations right behind the beaches, giving the defender total visibility and fire superiority. Beyond geography, Iran possesses something the British also underestimated in the Turks: the ability to conduct a saturation defense. While offensive and defensive munitions stocks are running low for the attackers, Iran is preparing a war of saturation. Thousands of drones of various types, missiles, and fast attack boats launched in swarms could quickly overwhelm and exhaust the coalition’s ability to provide cover for a landing in Iran. Logistics represent another fatal bottleneck. In Gallipoli, the Allies could not sustain the flow of supplies under constant fire. In Iran, the challenge would be even greater: supply lines could not rely on American bases in the region, which have already been heavily damaged and under fire for 26 days. They would instead depend on much more distant logistics, supported by an already weakened American industrial base. Meanwhile, Iran would be fighting at home, with underground factories, short supply lines, and the ability to open multiple fronts through Iraqi militias and the Houthis. In parallel, the Strait of Hormuz functions as the modern equivalent of the Dardanelles. Iran dominates the area with sophisticated yet relatively cheap naval mines, anti-ship missiles, drones, and its own navy. The loss of just one or two major ships, or landing vessels, would be enough for the entire operation to collapse, just as happened in 1915 when simple mines sank three British battleships in a single day. The error of assessment is the same as it was a century ago. Just as the British believed the Turks “had no stomach for modern warfare,” today some assume that an intense technological bombardment would quickly cause the Iranian regime to collapse. Statements like Netanyahu’s, “Iran is a paper tiger… A strong blow and the regime will fall”, dangerously echo the declarations of Churchill and Hamilton. Both ignored the fact that a nation of tens of millions of people, fighting on its own territory with strong ideological motivation, does not easily surrender to technological superiority. Gallipoli cost the Allies around 250,000 casualties, including tens of thousands killed, and ended in a humiliating withdrawal. It was a meat grinder that exposed the arrogance of a superpower when it collided with the reality of the terrain and the defender’s determination. Any potential amphibious landing in Iran today carries the same risk of becoming a Persian Gallipoli: where excessive faith in technology runs into an insurmountable geography, a mass of missiles and drones, and the overwhelming advantage of those fighting on home soil. Iran is the opening conflict of a multipolar world, a reality that America, Israel and probably the entire west still fail to recognize.

If you know any Parliamentary Labour Party 'Friends of Israel', please forward this clip to them. At least they should be made aware of how the British people feel about their friendship with a country that tortures babies.

“It’s so obvious these people are a special kind of stupid.“

@FurkanGozukara "absorb" a lot of Iranian firepower is... an interesting choice.

Absolute humiliation for the Pentagon. A former official explains why invading an Iranian island with 8000 Marines is a total suicide mission. They would be sitting ducks for massive Iranian firepower and it wouldn't even change the outcome of the war.

@covidinquiryuk Dear @covidinquiryuk Please could you also look into why students were asked to remove more protective masks & replace with surgical masks. This was an issue raised during the Inquiry & it was established there was ‘no good reason’ for it. So why is it *still* happening?

The magical “aerosol” vanishing trick is now complete 🪄 Bang smack in the middle of the Meningitis outbreak in England, the WHO decided that was the perfect time to take their Meningitis page offline for 4 days… …and now it’s back, the word “aerosol” has magically vanished!

Israel dropped a bomb on an ambulance in South Lebanon today, killing a paramedic & injuring 4 others. Any comment @Keir_Starmer?

The BBC is not biased, except when it matters: • no lefty may win a GE • the monarchy is sacred • Scotland may not become independent • Israel is a victim • the world is viewed through an upper middle class lens - always The last is largely unconscious & institutional, the rest result from calculated, covert policy. Add your own to the list.

"The pause is real. The relief is not. The strait is still closed. The 40 assets are still damaged. The fertiliser is still blocked. The planting window is still closing. The five-day clock is already ticking."

The British MoD confirmed it wasn’t Iran who struck the RAF base in Cyprus. We also know Iran has taken responsibility for every strike it’s conducted this war. Now all of a sudden the highly emotive Chagos Islands are targeted and Israel is saying London could be next. An Israeli false flag is incoming. By the way I can’t believe Israel is literally dusting off the Iraq War WMD in 45 minutes claim from 2003. They have so much contempt for us that they don’t even bother coming up with new lies.

A modicum of history tells us that Iran was a democracy in many of our lifetimes, that dared to want more of the proceeds of its own oil reserves. Which the Brits and Americans, who wanted the proceeds for themselves, couldn’t stomach. So they organised and sponsored a regime change, replacing the democracy with a Western-friendly Shah. Prompting an eventual revolution there, which led to the emergence of the Iranian theocracy. So many of our problems are self-inflicted. So many of them involve fossil fuels.

Major pogrom taking place in the West Bank as I write.

This window is moving faster than I expected. The US and Israel didn't just land a projectile dangerously close to the Iranian reactor in Bushehr days ago, but yesterday, they bombed another nuclear site in an act of clear irresponsibility and desperation. Today, Iran is retaliating, bringing about exactly what I anticipated here.

So this deleting of “airborne / aerosol” from authorities guidance about meningococcal spread… Is it : A/ they want us to die B/ they’ve been told by UK govt to erase due to legal liabilities of airborne transmission C/their top priority in recent years is preventing panic

Two crucial points: 1. The UK is obliged under international law to have no involvement in illegal military action 2. We will be judged by the rest of the world for our actions, with long-term consequences #Iran #Trump greenparty.org.uk/2026/03/20/gre…

Scandalous dereliction of duty. So much senseless, avoidable harm caused by charlatans employed well above their moral or intellectual level.

When I was in my 20s I wished to deepen my understanding of the Israel-Palestine situation. So I purchased at least a dozen books - mostly semi-obscure, academic, many by dissenting Israeli historians. A day came when I closed a book halfway through, resolved to read no further, even to try to forget all I had learned, and then I donated all the books. It was clear, painfully and miserably clear, that I would be wasting my life trying to understand it more when it was nothing more than this.

@SkyNews @LongCovidHell Please can someone in the media join the dots between this outbreak and the key findings of the Covid Inquiry M3 report published yesterday: “In future, guidance should assume that *ALL* plausible routes of transmission are possible until sufficient evidence proves otherwise.”