Selby Whittingham

'For certain, there is no point in doing nothing, or muttering among ourselves. It is positive folly to flatter Mr Trump with obedience and praise. The attack on Iran is an outrage against common sense as well as a breach of all civilised rules of behaviour.' mol.im/a/15667435

When you have no dignity, you cannot treat others with dignity. This man demeans his office and his country.

Tony Benn's "Don't arab women weep when their children die, doesn't bombing strengthen their resolve?" Is as relevant now as it was 25 years ago.

We shall be remembered either as the generation that turned this planet into a flaming funeral pyre or the generation that met its vow to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war. - JFK

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Pete Hegseth: The problem with Iran is it spends money on weapons and missiles instead of improving life for their people. Self awareness of a potato

🇫🇷 Former French President Jacques Chirac de Villepin attacks the U.S. and Israel: “We must punish Israel and not underestimate our own capabilities. True, we need America, but America needs us as well. And to Trump we say: Mr. President of the United States, you are committing follies and fueling wars around the world — we will not join you in this misguided adventure.”

John Mearsheimer is a smart academician, an offensive realist whom many of us follow. He remains quite convincing most of the time. One wishes that Trump and his administration would listen to what he has to say. The world would then become stable and peaceful. @piersmorgan @MearsheimerJ #IranWar‌ #Iran_has_the_right_to_defend_itself #IranWinning

"This could be catastrophic... There is no good exit strategy!" John Mearsheimer says the US could suffer a "humiliating defeat" if Trump chooses to walk away from the Iran War. 📺 youtu.be/YNcyU4YSp3w @piersmorgan | @MearsheimerJ

✅ Max Hastings is bang on. The Iran war is reckless, irrational, and not in Britain’s interest. The UK should stay out, even if the US is involved. Supporting it risks dragging Britain into a long, unwinnable conflict. Air strikes won’t solve Iran. You can’t bomb your way to stability. Escalation leads to deeper involvement. That directly challenges the current narrative of “limited”, “targeted”, “defensive”.

Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson says we can't have "double standards" with the international rule of law. She compares the criticism of Putin invading Ukraine with the U.S. and Israel's strike on Iran, which she says very few countries have spoken explicitly about it.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 John Mearsheimer: This war was a colossal mistake, and it's hard to believe that President Trump did this. not simply because he had promised that he would not start any more wars. Lindsey Graham coached Netanyahu to manipulate Trump Top advisors Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are literally Israeli assets! 🤔 And so the war will eventually come to its natural course, cosmic humiliation for the Epstein coalition. It didn't have to be this way, the US could have maintained a large presence in the Middle East and told Bibi to pound sand in the Negev.

Magnificent article & investigation by Alan Rusbridger on how the utterly useless Ofcom allowed one of its regulated TV channels, GBNews, to be taken over by a political party.

@EdwardJDavey Appeasement.

Why are we rewarding Donald Trump with a state visit from our King? His illegal war is driving up costs for British families and he is belittling our country and insulting our troops. Cancel the visit.

Brazil’s President Lula slams Trump: “We can’t have someone thinking he’s the owner of the world and wakes up in the morning: I'll take Greenland I'll take the Panama Canal I'll take Cuba I'll take Venezuela I’ll bomb Iran Countries have sovereignty. And it must be respected.”

How can Starmer have turned out to be so utterly incompetent? He wants to de-escalate, but allows US to drag us into the war to attack Iran. He already knows the conflict is illegal: his spurious distinction between defending UK assets now vanishes

Rivals of the Landscape nybooks.com/articles/2026/… via @nybooks

Lebanese cellist Mahdi Saheli playing Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's Andantino in the ruins of southern Beirut.

It's now unarguable that the war on Iran is one of the most blatant crimes of aggression in history. You now have not 1 but 2 external participants of the US-Iran talks (Oman’s foreign minister and the UK's National Security Advisor) who confirm that the US and Israel attacked despite Iran effectively meeting US conditions for a deal - ensuring it could never build a nuclear weapon, permanently. As per The Guardian article (theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…), Jonathan Powell "believed the path remained open to a negotiated solution to the long-running issue of how Iran could reassure the US that it was not seeking a nuclear weapon," and "UK officials [...] were impressed that Iran was prepared for the deal to be permanent." Concretely, this means the war wasn't a failure of diplomacy but a deliberate destruction of it. And it also means that the US and Israel have irresponsibly plunged the entire world in an unprecedented energy crisis, affecting the livelihoods of billions of people worldwide, when it was completely avoidable. It's beyond me how you can look at this and not conclude that the real threat all along wasn't Iran but the US-Israeli axis - they're the only parties at the table who wanted war and are making every person on the planet pay the price for it. Extraordinarily, even the UK National Security Advisor is now basically saying this.

First, the Omani FM came out and revealed that there was a deal on the table that met Trump's demands, but that he instead chose war. And now, it is revealed that the British National Security Advisor was also part of the talks, and he too attests to the fact that A) there was no imminent threat from Iran, B) Trump could have gotten a surprisingly good deal if he stuck to diplomacy. But the perhaps most damning quote in the story comes at the end, attributed to an unnamed diplomat: “We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.” theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…