Philip McLean

Good mourning. Operation Epstein Fury continues apace. At least 150 US soldiers have been killed or injured that we know of. Massive numbers of Iranian civilians, including children, have been murdered. All to distract from the fact that Donald trump is a child-raping pedophile.

Reform UK have released their manifesto for the Scottish elections Our political reporter James Walker has you covered for everything you need to know 👇

Absolutely morbid black comedy that the U.S. government is removing sanctions on Russian and Iranian oil in 2026 not as part of any celebrated peace deal or diplomatic normalization but as a last-ditch effort to soften the blow of a historic energy crisis caused by a U.S. war.

🚨 BREAKING: Iran offered to give away ALL of its enriched uranium during peace talks in Geneva. The British thought it was a credible offer. Hours later, Trump started bombing Iran anyway.

@Keir_Starmer When are you going to Condemn Israel's Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing ?

BREAKING: Reform UK have unveiled plans to reduce the Scottish Parliament's powers in their 2026 manifesto Nigel Farage's party wants to slash the number of MSPs and regularly review Holyrood's devolved powers People were warned that this is what they wanted.

Pete Hegseth says 7,000 US missile strikes in Iran have been "applied with precision", as long as you're happy to ignore the odd school being hit

This is brutal. An expert just called the Iran war one of the most incompetent invasions we've ever seen. They literally forgot to evacuate Americans from the Middle East and forgot to secure oil supplies before starting a massive regional conflict.

BREAKING: Everyone is watching the Strait of Hormuz for oil and fertilizer. Almost nobody has noticed that it is also shutting down MRI machines, semiconductor fabs, and the global aerospace supply chain. Helium. The second lightest element in the universe. No substitute exists for it. You cannot synthesize it. You cannot replace it. And roughly one-third of the world’s supply just went offline. Qatar produces 30 to 33 percent of global helium as a byproduct of LNG processing at Ras Laffan, home to the largest helium production facilities on Earth. When the Hormuz blockade triggered LNG force majeure declarations and attacks hit Qatari infrastructure, the helium stopped flowing with it. Prices have doubled in spot markets. And helium has a property that makes this crisis structurally different from oil, fertilizer, or any other commodity caught behind the strait. It evaporates. Continuously. Even in sealed containers, helium boils off. The global supply chain operates on roughly 45 days of buffer before existing inventory simply ceases to exist. You cannot stockpile helium the way you stockpile crude oil in salt caverns or grain in silos. If the supply stops for six weeks, the buffer is gone. Not depleted. Gone. Returned to the atmosphere where it is too diffuse to economically recapture. This is why the industries that depend on helium are facing a crisis that no financial instrument can solve. Semiconductor manufacturing requires ultra-pure helium for wafer cooling in lithography and for leak detection in sub-5-nanometre chip fabrication. TSMC, Samsung, and Intel cannot produce advanced processors without it. Every AI chip, every smartphone processor, every data centre GPU in the current generation traces its manufacturing lineage through a helium-cooled process. If fabs run dry, the production lines stop. Not slow. Stop. MRI machines require liquid helium to cool superconducting magnets to near absolute zero. Hospitals cannot substitute another gas. When helium supply tightens, MRI availability falls. During previous shortages, hospitals rationed scans. A sustained one-third supply cut puts diagnostic imaging capacity at risk across every healthcare system that depends on magnetic resonance. Aerospace depends on helium for purging rocket fuel systems, pressurising tanks, and testing for leaks in systems where failure means explosion. NASA, SpaceX, ULA, and every launch provider in the Western world runs on helium. Fibre optic cable manufacturing requires helium atmospheres. Quantum computing research requires helium-3 isotopes for cryogenic cooling. The US is the world’s largest helium producer and has some buffer capacity. Algeria and Russia produce meaningful volumes. Overland rerouting from Qatar through Oman and Saudi Arabia is theoretically possible but logistically slow and capacity-limited. None of these alternatives can replace one-third of global supply within the 45-day evaporation window that defines the crisis timeline. The same 21-mile strait that is starving the food system is now threatening the technological infrastructure of modern civilization. The fertilizer trapped behind Hormuz determines whether four billion people eat. The helium trapped behind Hormuz determines whether the chips powering the AI revolution get manufactured, whether cancer patients receive diagnostic scans, and whether rockets carrying communications satellites reach orbit. One chokepoint. Two invisible supply chains. Both irreplaceable. Both operating on biological or physical deadlines that no ceasefire retroactively extends. The world built petroleum reserves. It never built fertilizer reserves. It never built helium reserves either. The pattern keeps repeating. The lesson keeps being ignored. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

"Results speak for themselves. We're winning decisively, on our terms" Hegseth claims The results: closed Strait, global economic disruption, and begging for international help. If this is winning, maybe you should try losing-it couldn't look much worse

Spice Girls completely redubbed by a dude, is one of the most hilarious things we've ever seen!

There is something deeply tragicomic about the death of the Conservative Party.

The Zionist regime targeted an RT journalist and his cameraman.

Spot on from Labour's @SadiqKhan

He's in so far over his head. He's lost control. 25th amendment now. End the war. This is insane.

DAN HODGES: By refusing SIX times to answer a basic question about Mandelson, Starmer signalled he knows this scandal will finish him trib.al/yavyfOA

What’s the point of the Speaker of the House if he doesn’t make @Keir_Starmer answer the bloody questions on Mandelson? It’s a pantomime.

OH NO: China has STOPPED fertilizer shipments to the United States. Jinping is playing 4D chess!

Never forget when American Zionist politicians went to israel to sign missiles that killed children.

Breaking 🚨: Germany HUMILIATED Trump "Trump did not consult us before attacking the🇮🇷 IRAN and did not declare European aid to be necessary" At this point, every leader is humiliating Trump and Netanyahu. The world is healing. RESPECT for showing them mirrors 🫡