George Robertson

So Labour Together founder Morgan McSweeney’s phone - with all his legendary contacts and messages etc in it - was ‘stolen’? Its WhatsApp messages have gone to that ‘happy place’ in the sky where his close friend Peter Mandelson’s emails vanished to. This is how vetting works now

Criminally Negligent. Andrew Neil's Words. Britain's Reality. Andrew Neil does not use language carelessly. Writing in the Daily Mail this morning, he describes Britain as stuck in an energy emergency with an oil and gas policy bordering on the criminally negligent, delivered by a bunch of clueless inadequates at the tiller. He is not reaching for effect. He is delivering a verdict. And the evidence he marshals is unanswerable. The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for the first time in history. Oil is heading toward two hundred dollars a barrel. Britain is facing the worst energy crisis since the Yom Kippur War of 1973. The International Energy Agency has described the supply disruption as the largest in history. And the government overseeing this catastrophe has spent the past year doing everything in its power to ensure Britain would be maximally exposed when it arrived. It closed North Sea oil and gas production. It borrowed against already strained public finances. It built an economic strategy on OBR forecasts that the energy crisis has already rendered obsolete. And it put the man most responsible for Britain's energy vulnerability, Ed Miliband, in charge of the response. The Miliband contradiction has been hiding in plain sight for months. He stood at the despatch box during the energy debate last year and warned that Britain was a price taker not a price maker in international fossil fuel markets, leaving it exposed to their volatility. He was right. He was also the man who ensured that exposure would be as severe as possible by closing down the domestic production that could have cushioned the blow. The North Sea fields that could have been producing. The coal beds that remain untouched. The nuclear capacity that was decommissioned in pursuit of net zero targets that now look like a luxury policy designed for a world that no longer exists. Miliband diagnosed the disease and administered the poison. Rachel Reeves now faces the consequences. The fiscal headroom she has been defending against every request for defence spending, every demand from the Treasury and every warning from military chiefs, is being wiped out not by defence costs alone but by the energy price shock her own government's choices made inevitable. Her foundations, as Neil puts it, are built on quicksand. The borrowing costs are rising at the fastest pace since the Liz Truss mini-budget. Foreign creditors are watching. The bond markets are watching. And the Chancellor is discovering that the numbers she has been citing as proof of fiscal responsibility were always dependent on a stable world that this government's foreign policy paralysis helped to destabilise. Neil makes one observation that connects the economic catastrophe to the political one with surgical precision. A stronger Prime Minister would have fired Miliband. He is right. The man who led the Cabinet revolt against supporting America, who blocked the use of Diego Garcia, who has spent a year dismantling Britain's energy independence and who stood at the despatch box admitting British households would pay the price, is still in his post. Still in the Cabinet. Still in the room. The reason Starmer has not fired him is the same reason he needed a drone on his own runway before he would act, the same reason he consulted his team on minesweepers and the same reason Britain is now a diminished, exposed and strategically paralysed country being described in its own press as a nation of clueless inadequates. He cannot afford to. The coalition that put him in power will not allow it. And so the inadequates remain at the tiller while Britain heads for the rocks. "Miliband diagnosed the disease and administered the poison. [...]. Rachel Reeves now faces the consequences."

The Chagos Islands were attacked by Iran a few days ago, Starmer didn’t tell the Country. Now it’s exposed, he’s phoning others…… [to ask what to do?]

Labour has agreed to a one in, one out missile firing arrangement with the Iranian government.

@ChrisHelali @catmrow0 x.com/moderatemela/s…

For crying out loud. The head of human resources for Leeds city council wants to create a "safe space" for conversations between staff who might be upset by Nigel Farage's visit to the city next week. These people are truly nuts. Like probably demented. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

This is obviously treasonous.

The nation is in meltdown, energy costs sky high & rocketing alongside the national debt, the cost of borrowing & unemployment. Our armed forces are a charade & we are reduced to irrelevance on the world stage. But apparently Angela Rayner is the answer. Lord give me strength.

In case your’e wondering, the UK-has: - no exo-atmospheric Anti-Ballistic Missile interceptor system - No layered missile defence architecture - No integrated national system protecting our cities or infrastructure. Our best system is the T45 Destroyer with the Astor/Viper. But it’s primarily a fleet protection asset. The fact is that we and Europe depend heavily on US detection, US interceptor missiles and platforms, and US command architecture. The harsh reality is that capabilities amongst European states, incl. the UK, are very limited and patchy indeed.

@JohnRentoul @DavidPBMaddox Jesus!

Reshuffle speculation from @DavidPBMaddox: Streeting and Reeves out; Rayner, Haigh and Powell back in independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Fun fact: IRGC, the deadliest terrorist organization in the world, is still legal in Britain 🇬🇧. Everywhere else in Europe it is a designated terrorist organization.

I know a chap who could have done this for a couple of grand and even then he would have felt he was pushing his luck with the price.

Zoe Williams profile of Jenni Murray for the Guardian is extraordinay. Let's just not talk about the last decade, eh? That nasty business when she stood up for women's rights and was cancelled for it. theguardian.com/media/2026/mar…

This is why @NJ_Timothy is right.

BREAKING: Greece just shot down two Iranian ballistic missiles over Saudi Arabia. A NATO member that signed no declaration of war against Iran used a Patriot battery operated by Greek soldiers on Saudi soil to intercept missiles targeting the SAMREF oil refinery in Yanbu on the Red Sea coast. Greek Defense Minister Dendias confirmed the engagement. Prime Minister Mitsotakis called it strictly defensive. It is the first time Greek military personnel have fired a weapon in combat since the battery was deployed under a bilateral agreement with Riyadh in November 2021. A European democracy that borders Turkey just entered the Middle East’s largest war to protect a refinery jointly owned by Saudi Aramco and ExxonMobil. The target tells the story. SAMREF is not a military installation. It is a 400,000-barrel-per-day refinery on Saudi Arabia’s western coast, far from the Strait of Hormuz, far from the front lines of Operation Epic Fury. Iran fired ballistic missiles and at least one drone at it. The missiles were intercepted by the Greek Patriot PAC-3. The drone impacted the complex with what Saudi authorities described as minor damage. Iran is no longer limiting its retaliation to Hormuz or the Gulf coast. It is reaching across the Arabian Peninsula to the Red Sea, targeting refineries that supply Europe and Asia through the Suez Canal rather than the strait. The geography of Iranian retaliation just doubled. This happened on March 19, the same day 23 nations signed a joint statement condemning Iran’s Hormuz closure and pledging readiness to ensure safe passage. Greece is not one of the 23 signatories. Greece did not sign the statement. Greece fired the interceptor. The country that pledged nothing on paper did more in three seconds of missile engagement than 23 signatures accomplished in three pages of diplomatic language. Readiness is a word. A Patriot launch is a verb. Trump told the world on March 21 that Europe, Japan, Korea and China will have to get involved in policing the strait. Greece got involved before he asked. It got involved not through a statement or a pledge or a fund but through a missile defence battery that has been sitting in Saudi Arabia for four years waiting for a moment that arrived on March 19 at the speed of an Iranian ballistic warhead. The bilateral agreement that put Greek soldiers in Yanbu was signed for exactly this scenario. The scenario arrived and the agreement held. The implications cascade. A NATO member has now engaged Iranian weapons in combat. Greece frames it as defensive, bilateral, and unrelated to the broader war. But the missile it intercepted was fired by the same IRGC that launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia the following day. The same IRGC that hit Ras Laffan in Qatar. That hit Mina Al-Ahmadi in Kuwait twice. That put a cluster munition through a daycare roof in Rishon Lezion this morning. Greece intercepted missiles from an organisation that is simultaneously attacking six countries. The word defensive becomes complicated when the attacker’s target list includes half the region. Twenty-three nations signed a statement. One nation fired a Patriot. The question nobody is asking yet is which model scales. If Iran continues expanding its target geography from the Gulf to the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, the 23-nation statement will need to become a 23-nation engagement. Greece did not wait for the statement to tell it what to do. It had a battery, a mandate, and a missile inbound. It fired. The refinery is still standing. The precedent is now set. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Keir Starmer accused of 'covering up' Iran's attack on Chagos Islands as PM told to 'come clean' gbnews.com/politics/keir-…

Ed Miliband must be overruled when it comes to the North Sea. The stakes are now much too high.🤨 The North Sea can save Britain from oil shocks – if Miliband would just let it. A country which is energy self-sufficient is effectively insulated against crippling price rises caused by international crises. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…

He did exactly what he said he would do. Below was two days before the horrific massacres of his own people Jan 8th & 9th - by order of the Supreme leader - set in motion by Ali Larijani - and carried out by Police chief Radan. It is hard for us to fathom in the West that this brazen evil could be broadcast so publicly. History teaches us that another group were similarly public about their intentions. Nazi policies were widely available to the population. Berlin Radio pronounced the mass-execution of Jews in Białystok and the burning of synagogues in July 1941. Numerous speeches allude to the destruction of Jews. Hitler made a prophecy January 1939 about the destruction of all European Jews. He publicly referenced his prophecy at least four times in 1942. Hitler's emphasis on the prophecy during the height of the Holocaust meant that it was generally accepted as a shared ideal among German secular society. The vast majority of Iranians inside and outside the country completely and utterly reject the idea that even a single protester should have been killed and remain vocal about it especially while the digital blackout inside Iran continues. War is a catastrophe. But there is a bigger one lying ahead: if this regime is not gone for good after this calamitous conflict. #IranIsraelUSAWar

'You're wrong in the blame you're attributing to Rachel Reeves. The markets continue to have confidence in the Chancellor.' Labour commentator Simon Greaves hits back at criticism of the Labour Party's handling of the economy amid global economic chaos caused by the war in Iran.

Fuck off. Doesn't do anything other than put up taxes, lie, steal money off me to feed other peoples kids, lie, steal my Gran's winter fuel money, lie, offer illegals fourty fucking GRAND to leave, lie, accuses everyone of being racist, lie, didnt smash a single gang and lies