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CONSERVATIVE: why won’t NATO help us MOCKLER: that’s not how NATO works

Tesco are making £4bn a year in profit. About 50% of their staff are on Universal Credit. Why don't we crackdown on this unneeded benefit for billionaires?

Brexit has likely done more economic damage than feared. Recent evidence suggests the economic cost of Brexit may be approaching twice the 4% impact assumed by the OBR. The Chancellor has signalled a shift in approach to EU trade, but the effect will depend on how far the govt goes on alignement.

Is the world really going to have to burn because the USA can't impeach a president?

Why we buy gas from Norway: 1/ Thatcher privatised North Sea gas extraction in 1982. 2/ Private companies plundered our reserves while Norway’s 100% publicly owned Statoil managed theirs strategically. 3/ North Sea oil & gas peaked in 1999 and U.K reserves are now 90% gone.

Must watch #BBCQT Caroline Lucas, "I think this is an illegal reckless war with Iran that is being waged by Trump and Netanyahu" "They have massively underestimated their enemy" "Trump is a bully and a blackmailer" "He has no plan for an exit strategy, says he will exit when he feels it in his bones" "This is a President said who said he would bomb Kharg island just for fun" "He suggested he might attack Cuba as well" "The type of language Trump and Hegseth are using is just so disgusting" "I've got their words: watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today, what a great honour to kill them" "This is not Grand Theft Auto, this is real people real lives" "And yet you get the sense from the White House that this is some big game" "And all of us are suffering from it"

A simple but great investigation into Nigel Farage’s Cameo videos Guardian today by @Direthoughts & @michaelgoodier. I went looking for the one where Nige sent me a message of support & instead found this: his fake Brexit concession that moved the markets & made £ for his chums

@PolitlcsUK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7491… Do we want to align with Pedophile Trump's America? I don't. Do we want to return EU? I do. Let's make sure Keir Starmer knows we support him! Please sign and share widely.

I want there to be a day when I don’t have to share this speech anymore

This is a cut and dry breach of electoral law BTW, parties cannot directly bribe voters. You can't offer money in exchange for ballots. That's called Treating and it's illegal. This stunt should be reported to the police for blatant criminality, not magnified by MSM.

It’s international women’s day. For all the good it does us.

The Courts and Tribunals Bill will remove your right to a jury trial for serious criminal offences. Toff magistrates/judges will decide your fate. Chances of miscarriage of justice will increase. Working class, poor, minorities will be the biggest losers thesecretbarrister.com/2026/03/07/kei…

The UK does not have a welfare problem. It's got a corrupt politician and corrupt political elite problem. It's got a billionaire problem. Tax the rich.

Me when people who’ve spent years boasting about not paying any UK taxes say they want the British embassy to help evacuate them from Dubai.

🚨 @ZackPolanski is right ✅ to consider British people with #Iran military intervention 👉Strip away the rhetoric and here’s what this war means for Britain: 🔺 Higher oil prices 🔺 Higher food and fuel costs 🔺 More regional instability 🔺 More displacement and migration Foreign policy decisions don’t stay foreign. They hit household budgets fast and ensure scenes from Wootton Bassett honouring dead British soldiers.

The killing of dozens of girls at a primary school in Iran is not on the front page of a single British newspaper. A simple test - imagine the reaction if they were Israelis. aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/28…

We are witnessing the long-term degradation of this platform's integrity, in real time. Once a legitimate source of information in crisis, now a hotbed of Ai slop and fake news. Twitter, at its very best, would provide, on-the-ground, update of situations way before the news channels had run things past their due diligence and censor teams. We could get genuine, raw news and, for the most part, trusted our own eyes. Now, I don't believe 98% of the posts I see here. During the riots in 2011 when I lived in South East London, Twitter was one of the only ways of keeping up with what was actually happening in my neighbourhood. It was crucial. There have been countless examples of Twitter's uses across the years. But now … there is no value in the truth. Hatred and lies have been monetised, and their value elevated so far above the truth, that it pays handsomely to post disinformation. Disinformation attracts views from both sides of the debate — those who might believe it and support it, but, importantly, even those of us who are unsure about the content, will take a peek. It matters not to the perpetrators of lies. The more outrageous, the more views. Cha-ching! So now we are trying to use 𝕏 like it was Twitter. As we used to — for monitoring a major world event. But it doesn't work like that any more. I've seen hundreds of videos in my feed this morning alone that purport to be from Iranian attacks or US attacks, but I don't believe any of them now. We've long since left the utility of Twitter, for the outright lies of 𝕏. I sincerely hope this latest bloodshed ends quickly and things return to some sense of normalcy … but how will we know?

At 10:24 this morning, Friday February 27, the United States Ambassador to Israel emailed his own staff and told them to leave the country today. Not next week. Not when convenient. Today. Mike Huckabee, the man Donald Trump personally appointed to represent America in Israel, sent an email to every embassy employee in Jerusalem telling them that anyone wishing to depart should book “any available flight” and leave Israeli soil before the day ends. The embassy has shifted to “authorized departure” status, meaning the US government will pay for nonessential personnel and their families to evacuate. The New York Times obtained the email. The timestamp is 10:24 AM local time. The language says “no need to panic.” The action says panic. When an ambassador tells his own people to leave the country he is assigned to, he is not managing risk. He is clearing the blast radius. Authorized departure is the second-to-last step on the State Department’s crisis escalation ladder. The only step above it is ordered departure, which is mandatory evacuation. The United States has not reached ordered departure. But at 10:24 this morning it reached the step directly below it, and the ambassador personally urged speed. Now hold this against what happened in the last 72 hours. Wednesday, Geneva. Six and a half hours of talks. Araghchi called it the most serious session yet. The Wall Street Journal reported the US and Iran remain far apart on every core issue. Iran refused permanent zero enrichment. America refused anything less. Thursday, 37 advanced combat aircraft landed at RAF Lakenheath in a single day. 12 F-35As. 14 F-15E Strike Eagles. Additional F-22s. The staging base that funneled the first wave of Raptors to Israel is now reloading with strike aircraft carrying 23,000 pounds of ordnance each. Friday morning, the ambassador tells his people to leave. Wednesday you negotiate. Thursday you reload. Friday you evacuate your own embassy. That is not a sequence of unrelated events. That is a countdown visible to anyone reading the timestamps. Huckabee’s email went out five hours ago. Tomorrow, Saturday February 28, Oman’s Foreign Minister meets Vice President Vance in Washington carrying Tehran’s response to Geneva. Technical talks are nominally scheduled for Vienna next week. But you do not tell your embassy staff to leave today if you believe next week’s talks will happen in a world that looks like this one. The email says “make plans sooner rather than later.” Ambassadors are trained to communicate in precise diplomatic language where every word is calibrated. “Sooner rather than later” from a political appointee who does not speak in euphemism means the window for safe commercial departure is closing and he knows approximately when it closes. India told its citizens to leave Iran. Germany told citizens in Israel to prepare for airspace closures. Beirut’s US embassy began evacuating. And now America’s own ambassador in Jerusalem is telling his own staff to get out of the country he represents. Everyone with classified briefing access is moving in the same direction. Toward the exit. Today. Not Monday. Not after Vienna. Today, Friday February 27. The people who know what is coming are not waiting to find out. They are already on planes. The only people still debating whether this is real are the ones without the clearance to read what Huckabee read before he typed that email at 10:24 am this morning.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…