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27 years ago this week, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton were bombing Iraq.
Declassified files show Blair was consistently informed military action was unlawful without UN authorisation. But he told parliament Britain had “the proper legal authority”.
www.declassifieduk.org/blair-misled...
Declassified files show Blair was consistently informed military action was unlawful without UN authorisation. But he told parliament Britain had “the proper legal authority”.
www.declassifieduk.org/blair-misled...
Blair misled parliament over 1998 Iraq bombing, files show
Declassified documents from 1998, when the UK and US bombed Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, show Tony Blair was consistently informed military action was unlawful without UN authorisation. But he told parliame...
www.declassifieduk.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
27 years ago this week, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton were bombing Iraq.
Declassified files show Blair was consistently informed military action was unlawful without UN authorisation. But he told parliament Britain had “the proper legal authority”.
www.declassifieduk.org/blair-misled...
Declassified files show Blair was consistently informed military action was unlawful without UN authorisation. But he told parliament Britain had “the proper legal authority”.
www.declassifieduk.org/blair-misled...
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MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…”
Lawless.
Lawless.
December 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…”
Lawless.
Lawless.
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."
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ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
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How much did the UK's spy flights for Israel cost?
Once again, the government pretends this is a matter of "operational security".
Just an excuse to keep the public in the dark.
#DCUKparliament
Once again, the government pretends this is a matter of "operational security".
Just an excuse to keep the public in the dark.
#DCUKparliament
December 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
How much did the UK's spy flights for Israel cost?
Once again, the government pretends this is a matter of "operational security".
Just an excuse to keep the public in the dark.
#DCUKparliament
Once again, the government pretends this is a matter of "operational security".
Just an excuse to keep the public in the dark.
#DCUKparliament
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Ilhan Omar: “His obsession with me is creepy, I'm not going anywhere — I'll be here longer than #Trump - He’s an old man losing his mind. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs—”
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Ilhan Omar: “His obsession with me is creepy, I'm not going anywhere — I'll be here longer than #Trump - He’s an old man losing his mind. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs—”
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GB News has published a YouTube video in which a contributor rails against MPs whose parents were born in India, Pakistan or Bangladesh, contrasting them with “the native population”.
On Twitter he goes even further, demanding that "those without native British ancestry” be banned from being MPs
On Twitter he goes even further, demanding that "those without native British ancestry” be banned from being MPs
December 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
GB News has published a YouTube video in which a contributor rails against MPs whose parents were born in India, Pakistan or Bangladesh, contrasting them with “the native population”.
On Twitter he goes even further, demanding that "those without native British ancestry” be banned from being MPs
On Twitter he goes even further, demanding that "those without native British ancestry” be banned from being MPs
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"Utterly focused" on the Cost of Living.
Water Bills - Authorised record increases.
Energy Bills - Still going up, still the most expensive in the world.
Rent - Refused rent control.
Council Tax - Going up at maximum or above.
I would hate to see him doing nothing.
Water Bills - Authorised record increases.
Energy Bills - Still going up, still the most expensive in the world.
Rent - Refused rent control.
Council Tax - Going up at maximum or above.
I would hate to see him doing nothing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"Utterly focused" on the Cost of Living.
Water Bills - Authorised record increases.
Energy Bills - Still going up, still the most expensive in the world.
Rent - Refused rent control.
Council Tax - Going up at maximum or above.
I would hate to see him doing nothing.
Water Bills - Authorised record increases.
Energy Bills - Still going up, still the most expensive in the world.
Rent - Refused rent control.
Council Tax - Going up at maximum or above.
I would hate to see him doing nothing.
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Israel’s military is this week holding an “international seminar” on lessons learned from Gaza
“The seminar is being attended by commanders and officers from various armies around the world, who came to learn from the IDF’s experience over the past two years”
Britain is invited
“The seminar is being attended by commanders and officers from various armies around the world, who came to learn from the IDF’s experience over the past two years”
Britain is invited
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Israel’s military is this week holding an “international seminar” on lessons learned from Gaza
“The seminar is being attended by commanders and officers from various armies around the world, who came to learn from the IDF’s experience over the past two years”
Britain is invited
“The seminar is being attended by commanders and officers from various armies around the world, who came to learn from the IDF’s experience over the past two years”
Britain is invited
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Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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Shabana Mahmood is wrong
Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government
www.newstatesman.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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A question to Labour's few remaining supporters.
Is kicking pensioners, disabled people and now asylum seekers what you voted for?
Really?
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Is kicking pensioners, disabled people and now asylum seekers what you voted for?
Really?
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A question to the few remaining Labour supporters: is this refugee-bashing what you voted for? | Owen Jones
The government’s callousness has won it respect – from Tommy Robinson and the hard right, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A question to Labour's few remaining supporters.
Is kicking pensioners, disabled people and now asylum seekers what you voted for?
Really?
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Is kicking pensioners, disabled people and now asylum seekers what you voted for?
Really?
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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'Sniper safaris': How dehumanisation enables atrocities, from Sarajevo to Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/sniper-safaris-how-dehumanisation-enables-atrocities-sarajevo-gaza
'Sniper safaris': How dehumanisation enables atrocities, from Sarajevo to Gaza
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>Reports out of Milan, where prosecutors are <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15283069/Tourists-paid-70-000-shoot-innocent-people-human-safari-hunting-trips-Sarajevo-extra-charged-kill-children.html" target="_blank">investigating</a> allegations that rich tourists paid to kill civilians for sport in Sarajevo’s infamous “Sniper Alley” during the Bosnian War in the 1990s, are shocking only to foreigners.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/N1info/posts/more-than-three-decades-after-the-siege-of-sarajevo-italian-prosecutors-have-ope/849551354097596/" target="_blank">allegations</a> now emerging are as grotesque as they are painfully familiar to Bosnians: access arranged through intermediaries, payments set by target, children costing more to kill. </p>
<p>This story was reported and documented by local and regional <a href="https://www.infobiro.ba/article/472496/snajperski-safari-u-sarajevu-vjesnik?fbclid=IwY2xjawOIDtJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF5d2hoTXRyQzA4RndpNFUyc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MghjYWxsc2l0ZQEyAAEeXEKQ6vyWn6gN5D9wzzQQu5vlT37VrBp30XH6nPlq29p4lZ1R2hvnR7lj1qk_aem_tWCWtPMFdl-bxhWqQCMHPg" target="_blank">media</a> as far back as 1995, and more recently in Bosnian writer Haris Imamovic’s book <a href="https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/documentary-film-alleges-that-foreigners-took-part-in-civilian-hunting-in-bosnian-capital/" target="_blank"><i>Vedran and the Firemen</i></a> and Miran Zupanic’s 2022 documentary<i> </i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23861448/" target="_blank"><i>Sarajevo Safari</i></a>. </p>
<p>What is deeply disturbing to a Bosnian like myself is not just the horror of these reports, but the conditions that made such violence possible. </p>
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November 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
'Sniper safaris': How dehumanisation enables atrocities, from Sarajevo to Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/sniper-safaris-how-dehumanisation-enables-atrocities-sarajevo-gaza
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Sick of the hijacking over the Tel Aviv football decision & portrayel of it as Anti Semitism
Starmer & those trying to overturn a decision made upon a risk analysis should be held personally liable if the police are forced to change their decision
Hate is on the increase towards many groups
Starmer & those trying to overturn a decision made upon a risk analysis should be held personally liable if the police are forced to change their decision
Hate is on the increase towards many groups
October 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Sick of the hijacking over the Tel Aviv football decision & portrayel of it as Anti Semitism
Starmer & those trying to overturn a decision made upon a risk analysis should be held personally liable if the police are forced to change their decision
Hate is on the increase towards many groups
Starmer & those trying to overturn a decision made upon a risk analysis should be held personally liable if the police are forced to change their decision
Hate is on the increase towards many groups
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Israeli occupation forces attacked and brutally assaulted two Palestinian children in the southern part of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.
October 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Israeli occupation forces attacked and brutally assaulted two Palestinian children in the southern part of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.
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Israeli forces kill 29 in Gaza since dawn: Al Jazeera - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-kill-29-gaza-dawn-al-jazeera
Israeli forces kill 29 in Gaza since dawn: Al Jazeera
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<p>Hospital sources are telling Al Jazeera that Israeli forces have killed at least 29 Palestinians since dawn on Sunday.</p>
<p>The Nasser Medical Complex noted that among the dead is an infant who died because of malnutrition and poor hospital facilities. </p>
<p>The Anadolu News agency identified one of the children who died as 2.5-month-old Eid Mahmoud Abu Jamma.</p>
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September 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Israeli forces kill 29 in Gaza since dawn: Al Jazeera - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-kill-29-gaza-dawn-al-jazeera
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A wounded boy is struggling through the forced displacement from Gaza City under the Israeli assault.
September 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
A wounded boy is struggling through the forced displacement from Gaza City under the Israeli assault.
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Could this scandal bring down Keir Starmer?
Our real prime minister is Morgan McSweeney.
And the questions he has to answer are absolutely damning 👇
www.doubledown.news/watch/2025/s...
Our real prime minister is Morgan McSweeney.
And the questions he has to answer are absolutely damning 👇
www.doubledown.news/watch/2025/s...
EXPOSED: The Scandal That Could Bring Down Keir Starmer's Government
This is BIG
www.doubledown.news
September 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Could this scandal bring down Keir Starmer?
Our real prime minister is Morgan McSweeney.
And the questions he has to answer are absolutely damning 👇
www.doubledown.news/watch/2025/s...
Our real prime minister is Morgan McSweeney.
And the questions he has to answer are absolutely damning 👇
www.doubledown.news/watch/2025/s...
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🇬🇧 If Starmer is going to call this compulsory digital ID “britcard”, then he can go and take a flying f*ck to himself
I may be many things, but I will NEVER be a “brit”
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I may be many things, but I will NEVER be a “brit”
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'BritCard' digital ID will be made law for all adults in bid to tackle small boats
No 10 believes a mandatory ID card system will help stop illegal immigrants working
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September 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🇬🇧 If Starmer is going to call this compulsory digital ID “britcard”, then he can go and take a flying f*ck to himself
I may be many things, but I will NEVER be a “brit”
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I may be many things, but I will NEVER be a “brit”
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ICC arrest warrants: Netanyahu avoids French airspace for first time en route to US - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-arrest-warrants-netanyahu-avoids-french-airspace-first-time-en-route-us
ICC arrest warrants: Netanyahu avoids French airspace for first time en route to US
Wing of Zion avoids all countries except Greece and Italy, in what appears to be fears of arrest over war crimes charges
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September 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
ICC arrest warrants: Netanyahu avoids French airspace for first time en route to US - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-arrest-warrants-netanyahu-avoids-french-airspace-first-time-en-route-us
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Israeli attack on Gaza marketplace kills, injures Palestinians - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attack-gaza-marketplace-kills-injures-palestinians
Israeli attack on Gaza marketplace kills, injures Palestinians
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<p>Israeli bombing targeted the market street near a clinic in Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, killing and wounding people, including children, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.</p>
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September 26, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Israeli attack on Gaza marketplace kills, injures Palestinians - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attack-gaza-marketplace-kills-injures-palestinians
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Israel wants all Palestinians gone - dead or alive, from the river to the sea.
That’s their ambition.
That’s their plan.
That’s their ambition.
That’s their plan.
September 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Israel wants all Palestinians gone - dead or alive, from the river to the sea.
That’s their ambition.
That’s their plan.
That’s their ambition.
That’s their plan.
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Israeli attack on Gaza market kills, injures Palestinians - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attack-gaza-marketplace-kills-injures-palestinians
Israeli attack on Gaza market kills, injures Palestinians
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<p>Israeli bombing targeted the market street near a clinic in Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, killing and wounding people, including children, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.</p>
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September 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Israel is ordering the Palestinians in the north of Gaza to take a death march to the south. A people who have been starved and viciously attacked continuously are now being forced to march through a killing zone of snipers, drones and airstrikes.
September 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Israel is ordering the Palestinians in the north of Gaza to take a death march to the south. A people who have been starved and viciously attacked continuously are now being forced to march through a killing zone of snipers, drones and airstrikes.