UK Politics

Britain’s role in the recent machinations of the US empire has been central, despite going underreported and little criticized. Britain has a significant hand in the ongoing US war of aggression against Iran and their recent invasion of Venezuela. Britain’s empire and overseas bases, and associated intelligence and surveillance capabilities, are cornerstones of its contribution to these ongoing wars. Just as Britain’s colonial bases in occupied Cyprus served an intelligence and surveillance role in the Gaza genocide, so to did they help surveil Iran and prepare intelligence in preparation for US attacks, and are now being used as a staging post for those attacks. The ongoing UK-Mauritius Chagos Islands deal and subsequent US-UK rift over Diego Garcia’s use in the attack on Iran shows the potential for decolonial practice in international law and is a case that the US-UK Bases off Cyprus campaign can learn from.

Starmer attempts to make up with the warmongering US president as tens of thousands protest against the bombing of Iran over the weekend

The Government is proposing new powers that could force adults to prove their identity just to be online.

Maybe the UK should rejoin the EU. Maybe that’s the best way to protect the UK from the hostile United States.

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The former Peace Envoy for the Middle East Quartet ladies and gentlemen…

Seen some puzzlement here over what Labour’s strategy is/was. This blog from a former pollster and current MP sets it out fairly clearly (as well as suggesting what it should be).

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In summary, this says that AI companies should not be able to steal the work of creative people to train their LLMs.

The highly-anticipated Gorton and Denton by-election saw the Green party emerge victorious despite being branded by Labour as “extreme and dangerous”. For some, the result has called into question the ruling party’s attacks on the Greens’ policy to decriminalise all drugs.

Is this author right to suggest the UK should get closer to Europe?

Thoughts? The article says that Britain can’t annoy the US too much over this Iran war, because UK security is unfortunately completely dependent upon the US.

Asylum seekers arriving in the UK will now face reassessment every 30 months for 20 years, making permanent asylum an unattainable dream.

The UK has agreed to a US request to use British military bases for “defensive” strikes on Iranian missile sites, Sir Keir Starmer has said.

This isn’t a Tory government. I had to double check 🥲

Pope Catholic, says Vatican.

Do you believe him? “Defensive positions”. My arsehole.

Rather than fight the far right, he copied its politics and employed its language. He bet the house on Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel. He hollowed out the Labour Party and destroyed its soul.

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The Green Party won 40.7% of the vote on Friday in an election triggered when a member of parliament resigned for health reasons. Nigel Farage’s Reform Party came second with 28.7% of the vote and Labour finished third with 25.4%.

Here are the vote counts for the candidates in first, second and third place:

When I talk about Reform being fascists and the necessity of beating them, this is what I mean.

Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection, will not face a sanction for leaflets that omitted the party’s imprint, after a high court judge accepted this was due to an inadvertent printing error.

This poll makes it a statistical dead heat between Greens, Labour and Reform, despite the headline claim.

Amu Gib, who has been held on remand at HMS Bronzefield since July 2025, was chosen to represent the Islington Community Independents last month, Tribune magazine reported.

A Green party motion that calls for Zionism to be treated as a form of racism has provoked ire from a senior Israeli official.

As the local elections loom on 7 May, Labour’s woes in government have fuelled speculation that the party is no longer safe in its London heartlands.