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Ben Judah: What we are seeing with Miliband’s...

What we are seeing with Miliband’s sanctions package is the deepening of the post-American turn in British by foreign policy that began under Keir Starmer. Whereas previously London had been defined by a deferential Atlanticism, which prized access to Washington and looked for it to leadership on issues like European security and Israel-Palestine, Labour has brought a new approach to the Foreign Office in response to Donald Trump. First on Ukraine and progressively on Israel-Palestine, the UK has together with France taken the lead in building non-US led activist coalitions of Western states to push Washington or the international community in a certain direction. Each time this has been in response to the US dramatically abandoning old collective allied understandings and approaches to either European security or the Middle East. We saw this first emerge under Keir Starmer with the Foreign Office assembling of the Coalition of the Willing on Ukraine, then building an action coalition to put sanctions on extremist Israeli ministers and then moving to recognise Palestine as a state when David Lammy was Foreign Secretary. It has been customary to mock Britain’s declining influence with Dean Acheson’s famous old barb that the country “had lost an Empire but failed to find a role.” But those claiming the UK has no influence are actually missing what’s happening — the UK has found a role and an influential one, partially as a consequence of America abandoning hers. What that role is constitutes pulling together CANZUK countries (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK) with European Union members and their associates into these issue coalitions of non-US led Westerners. This move against the Israeli settlement project to attempt to protect the possibility of a two state solution from an extremist Israeli government is a continuation of this geopolitics.

Pouria Zeraati: The regime has decided to ramp...

Important/ The regime has decided to ramp up tensions in Yemen to compensate for losing control of the Strait of Hormuz. This won't lead anywhere either because even Lavrov has strongly condemned the attacks on Saudi Arabia. Pakistan and Turkey too. The Houthis carried out one of their largest attacks against Saudi Arabia in recent years last night. Targets included Abha International Airport, Aramco facilities in Abha, King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Mushait, the Aramco oil refinery in Jizan, and Aramco facilities in Najran. Saudi officials confirmed the attacks and said 73 people, including several women and children, were injured. The UAE and Saudi Arabia, with US and Israeli support, have set a major trap for the mullahs and the IRGC :)

Robin Monotti: In Britain, half of the medical freedom movement...

In Britain, half of the medical freedom movement is brainwashed by the application of mechanical concepts to living matter. Probably because during Covid they listened to very rigid scientists, who tried to give them certainties that were and are simply not there or applicable to human biology. This desire to believe something scientific as opposed to the complexity and lack of certainty in living matter, has made them turn the human body into an over-simplified mechanical machine, where if they can't observe all moving parts then they conclude the parts do not exit or do not work. The reality is that the parts are far too complex and work with such living unpredictability that treating them like chemical experiments is simply the wrong approach to understanding how life actually works. That is one of the many reasons why applying the scientific method may work with chemistry experiments, but always fails with living human biology.

Andrew Bridgen: As members of the public peacefully...

As members of the public peacefully protest at Portsmouth over more illegal migrant landings it’s clear that the UK and French Governments are facilitating the whole process of illegal entry to Britain. Please watch the video below I put out last year showing the UK Home Office moving the illegal migrant dinghies from Dover back to Calais for re- use. Some of the dinghies weren’t even deflated so they could go straight back in the water on their return.

Pouria Zeraati: No dignity left for the Quakeists...

No dignity left for the Quakeists :)) Important/ The Financial Times reported that the United States, while simultaneously engaged in attacks with the Islamic Republic, conducted a secret four-month mine-clearing operation in the Strait of Hormuz. Most of this operation took place at night; U.S. Navy special forces divers, robotic boats, and underwater systems were searching for mines and neutralizing them. Unmanned vessels equipped with sonar would first locate the mines, and then divers or robotic submarines would detonate them.
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