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Pouria Zeraati: The Islamic Republic is desperately...

Important/ The Islamic Republic is desperately trying to restart the negotiations. The regime's bootlickers have started leaking to Reuters and the like that the regime wants to reach an agreement and is even willing to reopen the Strait. On the other side, Trump is determined not to lift the sanctions and blockade until he gets what he wants from the IRGC. In the meantime, the role of the Europeans (France and Britain) and China is crucial; they're set to meet Trump this week and act as intermediaries. Israel, of course, is busy cooking up its own plans for the Achunds and has a long-term strategy—unless Trump wants to return to operations sooner and seek help from here. Sensitive days are ahead...

Liz Webster: Burnham tried to appease Brexit...

🚨 Burnham tried to appease Brexit and Brexit punished him for it. The Times reveals an extraordinary sequence of events. The EU had reportedly been prepared to exempt Britain from its “Made in Europe” rules, protecting our deeply integrated car industry and supply chains. But @andyburnham worried that Starmer’s reciprocal youth-mobility agreement would not pass the “Makerfield test” in his Leave voting constituency and sought to reopen it. Brussels responded by withdrawing the British exemption. So an attempt to appease Red Wall Brexit sentiment made the reset deteriorate, delayed the UK–EU summit and left British manufacturing facing an even greater threat. Now Burnham is refusing to rule out putting EU membership in Labour’s next manifesto. By trying to move one step away from Europe, he may have forced himself to move two steps closer. There is a powerful political journey here, if Burnham tells it honestly: Britain cannot demand European privileges while refusing reciprocity. We cannot protect British jobs through permanent Brexit red lines. And governing by the fears of one Leave-voting constituency cannot take precedence over the national interest. The “Makerfield test” has collided with economic reality. Reality won 🏆

Liz Webster: The far right claiming that...

The far right claiming that “the whole of Europe is moving right” is not quite the scare tactic they think it is. If true, it demolishes their own case that the EU is some alien left-wing superstate from which Britain must remain isolated. And when Sweden votes left, they claim the votes of Swedish citizens with immigrant backgrounds somehow count less. Every citizen’s vote carries equal weight. That is democracy. Discounting people’s votes because of their ancestry is ethnic nationalism.
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