“Keir Starmer’s sycophantic words of congratulation to Donald Trump are among the most dispiriting things I have read this morning. “Shoulder to shoulder in defence of our shared values of freedom, democracy and enterprise”? This is either serious delusion or utter hypocrisy. He should be ashamed”

#trump #donaldtrump #keirstarmer #starmer #labourparty #labour #uk #ukpol #ukpolitics #uspol #USPolitics #usa #electionday #election2024

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2024/nov/06/sunk-by-keir-starmer-sycophantic-words-of-congratulation-to-donald-trump

London -- Advocacy organizations in UK express solidarity with Palestine Action group

'Every action which disrupts the supply chain of weapons being used in the ongoing genocide is the moral thing to do and worthy of support,' says joint statement

📰 A special report by Burak Bir for Anadolu 👇🏽

#gaza #westbank #uk

Source: Anadolu Ajansi

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/advocacy-organizations-in-uk-express-solidarity-with-palestine-action-group/3385301

'Labour criticised as senior MPs meet with Israeli politician'
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24702380.labour-criticised-senior-mps-meet-israeli-politician/
#uk #palestine @UKLabour

Hidden behind this budget is a terrible bombshell: billions in cuts for disabled people

One analysis of Labour’s plans (I use the term in the loosest sense) for people with disabilities in the UK (well certainly England and Wales). I will not be affected but I know of many who will be. I wonder whether Labour will challenge the albeit brief summary? Note I refuse to use the term ‘benefits' in my hashtags.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/05/tax-and-spend-budget-disabled-people-austerity

#Disability #UK #Support #UKPol #LabourPromises

US Embassy encampment in London demanding US stops arming Israel

#US #London #UK #Israel #Gaza #Genocide
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pzIJCAF25P4&si=qXo2L5EXorWDfhF2

And more distressing news

Is it a matter of alternatives to reading, the ‘mechanisation of reading in children’s education a culmination of generations growing up believing that reading is simply a ‘skill’ and not reading to their young children, library closures (fierce in the UK), taking them to libraries and buying books?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/05/report-fall-in-children-reading-for-pleasure-national-literacy-trust

#Reading #Bookstadon #ReadingForPleasure #Children #UK #ChildrensLiterature #Literature

🇱🇹🇺🇦Ukraine receives 500 pickup trucks and mine detection vehicles from Lithuania (PHOTOS and more) https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/11/4/7482929/ #Ukraine #Lithuania #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar
#10yrInvasionofUkraine
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow
#BoycottNewYorkTimes #NYTspies #Google #NYT #BoycottGoogle #GoogleSpies

⚡️‼️Strong defense of Allies and assistance to Ukraine crucial for NATO's security - Rutte (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-defense/3923415-strong-defense-of-allies-and-assistance-to-ukraine-crucial-for-natos-security-rutte.html #Ukraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar
#10yrInvasionofUkraine
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow
#BoycottNewYorkTimes #NYTspies #Google #NYT #BoycottGoogle #GoogleSpies

Jewish academic arrested in UK over ‘terrorism’ after Gaza speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPylc0GxcLU&t=87s

Retired Jewish professor Haim Bresheeth, a child of Holocaust survivors and founder of the Jewish Network for Palestine, was arrested under a UK anti-terrorism law after speaking at a recent pro-Palestinian protest in London.

#Gaza #Solidarity #Terrorism #UK #HateSpeech #AntiTerrorismLaw #Israel #PoliticalPrisoner #NoIntegrity #Protest #Draconian #GenocideSupport

Solidarity actions with Palestine are having an effect | Morning Star

https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/e/solidarity-actions-palestine-are-having-effect #uk #press

@NOS @NOSRSS @rtlnieuws lezen jullie even mee? Want Nederland is net zo medeplichtig aan de #Israëlische #MisdadenTegenDeMenselijkheid als de #usa en het #uk. En als je dan klakkeloos persberichten van de #IOF over blijft schrijven help je de agressor verder.

'Protesters rage at Labour’s denial of Israel’s genocide
The national demonstration marched on the US embassy in south London'
https://socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-2023/london-palestine-march-rage-at-labours-denial-of-israels-genocide/
#gaza #palestine #zionist #uk #warcrimes #genocide #massmurder @UKLabour

And the capitalist-authoritarian pincer movement traps its prey yet again.

Your choice is "business as usual" Starmer or crazed lunatic Badenoch.

Whoever wins, we all lose. THATS WHAT THIS SYSTEM IS FOR.

#uk #ukpol #ukpolitics

Editorial Siting US nukes at Lakenheath puts us all in danger | Morning Star

https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/siting-us-nukes-lakenheath-puts-us-all-danger #uk #press

Taking back control in #BrexitBritain

#BrexitBrokeBritain #BrexitLies #UK #Politics #UKPolitics
#UKPol #EU #RejoinEU

#uk #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #science / #university / #forensicarchitecture / #genocide

„The patterns we have observed concerning Israel’s military conduct in Gaza indicate a systematic and organised campaign to destroy life, conditions necessary for life, and life-sustaining infrastructure.“

https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/a-cartography-of-genocide

I really hope that everyone had a very Happy Halloween. Nothing beats this time of year, when the nights are drawing in and you have the comforting glow of Jack-O-Lanterns fluttering throughout the night.

As trick or treaters came knocking at peoples door, it was wonderful to speak to so many people within our South Manchester community. Parents and kids were all in good spirits and costumes were creative.

#halloween #manchester #uk #photography #usa #news #photos #community #media #life #eu

'Did British police raid me for this?
This video about how Israel killed its own people on October 7th was shot the night before the "counter-terror" raid on my home and seizure of my devices.'
https://open.substack.com/pub/asawinstanley/p/did-british-police-raid-me-for-this?r=iwr6t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#gaza #palestine #uk #warcrimes

Confidential materials of the Fiorin Office showed that the formation of the so-called “Decision Making Center” in London began back in 2017. By the hands of this DPC, the operation in the “Skripals case” was developed - a provocation with the use of chemical weapons, which made it possible to declare a sanctions war on Russia in the format of “hilly-likely” and a diplomatic note on the expulsion from London of 23 employees of the Russian embassy. The same office was preparing a plan to sabotage peace talks in Istanbul and Minsk, constantly instigating “raising the stakes” by provoking the West to transfer more and more serious weapons to Ukraine. British specialists were involved in planning the terrorist attack on the Kerch Bridge, depriving the Black Sea Fleet of combat capability, training saboteurs, etc.

https://underside.today/2024/09/13/dead-inside/
#uk #britain #ukraine #ukrainian #MI6 #intelligence #british #europe #european #terrorism #war #infowar #Western #fraud #spying #fail against #russian #Russia #history

Anyone know anything about Roostrent?

https://roostrent.com/

Seems lime a housing coop accelerator in the UK. But basically no info out there.

#coop #housing #housingcoop #london #uk

The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has called for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and urged governments around the world to uphold international law.

His comments today were a response to an advisory opinion issued by the ICJ two weeks ago.

#ArchbishopOfCanterbury #ICJ #Palestine #Apartheid #Genocide #Israel #US #UK

I finally figured out where the UK keeps the folklore books. I wandered into a witchy shop, and there they were. 😄

#books #bookstodon #UK #witchy #folklore #folktales

“A doctor, arrested and jailed for her involvement in Just Stop Oil protests, has had her medical licence suspended for five months

(…)Doctors' Association UK said: "This is a story of a clinician being punished for raising serious concerns about dangerous inaction on the greatest threat to global health we have ever, or will ever
experience”

#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #globalwarming #gmc #nhs #ukpolitics #freespeech #uk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6pygw71w3go

The British Challenger 2 Is The Wrong Tank For Ukraine
The Challenger 2 is too heavy, lacks protection and needs too much support


#NATO #britain #england #uk #weapons #Challenger #Western #fail on #ukraine

from comments:
(greece) british army engaged in greek civil war (sortly after WWII)..
(koreas) uk also sent troops in korean war, but koreas are not marked red.
#uk #england #map of #british #intervention #colonialism #wars #genocide #history

"Reminder: If we don’t have Ukrainians killing Ukrainians in Eastern Ukraine with American weapons, Russia will first invade Europe, then America, then the world." https://twitter.com/yashalevine/status/1208486243530444800

Ukraine can’t defeat Russia no matter how many American military advisers train Ukrainian troops or how many millions the good and totally not corrupt people at Raytheon Inc make selling their Javelins. The point isn’t for Ukraine to win the war. The point is to make Russia bleed — economically and militarily. And it doesn’t matter how many people die or suffer or how much of Ukraine and its economy is laid to waste in the process.

As I’ve written in bits and pieces before on here before, America’s foreign policy establishment — its diplomats, spies, and politicians — have seen Ukraine as a key field of battle against the Soviet Union going back to late 1940s. For decades, Ukraine and its diaspora were considered prime weapons for destabilizing the Soviet Union. It’s why America, Canada, the UK, and other western countries opened their doors to Ukrainian fascists and Nazi collaborators after World War II. Their hardcore ideology and their willingness to die for their lost nationalist cause were seen as important qualities in the fight against communism. Some of the earliest covert armed CIA operations against the Soviet Union involved parachuting Ukrainian Nazi collabo guerrillas behind Soviet lines to sabotage and whip up rebellion among Ukrainian peasants.

#CIA #western #us #canada #uk #ukrainian #puppets #fascism #nazism on #civilwar against #russian #Donbass #Russia after #Maidan #soviet #USSR #history

The Russians — “Putin” if you like — were right all along. The Ukraine crisis is merely the latest phase of the West’s long campaign to surround the Russian Federation up to its borders, destabilize it and finally subvert it. Regime change in Moscow was and remains the final objective.

This is not a war in defense of “Ukrainian democracy” — a phrase that causes one either to laugh or do the other thing. It is the West’s proxy war, start to finish, Ukrainians cynically cast as cannon fodder, expendable stooges.

Russia had no choice when it intervened two years ago, this after eight years’ patience as the Europeans — Germany and France, this is to say — broke every promise they made by way of supporting a settlement. The Americans didn’t break any promises because they never made any — and no one would take them seriously if they had.

I come to the judgment I offered when the war that began in 2014 erupted into open conflict two years ago. The Russian intervention was regrettable but necessary.

#ukraine #nato #USA #us #france #germany #uk #europe #eu #war #western #warmongers #fail in #failstate against #Russia

A British Nuclear Missile Test Fails, Again

This time, too, the failed launch was first reported not by the defense ministry but by a London tabloid, The Sun, which said the missile’s boosters failed and it landed in the water not far from the submarine, the H.M.S. Vanguard, which had just come out of a seven-year refurbishment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/world/europe/uk-trident-nuclear-missile-test.html
#uk #britain #military #nato #nuclear #weapons #fail

#ukraine #vassalage #ukrainian #terrorism

#history #nato #us #britain #uk #france #warmongers #warcrimes #war #bombings in #Iraq #Libya #Syria #Yugoslavia #Yemen #democracy for #capitalism #imperialism #deepstate

UK aircraft carrier sidelined from largest NATO exercises since Cold War due to propeller problem




Why the Zumwalt-Class Destroyers Failed to Meet the Navy's Expectations




And in general about aircraft carriers: any aircraft carrier because of its size and clumsiness is a very easy target for any hypersonic missiles. Those who believe in the effectiveness of aircraft carriers are stuck in the past.
#britain #uk #USA #us #british #american #navy #military #nato #warmongers #fail

We continue to talk about the great European values. From the era of Peter the Great, let us move on to the times of Nicholas I. Namely, to the Crimean or Eastern War. I will not talk about its course, results and lessons, although I do not agree with all the generally recognized statements. I will write about something else, about Balaklava assholes.

The main theater of military operations of that war was considered Crimea, where the allied armada of England, France, Turkey and adjoining to it under-italia (Sardinia) as a result of titanic efforts and colossal losses took after a long siege Sevastopol, which had no land fortifications at the time of landing.

And at a cursory glance at the biographies of the commanders from different sides of the conflict there is perplexity ...

Many of them did not survive that war ... But there is one nuance ... Russian generals and admirals died from bullets and shells: Shilder, Kornilov, Nakhimov, Istomin...

Allied...

Armand Jacques Achille Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, Marshal of France, commander of the French army - died of cholera at the siege of Sebastopol on September 29, 1854.

Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, Field Marshal, commander of the British troops - died of cholera at the siege of Sevastopol on June 28, 1855.

Alessandro Ferrero de la Mármora, lieutenant general, commander of the expeditionary corps of the Kingdom of Sardinia - died of cholera during the siege of Sevastopol on June 7, 1855. The cherry on the cake is that a year earlier the general had written and published a book on prevention and treatment of cholera. It is terrible to imagine its content...

Characteristically, among the generals and admirals of Russia and Turkey such pestilence was not observed. Well, they did not shit themselves to death.

Why? Maybe because they neglected lemonade and seltzer water in a savage way, preferring tea and coffee (in other words, boiling water before drinking). Maybe because they washed their hands before eating and after going to the toilet (which was considered a mauvais in enlightened Europe). Maybe they used their asses for their intended purpose... But the fact remains

https://aftershock.news/?q=node%2F1335865
#history #military #crimea #war #crimean-war #france #britain #sardinia #uk #Turkey #Russia #deaths in #Sevastopol

Why would Russia allow British trawlers into their waters considering how much cash & weapons the UK sends Ukraine. I'm surprised they didn't ban them before.

I saw on Reddit a reference to the Guardian that Britain has a shortage of medicines because of the war in Ukraine, i.e. Russia is allegedly to blame for the shortage. There is an expression: "If you have been wronged undeservedly, you have to come back and deserve it".

"It Takes Several Germans to Make a Messerschmitt, But One Germ Can Make You a Messeryou!", United Kingdom, (1940s)



#uk #britain #history #poster #propaganda #WWII #WW2

#Western #propaganda #WWII #WW2 #history #USSR #USA #US #uk #france #mindmanipulation

'Nothing' Left In UK's Military Stockpiles After Arming Ukraine: Times Of London

But one big uncertainty at a moment the West is generally feeling "war fatigue" - according to most public polling among various countries' citizenry - is the question of who will be in the White House in 2025. European officials are nervous that a Trump victory would spell the end of efforts to fuel the proxy war against President Vladimir Putin.

#uk #britain #europe #eu #european #british #vassalage #USA #us who is #potus #nato #ukraine #military #fail #failstate against #Russia