@Tom_Rowsell The proposed development is 2miles away from Great Torrington and twice the size of the town, which is a conservation area and surrounded by common land. It's in an extremely inappropriate location and would be disastrous for the local community, whatever the needful data centres
@SaulStaniforth Lord Mann is being reported as 'independent', he's not. He is a member of LFI, he is known for his attacks on Ken Livingstone for stating historical facts and was one of the main instigators of false accusations of antisemitism at Jeremy Corbyn.
Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means.
His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide.
Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers.
Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle's Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations.
Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers' rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered.
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@SpotGlobals Hezbullah and Hamas were both set up in the 1980's to protect against the abuses of Israel. The west labels any organisation that opposes the west or Israel as 'terrorist' organisations. It is total manipulation of the narrative, hypocrisy and imperialism. And you all fall for it
You can't do it, can you? You can't criticize Israel, despite having witnessed two and a half years of seeing children blown to pieces, burning to death in tents, being shot by snipers like it was a safari, seeing broken men carrying the remains of their children's body parts in small carrier bags, day after day, long after October the 7th, knowing that hundreds of thousands more bodies lay crushed under the rubble from aerial bombings, whole city blocks and their inhabitants devastated. Then there's the forced displacement and starvation, humiliation, rape and torture which extends to children. This level of sadism has been going on since 1948. Your ability to ignore the gross asymmetrics of this reality is borderline sociopath.
@BBCNews Why do you post the opinions of Badenoch? The Tories are polling way bellow The Greens, Reform other Labour Party and no longer deserve the title of 'Official Opposition'.