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Starmer in trouble over Mandelson appointment. Iran war and economy.  Foreign Office Official Refuses to Face MPs Over Mandelson Vetting Foreign Office official Ian Collard will not appear in person before a committee of MPs to answer questions about the vetting process for Lord Peter Mandelson’s appointment as UK ambassador to Washington. Dame Emily Thornberry had requested that the civil servant speak to the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, but confirmed on Saturday he would submit written answers instead. Background of the Vetting Controversy Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney is due to appear on Tuesday, and the committee has already heard from sacked Foreign Office chief Sir Olly Robbins and Cabinet Office permanent secretary Cat Little. Mr Collard is a former ambassador to Lebanon and Panama and was appointed the Foreign Office’s chief property and security officer in March 2023. It was Mr Collard who Sir Olly said briefed him on the vetting findings that deemed Lord Mandelson a borderline case and leaned towards recommending that clearance be denied. Dame Emily has asked Mr Collard to detail his recollection of this meeting and whether it lines up with Sir Olly’s evidence, in a letter to the Foreign Office setting out questions to be answered by 5pm on Monday.

Demo for rent controls in London over weekend – opinions of some attendees. Liv West housing association – can’t put rents up much, but can put up service charge. Thousands of renters protest their landlords Politics-JOE The National Housing Demonstration took place in London today and thousands of renters turned out to protest the rising costs and declining conditions of their properties. The National Housing Demonstration is a large, organised protest in which tenants, housing campaigners, and community groups come together to highlight problems in the housing system, especially rising rents, lack of affordable homes, and increasing homelessness. The demonstration aims to pressure the government to take action by introducing policies like rent controls, stronger tenant protections, and greater investment in social housing. The protest follows the passing of the Renters’ Rights Act is a major piece of proposed legislation aimed at improving conditions for tenants across the United Kingdom. It seeks to abolish “no-fault” evictions under Section 21, which currently allow landlords to evict tenants without giving a reason, and replace them with a more secure system. The bill also proposes stronger protections against unfair rent increases, ensuring tenants have greater stability in their homes. In addition, it introduces a new ombudsman to resolve disputes between landlords and tenants more quickly and fairly. Landlords would be required to meet higher property standards, helping to improve living conditions. The legislation also aims to make it easier for tenants to keep pets, subject to reasonable conditions. Overall, the Renters’ Rights Bill is designed to create a fairer balance between landlords and tenants while addressing long-standing issues in the private rental sector.

Stats on rent, mortgages, and tax on landlords. Paul Smith, who now runs a housing association, was in charge of council house building under Marvin – he found it impossible to get anywhere. Housing developers.  Tax changes for landlords come into force The start of the new tax year brings changes to mortgage interest tax relief and capital gains tax for buy-to-let landlords. Landlords face enormous tax increases from April 6 2020, with the end of mortgage interest tax relief and an increase in capital gains tax. The start of the new tax year has seen mortgage interest tax relief scaled back further, while landlords who sell a property also now have less time in which to pay capital gains tax. People who previously lived in a property that they later rented out have also seen tweaks made to the tax reliefs they can claim. The changes to mortgage interest tax relief, which were well flagged in advance, have been blamed for many landlords exiting the sector in the past couple of years. These are the main changes landlords need to know about: Mortgage interest tax relief The government has been in the process of tapering down mortgage interest tax relief since 2017 and gradually replacing it with a new system. Before April 2017, landlords could claim mortgage interest tax relief on 100% of their mortgage interest costs. The amount they could claim was gradually reduced to 25% last year. But under the new system, which comes into force on 6 April 2020, the relief has been phased out completely and replaced with a 20% tax credit for mortgage interest. Changes to mortgage interest tax relief will affect around 55% of landlords who have one or more buy-to-let mortgages. Coronavirus: Get the latest property news and information Capital gains tax payments Capital gains tax is paid on the profit people make when they sell a property that is not their primary residence. The tax is charged at a rate of up to 28% on the difference between the property’s purchase price and its sale price, after deduction of the personal allowance. This personal allowance is £12,300 in the 2020-2021 tax year. Landlords have previously had to declare capital gains tax liabilities in their annual tax return, giving them more than a year in which to settle the bill. But from April 6 2020, they will need to declare and pay the tax within 30 days of selling a property…

Jeremy Corbyn on Mandelson influencing the Labour Party in to private public partnerships such as Palantir monitoring NHS data. How Peter Mandelson destroyed the Labour Party | Jeremy Corbyn PoliticsJOE Ava spoke to former leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn a few weeks ago about the downfall of Starmer’s government due to the psychodrama surrounding Peter Mandelson’s appointment to Washington. In this clip, Corbyn breaks down his experience dealing with Mandelson as far back as the 1980s, and how the former Business Secretary managed to single-handedly bring down the party.

Universal Basic Income introduction as AI takes jobs. Universal Basic Income: Progressives sceptical of tech billionaires’ UBI support Tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Sam Altman are advocating for universal basic income as a solution to unemployment caused by AI, but House progressives are sceptical of their motives. House progressives are looking askance at the recent embrace of universal basic income by tech billionaires like Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman. Musk has lately posted about the need for a “Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government” as “the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI.” And Altman has voiced some support for universal basic income proposals or even a “Universal Basic Compute” plan to give Americans a share of AI productivity. But as the left grows increasingly distrustful of big tech companies, progressives aren’t convinced of the moguls’ sincerity. “It’s always that the devil’s in the details where that comes from,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. “I am skeptical about their willingness to pay or incur the taxes necessary to sustain such proposals, which would have to target AI.” Such schemes would create guaranteed income for adults and children and have gained some traction in recent years, amid concerns that AI will substantially disrupt the workforce and result in increased unemployment. But Musk’s role as the head of DOGE in the Trump administration has poisoned the well among many Democrats, who are increasingly wary of AI and the companies developing the technology, too. “Somewhere deep down in the recesses of their hearts, some love must exist to come out in support of something like that,” said Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., who introduced a UBI pilot program bill this Congress. But she too was doubtful of the tech billionaires’ motives: “I don’t think it’s out of charity. It’s out of business.” Another progressive wasn’t immediately dismissive. “Welcome on board,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who has previously

Shadow UK Housing Minister IS BEING EVICTED! James Cleverly blames new Renters Rights Act (not his 2020 Tory landlord taxes) for his landlord selling up. Financial institutions taking over houses as distressed assets and becoming landlords. Shadow Housing Secretary Blames Labour’s Rent Reforms For Eviction From His Home Conservative MP James Cleverly has revealed that he is being forced out of his rented home in his constituency, blaming government reforms to the rental sector that will take effect next month. Speaking to PoliticsHome, the shadow housing secretary, himself a former landlord, said that the Renters’ Rights Act was forcing “good landlords” like his in Essex out of the market. The reforms, which ministers describe as the most significant changes to renting brought in by a UK government, include the banning of “no-fault” evictions, meaning landlords must provide a valid legal reason for eviction, the ending of fixed-term contracts, and putting a stop to “bidding wars” which result in tenants paying more than the advertised price. Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Steve Reed, has called the legislation “the biggest leap forward in renters’ rights in a generation”, saying it is “levelling the playing field between renters and landlords”. However, Cleverly, the Tory MP for Braintree, claimed it was forcing landlords nationwide, including his own, to sell their properties, creating a “spate” of evictions. The former cabinet minister, who told The House magazine he is considering running for London mayor, explained that he rented a property in the northern part of his Essex constituency after selling his old home of 10 years. “The key bit of this is the arrogance with which [Labour] approached this process. They just refuse to listen to the points we’re making because it was we who were making those points,” he told PoliticsHome. “Unfortunately, now the people who are suffering are the people who could and should have a decent supply of properties in the private rented sector, and they don’t. “The people who they claim to want to protect are the very people who are being disadvantaged by this and it didn’t have to be like this. If the Labour Party weren’t so arrogant and unwilling to listen, it wouldn’t be happening.” Legal advice firm Landlord Action this week reported a sharp rise in landlords asking for help with tenant evictions ahead of the legislation coming into effect on 1 May. “As Section 21 is phased out, landlords are acting now while they still have certainty, because many are not confident in what replaces it,” said Landlord Action founder Paul Shamplina. Critics of the reforms say new costs and regulations facing landlords will ultimately result in fewer rental properties, which in turn will likely lead to rent going up….

Biobank collected medical data on UK citizens for research – found for sale in China! UK Biobank health data listed for sale in China, government confirms Nurse taking blood from person as biobank logo appears on screen in background.Image source, Getty Images Medical information of 500,000 participants of one of the UK’s landmark scientific programmes, UK Biobank, were offered for sale online in China, the government has confirmed. Technology minister Ian Murray said information of all members of the database was found listed for sale on the website Alibaba. Murray told MPs the charity which runs UK Biobank had told the government about the breach on Monday. He said the information did not include names, addresses, contact details or telephone numbers. However he said it could include gender, age, month and year of birth, socioeconomic status, lifestyle habits, and measures from biological samples. The Biobank is a collection of health data offered by volunteers which has been used to help improvements in detection and treatment of dementia, some cancers and Parkinson’s. It has collected intimate details – including whole body scans, DNA sequences and their medical records – from hundreds of thousands of volunteers for over two decades. The project has led to more than 18,000 scientific publications.

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, 22 part manifesto on how Military Industrial Complex needed to defend Western capitalism. Bilderberger Alex Karp has criticised the belief that all cultures are equal and called for universal national service. Alex Karp also called the disarmament of Germany and Japan after World War Two an “overcorrection”, backed AI weapons and condemned “ruthless exposure” of the private lives of public figures. Karp’s views matter – his company’s growing roster of UK government contracts include the NHS, the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the Financial Conduct Authority and 11 police forces. Not to mention its multimillion dollar deals with the US and other powerful governments. But as the firm increasingly embeds itself in public bodies, the opinions and influence of its leaders leave some fearful. “Every alarm bell for democracy must ring,” Prof Shannon Vallor, chair of ethics of data and AI at Edinburgh University, told the BBC. Palantir’s 22-point summary of Karp’s book: 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Kemi Badenoch on Starmer’s failings in appointing Mandelson. Mossad controlling Mandelson via Epstein and Rothschilds.

Trevor Chinn funding of political parties. Powerful Zionist lobby. How pro-Israel money captured Starmer’s Labour – The UK Labour Party has been rocked by yet another scandal and is facing scrutiny over revelations that its leadership has been captured by a network of unelected funders and lobbyists with deep ties to Israel and Zionist organisations. At the centre of the controversy is Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s powerful chief of staff, and his long-time association with billionaire businessman Trevor Chinn. Documents and leaks show that between 2017 and 2020, McSweeney oversaw Labour Together, a factional project that secretly accepted more than £730,000 (around $930,000) in undeclared donations, allegedly in breach of electoral law. Much of this money is said to have come from Chinn, a figure whose involvement in Labour politics has for decades been bound up with the defence of Israel and the advancement of Zionist networks inside the party. Chinn is no ordinary donor. A director of Labour Together until 2024, he has bankrolled both Conservative and Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) throughout his career. In early 2025, he was awarded the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honour by President Isaac Herzog for his services to the apartheid state. Chinn’s commitment to Israel has been described as one of his “animating concerns” over three decades of political donations. An investigation by Jody McIntyre, who stood as a candidate for the Workers Party in the last general election, shows how deeply enmeshed Chinn became with McSweeney’s project. McSweeney reportedly concealed donations “to protect Trevor” from scrutiny, according to McIntyre’s investigation. Labour Together, however, later dismissed the failure to declare the funds as an “administrative error,” a line advised by solicitor Gerald Shamash, another Labour figure with a record of blocking debates on sanctions against Israel.

Agents to Rothschilds article – Rainer Laidtke. The Light disinformation paper – La Monde Diplomatique. Agents for the Rothschilds In 2016, the publisher De Gruyter released an essay by Rainer Liedtke titled Agents for the Rothschilds: A Nineteenth-Century Information Network1. Drawing on the Rothschild Archive London — correspondence from over one hundred business agents working for the various Rothschild houses — Liedtke documented a recruitment and intelligence operation that spanned the European continent and reached into Latin America for most of the nineteenth century. The paper describes a system in which agents were placed in locations where the Rothschild banks did not maintain a permanent presence. These agents carried out business transactions, gathered political and economic intelligence, and forwarded information that enabled the family to make decisions ahead of competitors and, frequently, ahead of even governments. Liedtke notes that what we now would consider insider trading ‘was commonplace in nineteenth-century finance and part of the salary package of employees of financial institutions’. The agents were not merely tolerated in this practice — they were compensated through it. The recruitment criteria tell their own story. Trust was paramount, and two principal routes existed for earning it: being a relation of the family, or having worked within one of the houses for a considerable period. Marriage was the preferred option, and these marriages ensured that important business locations were ‘covered in the long run by trustworthy representatives’. Liedtke is explicit about one boundary: … such men never gained access to the decision-making circle of the family but instead maintained their own business interests separately, albeit profiting significantly from contacts to the Rothschild network. The agents were operationally essential, but they remained permanently outside the core. Only born Rothschilds were fully trusted. The ‘quintessential criterion’ for whether a Rothschild bank existed in a given city was whether a Rothschild was willing to move there. He also documents a deliberate policy of heterogeneity. Despite being Jewish, the Rothschilds employed non-Jewish agents as a matter of strategy. A homogeneous network, Liedtke explains, would be ‘self-referential’ — limited to the social circles its members already moved in. Diversity of background expanded the network’s reach into drawing rooms, ministries and trading floors that a uniformly Jewish network could not access. Agents sent to locations where they had no prior ties were valuable precisely because they lacked local loyalties — their ‘foreignness’ meant their primary allegiance remained with the principals abroad, uncompromised by existing relationships in the places where they operated. Liedtke records a shift over time in what the principals expected. In the early decades, the network’s value lay in raw market data — commodity prices, exchange rates, shipping movements. After the telegraph commoditised this kind of information in the mid-nineteenth century, the agents’ importance shifted towards strategic political assessment: who was likely to form a government, which minister could be cultivated, what policy was being contemplated before it was announced. Only one vulnerability recurs in the archive. August Schönberg, dispatched to New York and later known as August Belmont, declared himself the Rothschild agent on Wall Street without authorisation. The distance between New York and London made control impossible. Belmont could not be dislodged, and the family was forced to tolerate an agent who had, in effect, gone rogue. Liedtke treats Belmont as the system’s one significant failure.

Diane Abbott having a go at Starmer. Morgan Mc Sweeney pushing appointment of Mandelson. Gerald Ronson, Zionist owner of Rontec petrol stations, sacking local staff and bringing in migrants. Ed Milliband on stupid appointment of Mandelson. “Why didn’t the Prime Minister ask?”: Diane Abbott’s question to Starmer lingers unanswered In the cavernous theatre of the House of Commons on 20 April 2026, amid two and a half hours of choreographed indignation and procedural deflection, a single sentence cut through the fog: Why didn’t the Prime Minister ask? Diane Abbott’s question hung in the chamber for a moment and was then, with practised establishment efficiency, allowed to evaporate. The press and broadcasters moved on. By the evening bulletins, the discourse had reverted to its most comfortable ruts: was the Prime Minister a liar, or was he merely, as the Conservative leader suggested, “grossly incompetent”? The nation was invited, once again, to choose between flattering explanations of its own government. Abbott’s question does not belong to that debate. It does not accept either of its premises. It points, with the clarity only outsiders retain, at something both parties of the Westminster duopoly have an interest in not examining too closely: the possibility that the Prime Minister appointed, to the most important diplomatic post in the world, a man under active criminal investigation for having passed sensitive government data to a convicted to a convicted sex offender – and simply did not bother to ask whether his security clearance had gone through. There is an answer to Abbott’s question, though it is not the one the Prime Minister offered. It was supplied the following day, in much plainer language, by the very civil servant Starmer has publicly undermined. Olly Robbins, the recently-dismissed permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday that he would “absolutely not” have considered it appropriate to inform Starmer that the United Kingdom Security Vetting service had recommended Mandelson be denied developed vetting clearance. He had not considered it, he explained, because decisions of that kind “must remain confidential.” This sentence received no attention. What Robbins described – and one suspects he described it honestly, which is precisely why Number 10 briefed against him so briskly – was not a breakdown in communication. It was the system functioning exactly as designed. The British security-clearance architecture is constructed so that Prime Ministers are not told which of their appointed have failed security vetting…

Zarah Sultana MP told ‘you have no duties, I have the duty’ by Speaker Hoyle and ordered to leave Parliament for calling Starmer a liar. Zarah Sultana MP kicked out of Commons, Keir Starmer is a bare faced liar over Mandelson (20Apr26) Liarpoliticians Security Vetting Statement: Your Party MP Zarah Sultana is kicked out of the commons for saying dictator PM Keir Starmer is a bare faced liar and covering up over the Peter Mandelson scandal. Mandelson a spy working for Russia and China.

Matt Kennard on US military bases in UK. Chris Cole from Drone Wars on how AI not as good as claimed. Iron Dome running out. Chris Cole on RAF Fairford being a drone launch point. The use of Fairford air base in Gloucestershire by United States military forces to conduct strikes against targets in Iran has highlighted important issues surrounding the UK’s role in the current conflict in the Middle East. Following an initial refusal in February 2026, the UK government has authorised the use of certain military bases for what it terms “specific and limited defensive action” against Iran. This decision has raised major questions about the nature of this military support, its legal basis under international law, and the extent to which the UK can verify and control operations launched by the US from its sovereign territory. The UK has shown a reluctance to recognise Iran as the target of illegal acts of aggression under international law or to criticise attacks by the US and Israel. At the same time, anti-Iran rhetoric from Ministers has led some to question whether the government is refraining from “wider involvement in the broader ongoing conflict”, as it claims, or is instead quietly providing material support for US offensive operations. Fairford air base supports the deployment of US bomber task forces in Europe. Its proximity to the Middle East, compared to US bases in North America, allows for quicker flight times to targets, facilitating logistics and increasing the intensity of the bombing campaign. Eighteen US Air Force B1-B and B52 bombers arrived at Fairford over the period 6 – 13 March 2026 and commenced bombing operations on 10 March.1 Diego Garcia air base in the Indian Ocean, under the control of the UK government, has also been mentioned as a potential base for US bomber strikes on Iran. At the time of writing it is not known whether US aircraft are using Diego Garcia. This briefing analyses the UK government’s position, the command and control structures governing US strikes on Iran, and the significant challenges the UK faces in ensuring its involvement remains within the legal and policy boundaries of “defensive” operations that it has established. The UK government’s stated position and its legal basis The UK government’s position on the use of its bases for attacks on Iran has evolved under significant pressure. In late February 2026, Prime Minister Keir Starmer reportedly denied a US request to use bases such as Fairford and Diego Garcia for pre-emptive strikes, citing concerns over international law.2 However, following the onset of US and Israeli strikes on Iran on 28 February and subsequent Iranian retaliatory attacks on regional allies, the government altered its stance.

Protest at RAF Fairford Saturday 25th April at 12pm – Chris will be there.  ‘No War on Iran’ – demonstration at Fairford base Join CND, Stop the War, and Fairford Action for a demonstration against the use of UK bases in Trump’s disastrous war on Iran. CND, Stop the War Coalition, and members of Fairford Action will hold a demonstration at RAF Fairford on Saturday, 25 April, over concerns the base is being used to commit war crimes. Protesters will call on the British government to end its support for the illegal US-Israeli aggression and shut down the US bases in Britain used to attack and support attacks on Iran. The protest comes as Trump announces an extension of talks, whilst simultaneously escalating US military deployments to the region – with USS George HW Bush aircraft carrier, three destroyers and another 5,000 US troops heading towards Iran. Donald Trump had also threatened to conduct further war crimes against Iran if his demands aren’t met by destroying every bridge and every power plant. It follows a previous, thinly veiled threat by Trump to use nuclear weapons in Iran before the ceasefire came into effect. RAF Fairford has been a critical base for US attacks on Iran. Before the ceasefire took place, huge long-range B-1, B-2, and B-52 bombers had been carrying out twice-daily bombing missions from the base, dropping 2,000lb bombs on Iran, before returning directly to Fairford. Thousands of civilians have been killed in Iran and infrastructure destroyed by heavy bombers including bridges, hospitals, schools and residential areas. Other British bases that have also been used in the attacks on Iran include refuelling and logistical support from RAF Mildenhall, and the transit of F-35 and F-15 fighters, and A-10 ‘tank buster’ aircraft via RAF Lakenheath to bases in the Middle East. There is also mounting evidence that Lakenheath now hosts US B61-12 nuclear weapons. CND General Secretary Sophie Bolt said: “The British government is complicit in these illegal attacks on Iran. As targets are often assigned or updated during a bomber’s flight, the British government cannot confirm that these planes aren’t leaving to commit war crimes when they’re rolling down the runway. While Trump makes nuclear threats and promises to attack civilian infrastructure if his demands aren’t met, Starmer has been shamefully silent, whilst enabling war crimes. Bases like RAF Fairford and RAF Lakenheath are the physical embodiment of Britain’s military alliance and nuclear subordination to the US. That’s why we need as many people as possible supporting our call to send the bombers home, shut down the bases, and kick out Trump’s nukes from Britain!”

Nigel Day, Nuke Watch, on tracking US nukes in UK. NukewatchUK Watching Britain’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Nukewatch monitor and track the movement of British WMD’s from AWE Aldermaston and AWE Burghfield in Berkshire to RNAD Coulport on the West coast of Scotland. Nukewatch is not a membership organisation. It is a network of individuals who campaign against nuclear warhead convoys, mainly because they are part of a system of Weapons of Mass Destruction, but also because we believe that communities potentially affected by the convoys should be aware of their existence and the risks they pose. Nukewatch compiles an annual list of warhead convoy movements to help in monitoring the overall state and deployment of the UK’s arsenal of nuclear weapons. The Resources page has a summary of recent convoy movements. Sharing Information We think that it is important that Nukewatch continues to monitor the safety of UK nuclear warhead convoys, and that Convoy dangers are highlighted to the general public and those along its routes. We only put out detailed convoy movements in advance to our own network. As so many people are posting to social media about convoys they have seen Nukewatch now puts some information on Facebook and Twitter but not exact locations in real time.

Some thoughts on what might actually be behind the Mandelson saga, as there is an effort underway to make it about China. I don’t buy that.

The real question — which no one seems to be asking — is *why* did it have to be Mandelson? Why was government prepared to risk so much to…

— Ethan Shone (@EJShone93) April 19, 2026

Open Democracy on X – Hakluyt working with MI6. Who was Richard Hackluit – British Empire history – Wikispooks. Patricia Opulenza poem.  Hakluyt – The MI6 connection News clippings provide revealing details on the background of Hakluyt’s founders. Christopher James and Mike Reynolds are both former members of the British foreign service. Ex-MI6 chief Spedding is said to have given his blessing to Hakluyt as a company, as is the foreign secretary..[12] Reynolds founded MI6’s counter-terrorism branch and was the foreign service’s head of station in Berlin. This explains his impeccable spoken and written German and may also be the way he got to know Manfred Schlickenrieder. The newly appointed head of MI6, Richard Dearlove, is a close friend of his. James led a section of MI6 that liaised with British firms. Over his 20-year career he got to know the heads of many of Britain’s top companies. In return for a few tips that helped them compete in the market, he persuaded them to pass on intelligence from their overseas operations, industry sources told Management Today. After the Cold War, James argued that MI6 should expand this role. But others in the organization feared this could be mistaken for ‘economic espionage’. He left MI6 in 1995, taking his intelligence work private. Hakluyt’s management board is a display case for the kind of reputation the company is aiming for. One member was Ian Fleming’s model for James Bond—the former soldier, spy and diplomat Sir Fitzroy Maclean. And the company is linked to the oil industry through Sir William Purves, CEO of Shell Transport and chairman of Hakluyt; Sir Peter Holmes, former chairman of Shell and current president of the Hakluyt foundation (a kind of supervisory board); and Sir Peter Cazalet, the former deputy chairman of BP, who helped to establish Hakluyt before he retired in 2000. BP itself has longstanding ties to MI6: its director of government and public affairs, John Gerson, was at one time a leading candidate to succeed Sir David Spedding as chief of MI6. It is important that NGOs and other pressure groups trying to assess possible threats remember the close ties between risk assessment companies and the government intelligence community. Some larger and older companies, such as Control Risks, may have grown away from direct links to government, which could explain the market for new agencies with more recent connections, like Hakluyt. Such firms have the necessary knowledge and techniques at their disposal, either through their own experience, their staff ‘s experience, or direct contacts. This can have consequences for the way they investigate their clients’ adversaries; as in the Schlickenrieder case, they might use infiltrators posing as activists or dedicated journalists, and they might have access to classified intelligence information. The specialty of privatized spying shops goes beyond PR consulting or spin doctoring into the rather vague terrain of intelligence operations, which can be used in both gathering information and setting up stings. From the Financial Times to Hakluyt According to Intelligence Online, Mark Huband joined Hakluyt in the summer of 2006, after a long career in journalism in the United Kingdom – he worked for the Guardian, Times and Financial Times. Huband had long specialized in Africa and the Middle East, where he was based for years for the Times and Guardian (he was one of the few newsmen to cover the American intervention in Somalia in 1993). Since 2003 he had reported on defense, security and “terrorism” for the Financial Times. Huband, who left the newspaper last year, won’t be the first journalist to work for Hakluyt, Intelligence Online knows. A number of former British and Australian newspaper and television correspondents are – or have been -on its payroll.

Israel behind the 7/7 London Bombings: Tony Gosling’s documentary, and article | Videos of full shows | Economic essentials: Michael Hudson | Blackrock/Vanguard | Why/how Israel Assassinated JFK & RFK | Operation Gladio | Tony on Brexit & (4th Reich) Traitors of Arnhem | Creation vs. Evolution | God vs. Lucifer | ‘Great Plan’ for 3 World Wars | Devil Worship: The Rise Of Satanism | Nuclear Armed IDF Doomsday Cult | Aanirfan | Armageddonists I have known: Nick Land (1976-8) | George Monbiot (1995-7) | Manna for the Revelation Generation: CONSPIRACY CLASSICS, longer interviews/lectures

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Tucker Carlson apologises for promoting Donald Trump.

US Nuclear Chief, Andrew Hugg, fired after disclosing national security information to pretty lady he fancied. Top U.S. Nuclear Chief LEAKS Sensitive National Security Information O’Keefe Media Group BREAKING NEWS: Top U.S. Nuclear Chief Caught LEAKING Sensitive National Security Information to Stranger, Reveals Army Chemist Was Exposed to U.S. Chemical Nerve Agent, Confirms U.S. Strike Killed Children in Iran, Discloses U.S. Plans to ‘Kill Iran’s New Supreme Leader’ “If he [Mojtaba Khamenei] doesn’t change his ways, yeah, they’re [United States] going to kill him.” “The easiest way to get intelligence…send a pretty girl, talk to the guy…I have to resist your eyes.” “Your eyes have mesmerized me so much…Almost like you’re an intelligence.” Andrew Hugg, a U.S. Chief of Chemical Nuclear Surety, was caught on hidden camera casually revealing sensitive information to a stranger in a public restaurant. Andrew Hugg, Chief of Chemical Nuclear Surety, in charge of nuclear and chemical safety was caught on hidden camera releasing information regarding the U.S. Nuclear Information. He claims the U.S. still possesses nerve agents and says a U.S. Army chemist recently died from exposure. He also acknowledges U.S. airstrikes have killed children in Iran, calling it “collateral damage,” and revealed to the journalist how nuclear launch decisions are made in real time. Hugg described how the United States could assassinate Iran’s next leader if he “doesn’t change,” while admitting the U.S. has no plans to use nuclear weapons: “We’re not going to nuke anybody.” All of this was casually revealed to an undercover journalist in a restaurant. This raises serious questions about this official’s judgment, security, and what’s really happening behind closed doors. We have reached out to the Pentagon and U.S. Army for comment and they are working on a response.

Jeffrey Sachs on the Iran war. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Is the War Over? Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Is the War Over?

Michael Hudson on the economic consequences of the Iran war – great depression, crash coming. US economy is based on Ponzi scheme that could collapse, warns economist Michael Hudson [China sponsored] Ben Norton’s Geopolitical Economy Report There are growing signs that the United States may be on the verge of another major financial crisis, one that could start in the $3 trillion private credit market, which is already seeing significant turmoil, before spreading to other sectors. Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton interviewed economist Michael Hudson to discuss the serious problems on Wall Street. Hudson warned that the US economy is built on a Ponzi scheme that depends on continuing to pour money into a bloated, bubbly financial system based on unsustainable speculation, not industrial production.

King Charles’s visit to Trump. Prince Harry is weighing in saying Trump is going soft on ‘necessary’ Ukraine war. CNN: Trump dismisses Prince Harry’s comments on Ukraine ahead of royal visit President Donald Trump on Thursday brushed off remarks by Prince Harry asking the US for more action to end the war in Ukraine, saying the British royal does not speak for the United Kingdom. “I know one thing, Prince Harry is not speaking for the UK, that’s for sure. I think I am speaking for the UK more than Prince Harry. But I appreciate his advice very much,” Trump said, before quipping: “How’s he doing? How’s his wife?” “Please give him my regards,” Trump added. Harry recently visited Ukraine, where he called on the US to increase support for Kyiv and urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to “choose a different course.” King Charles III and Queen Camilla are scheduled to visit Washington next week, including stops at the White House and the US Capitol.

THE HUNGARY EU/NATO TILT EFFECT: Al Jazeera – new President in Hungary and the effect on oil,gas pipeline. Will Ukraine war intensify after EU’s $105bn loan to Kyiv? | Inside Story Al Jazeera English A loan drama tied to geopolitics. Kyiv is getting a much-delayed lifeline from Brussels, as it fights Moscow’s invasion with nearly empty coffers. That’s after Ukraine repaired a pipeline carrying Russian crude to Hungary, Slovakia. The oil revenues will bolster Moscow’s war chest. So, is this complex EU deal going to intensify the conflict? And, considering the mistrust between the parties, will the agreement even last? Presenter: James Bays Guests: Marina Miron — Researcher in Defence Studies at King’s College London Maximilian Hess — Author of ‘Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict between Russia and the West’ Pieter Cleppe — Editor-in-Chief, BrusselsReport.eu

BBC – Lebanese journalist killed by Israelis. Israel deliberately targets Lebanese journalist killed in IDF air strike during ‘ceasefire’ Amal Khalil was a journalist with the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar Lebanon’s prime minister has accused Israel of war crimes after Israeli air strikes killed one journalist and wounded another in southern Lebanon on Wednesday. The strike killed Amal Khalil, who worked for a Lebanese newspaper, and injured freelance photographer Zeinab Faraj. Officials in Lebanon say they were deliberately targeted as they sought shelter in a home after an initial air strike hit the vehicle in front of them, killing two men. The officials also accused the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of intentionally targeting a marked ambulance as it tried to reach the journalists in the village of Tayri. The IDF denied that it was preventing rescue teams from reaching the area and said it did not target journalists. Journalists Khalil, 43, who worked for Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, and Faraj, a freelance photographer, were travelling together. The two men who died have not been named by officials. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said: “Targeting journalists, obstructing access to them by relief teams, and even targeting their locations again after these teams arrive constitutes described war crimes.” He accused Israel of repeatedly targeting media workers in southern Lebanon in what he described as “an established approach”. Salam offered condolences to Khalil’s family and said that Lebanon would “pursue the crimes before the competent international forums”. In a statement, the IDF said it “does not target journalists and acts to mitigate harm to them while maintaining the safety and security of its troops”. The IDF said it identified two vehicles that had “departed from a military structure used by Hezbollah”. One of the vehicles had approached Israeli troops in a manner that was an “immediate threat” after crossing a “forward defence line”, violating a ceasefire, the statement said. The IDF said the Israeli Air Force then struck one of the vehicles, and that the “structure from which the individuals had fled was also struck”. The Lebanese health ministry said the IDF “pursued” Khalil and Faraj, “who had taken refuge from the first raid in a nearby house, targeting the house where they had sought shelter”. When a Lebanese Red Cross ambulance arrived to treat the wounded, Israeli forces directed a stun grenade and gunfire toward it, preventing it from reaching them, the ministry said in a statement. “This constitutes a blatant double violation: obstructing the rescue efforts of a citizen known for her civic media activism, and targeting an ambulance clearly marked with the Red Cross emblem,” the health ministry said. Clayton Weimer, the executive director of Reporters Without Borders, said the IDF had received messages from the organisation, as well as journalists, asking that it allow ambulances to get to Khalil. “The Red Cross signalled they were unable to get through because of ongoing Israeli bombardment. So that is callous disregard, on top of what appears to be a deliberate and targeted killing of a journalist.” Faraj was eventually evacuated along with two of the dead, the statement added. Khalil’s body was later recovered by emergency teams, according to Lebanon’s civil defence agency. On Thursday morning, journalists gathered at Martyrs Square in Beirut to remember her in silence.

US official suggests Italy (who didn’t qualify) may replace Iran football team (who did) at US based World Cup.

Shahzad Akbar, anti corruption Minister under Imran Khan in Pakistan, on how paid thugs have attacked him and his house in UK, and how attacks on dissidents from other countries is common in UK. Three men charged after ‘highly targeted attacks’ against Pakistani dissidents Alleged attacks took place in Cambridgeshire and Buckinghamshire against two prominent supporters of jailed former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan Three men have been charged after a series of “highly targeted” attacks against two Pakistani dissidents living in Britain. Police carried out a series of seven raids and arrests this week in London, Essex and the Midlands after four attacks, which began on Christmas Eve. The attacks took place in Cambridgeshire and Buckinghamshire against two prominent supporters of the jailed former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan. One of the victims, human rights lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar, a former member of Khan’s cabinet, told the Guardian he had been punched up to 30 times by a man who knocked on his door and checked his identity. Counter-terror police (CTP) said it took over the investigations from local police because of the “highly targeted nature” of the attacks. On Friday, CTP London said three men had been charged, and all are British nationals. Karl Blackbird, 40, from Bedworth, has been charged with conspiracy to assault occasioning actual bodily harm in respect of two alleged attacks on 24 December. Clark McAulay, 39, from Coventry, has been charged with conspiracy to assault occasioning actual bodily harm over an incident in Chesham. Doneto Brammer, 21, from Wood Green, London, has been charged in connection with the alleged attack on 31 December at Akbar’s home in Cambridgeshire. Brammer is charged with possession of a prohibited weapon, conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life, and conspiracy to commit arson being reckless as to whether life would be endangered. All three men were charged on Friday and will appear at Westminster magistrates court on Saturday. Police had arrested a man aged 34 in Essex on 5 January, who was released on bail. On Wednesday, five more people were arrested, including three of those now charged. Other arrests took place of a man, 30, in Birmingham and a woman, 40, in north London, both of whom have been released on bail. The seventh arrest on Friday was of a 25-year-old man who was arrested in Warwickshire and remains in custody in a London police station. Counter-terrorism detectives say they also carried out a series of searches, with four in Birmingham, one in Coventry, one in Warwickshire and two at sites in London. Police said the investigation continues and added: “Detectives are keeping an open mind as to any potential motivation behind the incidents. Officers are also keeping an open mind as to whether any of the incidents are potentially linked, and this remains an active line of inquiry being considered.” Akbar, 48, told the Guardian he was in hiding after the attacks: “They are trying to scare and intimidate me, and I am pretty scared. I fear for my life and for my family’s lives.” The human rights barrister added: “I am a Pakistani dissident living in exile here. I am an open critic of the Pakistani regime, which is backed by the military. “I cannot say who did it. However, one thing is certain: it was a targeted attack and the people who attacked were probably hired by someone.”

Were BP behind the 1979 Iranian revolution? William Engdahl book on Shah. At the time, the Shah was negotiating a 25-year oil agreement with British Petroleum (BP), but talks broke down in October. BP demanded exclusive rights to future Iranian output but refused to guarantee oil purchases. The Shah balked and was on the verge of independently seeking new buyers with eager ones lined up in Germany, France, Japan and elsewhere. Washington and London were alarmed and acted. They implemented destabilization plans, starting with cutting Iranian oil purchases. Economic pressures followed, and trained US and UK agitators exacerbated them by fanning religious discontent and overall turmoil. Oil strikes as well were used. They crippled production and made things worse. American security advisors recommended Iran’s Savak secret police use repressive tactics to maximize antipathy to the Shah. The Carter administration cynically protested human rights abuses, and BBC correspondents exaggerated anti-Shah protests to rev up hysteria against him. At the same time, it gave Khomeini an open platform to speak and prevented the Shah from replying. Things came to a head in January, 1979 when he fled the country, and Khomeini returned to Tehran and proclaimed a theocratic state. Chaos was unleashed, and by May the new regime cancelled plans for further nuclear reactor development. At the same time, Iran’s oil exports were cut off, and the Saudis inexplicably cut their own in January. Spot prices skyrocketed, and a second oil shock ensued that was as deviously conceived as the first one. Then it got worse. In October, newly appointed Fed Chairman Paul Volker unleashed a new scheme that turned calamity into catastrophe by design. It was a radical new monetary policy on the pretext of “squeezing inflation out of the system.” In fact, it was made-in-Washington fraud to preserve dollar hegemony, make it the world’s most sought currency, and crush industrial growth to let political and financial power prop up dollar strength. Volker succeeded by raising interest rates from 10% to 16% and finally 20% in weeks. World policy makers were stunned, economies plunged into the deepest recession since the 1930s, and the dollar began an extraordinary five year ascent. The combined effect of oil and Volker shocks took “the bloom off the nuclear rose” and ended its threat to Anglo-American oil supremacy. And if more was needed it came on March 28, 1979 in the middle of Pennsylvania at a place called Three Mile Island. Conveniently, at the same time The China Syndrome was released that fictionalized the ongoing event. The combined effect was public hysteria, and later investigation revealed critical valves had illegally been closed. In addition, FEMA controlled all news to create panic. The scheme worked, and Anglo-American supremacy was reasserted over the industrial and financial world. Nothing is stable forever, however, and within a decade new rumblings would be felt.

Strait of Hormuz documentary. Press TV. Hormuz, the untold story of the Strait – Iran’s Press TV The Strait of Hormuz, together with the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Strait of Malacca, forms the world’s energy transit triangle. Two of these three straits are under the control of the Axis of Resistance against colonialism. But the Strait of Hormuz alone has a story worth hearing — a story of occupation by the Portuguese and the British, and of the Iranian people’s struggle to reclaim and dominate this vital global trade waterway.