Over the weekend, Kelly joined her mum Sharon Osbourne at the Brits, where they delivered a speech in honour of Ozzy Osbourne’s posthumous Lifetime Achievement prize.

On Monday, Kelly reposted another message from fellow rock star’s daughter Mia Tyler, which admonished those who would “dissect someone’s appearance instead of honouring their courage” while they are grieving.

“Public grief is not public property,” the original post read. “Grief can change a person. That doesn’t make their body a topic for debate. Before you comment on someone’s body, consider the possibility that they’re carrying something heavier than your opinion.

“It takes real strength to stand in the public eye, accepting accolades for their late iconic father and hold themselves together in front of the world. The least we can do is show the same grace in return. Kindness costs nothing. Cruelty costs character.”

Mia’s post concluded: “It’s unsettling how quickly people will dissect someone’s appearance instead of honouring their courage. If you have the energy to comment, you have the energy to be kind. Choose accordingly.”

UK PM Keir Starmer gave his best attempt to tell Trump off in the House of Commons. This comes in response to Trump’s recent jab at the British government’s supposed delay to jump on board with the war in Iran. Trump said that Starmer “took far too long” to allow the US military to use a UK base in Cyprus.

Of course, just hours after Starmer publicly announced that permission had been granted, the base was attacked in retaliation for facilitating the US invasion of Iran. And, it must be noted, this is a war which many ex-military officials in the US have already labelled “illegal.”

So, when Starmer’s ‘rebuke’ of Trump did come, it fell rather flat.

Starmer strong man act falls flat

Stating that the US President has ‘expressed his disagreement’ with the UK, the weak PM attempted to look strong by justifying his decision as one of British national interest. Starmer said:

The lessons of history have taught us that it is important when we make decisions like this, that we establish there is a lawful basis for what the United Kingdom is doing.

That is one of the lessons from Iraq, and that there’s a viable thought-through plan with an objective that can be achieved or has a viable prospect of being achieved.

He continued:

This government does not believe in regime change from the skies.

But, it does believe in assisting US-led regime change via supplying airbases?

This belated ‘strong man’ impression offered by Starmer has been received as the damp squib it is. After all, the human rights barrister-turned-leader has had no problem supporting his allies in their numerous war crimes. He has been perfectly happy shielding war criminals responsible for a genocide against Palestinians.

Pressure from MAGA

However, this bravado exposes how impossible it is to have a diplomatic relationship with the demagogue US President. It is well known how Trump uses economic and military warfare to get his own way, highlighting the terrifying precedent being set by the rogue president for ‘diplomacy’.

Now our government is under pressure by the MAGA administration to get involved with their illegal war on Iran, it is more important than ever that we demand a divergence from the US. It cannot be understated that this aggression threatens chaos and suffering across the region, a chaos will undoubtedly and deservedly reach our shores.

Keir Starmer, “President Trump has expressed his disagreement with our decision not to get involved in the initial strikes”

“But it is my duty to judge what is in Britain’s national interest”

“That is what I’ve done and I stand by it”

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— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) March 2, 2026

It’s clear Starmer is going to great pains to differentiate between offensive and defensive military actions. But, the fact the UK is involved at all makes Starmer’s so-called ‘challenge’ to Trump look pathetic.

Iran has the right to retaliate under international law to threats posed against its sovereign territory. With our diplomatic cover and spineless behaviour, the UK is supporting the existential threat Iran faces from the US and Israel. Ignoring that, the UK Prime Minister appears to apply international law selectively – invoking and interpreting it in ways that shield the United States and Israel from accountability.

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“Special relationship” under strain

Like a child throwing his toys out of the pram as per usual, Trump has already retaliated. He stated today that our relationship is now strained, indicating the cost that comes through legitimising Trump’s rogue, illegal and escalating decisions:

US President Trump has lashed out at Britain’s PM Starmer for refusing to back Washington’s war against Iran, warning that the so-called “special relationship” now faces strain.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/mSvQSyvKdN pic.twitter.com/c7YsJNdxVM

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) March 3, 2026

Our own Joe Glenton wrote in February about just how occupied we are by the US, signaling the tightrope and danger we are in if Trump is allowed to keep ignoring the rule of law. He wrote:

The UK is even more of a US military colony than we thought. New documents found in the US War Department’s website show that Britain hosts double the number of American military facilities previously reported.

Glenton finished with a vital rallying cry:

The truth is that Britain is a vassal state and colony of the United States. We say the UK would better off if it was not. US bases, troops and spies need to go.

Ordinary people thankfully can recognise legality better than our barrister PM. One X account commented on Starmer’s woefully manipulative speech, pointing out the legally obvious:

I’m just gonna leave this here.

UN Charter:
“Under international law, the UK can be held responsible if it permits its territory to be used by another state to commit an “internationally wrongful act” (such as an illegal war) if it has knowledge of the circumstances.”

It’s hard to believe Starmer doesn’t know this is illegal, especially due to his maneuvering and apparent discomfort with involvement in offensive actions. Maybe the UK PM is only happy with one illegal bombing campaign at a time, having been complicit in the genocide and heavily funded by the Israel lobby. Needless to say, his pushback to Trump is really just semantics and wordplay.

Curtis Daly pointed out on X just how easy this decision should have been:

So he should have told Trump to piss off when he asked to use our military bases. Starmer is complicit. https://t.co/RWI06XUTIq

— Curtis Daly (@CurtisDaly_) March 2, 2026

Careful the company you keep, Starmer

This horrific war of aggression that has already killed hundreds of Iranians and wounded hundreds more has to be the wake-up call for allies of the US. The US is falling, it is in its final days after repeatedly decimating any respect previously afforded to it. It being allowed to maintain control of the world order will put all countries on the backfoot, whilst prioritising the interests that Trump serves: the super-rich and powerful.

This aggressive US world order will undoubtedly escalate, and it has never been more objectively clear that a thug sits in the White House. If we don’t want Trump’s angry, bloodthirsty glare to fall on the UK we must urge our spineless PM to actually object to the US and Israel’s unaccountable war on Iran.

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Campaigners from Fossil Free London formed a human red line along the riverbank directly across from Westminster on 3 March. All dressed in red, they held a long red ribbon and signs reading ‘Hold the Line’ and ‘Stop Rosebank’.

The demonstration comes as the government prepares to decide the fate of the Rosebank oil field. It’s the largest undeveloped oil field in the North Sea. However, the Scottish courts overturned its original approval in January 2025.

The court ruling demanded that the project’s primary owner, Norwegian state oil giant Equinor, provide a fuller assessment of the project’s climate impacts before any approval could proceed. Critics argue that burning Rosebank’s total reserves would produce more carbon dioxide than the world’s 28 lowest-income countries emit in a year combined. Also, the vast majority of the oil would go for export. So it wouldn’t be lowering UK energy bills or improving energy security.

The Rosebank development would also hand substantial tax relief from the public purse to Equinor. Equinor’s profits flow largely into Norway’s sovereign wealth fund. A share of profits would also go to the Delek Group, an Israeli fuel conglomerate. The UN has flagged this company for human rights violations in Palestine.

Joanna Warrington, spokesperson for Fossil Free London, said:

Whilst people across the country are watching their bills skyrocket and extreme weather events and climate disasters fill their phone screens: our government stands at a crossroads.

At this point in climate collapse, approving any new oil and gas project is tantamount to climate denial. It is like a doctor diagnosing a patient with lung cancer and handing them a cigarette.

A red line must be drawn. Kier Starmer, stop Rosebank.

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What is “frictionmaxxing”?

This idea might not be entirely new

I took a small step towards “frictionmaxxing” and was instantly convinced

Scream 7 actor Anna Camp has apologised for resharing a post about the film’s release that she said did not “reflect” her “personal beliefs”.

Shortly after this, the film’s director parted ways with the project, as did Melissa’s co-star Jenna Ortega.

After the film hit cinemas, and it was reported to have made around $100 million in its opening weekend, cast member Anna reshared a post from X on her Instagram page, which read: “The boycott didn’t work, the critics’ hate didn’t work, the pathetic leaks didn’t work.

“What worked was audiences coming out and making the film a success.”

She accompanied this with a blast of Taylor Swift’s Karma.

However, after facing backlash, Anna removed the post and shared an apology.

“It has come to my attention that I reposted someone else’s story that does not reflect my personal beliefs,” the Pitch Perfect star told her X followers. “I have since deleted the repost because I absolutely meant no harm.”

Anna added: “I’m sorry to anyone who was affected.”

Around 250 people gathered outside Belfast’s City Hall on Monday March 2 to voice their disgust at the illegal aggression launched against Iran by US/Zionist terrorists. They were met by a much smaller crowd of around 30 people voicing their support for Reza Pahlavi. The man they are backing is the son of the Shah of Iran deposed in 1979 during the Iranian revolution.

He has bravely been willing to fight to the last drop of someone else’s blood from his home in the United States. Earlier this year he encouraged desperate young people to their death in protests met with brutal force by the theocrats in Tehran. Now he’s happy for his own people to be butchered again by the thugs in Washington and Tel Aviv. All this so he can regain the 1,648,195 km² of Iran he sees as his personal property, along with the 90 million people within it.

Monarchists back alternate form of tyranny

Supporters of Pahlavi at times waded into the crowd of anti-war demonstrators to try and instigate confrontation. Some of the former group brandished ‘Israeli’ flags and were met with shouts of “Zionist scum, off our streets”.

A slightly larger group of monarchists gathered at the same location on Sunday after the murder of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei. Many held the flag of the Zionist entity on that occasion too, indicating they are also happy for ordinary Iranian people to be treated as expendable in the name of installing the self-appointed “Shah II”.

Gerry Carroll, West Belfast MLA for People Before Profit was the first speaker, successfully able to drown out interruptions from the monarchists. He started by denouncing the massacre of school children carried out by Zionist savages.

I don’t know anybody who claims they’re for freedom and democracy and human rights, but then cheer a school in Iran being blown to bits and at least 160 children being killed. In my eyes, in most people’s eyes across the world, that is not democracy, human rights and dignity. And we’re here to stand against that quite clearly and loudly.

He also called out the hypocrisy of the US demanding an end to Iran’s nuclear program:

The International Atomic Energy Authority…have said…that Iran is compliant when it comes to nuclear weapons. Now, I don’t think there should be any nuclear weapons across the world, but [we] must remind ourselves: who is the country, the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons? I’ll give you a clue. This, the United States government, they have used it on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Never trust Zionists

Palestinian Mohammad Samana told the Pahlavi supporters backing so-called ‘Israel’ to beware, based on the bitter experience of his people:

For our friends, there protesting: nobody experienced ‘Israel’ as much as the Palestinians. They came to our land claiming being the victims. We welcomed them. And they took our land and created their apartheid state.

‘Israel’ told the world in 1993, that there will be a Palestinian state by 1998. But they used the agreement to steal more Palestinian land and ensured that they prevented the creation of a Palestinian state and colonised the West Bank and destroyed Gaza.

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Crucially, Iranian Azedeh Sobout spoke too, saying:

I stand before you as an Iranian woman, one who opposes the men who rule my country now and the men who ruled it before. The current theocratic regime that massacred thousands of protesters in January and the monarchists backed up by U.S. standing at the other side. There is a space for people like me, [though] very little, in this current geopolitical script because we are constantly told that we must choose. Choose between a dictator and a bombing campaign. Choose between repression and destruction. Choose between submission and annihilation.

We reject that choice. This binary is false. It is coercive and it erases our political agency. It assumes that Iranians cannot imagine or build a future beyond the options imposed on us by empires and dictators. That logic is colonial. Their logic is colonial. That’s why they can only ally with the US, Israel and British colonial systems.

Regime change starts at home

She concluded:

Align your solidarity with our revolutionary philosophy: Jin, Jîyan, Azadî; woman, life, freedom. A vision rooted in Kurdish feminist struggle. A struggle [which] the monarchists are terrified of…because it’s based on feminist, working class resistance and democratic dignity.

And if you believe in regime change, begin it at home. Thank you.

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Her last words are an essential message. We’re limited in the direct effect we can have on events thousands of miles away. What we can effect is that which happens right where we stand, in our own communities, town halls and parliaments. That means sweeping away any politician that shows the merest hint of sympathy towards the terrorist forces of the United States and so-called ‘Israel’.

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A new YouGov poll has put the Green Party in second place, just two points behind Reform. This comes just after the Greens announced they have more than 200,000 members. And with Labour lagging five points behind Zack Polanski’s party, it seems voters now see the Greens as the main opposition to Reform.

Pollsters think the “seismic” Green by-election win on 27 February 2026, along with the public exposure surrounding it, has had a big influence on voter perceptions. In particular, it has shown the Green Party is a viable electoral choice which is fully capable of winning elections.

Our latest voting intention (1-2 March 2026) has the Greens on their highest figure ever recorded by YouGov, significantly ahead of Labour, who are on their lowest figure to date

Reform UK: 23% (-1 from 22-23 Feb)
Greens: 21% (+4)
Conservatives: 16% (-2)
Labour: 16% (-2)
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— YouGov (@YouGov) March 3, 2026

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The result is the Greens’ highest with YouGov, and Labour’s lowest.

Despite Labour plummeting into the dustbin of history, however, Polanski has noted that Labour leader Keir Starmer is just doubling down on his failing strategy (which has already seen 25% of 2024 Labour voters go Green). And his tactics are continuing to backfire:

On Sunday I announced on the BBC that Green Party membership is 200,000.

Keir Starmer continues to keep trying to smear us – calling us extremists.

The result? We’ve had thousands and thousands of new members in the past 48 hours alone.https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp https://t.co/gk2iB7ThOT

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— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) March 2, 2026

Times are changing, and the old order is dying

Sky News clarified that:

The Greens are now the most popular party in all age categories under 50.

Let’s emphasise that point again. *Every generation under the age of 50 prefers the Greens to any other party.* That includes almost 50% of 18-to-24-year-olds and 27% of people between the ages of 25 and 49.

Sky also reported that Greens are boosting their support levels in working-class communities, saying:

Those classified as doing “routine” jobs also vote Green in significant numbers.

The Green Party is now a mass party, not a niche one. And current polling already makes the potential electoral map look slightly more hopeful than it seemed a few months ago:

It’s just 1 poll (for now) – but here’s how it plays out in the Nowcast Model:

RFM: 227 (+222)
GRN: 135 (+131)
LDM: 92 (+20)
CON: 59 (-62)
SNP: 48 (+39)
LAB: 40 (-371)
PLC: 20 (+16)
Others: 10 (+5) https://t.co/C6e7Abw34H pic.twitter.com/49xhYWsezR

— Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) March 3, 2026

According to that projection, a far-right coalition of Reform and Tories would still win. But a centre-left coalition of the Greens, SNP, and Plaid Cymru would be hot on their heels. And if the centre-right Liberal Democrats preferred to back a Green-led coalition to stop the far right, the Reform-led coalition would lose.

As Polanski has emphasised, there is a massive section of society that clearly wants hope. These people want to stop the far right, get investment in their communities and public services, have lower bills, and protect the planet from the billionaire warmongers intent on destroying it:

It’s becoming increasingly clear every single day that the way to stop the rise of the right in this country is to join the Green Party.

It’s also the way to invest in our communities, lower our bills and protect our planet.https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp https://t.co/uaKZd8pgB2

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) March 3, 2026

Turns out lowering bills, protecting the NHS and rebuilding our public services is really popular.

This is just the beginning – people are seeing through the attacks and demanding something better.

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And we’re making hope normal again – together.https://t.co/0QUCQbH19l https://t.co/bLXPb0v7Z1

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) March 3, 2026

The old order is rapidly fading away. Times are changing. And the Greens have placed themselves at the forefront of that struggle for a better country and a better world. There’s no hiding from that fact now, and Reform’s elitist hatemongers must be shaking in their jackboots.

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