Zarah Sultana, Zack Polanski have condemned Starmer as American B-1 bombers have refuelled in the UK. Starmer granted permission for the US to use British bases on Sunday, March 1, 2026, days before the bomber arrived.

The B-1 bomber landed at RAF Fairford on Friday evening, according to the BBC. It is a US base.

Polanski shared a post by GB News saying the first of several American B-1 heavy bombers landing at RAF Fairford saying that they should not be allowed to do that. “Over 1000 civilians dead already after illegal war started by the US and Israel — and all this with no vote in the UK parliament about our role,” he said.

These aircraft should not be allowed to land on British Soil.

Over 1000 civilians dead already after illegal war started by the US and Israel – and all this with no vote in the UK parliament about our role. https://t.co/hWzBGwura8

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— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) March 6, 2026

Zarah Sultana MP also shared the news, accusing Starmer of gaslighting the public by claiming the UK isn’t at war while American bombers use British soil to bomb Iran

American B-1 bombers are landing on British soil before flying off to bomb Iran, yet Keir Starmer gaslights the nation by claiming the UK isn’t at war.

These aircraft are dropping 2,000lb bombs on schools, hospitals and homes in Iran, where the death toll has already surpassed… pic.twitter.com/btrDZXp0Fd

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) March 7, 2026

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Declassified news also shared the news of the bombers on UK soil saying: “Even Britain’s national media are giving the public notice of the UK’s government complicity in the imminent mass bombing of Iran.”

Martin Curtis on Declassified pointed out that nothing about the bombers was defensive, as the UK Government has insisted that its role is “defensive.”

US B-1 bombers are arriving at Fairford.

They “carry the largest conventional payload” in the USAF and “deliver massive quantities of precision and non-precision weapons against any adversary, anywhere in the world”.

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Great for defensive operations. https://t.co/Wv6W2prz7N

— Mark Curtis (@markcurtis30) March 7, 2026

Protest marches against illegal US war

A demonstration is also underway outside RAF Fairford on Saturday, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) posted on X.

Demonstration is also underway outside RAF Fairford, the US base in Britain used by long-range bombers. https://t.co/hhJ98AX2Yz

— Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (@CNDuk) March 7, 2026

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CND was also at the London protest on Saturday saying:

Today’s demonstration against the illegal US and Israeli attacks on Iran is about to begin. Rally will be at the US Embassy, where we’ll be calling for an end to the nuclear hypocrisy and for Keir Starmer to stop allowing the use of British bases.

Today’s demonstration against the illegal US and Israeli attacks on Iran is about to begin. Rally will be at the US Embassy, where we’ll be calling for an end to the nuclear hypocrisy and for Keir Starmer to stop allowing the use of British bases. #NoWarOnIran pic.twitter.com/PGQQW7bDPq

— Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (@CNDuk) March 7, 2026

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You are war profiteering monsters. https://t.co/3FLlNcv032

— CODEPINK (@codepink) March 7, 2026

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Nathan J Robinson, editor of Current Affairs condemned their killing of school girls.

dead kids are great for business https://t.co/I8y1mQdlRy

— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) March 7, 2026

Ryan Grim of Dropsite News sarcastically thanked the military company for its patriotic duty.

Lockheed selflessly and patriotically agrees to quadruple its production. What would we do without our military industrial complex? 🔥❤️🦅🇺🇸 https://t.co/uc3StHeL9f

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) March 6, 2026

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Jackie Walker said that all war was a profit equation for capitalism.

Of course they are! All war is a profit equation for capitalism. We need to control the demons before they destroy us all https://t.co/AdBMHOqN7I

— Jackie Walker – HRH, MP, MBE, ABC (@Jackiew80333500) March 7, 2026

US’s other major military company, Northrop Grumman made an almost identical tweet.

We are proud to be part of the President’s focus on speed and investment to deliver military strength for our nation. Thank you for your leadership President @realDonaldTrump, @SecWar Hegseth and Deputy Secretary Feinberg. https://t.co/QqrNQzyNpK

— Northrop Grumman (@northropgrumman) March 6, 2026

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Apart, from expressing horror for the destruction these bombs create, people were also calling bullshit.

Podcast Carl Zha said that the US had no plan.

They’re desperate.

There’s no plan https://t.co/7XhuICXCzI

— Carl Zha (@CarlZha) March 6, 2026

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Time magazine reported that the war with Iran is burning through U.S. weapons stockpiles so fast it’s raising concerns from Ukraine to Taiwan about whether there’s enough left to defend against Russia and China.

From Washington to Ukraine to Taiwan, there’s growing concern that Iran is draining U.S. supplies of weapons relied on by U.S. allies. https://t.co/qOPobJ0FHl

— TIME (@TIME) March 4, 2026

Time Magazine said

Reuters also reported US looking for critical minerals — need for making munitions and other military hardware, before US began the illegal war on Iran.

Pentagon sought fresh supply of 13 critical minerals day before Iran attack https://t.co/06eX7vc26u https://t.co/06eX7vc26u

— Reuters (@Reuters) March 4, 2026 

Andrew Gawthorpe of Leiden University said the U.S. and its allies might run out of air defenses before Iran runs out of airborne projectiles.

The exact size of missile defence stocks is classified. But a look at budgetary and procurement data suggests that US forces will become stretched within a matter of days or several weeks at the very most. At that point, the US will have to begin drawing down missile defence stocks from the rest of the world.

A day before the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, the Pentagon quietly asked mining companies to help boost domestic supplies of 13 critical minerals used to make semiconductors, weapons, and other military products.

The request, reviewed by Reuters, went out last Friday to members of the Defense Industrial Base Consortium, a group of more than 1,500 companies and universities that supply the military. The deadline for proposals is March 20.

The list includes arsenic, bismuth, gadolinium, germanium, graphite, hafnium, nickel, samarium, tungsten, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium and zirconium.

So, Lockheed Martin’s love letter on X might just be a cover for the Pentagon quietly scrambling to secure the materials needed to actually build the weapons they just promised to quadruple.

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The US press is attempting to manufacture consent for the US army to invade Iran.

A Washington Post article, dated Saturday, 6 March, states that the US army has:

abruptly canceled a major training exercise for the headquarters element of an elite paratrooper unit.

Which is:

fueling speculation within the Defense Department that soldiers specializing in ground combat and a range of other missions may be sent to the Middle East as the conflict with Iran widens.

The article goes on to state that the 82nd Airborne Division, an elite paratrooper unit which specialises in ground combat and other “fraught missions”, will attempt to take Kharg Island, in the Persian Gulf.

The island is one of the most “strategically sensitive points in the global oil network.” It has a loading capacity of around 7m barrels per day.

Importantly:

At times, around 90 per cent of the nation’s oil exports have passed through Kharg. Pipelines connect the island to offshore oilfields in the Persian Gulf, as well as major oilfields on the Iranian mainland

Only last week, Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, said that sending US ground troops into Iran wasn’t part of the current plan. However, she was not going to remove one of Trump’s options.

US and the second coming of Christ

However, on the ground, reports suggest that the government has activated far more military units than they’d like the public to know.

Phone has been ringing off the hook. A LOT more units have just been activated for deployment than the public knows about… https://t.co/qax3F23lwM

— Mike Prysner (@MikePrysner) March 6, 2026

One US soldier told their parent they were going “boots on the ground” before losing access to all communications. His commander had told him they were going to bring the “second coming of Christ”.

I just spoke with the mother of a service member in this unit. They were given one last call home before having to turn in their phones. He told his mom the were going “boots on the ground” tonight. pic.twitter.com/3OCupSfp9Q

— Mike Prysner (@MikePrysner) March 7, 2026

Of course, this has not been confirmed by official sources — but it appears that the US is preparing to invade.

I was part of the buildup to invasion of Iraq. What I’ve heard today from troops & families is so reminiscent of Feb-Mar ‘03. Doesn’t prove the US is invading, but that they are definitely preparing to. Will they? Probably weighing many factors… and our resistance is one of them

— Mike Prysner (@MikePrysner) March 7, 2026

Now, we are watching media outlets on both sides of the Atlantic manufacture consent for a ground invasion of Iran. This is exactly what we saw in 2003 with Iraq.

From the Washington Post and the BBC, quoting a UK military source who said it was:

probably the most dangerous time of the last 30 years

To Sky News, talking about the potential deployment of an aircraft carrier to the Middle East.

The media is doing exactly what Western politicians and Benjamin Netanyahu want them to do. Create the illusion of a huge and endemic threat to Western civilisation that only murdering muslims will solve.

What they want you to believe

Israel is carpet bombing Iran and southern Lebanon. Meanwhile, the establishment media pushes the narrative that Israel is only targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, a bunch of “Islamist militants”.

What they don’t want you to know is that Hezbollah was only formed in 1982, in resistance to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Israel is literally the reason Hezbollah exists.

Yet Israel, the US, the UK and the entirety of the corporate media want us to believe that they’re terrorists who hate the West, instead of resistance fighters who have watched Israel systematically destroy the homes and lives of people in the region for over 60 years.

Now, media outlets on both sides of the ocean are about to let politicians continue and expand Netanyahu’s illegal regime, which is nothing but a colonialist, terrorist conquest.

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War enthusiast and former Tory minister ghoul Penny Mordaunt appeared on Channel 4’s The Last Leg last night. And she got owned in a clip that would surely go viral were it not for Channel 4’s screen recording block that prevents even fair-use clipping. Fear not, we worked around it.

As the show neared its end, Mordaunt must have thought she’d successfully negotiated the potential pitfalls. But Irish comedian Vittorio Angelone was having none of that. As Mordaunt plugged her interests, Angelone praised her for her commitment to the prosthetics industry by promoting arms sales — and then it got even better. Bear with the hiss at the beginning, it only lasts a few seconds and it’s subbed to make it easier.  Enjoy:

The clip triggered delighted discussions on Reddit and a stream of mockery on X even though people couldn’t share clips:

Penny fucking Mordaunt on The Last Leg, that’s the worst booking since Graham Poll showed Josip Šimunić a third yellow card

— Chris (@CEtchingham77) March 7, 2026

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@vittorioangelon Just saw you v Penny Mordaunt on the last leg.

Marry me.

— Kate (@ThisIsKateL) March 6, 2026

The absolute icon and renowned demon @vittorioangelon calling out Penny Mordaunt on The Last Leg was some lovely work.

— Patrick Spelman (@flippflop) March 6, 2026

@vittorioangelon calling out Penny Mordaunt on The Last Leg was epic, and needed. Great work.

— plantpotjam (@plantpotjam) March 6, 2026

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Penny Mordaunt being ripped a new one on #TheLastLeg is the sort of TV we all need 🤣

— Matt (@trainfanmatt) March 6, 2026

seeing penny mordaunt getting the absolute piss taken out of her on live television has just made my day so much better

— tils (@hcafctils) March 6, 2026

#thelastleg I think Penny Mordaunt is regretting agreeing to be on tonight’s show.

— £200 a minute since 2005 🇵🇸 🔻 (@glazersleavenow) March 6, 2026

#isItOk that @vittorioangelon has just chewed up and spat out Penny Mordaunt on @TheLastLeg
You fuckin bet it is

— RedPaul 🏳️‍🌈🍉 🕉☮✊🏻 (@PIMC66) March 6, 2026

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And a few made use of the show’s “#isitOK” hashtag to make sure of maximum exposure:

#LastLeg #IsitOK that Penny Mordaunt looks absolutely fuming still @vittorioangelon pic.twitter.com/zE41YKomx2

— Mark (@mabmab71) March 6, 2026

#isItOk that @vittorioangelon has just chewed up and spat out Penny Mordaunt on @TheLastLeg
You fuckin bet it is

— RedPaul 🏳️‍🌈🍉 🕉☮✊🏻 (@PIMC66) March 6, 2026

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The UK Covid Inquiry came to an end on 5 March 2026. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) was a core participant in the Inquiry. It’s warning that this and future governments must learn lessons from the pandemic. They must ensure key workers and the general population have better protection in the future.

The union body paid tribute to all those who lost their lives during the pandemic. And it expressed its gratitude to key workers that kept the country going at a time of national crisis.

The TUC has set out five key recommendations to prevent the mistakes of the Covid pandemic and protect workers.

1) Stronger union voice

The Inquiry showed that involving unions in decision making, from the NHS to the design and implementation of furlough, saved lives and jobs.

The TUC is therefore calling for a more dynamic approach to social partnership. It wants to bring government, unions and employers together to design, deliver and manage responses to future pandemics.

In particular, unions’ input will be essential when designing measures to ensure better workplace safety measures and protections for workers across all sectors.

The lack of a union voice in the early days of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic meant that decisions didn’t take into account workers’ needs. This often resulted in workers having to rely on ill-fitting PPE, or work in unsafe environments.

2) Stronger enforcement

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the body responsible for workplace safety. In 2021/22, its funding was 43% lower than in 2009/10 in real terms. This had caused a 35% staff number cut in the ten years leading to the Covid-19 pandemic.

This meant that there was limited inspection or enforcement – despite thousands of reported outbreaks, with many workers losing their lives. Just under 5,000 of the new ‘spot check’ visits were undertaken by contractors working to the HSE in the first eight months of the pandemic. There were only 78 enforcement notices and zero prosecutions.

The union body says that proper investment needs to go back into the HSE. This would bolster the inspection and enforcement of health and safety regulations and protect workers.

3) Stronger sick pay

The TUC says reform of statutory sick pay will be essential in preventing the spread of future pandemics.

Sick pay reforms coming into force from 6 April as part of the Employment Rights Act will mean that around 8 million workers will benefit from stronger sick pay provisions.

The experience of millions of low paid workers during the pandemic – with many having to work while infectious – demonstrates why these new rights were overdue, and why no government should now undo that vital safety net, the TUC says.

4) Stronger public services

The TUC says the pandemic revealed the dangers of under-resourcing our public services after years of significant Conservative cuts.

A decade of austerity leading up to the pandemic led the Inquiry to conclude that:

public services, particularly health and social care, were running close to, if not beyond, capacity in normal times.

The union body says that:

lessons must be learned to save lives in future.

The TUC is urging the government to continue to invest in public services and its workforce to repair and rebuild after the damage done by 14 years of Conservative government.

It says investment in the workforce is the only way to improve service quality, increase productivity and boost public sector resilience.

5) Stronger Employment Rights

Evidence the TUC gave to the inquiry illustrated how workers in insecure employment were less likely to report safety breaches. This included agency workers, those on zero hours contracts and bogus self-employment. They were more likely to work in low paid and unsafe workplaces and move between multiple jobs and workplaces. And they were less likely to access sick pay.

Insecure workers were nearly 10 times more likely to say they received no sick pay compared to secure workers.

Black and ethnic minority workers’ over-representation in these types of jobs was one reason for the disproportionate impact of the pandemic in those communities.

The experience of workers in insecure and low paid employment shows why there was such a need for the Employment Rights Act, says the TUC.

TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said:

We owe it to those who lost their lives – and to those workers who put their lives at risk – to make sure we are prepared for future pandemics.

That means giving trade unions a seat at the table in pandemic planning – and adopting a social partnership approach by bringing unions, employers and government together to keep workers safe.

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And it means sustained investment in our public services to make sure they are resilient enough to cope with another pandemic.

The Conservatives took a sledgehammer to our cherished public services, leaving the NHS on its knees and struggling to cope when Covid-19 hit.

The Labour government has rightly increased health and education funding and gave many public service workers their first proper pay rise in years. But this cannot be a one off.

Covid showed us strong public services – and a properly supported workforce – are vital for the nation’s health and resilience.

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On tackling the scourge of insecure work and the Employment Rights Act, Nowak added:

The government also needs to address the structural inequalities and discrimination embedded in our labour market that put so many lives at risk.

That means delivering the Employment Rights Act in full, including new laws to ban exploitative zero hours contracts and give workers a right to a contract which reflects their regular hours.

From next month, workers will be able to get sick pay from day one. This is a game changer for millions of people up and down the country, and a positive first step towards building our resilience.

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Disgraced former Starmer adviser and UK ambassador Peter Mandelson has been released from his bail conditions after police decided he was not a flight risk, despite warnings from Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle that he was planning to leave the country.

Mandelson was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office after the latest Epstein files showed he had passed government secrets to serial child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein, with whom Mandelson remained smitten long after Epstein’s first paedophilia conviction.

Although he supposedly remains ‘under investigation’, the kid-glove treatment the Zionist former peer is receiving is a stark contrast with the brutal detention without trial inflicted for up to nineteen months on young people who tried to prevent the manufacture of weapons for Israel’s genocide.

Mandelson denies any wrongdoing. Keir Starmer has placed one of his Israel-supporting cronies in charge of deciding which information about his decision to give Mandelson his plum appointments can be withheld from public scrutiny.

The Met has returned Mandelson’s passport to him. The paedophile-protecting Starmer regime has still taken no action on behalf of victims of serial child-rapist and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. For more on the Epstein Files, please read the Canary’s article on how the media circus around Epstein is erasing the experiences of victims and survivors.

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Donald Trump’s illegal war on Iran is distracting from new Epstein file revelations showing testimony from a child victim alleging Trump raped and sexually assaulted her when she was between 13 and 15 years old. Trump’s farcically-named ‘Operation Epic Fury’ has been dubbed ‘Operation Epstein Distraction’ by disgusted service people and anti-war activists.

The latest evidence consists of three 2019 FBI interviews with a female Epstein victim who FBI alleges that Trump sexually and physically assaulted her as a young teenager after the serial child-rapist forced her to pander to Trump. Her main allegation is that the president orally raped her then beat her after she bit him in self-defence.

Trump’s allegations

The allegations are not new. A third party’s evidence of them was found in newly-released Epstein files in January 2023, but the Justice Department has now released additional FBI documents with the victim’s testimony, which had wrongly been marked as duplicates, supposedly because of their similarity to the other evidence. The victim reported that she and others close to her had received threatening calls for years demanding she keep quiet.

Even though the files released so far only amount to around 2% of the total, Trump appears thousands of times. In one witness submission, he was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl who eventually became pregnant — then standing by as the girl’s uncle killed the baby and dumped its body from a bridge into a lake.

Analyst and former Israeli diplomat Shaiel ben-Ephraim told Al Jazeera that Trump’s ‘war as distraction’ tactic is working, at least for now:

[He] really needs a distraction from [Epstein and other domestic issues] in the form of a war. And if you look at searches on Google for the Epstein files, they’ve plummeted since this started. So, at least temporarily, it’s succeeding. It’s taking up Congress’s time and it’s taking up the media’s time.

Many believe that Trump agreed to Israel’s demand for war on Iran because Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu must have threatened him with the release of incriminating evidence during Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington. Epstein was an Israeli spy whose apartment and presumably houses had Israeli cameras and recording equipment installed.

The ‘Epstein class’s first act in the war was to bomb a girls’ school, killing almost 170 children. Murdering children to distract from sex crimes against them. Trump, unsurprisingly, denies any wrongdoing.

Featured image via the Canary

1) Having a lower sex drive than their partner

2) Pain during penetrative sex

3) Not orgasming during partnered sex

4) Body image issues

5) Losing desire thanks to the mental load

6) Not putting their own pleasure first

So, uh, any advice?

Fossil Free London campaigners protested outside the National Gallery dressed as suffragettes today. The action took place ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, drawing attention to the tightening of anti-protest laws.

The group held placards drawing direct comparisons between the jail terms received by climate protesters, and those handed to militant suffragettes in the early twentieth century.

Suffragette protest still echoes today

Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, Just Stop Oil activists, received a combined 44 months in prison for throwing soup in the National Gallery. They caused minor damage to the frame of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting.

Their action recalled the famous National Gallery protest by militant suffragette Mary Richardson, arrested for slashing Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus. A crime for which she got a considerably shorter sentence of six months in prison.

Successive governments have systematically reduced the right to protest in recent years, with a wave of draconian legislation.

The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act, 2022 dramatically expanded police powers, including the ability to restrict protests for being too noisy; a vague measure that is at the discretion of officers.

It also shifted the burden of proof onto protesters themselves, making it an offence to breach a police condition, even if a demonstrator could not reasonably have known about it.

The Public Order Act followed this in 2023. It introduced sweeping new criminal offences including “lock on” protests and obstructing major transport works. And it brought in stop and search powers that require no reasonable grounds for suspicion.

These powers came in the same year as the Casey Review. The review described stop and search as a ‘racialised tool’ used by an ‘institutionally racist’ police force.

These same laws have been used to impose disproportionate sentences on non-violent activists. Several Just Stop Oil protesters received multi-year custodial sentences, the longest ever handed out in the UK for non-violent protest.

Robin Wells, Director of Fossil Free London, said:

In 1906 Suffragettes were called criminals, locked up for fighting for their right to vote. Now, they’re rightly celebrated. But their modern counterparts – the women leading the climate movement – face harsher penalties than 1906. Back when it was normal to see women as less than full human beings.

The government uses one hand to erect statues to historic rights advocates, and swipes away the rights those advocates used to achieve their success with the other.

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They say we’re in a democracy. Then they make almost all effective protest methods illegal.

The government says they’re acting on climate. Then they approve third runways and subsidies, and hint at waving through carbon bomb oil projects like Rosebank.

We, women campaigners of today, mean to celebrate the Suffragettes by continuing in their fight. Heed our clarion call, the same as our sisters from the past: deeds not words.

Deeds on climate!

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Defend people, protect our one home and Stop Rosebank!

Deeds on our right to protest!

Repeal the Public Order Act 2023!

Featured image via Andrea Domeniconi / Fossil Free London