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)
Lib… pic.twitter.com/C7tL21tzBv

— 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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“Always cut back to something”

Why should you prune back to a side shoot or bud?

Andrew Gilligan is a writer and former No10 adviser.

Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative Party likes to see itself as the hard-headed teller of difficult truths, the fearless critic of bad ideas and the maker of tough decisions. That’s exactly what it should be, what the country needs it to be, and what it sometimes actually is.

Not always, though. The Tory front bench’s first response to several seismically bad Labour ideas has been either fence-sitting (for instance, on digital ID) or feeble acquiescence (on the “Hillsborough law,” which risks making Whitehall ungovernable.)

The periodic woolly-mindedness of our time in government lingers. As we did then, we’re still backing some stupid policies because they “look good,” because some lobby group or celebrity wants them, or because opposing them might make us “look bad.”

The frontbench toughened up on rejecting digital ID – helping cause a swift government U-turn – but it now seems to be embracing a new stupid policy, a new politicians’ magic answer: “Northern Powerhouse Rail” (NPR). This project achieves the difficult feat of making HS2 seem quite sensible. It will be a high-speed line, from Liverpool to Manchester and possibly Leeds, on which trains can never reach high speeds, because the stations are too close together.

The Liverpool-Manchester stretch  – Labour’s priority – will cost at least £17bn, almost certainly closer to £30bn, but journeys between the two cities will actually take longer than the existing service. That’s because it runs via Manchester Airport – sort of. The “airport” station will actually be a mile from the airport; you’d have to transfer by bus.

Yet in last month’s Commons debate on carrying over the bill to build NPR – or part of it, at least – Jerome Mayhew, the shadow rail minister, criticised the Government for the “lack of progress” it was making on the scheme and asked accusingly: “What cuts will [the Transport Secretary] be forced to make, and are they to the high-speed section?”

Maybe we’re worried that opposing NPR would look anti-North. But NPR – though understandably beloved of the profit-scenting construction lobby, and the Labour mayors it has captured – is in fact a huge obstacle to giving the North the better transport it badly needs.

Public transport is a network. Creating better public transport does not mean grafting one new high-speed line, serving a handful of places, onto an otherwise still decrepit system. It means creating a better network, through hundreds of small and medium improvements as well as some large ones: bus, tram and local rail, not just inter-city.

The North’s main rail capacity problem is not on links – lines between cities – but at nodes: places where the trains converge, above all central Manchester. NPR would do little to fix this.

Most importantly, NPR is a fantasy: there will never be enough money, perhaps £70-100bn, to build the whole thing (Labour has just cancelled the northern half of the Midland Main Line electrification to save £1bn). It is described as “unachievable” by the Government’s own infrastructure watchdog. Every pound and every month wasted on a scheme that will never happen is time and money not spent on the things that will help more passengers, in more places, more quickly – and that have a chance of actually coming to pass.

Yes, I know – Boris Johnson, the PM I worked for, supported NPR. His view was that we could do that and all the other things as well. I opposed it, then and since, because I knew that at high-speed prices, you simply can’t. You have to choose, or at least to sequence – which is, in fact, what France and Germany did do, fixing their urban services before turning to the comparative luxury item of high-speed rail. On our current path, we’ll end up with neither.

And yes, I know – my other PM employer, Rishi Sunak, though he cancelled the northern section of HS2, said he would fund a new Liverpool-Manchester line and let the metro mayors decide the route. That was intended to give them scope to choose something better – such as a Manchester version of the “Elizabeth Line” to fix the city’s rail congestion – but they went for the lobbyist option instead.

Reform has come out against NPR. Maybe that’s another reason (an equally bad one) why the Tories appear for it. But if you think it’s a votewinner, you’re mistaken. The North has never wanted high-speed rail. It is transport for the few, not the many. As Richard Tice has said, the political elites’ obsession with high-speed schemes – rather than the services that most people actually use – is another symbol of how mainstream British politics became estranged, in so many ways, from ordinary voters’ real wishes and needs.

There’s still time for the party to get this right – and for Northern England to get more than a Labour press release.

The government of Cyprus has slammed the UK for failing to respect its humanitarian commitments. Iran – or one of its allies – allegedly hit RAF Akrotiri with a drone on 2 March 2026.

There no casualties. Yet the UK is clearly being pulled deeper into the illegal US-Israeli war against Iran – and Cyprus with it.

Government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on 3 March:

Despite the assurances given in yesterday’s address by the prime minister of the United Kingdom, there was no clear clarification that the British bases in Cyprus would not under any circumstances be used for any reason other than humanitarian.

Adding:

The information we had, through many communications and at various levels, was clear, that the British bases would have a strictly humanitarian role.

Cyprus shows Britain is at war

UK PM Keir Starmer effectively announced to parliament on 2 March that the UK would be a party to the war. He tried to insist the UK’s role would be defensive – but said the US would use British bases to hit Iran.

The UK has two bases in Cyprus at Akrotiri and Dhekelia. Britain has used the bases to launch hundreds of spy flights over Gaza over the course of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians.

Letymbiotis said the UK had failed to take into account Cyprus’s wish to be a humanitarian hub. He added that the UK had communicated poorly:

The message we send in every direction, not only rhetorically but through our actions over decades, is that the Republic of Cyprus is a humanitarian hub.

There was no timely information residing in the areas adjacent to the bases.

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Middle East Eye reported:

Letymbiotis refused to rule out Cyprus requesting a renegotiation of the status and operating conditions of British bases.

Meanwhile, a former UK ambassador to Iran has said the UK has made itself a legitimate target.

Legitimate targets

Sir Richard Dalton told Declassified UK that British assets in the region were now legitimate targets of Iran.

The regional power:

will not distinguish [between] attacks to its missiles and other wider attacks on its political, military and economic institutions and leaders.

They will say that these are attacks facilitated by Britain on Iran as part of the United States campaign to destroy the Islamic Republic.

You can watch the full interview here:

The UK is pulling itself deeper into the mire of a Middle East war. And in doing so its colonial relationship with Cyprus – already badly shaken by the UK’s role in Israel genocide – has become even more precarious. As the war intensifies across the region, things are likely to get even worse for the eternally flip-flopping UK PM.

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British journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who is famous for her hateful content against migrants and refugees, has been documenting her life in Dubai amid Iran’s retaliatory strikes on the UAE , and people have little sympathy.

Oakeshott shared a bilingual emergency alert from Dubai during the strikes. It was in Arabic first, then English, telling residents to take shelter. The internet immediately laughed at her for enjoying the kind of accommodation she’d never offer migrants.

Outrageous that Dubai has to send these out in a foreign language because immigrants won’t learn Arabic. https://t.co/i9VIx8duFc

— Lord Protector Will Wartsandall (@LewensWill) March 1, 2026

Influencers were getting roasted for suddenly caring about British embassies after spending years clout-chasing in a country with zero tax and infinite irony.

Me when people who’ve spent years boasting about not paying any UK taxes say they want the British embassy to help evacuate them from Dubai. pic.twitter.com/6hie1D8U1D

— Brendan May (@bmay) February 28, 2026

Some of those Brits in Dubai might want to try coming back in a small boat, I’ve heard it’s well easy

— Jasinya 💞 (@bougieluxebabe) March 1, 2026

Should Dubai tax-dodgers get tax help?

Even mainstream British media wasn’t holding back. Susanna Reid straight-up asked: if Brits move to Dubai to avoid paying tax, then need rescuing, shouldn’t they pay for it themselves?

Susanna Reid: “Brits have moved to places like Dubai, potentially.. to avoid paying tax.. if they need rescuing.. should they pay for their own evacuation, because if they’re avoiding paying tax then they’re avoiding paying into public services, like the govt coming to get you” pic.twitter.com/5Z0Qkf8N19

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) March 3, 2026

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Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey rightly pointed this out in the Parliament on Monday. He called out “tax exiles and washed-up old footballers” in Dubai who “mock ordinary Brits” but now expect the UK military to rescue them. He said:

..we rightly expect our brave armed forces to protect British citizens around the world in crises like this, but that includes tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed-up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes here. As we protect them, does the Prime Minister agree that it is only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us do?

Oakeshott’s fiancé and “patriotic” Reform MP Richard Tice is definitely not keen on this frankly patriotic measure. He criticised Davey for being “obsessed” with Oakeshott for this suggestion.

Dear old @EdwardJDavey

Back off my fiancée …. !

You seem obsessed with her….! https://t.co/F2P6M7wXmD

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— Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 (@TiceRichard) March 2, 2026

Imagine fleeing the UK to avoid taxes, then asking your MP fiancé to cover for your tax-dodging behaviour, Embarrassing, really.

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