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The ‘Daylife’ Trend Is Exploding Among Millennials And Gen Z
As more research emerges about the harmful health effects of alcohol, fewer people – namely, younger people – are consuming it.
According to a 2025 Gallup poll, 54% of American adults say they drink, the lowest percentage since Gallup started polling.
With fewer folks relying on alcohol as a social lubricant, a healthier way to interact with others has gained traction. Enter “daylife”, a term coined by the fitness social app Sweatpals.
“Daylife” refers to daytime social outings involving alcohol-free fitness as a way to meet new people with similar interests.
“It’s just the concept of using wellness, using movement as a way to meet, as a way to get entertainment and to socialise, versus relying on alcohol,” Sweatpals co-founder Salar Shahini told HuffPost.
People are certainly still using alcohol-fuelled gatherings to meet new people, whether at a happy hour or a full-on party. But it’s less popular among young millennials and members of Gen Z as they drink less than older generations.
Shahini thinks this shift is partly due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “During Covid, all we could do for a few years was get together outside and just move and work out.”
For younger generations, that type of activity became the norm, Shahini said. During the pandemic, at-home fitness equipment and at-home fitness apps also surged in popularity.
But now, community-based fitness such as Hyrox competitions (which are commonly team-based) and run clubs are only becoming more popular – proof that people are looking for community.
“And we’re going to see more of that,” Shahini predicted.

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“Daylife” allows people to make new friends without centering alcohol
People who are drawn to daylife-aligned activities want to meet people and want to go out, but don’t want social gatherings to be centered on drinking, according to Shahini.
Research shows that alcohol consumption is linked to a higher risk of cancer, including colorectal cancer and breast cancer and an increased risk of dementia.
Beyond the health impacts, Kathryn Cross, a licensed professional counsellor with Thriveworks in Atlanta, said people are avoiding alcohol for its mental health impact, too.
“We are seeing that people are starting to prioritise other activities and other forms of socialisation just because we are in a season where everybody, for different reasons, is feeling heavy and alcohol tends to highlight heaviness in many different ways,” Cross said, “whether that’s aggression, irritability, sadness, it kind of traps people in their mind a little bit, and people are trying to find a better outlet for being so internalised in their thoughts.”
Shahini added that people are aware of the side effects of drinking alcohol – hangovers, bad sleep, getting drunk, bad decisions – which is also leading this shift.
Movement-based social gatherings lead to feelings of joy and accomplishment
“When you work out and feel that high that comes from working out … you keep feeling better. I think that’s much more interesting,” Shahini said.
People want to take care of themselves, he noted, which is a major feature of the run clubs, Pilates classes and other fitness activities that are booming in popularity right now. And while exercise helps you build muscle, bone strength and cardiovascular fitness, it also has measurable mental health benefits.
“Exercise stimulates the release of endorphins, the feel-good hormones in your body, which would help reduce the symptoms of anxiety and depression,” Cross said.
Joining a fitness class or run club to meet people already gives you a baseline level of connection
If you go to a certain gym or certain fitness club, you already have something in common with the other people there, Shahini said. You have similar fitness interests and you probably live in the same area.
This makes it easier to build a friendship with someone. Think about it: You can bring up your latest workout or your new fitness goal with another person who understands the kinds of workouts you do.
Social connections help us feel less isolated, Cross added, which is necessary in a country that has an epidemic of isolation and loneliness.
If you want to try out daylife, start with gyms in your area – sign up for classes on the same day and time each week so you eventually get to know the people who go to the gym then. You can also look at local groups on Facebook to learn more about local Pilates groups, running clubs and more, Cross noted.
When you do eventually make it out to one of these fitness groups, don’t be nervous about meeting or talking to new people. As mentioned above, you already have something in common.
Plus, “everyone is looking for an opportunity to feel seen by others, and everyone could use connections,” said Cross.
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Keir Starmer Gives United States Permission To Use UK Bases To Strike Iranian Targets
Keir Starmer said the UK’s actions did not break international law.Keir Starmer has given the United States permission to use UK military bases to attack targets in Iran.
The prime minister said he was “protecting British interests and British lives” after Iran launched missile attacks on countries across the Middle East.
That came after the US and Israel bombed Iran in a wave of strikes which killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei as well as other senior regime officials.
In a statement from Downing Street, Starmer insisted the UK was not involved in the initial attacks on Iran.
He said: “We all remember the mistakes of Iraq. And we have learned those lessons.
“We were not involved in the initial strikes on Iran, and we will not join offensive action now.
“But Iran is pursuing a scorched earth strategy. So we are supporting the collective self-defence of our allies and our people in the region, because that is our duty to the British people.
“It is the best way to eliminate the urgent threat and prevent the situation spiralling further.
“This is the British government protecting British interests and British lives.”
Starmer said there are around 200,000 British citizens in the Gulf region, and that Iran’s actions were putting their lives at risk.
“Over the last two days, Iran has launched sustained attacks across the region at countries who did not attack them,” he said.
“They have hit airports and hotels where British citizens are staying. This is clearly a dangerous situation.”
Iran also hit a military base in Bahrain on Saturday, “narrowly missing British personnel”, the PM said.
British jets are already taking part in “defensive” operations in the region, Starmer said.
But he said the only way to stop the Iranian attacks was to target storage depots and the launchers use to fire missiles.
The PM said: “The US has requested permission to use British bases for that specific and limited defensive purpose.
“We have taken the decision to accept this request, to prevent Iran firing missiles across the region, killing innocent civilians, putting British lives at risk and hitting countries that have not been involved.
“The basis of our decision is the collective self-defence of longstanding friends and allies, and protecting British lives. This is in line with international law.”
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Labour suffer biblical loss of their own making
Holly Valance, Aaron Banks, Rod Stewart, Robert Jenrick, Derek Chisora, Christopher Horborne, Bonnie Blue, Suella Braverman, Charles Bronson, Tommy Ten-Names, Nigel Farage… your boy took one hell of a beating.
Holly Valance though? If you thought her singing was like auto-tuned auditory war crimes and her acting was like a hostage situation with lines, what could you possibly think about the Australian’s choice of British politicians?
I couldn’t care less either.
Labour’s red wall begins to fall under Starmer
Gorton & Denton has been a Labour fortress, in one form or another, for a hundred years. Indeed, the fortress was so reliably red it would make Stalin blush.
Yes, the trouncing of Farage and his crypto-racists was utterly delicious. This is a northern working class constituency and it was ripe for a Reform UK picking. But Reform was only ever in this position because Starmer’s genius centrist strategy alienated the left so hard that the actual fascists started looking like the “change” option.
Gorton & Denton wasn’t just a blip. It was the death-rattle of Starmerism, echoing through every red wall constituency. The only thing more humiliating for Labour would be if the detestable Starmer himself turned up in a hi-vis vest holding a “FOR SALE” sign.
This was the Green’s first ever Westminster by-election win, their first MP in the North of England. And it came with a massive 27% swing from Labour. This wasn’t a protest vote but a proper, majority-delivering “fuck you” with 4,400+ votes clear.
Hannah Spencer just turned a safe Labour seat into flourishing Green turf. Voters preferred a working class woman who believes in rent controls, public ownership, and not boiling the planet over a suit-wearing focus-group zombie.
A plumber just proved you can win big by actually giving a shit about people and planet, instead of donor dinners and three-word soundbites.
Is anyone really that surprised?
Labour is as extinct as a dodo in a coal mine
There is no longer such a thing as a safe Labour seat. The Green party can absolutely win anywhere.
Labour has spent decades treating its traditional constituencies like that one armchair in you gran’s house – faded red, smelling faintly of defeat for the other parties, and are pretty much guaranteed to stay Labour forever. Seats with more than half of the overall vote, misguided generational loyalty, the working-class heartlands, ethnic minority strongholds. Labour had the lot.
Safe seats? They’re as extinct as a dodo in a coal mine.
Labour under Starmer has spent the last couple of years triangulating so fucking hard they’ve almost become the world’s most boring spreadsheet.
Austerity-lite budgets, slow-walking on green investment, hateful immigration rhetoric, foreign policy positions that alienate the progressive youth and Muslim communities, and a general vibe of “we’re not Corbyn, honest!”
Disillusioned left-leaning voters – young people, urban graduates, eco-conscious super recycling types, those absolutely furious about Gaza or the cost of greed crisis – aren’t staying home anymore.
They are going to the Greens in droves, especially where the Greens have built serious local machines.
Starmer’s response was almost as embarrassing as the defeat itself. He muttered something about being disappointed and he will “keep fighting the extremes” despite coming third place in a seat that has been held by his party since before most voters were born.
In reality, Labour just got curb-stomped by the common sense left and the extreme right in the same graveyard. That’s not fighting, Mr Starmer, that’s being the pinata at a funeral.
Time to throw out that old armchair
The swing from Labour to the Greens was a biblical 27.5 percentage points. If this swing was replicated nationwide at a general election, Polanski would be finishing the night with more than 100 seats, and Labour wouldn’t just be facing a bad night.
They would be experiencing total extinction.
Labour is no longer the default party for the left because the party under Keir Starmer has spent the last couple of years systematically alienating every voter who ever give a shit about progressive values. Whilst the Greens have quietly built a machine that actually delivers on them.
The default left party isn’t the one that promises “change” in a shitty PowerPoint to Labour-friendly hacks and staffers. It’s the one that delivers it with a sledgehammer in hope.
Labour’s entire campaign strategy was “only we can stop Reform UK and Farage”. After Gorton & Denton, that lie is well and truly exposed and dead. Voters now see that a Green vote isn’t going to be a wasted vote of protest – it’s winnable, even in the reddest of red heartlands.
Labour’s red wall is now a crumbling ruin overtaken by aggressive green kudzu that grows faster than the excuses flying out of No. 10.
If Labour doesn’t drastically change course, and I am not expecting them to, the Green’s won’t just nibble at the edges, they’ll start carving off whole chunk. Anywhere.
Even your Gran’s armchair might not be safe anymore.
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Another missile barrage from Iran penetrates Israel, including Haifa
Iran has fired a new barrage of missiles at Israel, with several penetrating Israel’s air defences to hit Haifa. Footage of one of the successful missiles was captured from several angles:
A map of alerts in the region give an idea of the scale of the attack:
Iran fired a barrage of missiles into North Israel
— Resist 🕎🍉 (@antizionistjew.bsky.social) 2026-03-01T18:38:10.263Z
Locals report explosions in Haifa and the area
— Resist 🕎🍉 (@antizionistjew.bsky.social) 2026-03-01T18:41:58.381Z
At least five explosions were heard in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and surrounding areas following the launch of missiles from Iran toward Israel, an Anadolu correspondent reported Sunday evening.
A strong explosion was also heard in the northern city of Haifa, according to eyewitnesses.
Israel’s Channel 12 reported that sirens sounded in several areas in southern and eastern Israel after a new barrage of missiles was launched from Iran. Additional sirens were later activated in the northern parts of the country.
The barrage comes after the Zionist ‘state’ and the US murdered Iranian leader Ali Khamenei and his family – and slaughtered over 150 schoolgirls, of a total school population of 180, by bombing their school.
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accusations of invaders targeting left-wing activists
The US and Israel have been specifically targeting the homes of left-wing activists in Iran for bombing, according to well-known writer and journalist Tariq Ali. Ali, quoting Iranian sources, said that the rogue states are trying to ensure that there is no competition for their preferred puppet, US-based ‘shah’ Reza Pahlavi, if they succeed in bringing down Iran’s government:
[T]he US/Israelis are targeting a number of known leftists homes in Teheran and elsewhere in an attempt to make sure there’s no opposition to their favoured candidate once they destroy the regime. What this reveals is the degree of penetration by Mossad in Iran. What it also means is that this is not going to be an easy occupation for the US and its Israeli buddies.
Commenters disagreed with Ali for his closing assumption that there will be any occupation of Iran, easy or otherwise. It is to be hoped he is wrong on that and every likelihood he is.
But the US and Israel routinely target the homes and families of their victims. And given the Trump regime’s attacks on left figures in the US and South America, it’s entirely credible – indeed almost certain – that he will be doing the same in Iran in his criminal war.
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Green deputy leader condemns assassination of Khamenei
Green party deputy leader Mothin Ali is among a handful of UK politicians to condemn the killing of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei as the illegal assassination that it was.
Mothin said that he is “proudly anti-war” and described the murder of Khamenei as “deplorable”:
I’m proudly anti-war. And to be anti-war that means looking to explore all possible diplomatic solutions. The US and Israel took a unilateral decision in the midst of negotiations to kill the Iranian leader, and opted for war. This is deplorable.
— Mothin Ali (@MothinAli) March 1, 2026
Green deputy leader goes where many won’t
Your Party MP Jeremy Corbyn condemned Israel and the US as rogue states and their attacks on Iran as illegal, but has not so far mentioned the Khamenei murder on his social media.
Green party leader Zack Polanski called for the UK government to condemn US president Donald Trump – a call that sent Zionist horror MP David Taylor into a hissy fit:
It should not be inconceivable to a Member of Parliament that by opposing the violation of international law you can also be advocating for the Iranian people.
How much more evidence does he need from past interventions to show that they can make things much, much worse? https://t.co/DCiataSPkC
— Matthew Butcher (@matthewtbutcher) March 1, 2026
And Polanski described Keir Starmer’s stance – condemning Iran for retaliating after being attacked – as “outrageous”:
.@ZackPolanski: “Its absolutely outrageous that they can be at the negotiating table & then our PM puts out a statement that actually condemns Iran for a retaliatory attack as opposed to Israel & America that started the bombing in the first place”🎯 pic.twitter.com/4QnNTGaDN8
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) March 1, 2026
Corbyn’s Your Party colleague Zarah Sultana was also outspoken, condemning Israel and the US for starting a war to cover for their “paedophilic crimes”. LIke Corbyn, however, she does not appear to have mentioned Khamenei directly yet.
The killing of Khamenei – along with his family, as so often the case in Israeli and US atrocities – is murder. So is the killing of the almost 150 Iranian schoolgirls and hundreds of other Iranians. Trump and Netanyahu are indeed trying to distract from their crimes and the world should be united against them – and calling their crimes what they are.
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Bridgerton; Ghosts; BBC disability hate
Welcome to The Canary Catch Up. Each Sunday, the Canary’s Rachel Charlton-Dailey will bring us bang up to date with the telly she’s been obsessed with, what she’s hate-watching, and what she can’t wait to get stuck into.
Warning- Spoilers for Bridgerton ahead!
Well, isn’t this exciting! The thing about me is I love ALL telly, there’s very little I won’t watch, to be honest. From a hard-hitting drama to Strictly, I’m there. That’s why I’m over the bloody moon to bring you the Canary Catch Up. Every Sunday, I’ll be here rounding up what I loved, things that I think you need to watch, and of course, the silly TV moments we couldn’t stop talking about.
Murky sewage scandal laid bare
Something that stopped me in my tracks this week was Dirty Business on Channel 4. The docudrama brought the sewage scandal, which destroyed our rivers and coastlands, whilst also risking many people’s health into stark focus. Channel 4 did an excellent job of holding the water companies and the regulators to blame. Showing just how much the latter was in the pockets of the former. But it also highlighted just how detrimental the scandal was for a lot of people personally, and also the cruelty of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
In one absolutely rage-inducing scene, Reuben, an ex-surfer, attempts to be assessed for Personal Independence Payments (PIP). Throughout his assessment, his distress is ignored. The assessor tells him to only focus on the days when he’s not having Ménière’s drop attacks. This is despite him pointing out that the attacks happen at least three times a week and that they leave him paralysed. As a disabled person, I sobbed when he failed his assessment and told the assessor, “I don’t know what to do.” This is such a raw look at how much the DWP is failing those with chronic illnesses; everyone needs to watch it.
Back to the Ton for Bridgerton series 4
Dearest gentle reader, as we head back to the Ton, this writer has many questions she needs answered. Why is Francesca so mad to see Michaela? Who is the new Lady Penwood? And most importantly, how the fuck did Benedict become obsessed with a woman he met at a party yet not realise she wasn’t white?
Yes, it’s back to Netflix’s dazzling alternate reality Georgian drama where racism doesn’t exist, but also it does. I will admit I’m only on episode 2 so far, but I screamed my face off when we found out who the new lady Penwood is. Everyone’s fave villain, Cressida Cowper! The carriage scene might’ve been a highlight of last series for many, but mine was when this absolute queen showed up pretending to be Lady Whistledown to the soundtrack of Confident by Demi Lovato on strings.
BBC doing the DWP’s work for them, again
The BBC were full of disability hate this week. Alongside airing a man with tourette’s tics to cause division between marginalised communities, they also aired a benefits-hating Panorama. The title says it all, really: The Rising Cost of Health Benefits. As usual, the BBC presented this as concern for taxpayers when it was obviously another attempt to call disabled people scroungers.
The show was packed to the rafters with murky think tanks like Iain Duncan Smith’s Centre for Social Justice and the Institute of Economic Affairs. Their faux concern was barely hiding their utter contempt for disabled people. There was, of course, the usual poor disabled person exploited for the cameras whilst the presenter, Bronagh Munroe, shat all over autism and ADHD. It was a massively transparent PR piece from the DWP.
Anyone for one last haunting?
Anyone who knows me knows that my favourite TV show EVER is the BBC’s Ghosts. I was left bereft in 2023 when the team announced they were done with the ridiculous spectres forever. But in fairness, I actually respected that they chose to end it before it got too tired. They closed the show off well, and there were no more stories to tell. Or so we thought.
It turns out there’s still one more haunting left. The team announced this week that Ghosts: The Possession of Button House starts filming next week. That’s right, we’re getting a Ghosts movie! I can’t even begin to explain my excitement for this one, lads. I cannot believe my emotional support, silly little dead people are coming back – and I will be so fucking seated for this film.
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Zack Polanski shows how responsible leadership should be done
Zack Polanski joined Laura Kuensberg to discuss the war of aggression instigated by the US and Israel. An illegal war which has seen Iran’s Supreme Leader assassinated alongside his family. This comes in stark contrast to the shameful ignorance shown by other public figures in the UK with their reluctance to call out the flagrant breaches of international law on clear display.
Nevertheless, many have welcomed Polanski’s perspective supporting the suggestion that the Green Party leader is far more in tune with ordinary people across the UK than most of our elected MPs. Polanski made clear the woefully apparent cowardice shown by the British government. Akin to their ignorance of Israeli crimes, they refuse to stand up to Trump despite his and Netanyahu’s illegal military campaign. A war of aggression that has resulted in 148 schoolgirls murdered through western bombs being dropped on a primary school in Minab, a southern province in Iran.
The school reportedly sheltered 170 at the time, showing the deplorable lack of morality in mainstream media who have refused to discuss it. Whilst highlighting the sheer devastation being dealt by the West against Iranian civilians.
.@ZackPolanski: The US & Israel attack is illegal and unprovoked, the defence secretary & the govt won’t condemn it, we have a PM who is incapable of standing up to Trump, and the worry is that we’ll be pulled into another illegal war.
Spot on. pic.twitter.com/EGFSnu0v1s
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) March 1, 2026
How diplomacy should be done: with a spine
UK officials would be wise to watch Polanski’s interview with Kuenssberg. Specifically taking note of his principled stance and refusal to kowtow to the genocidal state Israel and thug-bully US. After all, this attack on Iran is illegal, unprovoked, and has directly afforded Iran the right to defend itself from attacks on its sovereign territory. It must not be forgotten that these attacks came — once again — as negotiations were ongoing, reaching agreement on issues that had never seen that progress before. Such as a commitment to stockpile limit of zero, making Iran’s capability of building nuclear bombs impossible.
Once again, this exposes the excuse of stopping Iran having a nuclear bomb as a load of hogwash. Instead, it appears to be constructed in a ‘deja-vu’ to Iraq to further the colonialist and imperialist agenda of Israel and the Epstein-compromised US President Trump.
Kuenssberg, like any loyal client journalist to the establishment, refused to acknowledge that retaliatory strikes are a legal right under international law. On the contrary, she firmly lays all blame on Iran for threats to military bases in the region. Both the victim and the aggressor apparently:
.@ZackPolanski says the PM should condemn the strikes by the US/Israel as illegal & unprovoked#bbclaurak: but what about Irans retaliatory strikes, you’re not calling on them to de-escalate
Doesn’t LK know what retaliation means? Of course she does. Shes just doing her job pic.twitter.com/EI4flhG3gT
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) March 1, 2026
Zack Polanski astutely exposed just how ridiculous that wilful ignorance is:
.@ZackPolanski: “Its absolutely outrageous that they can be at the negotiating table & then our PM puts out a statement that actually condemns Iran for a retaliatory attack as opposed to Israel & America that started the bombing in the first place”🎯 pic.twitter.com/4QnNTGaDN8
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) March 1, 2026
Zack Polanski highlighted the fact that there is only one country in the region who has nuclear bombs. Making clear who she works for, Kuenssberg defends Israel as the only ‘democracy’:
.@ZackPolanski: “There is only one [country] in that area with a nuclear weapon, and that’s Israel”#bbclaurak: “but there is also only one democracy..”
Kuenssberg is defending a genocidal apartheid state that denies millions of people under its control their basic civic rights pic.twitter.com/AXwO15fMMK
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) March 1, 2026
This shouldn’t really need to be pointed out by Polanski, but recollection seems short lived in the West and common sense is second to self interest:
.@ZackPolanski: “I do know that there’s no example in history where you’ve bombed people to democracy.. airstrikes for regime change has never led [to] an example where a country is better off afterwards” 🎯 pic.twitter.com/03CojFCHVw
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) March 1, 2026
Justice must be necessary, not optional
The illegal war on Iraq killing millions is widely condemned. In fact, it is now widely recognised as having been instigated based on fearmongering lies and manipulations from US President Bush. However, the very fact that no one has been held responsible has long been a stain on our international rules-based order.
For instance, war criminal Tony Blair is seemingly protected from accountability under international law in the International Criminal Court (ICC), having never answered for his crimes against humanity. Instead, he was championed to sit on Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ painfully exposing the sham that that is.
Our own Joe Glenton wrote last year on the interconnected realities between Iraq and Israel’s genocide on Gaza. It is highly likely that Iran will soon be joining this list of victimised, terrorised sovereign states that never seem to see accountability. Joe Glenton wrote:
Now imagine a world in which Tony Blair simply never got a platform to advance his grandiose, yet inevitably ridiculous takes?
And imagine a world where the core values of Blairism – embodied today in the Magic Bank Manager Keir Starmer – had been consigned to the dustbin of history.
Sounds alright, doesn’t it?
Well one of the reasons that world doesn’t exist is that nobody was ever remotely held to account over the Iraq War.
The legacy media is a part of this. We shouldn’t be surprised that an industry dominated by Russell Group-educated Professional Managerial Class (PMC) losers would help recondition figures who represent their own values and ambitions.
Glenton was bang on and the theory is ongoing. If war criminals weren’t protected by power, with the rule of law having teeth of its own, our leaders would feel more uncomfortable about their prior, current and ongoing complicity in US-Israeli aggressions.
Nevertheless, it’s clear western leaders are less bothered about silly objective issues of legality. Instead, they have long been far more interested in keeping the big orange paedo-pal in the US happy. Zarah Sultana gave a damning rebuke to Tory Tom Tugendhat, the former security minister:
Tom, it’s interesting that you present yourself as the sole defender of Iranian lives when your record says otherwise:
You sit on the advisory board of United Against Nuclear Iran, a lobby group that supports punitive sanctions that hurt ordinary Iranians and has backed calls… https://t.co/7HVKVmqmfY
— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) March 1, 2026
Her damning takedown of Tugendhat reads in full:
Tom, it’s interesting that you present yourself as the sole defender of Iranian lives when your record says otherwise:
You sit on the advisory board of United Against Nuclear Iran, a lobby group that supports punitive sanctions that hurt ordinary Iranians and has backed calls for US military action against Iran.
You’ve been paid by pro-Israel networks like YPO United Mosaic.
You criticised the UN Security Council for condemning illegal Israeli settlement expansion.
You described your participation in the illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq, which resulted in the deaths of over a million Iraqis, as “the naughtiest thing I have ever done.”
You condemned the “betrayal” of Afghanistan when Western forces withdrew in 2021, yet consistently supported the interventionist policies that helped produce that disaster.
Your government wanted to deny Iranian refugees the right to claim asylum in the UK and ship them to Rwanda.
And I’m still looking for your condemnation of Israel’s targeted strike on a girls’ school that killed over 100 Iranian children.
When you mount an attack, you need someone to watch your back.
Healey makes clear that this is Britain’s role – guarding the rear, while Israel and America go on a killing spree.
We are actively participating in an illegal, regime-change war – yet again. https://t.co/q4KpNjjZdK
— Steve Howell (@FromSteveHowell) March 1, 2026
Journalist Richard Sanders also exposed this double standard in a post on X, highlighting the selective nature of western condemnation:
The killing of dozens of girls at a primary school in Iran is not on the front page of a single British newspaper.
A simple test – imagine the reaction if they were Israelis.https://t.co/jvdHrLEMlB
— Richard Sanders (@PulaRJS) March 1, 2026
Mark Curtis of Declassified UK applauded Polanski’s ‘principled position’ on foreign policy, before warning that the threat he poses to the establishment will face concerted efforts to sabotage him as a result:
Many of Polanski’s positions on UK foreign policy are decent/principled and therefore a threat to the UK oligarchy. He’ll obviously be increasingly subject to the same kind of media campaign that helped remove J.Corbyn in 2015-19. We must monitor and raise awareness of it. https://t.co/RrUhAkOyR7
— Mark Curtis (@markcurtis30) March 1, 2026
Zack Polanski — potential future Prime Minister?
The principle and courage on show from Polanski to speak truth to power and put the interests of the majority over the interests of the powerful is earning respect across the country. It seems where other MPs choose to earn the favour of the US President, Polanski prefers to put the British public first.
In contrast to Starmer and the government’s abysmal approval ratings and failure to ‘read the room’ amongst the electorate, Polanski’s consistent show of principle is now earning calls for him to be PM.
With the recent astounding and overwhelming victory of the Green Party in Gorton and Denton, this might just be a glimpse of the future:
The Prime Minister this country needs: https://t.co/EHsHKZpKRj
— Sharmen Rahman (@sharmen_r) March 1, 2026
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BBC Expert Dismantles Case For Iran Bombing By Trump And Netanyahu
A BBC expert has demolished Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s case for bombing Iran.
Israel said the attacks were “pre-emptive” to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons and firing at them.
In his statement announcing the bombing, Trump said: “Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime.”
But Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s international affairs editor, dismissed those arguments.
He said: “Israel used the word ‘pre-emptive’ to justify its attack – the largest in the Israeli Air Force’s history, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
“The evidence is that this is not a response to an imminent threat, which the word pre-emption implies. Instead, it is a war of choice.”
The military action, Bowen said, was “another blow to the tottering system of international law”.
He added: “In their statements, both Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran was a danger to their countries – Trump said it was a global danger.
“The Islamic regime is certainly their bitter enemy. But it is hard to see how the legal justification of self-defence applies given the huge disparity of power between the US and Israel on one side and Iran on the other.”
Bowen also warned that Trump’s stated objective of regime change in Iran will be far from straightforward – and could lead to a wider conflict in the Middle East.
He said: “There is no precedent for regime change happening just because of air strikes.
“Even if this becomes the first case of air power alone collapsing a regime, the Islamic regime will not be replaced by a liberal democracy that upholds human rights. There is no credible alternative government in exile waiting in the wings.”
The Middle East expert went on: “Iran’s remaining leaders will now be calculating how to ride out the war, how to survive and how to manage its consequences.
“Their neighbours, led by Saudi Arabia, will be dismayed by the huge uncertainty and potential consequences of today’s events.
“Given the capacity of the Middle East to export trouble, the eruption of renewed and intensified war deepens the instability of a region and wider world that is already turbulent, violent and dangerous.”
Politics
Clintons suffer mysterious memory loss during Epstein testimony
Both Hillary and Bill Clinton have now given testimony before a congressional panel looking into the crimes of serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein. Despite the clintons’ frequent meetings with the vile Zionist billionaire, they both seem to have developed selective amnesia about their interactions with him. The former president said in his opening remarks:
You’ll often hear me say that I don’t recall. That might be unsatisfying. But I’m not going to say something I’m not sure of. This was all a long time ago. And I am bound by my oath not to speculate, or to guess.
This inability to recall is surprising, given what a significant role Epstein played in the lives of the Clintons. Earlier in the week, Hillary:
…confirmed that Epstein visited the White House 17 times – as suggested in the presidential mansion’s visitor records – during her husband’s presidency and had flown at least 27 times on the Epstein plane, which was nicknamed the “Lolita express”.
Clinton released a statement after he gave testimony, one that closely resembled his opening remarks to the panel. In it, the 42nd US president dishonestly described his dealings with Epstein as “limited interactions” and said he:
…never witnessed…any indication of what was truly going on…
Clintons forget, but remember they’re definitely innocent
Clinton offered a strange combination of recollection failures, alongside total certainty about his innocence, saying:
First, I had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committing. No matter how many photos they show of me, I have two things that at the end of the day matter far more than any interpretation of 20-year-old photos. I know what I saw and more importantly what I didn’t see. And I know what I did and more importantly what I didn’t do. I saw nothing and did nothing wrong.
Clinton featured in numerous suspicious photos among the Epstein files, including one of him in a hot tub with a person who appears to be a young girl or woman. Her face is blacked out in the file release. Another features Clinton with a young girl/woman on his lap. Again her identity has been protected.
In the statement, Clinton went on to defend his wife Hillary’s memory loss, saying:
She has no memory of ever even meeting him. She neither travelled with him nor visited any of his properties.
The Clintons seemingly did cut ties with Epstein after his 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution, but remained close to his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. She was honoured by the Clinton Global Initiative in 2013 and attended their daughter Chelsea’s wedding in 2010.
Both Clintons attempted to pass off their testimony as a service to their country, rather than the reality, which is that they would have faced prosecution for failing to appear. They had previously attempted to dodge scrutiny. Bill Clinton opined:
I [testified] for two reasons. First, I love my country, including our Constitution. And America was built on the idea that no person is above the law, even presidents, especially presidents, and that we should all live under the same set of rules. This kind of democracy requires every person to play their part.
And I hope that by being there today, we can bring ourselves just a little further away from the brink and back to being a country where we can disagree civilly and we can search for truth and justice and that it outweighs the partisan urge to score points and create spectacle.
No accountability, no justice for the victims
In reality, every US president has operated beyond the law. Clinton ought to be in the Hague for his crimes against the people of Iraq. Hillary is a similarly vile figure, a backer of so-called ‘Israel’s’ holocaust in Gaza. She too engaged in self-aggrandising rhetoric, concluding her opening statement by saying:
My challenge to you, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee, is the same challenge I put to myself throughout my long service to this nation. How to be worthy of the trust the American people have given you. They expect statesmanship, not gamesmanship. Leading, not grandstanding. They expect you to use your power to get to the truth and to do more to help survivors of Epstein’s crimes as well as the millions more who are victims of sex trafficking.
This was a reference to the committee’s failure thus far to call before it the current criminal occupant of the White House, Donald Trump. This is a fair point, as Trump is accused of multiple child rapes in the file release. Other documents related to the thug currently wrecking Iran are missing from the files released by the Department of Justice.
Trump’s non-appearance and his atrocities in Iran are yet further indications of the near total absence of accountability for powerful criminals, leaving the same sort of impunity that allowed Epstein to conduct his crimes in the first place.
Featured image via people.com
Politics
Israel targets health workers in Iran
Israel has targeted the Iranian Red Crescent Headquarters in Tehran, which is a clear and direct attempt to assassinate healthcare workers.
BREAKING: Israel Just Targeted The Iranian Red Crescent Headquarters In Tehran
A clear direct assault on medical workers.
More attacks on civilian targets. Which indicates weakness as well as immorality. pic.twitter.com/AnUvGlAE1L
— Robert Inlakesh (@falasteen47) March 1, 2026
Once again, Israel is breaking international law.
Schools, hospitals, ambulances, emergency workers, and journalists are all off-limits under international law.
Schools, hospitals, humanitarian institutions, journalists, doctors, women, children: these are always going to be the targets of genocidal zionists
— Tasneem Essop (@TasneemEssop) March 1, 2026
To truly fathom how EVIL Israel is, note that it has been a universal law of warfare that attacking hospitals, aid workers, journalists, children, and schools is forbidden – for obvious moral reasons.
But Israel goes out of its way to attack these entities. Every. Single. Time. https://t.co/baJC9kMucr
— Dani Fethez (@DaniMet1) March 1, 2026
But hey, so is military occupation, unprovoked attacks and apartheid. Yet the world has let Israel get away with all of it.
What the world allowed in Palestine will come to everyone. Israel is a cancer. https://t.co/ZkQzRPrzwy
— fatima bhutto 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 (@fbhutto) March 1, 2026
Israel — Cry babies
But as we have seen previously, as soon as bombs start dropping near Israeli soldiers, they run away crying like babies.
In South Lebanon in October 2024, Israeli soldiers ran from bombs whilst sobbing and holding hands. Israelis make themselves out to be these big, tough men. But when Iran drops a couple of bombs and turns the tables, they’re really not.
DAWG HE DEAD ASS SOBBING IM FUCKFOFNFF LMAODOEOSODKSKSJDDJD 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 https://t.co/9d4QHlRmzO
— ⋆ab ྐ❤︎ (@itgirlab) March 1, 2026
Israel crosses every red line known to man. But when Iran hits back, it shows less composure than Boris Johnson does when being interviewed by Piers Morgan.
Israel:
First attacks another nation under a pack of lies.
Then bombs schools.
Then bombs hospitals.
Then cries victim. https://t.co/39agZSayqQ
— Daniel Lambert (@dlLambo) March 1, 2026
You might think it was the IDF’s first time fighting fully grown adults.
When your opponent is not a 2 year old toddler. https://t.co/RQUl4nFe3R
— Its_Isra💫🍉 (@Isra44945572) March 1, 2026
Israel is so used to bombing 9-year-olds with stones that it forgot that millions of people do, in fact, hate its guts. And just a few of those people happen to have large bombs.
What a shame.
Is bro sobbing???? This is sooooo embarrassing omg.
Bravery flew right out the window when the enemy is suddenly not a 9 year old with stones eh? https://t.co/SM93kQTOPs— Spooky Pookie🧛👻🎃🦇 (@Lanaschild_) March 1, 2026
Israel’s only military strategy is terrorism.
It’s Israel’s only strategy: to deinstitutionalize.
Bomb schools, hospitals, restaurants, homes. Punish and humiliate civilians. Force collapse.
In 1982 Israel started a war with Lebanon by bombing a Red Crescent hospital. And lost, of course.
Israel knows no strategic… https://t.co/8Uog6ILmhg
— Rathbone (@_rathbone) March 1, 2026
No sympathy
But 82% of Israelis support expelling Palestinians from their homeland. That’s 82% of Israelis who support literal ethnic cleansing, which makes it extremely difficult to find a single shred of sympathy when bombs start falling over Tel Aviv.
I don’t want to hear any thing about Israelis crying victim. We all sick of it..
U wanted war, u got one https://t.co/oF6NpP6uOw
— Abier (@abierkhatib) February 28, 2026
The international community has practically given Israel the green light to do whatever the fuck it wants by standing idly by for two and a half years. Israel’s evil has no limits. And we are going to see it time and time again until the international community grows a backbone.
Feature image via Robert Inlakesh/X
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