Keir Starmer is allowing the US to use UK military bases to bomb Iran. This is an explicit deviation from his line that they should be used only for “defensive purposes”.

Specifically, Starmer has said that UK bases can be used to

strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz

His previous comments meant that the US could only use UK bases for actions that would stop Iran from firing missiles that put British interests or lives at risk.

However, despite this, we have still repeatedly seen photos and videos on social media showing large bombs being loaded into US warplanes, on UK soil.

So Starmer may only be publicly changing his mind now, but it appears that US forces were already doing it.

The BBC have decided to report on a thing that’s been happening for two weeks https://t.co/YSA1cmiBvC

— Nate Bear (@NateB_Panic) March 20, 2026

Starmer — war criminal

Human rights groups are warning that the UK allowing the US to use its military bases could violate international law.

Yasmine Ahmed, Human Rights Watch UK director, has demanded “urgent clarification” from the government to ensure that US military strikes conducted from its bases are “compliant with international humanitarian law”.

But how can any strikes in a war that started due to Israel and the US’s unprovoked attacks possibly be “compliant with international law”?

There have been more international law violations in the last three weeks than even Ai Neyanyahu has fingers to count.

International law only works if everyone abides by it.

Starmer is proving over and over that he is a war criminal.

I truly hope Starmer will one day be tried and jailed for his complicity in countless war crimes. https://t.co/84FRFoV6sq

— Red Collective (@RedCollectiveUK) March 20, 2026

You’d have thought a former prosecutor might have reflected on the lessons from the illegal Iraq war.

This war isn’t about nukes, it’s about power. Trump‑Netanyahu’s moves against Iran ignore international law. Global energy suffers, ordinary people pay, while big powers play dangerous games. #EndTheWar #USIsraelExposed #IranWar‌ https://t.co/FFHR9UWQZT

— Lenin Ravi (@leninravi) March 20, 2026

Especially when neither parliament nor the British public have voted on the country going to war.

Britain should block the US from using our bases

British people want no part in this illegal war! https://t.co/F7Sz4XsfL3

— Manchester Green Party 🐝 (@McrGreenParty) March 21, 2026

Consequences

Like usual, British households will pay the price for the government’s inability to engage their brains and face the consequences of their actions.

Keir Starmer is taking Britain into an illegal war AGAINST the wishes of the majority of British people

And putting us in danger

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Starmer is a disgrace https://t.co/MxBEGqhoqr

— Stop The Bollocks with Mirabel (@MirabelTweets1) March 20, 2026

No discussion.
No vote.
No accountability.

Call it what it is: escalating participation in an illegal war of aggression. https://t.co/sX0OCcnnMo

— Jonathan Bartley (@jon_bartley) March 20, 2026

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Just as Starmer has participated in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, he is now also participating in murdering innocent Iranians.

We can count on Starmer playing the victim when Iran bombs UK bases.

Watch them spin it like they’ve done nothing wrong when Iran bombs UK bases https://t.co/ObjSybLpg1

— Leah Dionne (@leahdionne__) March 20, 2026

Iran warned him that anyone assisting Israel and the US’s illegal and unprovoked attacks would be fair game.

Similarly, it warned the world that it would retaliate for strikes on oil and natural gas facilities. It even issued evacuation orders, which is far more than the US or Israel did when they blew up Iran’s South Pars gas field.

Yet still, Starmer blames Iran and “condemns in the strongest terms“. Meanwhile, he allows the US and Israel to blow up Iran’s facilities.

So much for standing up to Trump. Starmer is a pussy. And he couldn’t be further up Trump and Netanyahu’s arses if he tried.

This is a universally un-fucking-popular war here. It’s a public easy win to simply not involve us in another war in the middle-east.

Instead, we are prioritising licking the boot of a foreign leader who is quite candid about doing this illegal war for his own oil gains. https://t.co/F2TlWMRZ4l

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— Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 on holiday! 🌞 (@Toadsanime) March 20, 2026

Starmer is nothing but a Temu Tony Blair. But we have to ask why Labour love war so much? Supposedly, the party of the working class, yet more concerned with blowing up black and brown people in the Middle East than making sure British people can afford their energy bills. All while lying about their involvement.

Starmer’s blind allegiance to the US and Israel is dangerous and will make the UK a direct target for retaliatory attacks. But he can’t say no one warned him. 

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A pack of hounds from the Heythrop Hunt rampaged through a private garden and killed a fox on Wednesday 11 March 2026. Blood stains remained on a resident’s lawn in Condicote after approximately 30 hounds chased the terrified animal through the village.

Footage taken by Three Counties Hunt Saboteurs shows the pack running wild on driveways and through gardens in the scenic village. Hounds appear with blood on their coats whilst drinking from plant pots and buckets.

The hunt staff allegedly entered the property without permission to remove the poor creature’s body. Joint masters Ollie Dale and Vanessa Chanter were filmed attempting to remove a camerawoman from the garden. The hunt broke the garden fence during the altercation.

Another member of the hunt, Josh Tierney, was seen with bloodstains on his trousers after removing the body of the poor fox away from the crime scene. Whilst the homeowner allowed activists to film the site, the hunt forcibly escorted them out once the owner went inside.

Systematically wreaking havoc in the countryside

This incident is just part of a wider pattern of hunting-induced havoc across the UK. The League Against Cruel Sports recorded 1,117 reports of hunt havoc during the 2024/25 season. These reports include (PAGE 5):

• 319 incidents of trespass on private property.
• 423 incidents of out of control or lost hounds.
• 367 reports of road havoc caused by the hunt.

Rowan Hughes, a spokesperson for the Hunt Saboteurs Association said this shows why hunting needs a total ban. Hughes stated that hunts have no respect for private property and ‘shout trespass’ only when they are being exposed.

Broken fences, trashed properties, ruined lawns and injured animals are one side of the hunt that these ruthless riders are desperate to hide. The law is catching up with them, and public hostility toward the hunt has never been higher. At this critical moment, we must call them to account for every small infraction.

A history of the Heythrop Hunt controversy

The Heythrop Hunt are no strangers to controversy or press attention. In February 2026, Channel 4 News released footage of the hunt dumping dead chickens in woodlands. Activists claim this “feeding station” was used to lure foxes into areas so they can be hunted in the future. In the 24/25 season, monitors recorded 332 cases ((PAGE 8)) of hunt trespass nationally. So it isn’t just when these wankers are actively hunting, it’s also to lay the dirty groundwork to draw in their innocent prey.

The HSA reported that covert cameras captured the terrierman of the Heythrop Hunt. He was recorded dumping black bin-bags full of dead chickens between June and August 2025.

By October, the same cameras picked up the hunt pursuing the very foxes they had drawn in. This premeditated approach contradicts the claim that the hunts are simply following a pre-laid ‘trail. Unless these fucking dickheads are actively laying trails through peoples’ gardens, we can see the obvious lie.

Heythrop Hunt — Closing the trail hunting loopholes

Gloucestershire Police received a report of the kill but, as per usual, officers did not attend the scene. Police have not charged any members of the hunt at this stage.

In January 2025, this same hunt apologised after hounds ran through an industrial estate. The chairman previously told Bourton Parish Council that such incidents were “isolated”. But how can that be the case when once again we are seeing private property being used as the hunt’s personal playground?

Three Counties Hunt Sabs filmed this new footage after the Labour Party announced the plans to ban trail hunting. This reform was part of the Animal Welfare Strategy for England announcement on Monday 22 December 2025. A spokesperson for Three Counties Hunt Sabs noted that the kill happened whilst vixens are pregnant. And this is happening within half a mile of where staff dumped the chicken corpses.

The spokesperson urged the government to close the loopholes in the Hunting Act 2004. And urgently. This latest incident in Condicote suggests that trail hunting remains a smokescreen and is nothing but a thin veil to hide the hunt’s illegal activity.

The human cost of hunt trespass

The owner of the garden in Condicote was visibly shocked by the ruthless intrusion. He gave the hunt sabs permission to film the evidence before re-entering his property. Yet once the owner was out of sight, the hunt members used force against the activists. Despite them having no permission to be on the private land.

This lack of respect for residents is a common theme in rural communities. The League Against Cruel Sports reported that 76% of the public support strengthening the ban. Yet the current legislation allows hunts to claim they are following a scent trail. However, in a case like this when a fox is killed in a garden, that excuse becomes impossible to justify.

We reached out to Simon Russell, chair of the HSA who said:

“The current Hunting Act 2004 has so many holes, you could drive a van through it. Although Hunt Sabs have achieved more hunting convictions than any other organisation, the 99% of times we see illegal hunting, there is no chance of a conviction. The government needs to do a lot more than just ban trail hunting, which seems to be its only focus.”

So as the Labour Party moves towards a total ban, incidents like this should be increasing public pressure. The sight of blood-stained trousers and dead foxes in gardens is a stark reminder of the reality of a government and a police force that don’t give a fuck.

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Byline Times has linked the components used in the Tomahawk missiles which hit a girls’ school in Mibab, to two defence companies with a strong presence in the UK.

The US missiles murdered around 165 school girls on February 28 in a double-tap attack. The second missile killed sheltering survivors, two first responders, and the parent of a murdered child.

Tomahawk cruise missile

Byline Times has revealed that analysis by Action on Armed Violence, combined with US Government procurement data, strongly suggests that the British defence industry — namely BAE Systems and Raytheon — produced parts for the Tomahawk missiles used in these attacks.

At first, there was speculation about the origins of the missile used in the attack and who was responsible. However:

independent analysis of video, satellite imagery and debris has consistently identified the munition as a Tomahawk cruise missile, a system used by the United States and its allies in this conflict, and no credible source has contested the origin of the recovered fragments.

One of the recovered components is marked “SDL ANTENNA”. This is:

part of the satellite data link system that allows the missile to receive mid-flight guidance updates.

The markings on the part identify its manufacturer as Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. This is a US-based contractor. However, BAE Systems, a UK corporation, owns Ball Aerospace, having acquired it in February 2024.

The weapon fragment contains the code 13993, issued by the US Commercial and Government Entity. This code makes it clear that the company owned by British BAE Systems manufactured the missile’s satellite communications antenna.

Of course, detailed information on current subsystems is partly classified. However, there is no evidence of any recent changes to the UK’s supply of core components, such as those used in these strikes.

Byline Times added:

Since acquiring Ball Aerospace in 2024, BAE Systems has retained its capabilities in Radio frequency (RF) and phased-array (multiple antennas) technologies, making it likely that similar components remain in production under UK ownership.

It is often hard to attribute weapons components to a single strike, as Byline Times has done in this case. However, UK-linked components are a consistent feature of the Tomahawk system.

Additionally, the recovered fragment contains a contract number: N00019-14-C-0075.

According to Byline Times, US Naval Air Systems Command records show that Raytheon won this contract in 2014 to produce Tomahawk Block IV missiles, with “subsequent modifications expanding the order”.

This means that we can directly link the recovered component to that production programme.

The UK’s wider role

Byline Times has also seen wider procurement data that points to “continuity” in the UK’s role in the Tomahawk programme.

Around 4% of the production of the US Tactical Tomahawk programme is based in the UK — at Raytheon UK’s Glenrothes facility in Scotland. It manufactures “electronic and guidance components” for missiles.

According to Byline Times:

Raytheon UK received more than $15 million for its contribution to this production lot according to public financial records (contract N00019-14-C-0075). UK parliamentary records have also previously confirmed that components produced at the Glenrothes site are exported to the United States for integration into Tomahawk missiles, indicating a sustained role in the programme.

An unclassified US Selective Acquisition Report (SAR) also shows that the UK plays an official role in the Tactical Tomahawk programme.

It states:

The FY 2014 procurement includes 196 surface and subsurface launched AURs, 20 torpedo tube launched AURs as part of the United Kingdom Foreign Military Sales case, and 15 surface AURs (FY 2013 funded through Buy-to-Budget).

The UK government doesn’t usually disclose which British-made components are included in weapons used by allied forces, or how these systems are deployed. However, the US does provide detailed procurement data. This means we can trace which company produced specific components.

UK complicity in war crimes

Even before this latest revelation, the UK was already complicit in Israel and the US’s war crimes.

Previously, Keir Starmer claimed the UK was “playing no role” in the illegal attacks on Iran. Then he stated the UK was only taking part in “regional defensive operations”. Now, Starmer is allowing the US to load massive bombs into planes to bomb Iran.

And to make matters worse, it now turns out that the US and Israel are using weapons with British-made parts to blow up little school girls.

You’d have thought a former prosecutor might have had a hard red line when it comes to war crimes. But apparently not. Starmer has even more blood on his hands.

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The Starmer government has announced that the UK navy will bail out the Epstein axis’s floundering, illegal war on Iran. A statement on the official UK government website declares that because of its “deep concern about the escalating conflict”, the UK will help escalate the conflict by collaborating with the US.

The UK navy will assist the US in trying to keep open the Strait of Hormuz, along with France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan and Canada. The UK is therefore, entirely unsurprisingly, siding with the aggressors to prevent a sovereign state defending itself in accordance with international law.

But, Starmer being Starmer, the hypocrisy has to be ladled on. The statement also:

condemn[s] in the strongest terms recent attacks by Iran on unarmed commercial vessels in the Gulf, attacks on civilian infrastructure including oil and gas installations, and the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces.

We express our deep concern about the escalating conflict. We call on Iran to cease immediately its threats, laying of mines, drone and missile attacks and other attempts to block the Strait to commercial shipping… Freedom of navigation is a fundamental principle of international law, including under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

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The effects of Iran’s actions will be felt by people in all parts of the world, especially the most vulnerable.

Oddly, no mention is made on the page of the US’s gleefully murderous sinking of an unarmed Iranian ship in international waters, or Israel’s wanton attack on Iran’s major gas field designed to ‘escalate the conflict’ and prevent any negotiations to end the war. Or of both those countries launching their illegal war of aggression in the first place, which forced Iran to take all the measures it can to — entirely legally — defend itself.

Since Starmer is taking the side of the aggressor, those are presumably ok. Yet he and his drones continue to insist ‘we’ are not really taking an active part.

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Green party leader Zack Polanski delivered his first economic speech to the New Economics Foundation on 19 March. Polanski’s diagnosis of the issues with the UK were privatisation, deregulation and the excesses of the rentier class. His solutions included nationalisation of water, rent controls and wealth taxes.

Zack Polanski — End ‘rip off Britain’

He began by highlighting the ‘extreme economic inequality’ in the UK:

We live in Rip Off Britain. Sky high bills, stagnating wages – extreme inequality. It can’t go on like this. But we have a plan to change it.

He then spoke of how green energy not only addresses the climate crisis, but also delivers cheaper bills and shields the UK from volatile international oil markets:

Spain… has doubled its wind and solar capacities since 2019, taking it from having some of the highest energy bills in Europe to some of the lowest. Other countries have been able to learn the lessons from previous crises and prepare – why is our response so weak when disaster strikes? The answer, put simply, is that we live in rip-off Britain: an economy built to reward the few off the work of the many. A country where people work so hard and try to do the right thing but still struggle to afford the basics, and people find themselves constantly cutting back.

Polanski stopped short of offering a publicly owned Green New Deal in his speech, simply saying that we should speed up the transition to renewables. Currently the market is moving towards renewables, but it isn’t happening fast enough to avert the risk of climate catastrophe. It’s worth noting that the esssential of energy was once in public ownership and would deliver even cheaper running costs.

That said, he did state the problem:

A bonfire sale of our water, our energy, our railways – and so many other fundamental services – meant UK Public Wealth went from the Highest in the G7 to the Lowest… over… two decades.

End Right to Buy

Polanski began with an analysis of Right to Buy, but then concluded that it should be replaced with state landlordism:

Over two million houses have now been sold under right to buy since it was introduced. In the first place, those houses went to people who had worked hard and saved up to own the home they lived in and loved – but now they’re increasingly owned by private landlords, property developers and investment firms who treat those homes – and their tenants – as cash cows.

So we need to end right to buy completely.

Instead, why not replace the social homes that are bought up and make provisions against them being used for private rent?

Billionaire Britain

Polanski continued:

In 1990, when I was going through primary school, and there were 15 billionaires in the UK. By last year, that number had risen to 154. And let’s look at how those people are making their money: today, more than 1 in 4 billionaires draw some or all of their wealth from property and inheritance.

Unearned wealth is a huge issue because it undermines the economy. Inheritance tax should be progressive rather than flat.

Zack Polanski on public investment

The Green leader then spoke of an issue with government planning:

UK fiscal forecasting currently relies on rigid fiscal multiplier assumptions that constrain effective government policy. By assuming that spending multipliers expire after 5 years, the current model is prioritising short-term fiscal targets over the longer-term economic and social gains that targeted government spending could achieve. Right now we can’t plan major infrastructure projects. We can’t invest properly in a healthy, educated population. Right now, we can’t build our future.

To be sure, Polanski’s speech was an inspiring and accurate diagnosis of the issues with Britain.

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As Muslims around the world are celebrating Eid al Fitr, with family gatherings and the sharing of food, the Israeli occupation continues to detain thousands of Palestinian prisoners in their jails. Since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza, these political prisoners have continued to be banned from any communication and visits with their families.

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners have not communicated with their families for decades

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says that hundreds of Palestinian prisoners have been prevented from seeing their families for decades by the Israeli occupation — some for as long as 40 years.

Since October 2023, these policies of isolation have expanded exponentially, and have further intensified since the US and “Israel” began their attacks on Iran. Lawyers have long been the only window to the outside world for Palestinian prisoners, but the occupation has now also suspended all lawyer visits for detainees. It has also extended the state of emergency in prisons, until May. This means that any measures imposed on prisoners since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza will remain in place, under the pretext of “security”.

Escalating Abuse and Conditions During Ramadan 2026

The Palestinian Centre for the Defense of Prisoners (PCDP) says this Ramadan 2026 marked:

one of the harshest periods for Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons in more than four decades.

Not only were prisoners having to cope with the usual medical neglect, starvation and torture, but they were also facing unprecedented conditions during Ramadan, imposed on them by the occupation. “Israel” ensured there was a lack of regular pre-dawn meals, while also significantly delaying the breaking of the fast. According to the PCDP, the occupation’s intentional neglect of Palestinian prisoners during this time has worsened the suffering of fasting detainees and negatively impacting their health.

In a clear violation of religious freedom, some prison sections have also limited Palestinian prisoners on bringing in copies of the Quran, and banned group prayers on group prayers. “Israel” has also carried out various raids against Palestinian prisoners this Ramadan. In February, the fascist National Security Minister Ben-Gvir, gave orders for detainees in Ofer Prison near Ramallah to be violently assaulted. This resulted in stun grenades being fired at prisoners, who were also violently attacked.

More than one in three Palestinian prisoners are held with no trial or charge

As of early March 2023, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, there are more than 9500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. The majority are being held without charge or trial, including women and children. More than 100 have been killed by the systematic repression and torture practiced against them by the Israeli occupation. 88 of these martyrs have been identified.

As of 20 March, 79 Palestinian women are locked up in the occupation’s prisons, and 350 children. More than 3440 are held under administrative detention, without charge or trial. Almost 1250 from Gaza, known as “unlawful combatants,” are currently being held without trial or charge.

With international attention waning, the Israeli occupation has increased abuses against Palestinian detainees. Measures are also being adopted that could pave the way for legalising executions. These developments deepen the vulnerability of prisoners, and make urgent independent oversight and accountability more necessary than ever.

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