Morning, and good to see gilsey pop in and sky finally watching QT for all of us
You had to go a long way down the Twitter comments to find someone disagreeing with Monbiot --
Rather lovely to see such an extreme lack of self-awareness when we see the Trumpian and US Far Right's "meddling in the affairs of others" !
Re: Friday 6th March 2026
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2026 10:20 am
by refitman
Well, the price of unleaded has gone up 10p a litre since I came into work. That's a good sign, right?
Re: Friday 6th March 2026
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2026 11:59 am
by Frog222
refitman wrote: Fri Mar 06, 2026 10:20 amWell, the price of unleaded has gone up 10p a litre since I came into work. That's a good sign, right?
According to this the Houthis are holding off for the miment --
Hamas, the Palestinian militant Islamist movement, and the Houthis in Yemen both have close ties with Tehran, but have so far remained on the sidelines of the current conflict.
Renad Mansour, a senior research fellow focused on the Middle East at Chatham House, said: “It’s very much about survival … And survival to them is based on calculations that aren’t necessarily about Iran’s survival.”
Phillip Smyth, a US-based independent analyst of Iran’s allies and proxies, said Tehran might be holding the Houthis “in reserve” but that the movement’s leaders might also be “hedging their bets in case the Iranian regime collapses”.
