Vote Reform UK, get war with France Zia Yusuf insists Reform will forcibly send migrants back to France whatever Paris says, arguing "However, if they choose not to consent, we have a plan for that too."
Dan Sabbagh
@dansabbagh.bsky.social
Journalist @guardian - defence and security editor. Based in London, travel to Ukraine and anywhere else when I can.... signal: londoncalling.77
How an AI enabled military can get it wrong. A demonstration of how modern targeting methods can work, and not work, from @airwars.bsky.social They track your phone, read your social media, give you a score - and shoot to kill ai-killchain.airwars.org
Interactive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain
Breaking down how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies
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"As I said on the steps of Downing St...we are going to honour our commitments on defence and use that investment to transform people's lives". - Andy Burnham by video at the Farnborough Air Show, reiterates commitment to 3.5% target
An unelected monarch appoints an unelected prime minister. This is how we do it... 🇬🇧
A video in which I try make sense of Trump at the NATO summit, edited by the sensational Guardian team.. youtu.be/4evdT43_oI8?...
How Trump's yo-yo summit left Nato a little bit bruised
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"I gotta make....I have to make sure of one thing, that we don't have lunatics having control over nuclear weapons" - Trump speaking at the Nato summit just now
Nato summit final declaration just out 1 - Trump signs up to Art 5 (sorry Vlad) 6 - No reference to next meeting (once less chance for a Trump row)
IDF supplier Elbit Systems says Israeli military Tzayad command system generated 1,000 potential targets a day in Gaza, Lebanon in two years after Oct 7... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Israeli command system identified 850,000 targets in Gaza and Lebanon wars, says supplier
Elbit Systems supplied Tzayad digital army programme to map people, vehicles and other objects in real time
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Britain will have to "dial back" on military operations (against Russia, in Middle East) in future if No10, Treasury do not provide more money to MoD - UK chief of defence staff tells a Lords ctte
Dan Jarvis arrives in the Commons with Rachel Reeves in a moment of MoD-Treasury harmony ahead of Jarvis's first statement as defence minister - not on the defence spending but on the seizure of a Russian shadow fleet tanker on Sun
Starmer loyalist John Healey quits ahead of G7 and Nato summits in defence spending row. Said PM only offers minimal increase in defence spending this parliament of about £2bn despite growing global commitments, threat from Russia. Key passage from resignation letter:
Wow. UK defence sec'y John Healey resigns. His resignation letter says DIP settlement he was given "falls well short of what is required for defence and the country" and that UK would be spending just 2.68% of GDP in 2030.
where's the podium? will it even come out today?? forget polymarket, you can tell me
MoD denies RAF Typhoons, scrambled from Romania, shot down Russian drones over Ukraine last night. Planes took off - but no drones engaged, no flight into Ukraine, MoD says. Contradicts earlier Romanian reports. Would have been significant escalation... Earlier: www.dailymail.com/news/article...
RAF jets shoot down Russian drones over Ukraine for first time
Two Royal Air Force Eurofighters were scrambled from Romania as Vladimir Putin 's forces attacked ports on the River Danube in Ukraine.
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Here's to the informed onlooker - super piece about 'the man in the cravat' from @sammygecsoyler.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...
Who is ‘cravat man’? Neckwear steals the show in Olly Robbins parliamentary grilling
Wiltshire town councillor Andrew Edwards, who has large collection of neckwear, is a regular at committee hearings
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Anybody out there know Amman. I'm here for 24h + in the market for food and other recommendations...
Hungary election result - best piece of news all year so far? A little optimism piercing the geopolitical storm., maybe the beginning of something broader... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Hungarian opposition ousts Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power
Péter Magyar’s Tisza party wins election as prime minister concedes defeat, in result likely to reshape ties with EU
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An hour or so later and another 40% or so counted. Back home it'd be two seats in Sunderland and a long wait before a marginal declares
Dan Sabbagh@dansabbagh.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhy do UK elections take so long to count...
🔴 BREAKING: Russia heavily shelled the city center of Kramatorsk, a frontline city in the Donetsk region, with four guided aerial bombs. This is the true face of the Russian “Easter truce”.
The amount of explosive (4kg) found in Serbia last week near Russian gas pipeline to Hungary was never enough to destroy it, says a Ukrainian military expert. Concludes it was likely to be a GRU false flag plot as a result - www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Explosives found near pipeline ‘likely a Russian provocation’, says military expert
Former Ukrainian major general says 4kg of material found in Serbia was attempt to influence Hungary’s election
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