4 h. ago UK should consider expelling US forces from British bases, says Zack Polanski

Exclusive: Green party leader advocates leaving Nato and says Britain should wean itself off its reliance on the USThe UK should consider expelling the US from British military bases, the leader of the Green party has said, as he advocated leaving Nato and spending less on American weapons as part of a wider dismantling of the two countries’ defence alliance.Zack Polanski told the Guardian he believed Britain should wean itself off its reliance on American military cooperation, though would not say whether he supported spending more money to replace that capability. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Green leader's bonkers plan to 'punish' Trump if he invades Greenland ... by scrapping the UK's nuclear deterrent and kicking out US troops, leaving Britain at the mercy of Russia

Zack Polanski, a long-term critic of the UK's Nato membership, said the 'poodle' UK should take steps to become militarily 'independent' of the US.

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4 d. ago British diplomat expelled from Russia after ‘baseless’ accusation of being a spy

Moscow’s allegation that unnamed diplomat is affiliated with UK secret service comes ‘out of desperation’, Foreign Office saysA British diplomat has been expelled from Russia over what the UK Foreign Office described as “malicious and baseless accusations” of being a spy.The diplomat, who was not named, had two weeks to leave the country, the Russian foreign ministry said after it received information “regarding the affiliation of a diplomatic employee at the embassy with the British secret service”. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago British Military withdrawn from Qatar base after Trump's threats to Iran

British military personnel and some US staff are being evacuated from the Qatar airbase which is the US's biggest in the Middle East

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7 d. ago British talent fuels rise in value of home entertainment market

Streaming remains the audience’s top choice for watching at home but figures show that Blu-ray and DVDs are still the first choice for many customers.

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8 d. ago Syrian forces expel Kurdish fighters as US strikes Islamic State targets

Three hundred Kurds detained and further 400 evacuated following clashes in AleppoSyrian government forces have detained 300 Kurds and evacuated more than 400 Kurdish fighters after clashes in Aleppo, the interior ministry has said, as US and allied forces carried out separate “large-scale” strikes against Islamic State targets.An interior ministry official told Agence France-Presse that about 360 Kurdish fighters and 60 wounded had been bussed to the Kurds’ de facto autonomous zone in the north-east from the Sheikh Maqsoud district, the last area of Aleppo to fall to the army. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Greens could join pact with Labour to stop Farage – but only if Starmer is replaced as leader, Polanski says

Exclusive: Zack Polanski tells The Independent that doing a deal with a Starmer-led Labour Party would ‘lead to a worse version of Nigel Farage’

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1 week ago PM faces call to rule out use of British bases if US attacks Greenland

US officials have said they could use ‘military means’ to ‘acquire’ the semi-autonomous Danish territory.

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1 week ago Russia brands Keir Starmer 'illiterate' and 'a fool' for vowing to station British troops in Ukraine as Putin attack dog threatens UK with missile strikes

A senior Russian official has branded Sir Keir Starmer as 'illiterate' and 'a fool' after he vowed to base British troops in Ukraine as part of a peace deal. 

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1 week ago Russia slams ‘fool’ Starmer in chilling WW3 threat – ‘See what we will do’

Dmitry Rogozin branded Sir Keir Starmer 'illiterate and a fool' for vowing to base British troops in Ukraine as part of a peace deal, and suggested Russia would hit back

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2 w. ago ‘We were missing in the conversation’: how Zack Polanski hit on plan to beat Reform at their own game

This time last year Polanski was barely known outside the party. Now he’s hoping for success at May’s local elections - by taking a page from Nigel Farage’s playbookZack Polanski finally decided to stand as the Greens’ leader, he says, after witnessing the party being eclipsed by Reform in last May’s local elections across England, and realising that British politics had changed for good.While the Greens made yet more steady gains, Reform won nearly 700 councillors from a standing start. As deputy leader, it was Polanski’s job to speak to losing candidates to both offer consolation and ask what lessons could be learned. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Truly humbling’: inside the centre where UK medics are helping Ukrainian amputees

British military doctors and therapists provide support at base where innovative treatments aid recovery of those who have lost limbsAt a specialist treatment centre in Ukraine, as other amputees play volleyball nearby, Vladislav shows a video on his phone of how he lost his left leg. He found the footage – of a drone closing in rapidly on a buggy, Vladislav standing exposed at its rear – on a Russian military social media channel.The 31-year-old, an arbitration lawyer before Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, makes a double whistling noise to describe the drone’s ominous progress. “That’s me,” he says, pointing at the video, filmed from a fibre optic drone, chasing him down with terrifying ease as the vehicle slows for a corner. Then the screen goes blank. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Gary Lineker opens up about BBC and claims it can 'never be impartial'

In a new interview with Green Party leader Zack Polanski, the footballing legend claimed the Beeb couldn’t always stay neutral on everything, saying 'it's impossible'

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2 w. ago Zack Polanski: I would be open to working with Labour if Andy Burnham was leader

Green party leader rules out co-operation with Keir Starmer

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2 w. ago Gary Lineker says BBC needs to look at how people are brought in at the top

Lineker is appearing on Green Party leader Zack Polanski’s podcast on New Year’s Eve where he said he would ‘never’ go into politics himself.

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3 w. ago Film with 100% Rotten Tomatoes score is a true story and will leave you in tears

This film has left many people feeling emotional because it is based on an inspirational true story – and the British movie has an 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes

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3 w. ago ‘Fabulous’ thriller with Line of Duty star leaves viewers ‘craving more’

The British thriller series is based on Sarah Pinborough's novel of the same name

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3 w. ago Green leader demands Brits pay hundreds of millions of pounds to make Calais migrants more COMFORTABLE while they wait to take small boats to the UK

Zack Polanski will use his Christmas Day message to say £476m currently spent on 'cruelty' trying to stop them should to go towards a new system based on 'compassion, kindness and humanity'.

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last month UFC legend Tony Ferguson brutally knocks out Spencer Warren’s TOOTH to win Misfits Boxing title

UFC legend Tony Ferguson brutally knocked out Spencer Warren's TOOTH in their Misfits Boxing fight. The former MMA star defeated Dubai-based British influencer Warren on the undercard of Andrew Tate's controversial Misfits debut. And Warren - a friend of notorious internet personality Tate - was beaten and dropped over six rounds against Ferguson. In the...

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