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UK households will take £2,400 financial hit from Iran war, analysis shows
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/31/uk-households-financial-hit-iran-war-inflation-wage-stagnation
‘Until energy markets calm, the squeeze will persist’ on UK households, says the CEBR consultancy. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian
Centre for Economics and Business Research calculates effect of inflation and wage stagnation to end of 2027
UK households will have suffered a £2,400 financial hit, on average, from the Iran war by the end of 2027, new analysis shows.
The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) has calculated that the jump in inflation since the conflict began, and weaker wage growth, will knock £1,100 off the real income of the average UK household in 2026, and by a further £1,300 in 2027.
This adds up to a total of £70.4bn that will be wiped off UK households’ real disposable incomes by the Middle East conflict, according to the CEBR, an economic consultancy.
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Energy bills across Great Britain are scheduled to rise in October, after the regulator, Ofgem, decided to lift its quarterly price cap by 4%.
Last week, the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit thinktank (ECIU) calculated that higher wholesale oil and gas prices since the start of the US-Iran war, on 28 February, will add an estimated £9.8bn to UK energy and road transport costs. UK gas and electricity users face paying an extra £190m for each week the conflict continues, the ECIU found.
Original article at https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/31/uk-households-financial-hit-iran-war-inflation-wage-stagnation
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Natural Disaster Expert: Elites Have NO PLAN for Climate Collapse. Aaron Bastani meets Bill McGuire
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dizzy: I try to avoid such long videos but found this fascinating and am likely to return to it many times. You will certainly be far better informed after watching this video. It is matter-of-fact reasoned argument from an intelligent, informed man. I warn you that it discusses a very depressing topic – climate change and the absolute absence of any action to address it – so maybe not for those who would prefer blissful ignorance.
Donald Trump urges you to be a Climate Science denier like him. He says that he makes millions and millions for destroying the planet, Burn, Baby, Burn and Flood, Baby, Flood.
Nigel Farage urges you to ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him and his Deputy Richard Tice. He says that Reform UK has received £Millions and £Millions from the fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial and destroy the planet.
Orcas comment on killer apes destroying the planet by continuing to burn fossil fuels.
30 August 2026
Israel’s national security minister ‘pleased’ with harsh conditions of Palestinian prisoners
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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir gives a speech on January 24, 2023 [Saeed Qaq/Anadolu Agency]
Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said Sunday that he is “pleased” with the harsh treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, adding that he is directly responsible for the prison conditions, Anadolu reports.
His remarks came in a video released on the US social media company X during which he was talking to Palestinian female prisoners.
“The conditions here are very bad, and we women are not afforded any special rights, such as access to personal necessities,” a Palestinian prisoner said in the video.
“This is our third day without showers. We are not receiving medical treatment, and our clothes are not clean,” she added.
“The good conditions that used to exist in the prisons are over,” Ben-Gvir responded through an interpreter.
“The ‘whining’ of the terrorists about the conditions in the prisons doesn’t work on me,” he also wrote in a post accompanying the video.
When the female prisoner asked for the prison conditions to be improved, Ben-Gvir rejected her request.
This is not the first time Ben-Gvir has entered the cells of Palestinian detainees to mock them.
Earlier in August, he mocked a female prisoner who complained about the poor conditions of her detention and the lack of basic necessities, telling her that “prison is not a hotel.”
Since taking office in late 2022, Ben-Gvir has moved to tighten the conditions of detention for Palestinian prisoners, including through policies of starvation and medical neglect, as well as torture and solitary confinement.
Around 9,500 Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli jails, including 94 women and more than 350 children, who suffer from starvation, torture and medical neglect, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights reports.
RAD: Masked Israeli occupiers attack Palestinian woman, NBC News crew in occupied West Bank
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Donald Trump calls for help from NATO allies in securing the Strait of Hormuz despite saying on 7 March 2026 that they don’t need people to join wars after they’ve already won. He’s challenged with the claim that he lies as much as the IDF.
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Masked Israeli occupiers attack Palestinian woman, NBC News crew in occupied West Bank
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Israeli forces organize a raid in the Old City of Hebron, West Bank, Palestine on August 29, 2026. [Wisam Hashlamoun – Anadolu Agency]
Masked Israeli occupiers attacked and injured a Palestinian woman and three members of an NBC News team in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the US broadcaster reported, Anadolu reports.
The journalists were interviewing Aida Ahmed Abdullah, 51, and her family in the Palestinian town of Jalud, near Nablus, when the attack occurred.
Abdullah told the team that Israeli occupiers had forced her family from their home. She and the journalists were walking down a hill toward the house when a vehicle with Israeli license plates reversed toward them, according to video footage of the incident.
At least four masked men then got out of the vehicle and attacked Abdullah and the journalists with sticks and rocks, NBC News reported.
International correspondent Matt Bradley said he was struck twice in the arm and later treated at a nearby clinic.
“They jumped out, beat us, then jumped back in the car,” Bradley said.
A cameraman and producer working with Bradley were also injured and received treatment following the attack.
Abdullah was taken for medical treatment by the Palestinian Red Crescent. Her injuries were not life-threatening, according to a joint statement from the Israeli army and Israel Border Police cited by NBC News.
Her husband, Mahmoud Toubasi, said her condition had improved, but she remained hospitalized Saturday night.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the violence, describing those responsible as “a handful of rioters,” according to NBC News.
The occupied West Bank has seen an escalation in Israeli army raids and attacks by Israeli occupiers against Palestinians since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip in October 2023.
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Donald Trump calls for help from NATO allies in securing the Strait of Hormuz despite saying on 7 March 2026 that they don’t need people to join wars after they’ve already won. He’s challenged with the claim that he lies as much as the IDF.
Climate science denier Donald Trump confirms that he knows nothing about democracy and that more liquid gold is being secured according to his policy of global privateering.
Orcas discuss how Trump was re-elected and him being an obviously insane, xenophobic Fascist.
30 August 2026
Gaza families seek the fate of relatives missing during the war on International Day of the Disappeared
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On the International Day of the Disappeared, families of people who went missing during the war are demanding that the fate of their loved ones be revealed, in front of the Red Cross in Gaza.
This work by Middle East Monitor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Donald Trump calls for help from NATO allies in securing the Strait of Hormuz despite saying on 7 March 2026 that they don’t need people to join wars after they’ve already won. He’s challenged with the claim that he lies as much as the IDF.
Climate science denier Donald Trump confirms that he knows nothing about democracy and that more liquid gold is being secured according to his policy of global privateering.
Orcas discuss how Trump was re-elected and him being an obviously insane, xenophobic Fascist.
30 August 2026

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