Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says

We can’t let dodgy donations poison our politics. I wonder if Nigel Farage agrees?

Parking your car on your home street in Cardiff: £35 a year Parking a bike at your local hangar in Cardiff, taking up 12 times less space than a car: **£120 a year** It's good that these hangars are finally coming to our city but... make it make sense? www.cardiffnewsroom.co.uk/releases/c25...

Happy St David's Day to everyone! Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus i bawb! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌼 #StDavidsDay #DyddGŵylDewiSant

Honoured to have been invited to my first ever Iftar this evening at Dar-ul-Isra mosque in Cathays, who gave such a warm and generous welcome. While some prefer to sow hatred and division, I'd rather take any chance I can to build bridges and understand all parts of our community. Ramadan Mubarak

Frustration and ideas in equal measure at last night's Adamsdown and Splott community forum. Lots of support from residents and businesses for many of our ideas, especially in our Clifton Street campaign. Have you signed our petition yet? ▶️ www.cardiffld.org.uk/cliftonst @rodneyberman.bsky.social

Today's by-election is another illustration of the problems with FPTP. The result may tell us less about what voters want to happen than whether they can game the system effectively to stop a result most *don't* want. The electoral system should not be an obstacle that voters have to work around.

Reform UK have just unveiled their so-called "shadow cabinet", including Richard Tice as Energy Secretary. His first move? Pledging to restart fracking and further pollute the British countryside. (1/5)

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.

Yet another prediction that the Liberal Democrats are on track to win Cardiff East at the next General Election.

I'm glad Keir Starmer is finally stepping up the fight against Nigel Farage, and I hope this will mark the end of his government parroting Farage and copying his divisive politics.

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

"I'd like Government contracts with Tesla to be cut and ended." Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey calls for the Government to block Tesla contracts after Elon Musk told protesters to “fight back or die” and that “violence is coming” at a rally this weekend. #Newsnight

Just a reminder: the queue of MPs from both main parties defecting to the @libdems.org.uk in 2019 got barely a mention by most media.

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

The failure of the government to denounce these thugs is completely fucking sickening.

While Donald Trump has attacked wind farms during his Scotland trip, only 24% of Britons share the president's view that they are unattractive - 28% think they look good, while 41% think they look neither good nor bad yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

A fantastic result for the Cardiff @libdems.org.uk team - puts us well on track to winning in Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf next May!

✅️ racism scandal ✅️ expenses scandal ✅️ not going to get re-elected as a tory Makes for the perfect Reform recruit 🤣 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why do Reform UK defectors from the Conservatives, always have something dodgy about them? Laura Anne Jones, MS: Police reopen dropped probe into politician www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pssst, political commentators - there's a different political realignment going on...

Once again, it's the @libdems.org.uk that successfully manage to beat a strong Reform challenge. Tories and Labour... not so much.

A Welsh Lib Dem HOLD tonight in Llanidloes, Powys - holding off Reform and Plaid in a very hard-fought campaign. Lib Dem 557 Reform UK 551 Plaid 225 Con 118 Labour 112 Ind 6 Llongyfarchiadau to new Cllr Fleur Frantz-Morgans, Glyn Preston and the whole Maldwyn team!

Reform UK's Darren Grimes tells constituents he can't hold surgeries with them because he's been advised by the police not to do so for "security reasons". The only problem? Police spokesperson says this is entirely untrue and they gave no such advice bylinetimes.com/2025/07/03/r...

BBC once again failing the 'stop making everything about Reform' challenge

By-election results: (A) Labour gain Scottish Parliament seat (B) Lib Dems gain overall control of Wokingham Looking forward to the punditry on how these results are all about Reform doing well.

On International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, I want to say to the LGBT+ community: I hear you, I get it, I stand with you, and the Liberal Democrats will never stop fighting to build a country and a world where you are truly free to be who you are.

EXCLUSIVE for @pinknews.bsky.social this morning 🚨 Trans Plymouth City Council councillor Dylan Tippetts, who said Labour is "throwing trans people under the bus", has joined the Lib Dems. He is now the sole Lib Dem councillor in the city council. Read: www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/15/l...

This guy votes on our laws. 🤦‍♂️

"People who vote Labour expect Labour to deliver for them and they're simply not seeing that and the winter fuel payment cut has become emblematic of that." Sarah Olney

A letter to The Guardian.

We know the threat Reform poses – to our communities, our democracy and our precious liberal values. We know where their divisive, destructive brand of politics could lead. Other parties can't or won't stand up to them. It's up to us to be the antidote to Reform's hate and division.

"If you're worried about the rise of divisive populist politicians like Donald Trump and like Nigel Farage, it will be the Liberal Democrats standing up for true British values." @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

Good job we didn't do anything to fundamentally worsen our relationship with the EU in the past decade... right? Right?!

I am increasingly disappointed that the concerns of the #LGBTQ+ community over what the Supreme Court judgement means for them are not yet being addressed. I have written to the Government asking them to make clear how trans and non binary rights will be protected.

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

Conservative Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith tells the BBC that "too many" Liberal Democrats are vegans

News from Cwmtwrch tonight is that the Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe @libdems.org.uk have gained their second byelection in 2 weeks - our first seat on Ystradgynlais Town Council! Lib Dem James Rigby 152 - 52% Green 101 - 34% Ind 42 - 14% LD GAIN from Con Congrats to James and the whole team!

Lib Dems on highest poll rating with YouGov since before 2019 election: Lab 24, Ref 23, Con 22, Lib Dem 17, Green 9 YouGov for The Times/Sky, out this morning.

Cwmllynfell & Ystalyfera (Neath Port Talbot) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 34.0% (New) 🌼 PLC: 30.2% (-26.5) ➡️ RFM: 13.3% (New) 🌹 LAB: 12.7% (-30.6) 🙋 IND: 8.7% (New) 🌳 CON: 1.1% (New) Liberal Democrat GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2022.

I feel like the US would do well to take note of what happens in Brazil when a political leader unlawfully tries to cling into power. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Liberal Democrats are the only party in British politics speaking up in defiance of Donald Trump. The only ones willing to state the obvious truth: that he is no leader of the free world.

The magical disappearing Ed Davey, courtesy of The Observer & @opiniumresearch.bsky.social Poll asks people if they trust various politicians on the economy. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk comes out with best net score, 16 points better than next best. See if you can spot what's missing from write-up:

Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn. It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.

Trump says Ukraine may end up back with Russia and he wants American money back. We must back Ukraine and President Zelensky to protect their sovereignty from a Trump deal that hands victory to Putin. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

Five years on, few Britons think Brexit has been good for anything % saying Brexit has had a positive impact on... Control the UK has over its laws: 31% UK's ability to respond to COVID-19: 23% UK's level of international trade: 11% NHS: 6% Full list in chart 👇 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

If the government thinks it will get growth back in the economy by borrowing Boris Johnson’s playbook on European negotiations it is going to end up being sorely disappointed. It is time for a UK-EU customs arrangement so we can strengthen our negotiations with Donald Trump and grow the economy.

Sorry, did somebody say "growth"?