The Americans and Iranians can try and argue that they won this mutually destructive war, but the only actual winner is Oman, by leaps and bounds. Via nothing but diplomacy, they’ve walked away with a huge economic asset and a role as the Gulf’s Iran whisperer. While still being a US ally.

This is a grave and era-defining moment for the world. Donald Trump is making wilder and increasingly concerning threats by the hour.

A totally normal Easter Sunday here on planet Earth. Just the US President telegraphing to the world - in the most ‘colourful’ language - that war crimes against Iranian civilians will (re)commence on Tuesday. Remind me, what part of the Easter story is this meant to reflect?

The fact that someone wrote this out and thought it was socially acceptable to publish is a sign that something has gone deeply wrong in progressive online discourse.

Starmer needs to get on the phone to Trump and ask him to set out a plan to protect civilians and support a democratic transition in Iran. We've seen before that bombs don't bring about democracy and regime change without a plan just leads to more chaos and suffering.

Penguins - 1 Trump - 0

In 1997, Tory MP Rupert Allason lost his seat to a Lib Dem by 12 votes. A week before the election he and his team failed to tip waitstaff after having dinner at a restaurant leading to all of them collectively agreeing to vote Lib Dem. That was 14 votes. This is very, very common.

Where did you get the Lib Dem 2029 manifesto?

Proud of my hometown tonight :)

Ironically, I think the problem of this article is that its core thesis is actually already proven to be right, and accepted as right by most literature on UBI. Most UBI advocates accept that doing work does (generally) make people feel good, and don’t want a world with no work.

Weak, weak, weak. This appeasement must end. Starmer should be uniting with our allies against Trump's threats, not splitting off to suck up to him.

Lib Dem source: “Just 45 more Tory defections until Ed becomes Leader of the Opposition.”

Now it's really done: the liberals of Renew Europe joins the EPP and the Socialists to delay the ratification of the EU-US trade deal. The three centrist parties have a majority in the chamber to make it happen. The European Parliament is NOT voting this deal.

Starmer’s US policy lies in tatters. Trump is now punishing the UK and NATO allies just for doing the right thing. Time for the PM to stand firm against the bully in the White House, and work with European and Commonwealth allies to make him back down from this reckless plan.

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

It’s time we started taking Trump’s threats seriously. God forbid if Greenland is attacked, the UK should immediately sanction the Trump Organization and think twice about whether we want US forces on our soil at all.

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

“In the face of right-populism, LibDems are not running away from the battle for equal rights for all” We are pleased to see Cllr Dylan Tippetts who resigned from Labour last week over their stance on trans rights, joined the Liberal Democrats Welcome on board Dylan 🧡🏳️‍⚧️

Sarah Olney just showed why Liberal Democrats will (on average at least) always be the most competent people you can elect on any level of government. Reform show complete ignorance on basic facts of council funding, while the Lib Dems have all the facts. #localelections #bbclocalelection

I have a feeling that Bridget Phillipson and Richard Holden might dislike each other a tad 😅 #localelections

“People are tired of the same old two parties, and have already given hard-working Liberal Democrats the LARGEST councillor mandate across the region to serve them” @olihenman.bsky.social made his final pitch on BBC #politicswest to be your Mayor for the West of England #Oli4WECA #LibDems

And it's a double 17% for Lib Dems as on @newsagents.bsky.social podcast, @luketryl.bsky.social has said his poll tomorrow has Lib Dems also on 17%. That is highest score with More in Common since they started polling in the last Parliament. aka BEST LIB DEM SCORE SINCE DINOSAURS ROAMED THE EARTH

🚨 Today, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia labeled ALDE Party and our youth wing @lymec.bsky.social as “undesirable organisations”. Statement from our President @svenjahahn.bsky.social and LYMEC President Ines Holzegger ➡️ bit.ly/4h9jRaB

Last week, I had the honour of speaking to students from the @bristoluni.bsky.social on 'Ukraine in a Changing UK' hosted by the University's Ukrainian Society and @uoblibdems.bsky.social. #Ukraine #UK

I never thought I’d say this before last week, but this actually makes me feel really sorry for Starmer… He does something genuinely impressive for the first time in his premiership, and his own ambassador just erases it and completely embarrasses his government and his party.

The Liberal Democrats respond to the Nigel Farage LBC phone-in @eddavey.libdems.org.uk says:

LibDems stand strong against the thuggery of Trump and his UK equivalents (Reform Limited) - especially on the rightful fight of Ukraine 🇺🇦 Last night we had the absolute pleasure of hosting Rachel Gilmour MP for a conversation with Bristol’s Ukrainian societies, who showed an exceptional turnout

It was a great pleasure to host @claireyoungmp.bsky.social last night here in Bristol! She addressed many concerns of young voters (mostly non-LibDem!) from housing crisis to party policy to Britain’s NIMBYism question - she even stayed an extra hour to answer more Qs than scheduled🧡 (1/2)

‼️ Commonwealth should stand together #TeamCanada 🇨🇦🇬🇧

I honestly think that by giving us #breturn, Donald Tusk has given the pro-EU movement a chance to look forward rather than back. Telling people that you want to Return sounds far more exciting than saying that you wished we ‘Remained’.

Happy New Year! Hopefully this one is a tad calmer than the last 😅

Our statement on Puberty Blockers

Really hope that Western states get back to fully supporting the SDF after the upheaval in Syria - the fall of Assad is amazing, but HTS are sending mixed signals. The SDF aren’t perfect, but they’re still by far the most likely to lead for all the Syrian people, rather than one sect or religion.

Spotify is great and all, but is there anything better than a year of breathtaking political achievements being Wrapped up?

Even though I have no love for football, I’ve still made Gary Lineker (and Global) bucketloads of cash this year! In all seriousness though, @empirepoduk.bsky.social @thenewsagents.com @theresthistory.bsky.social @trientertainment.bsky.social and TRiP have all been amazing listens this year!

Frampton Cotterell (South Gloucestershire) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 49.3% (-2.4) 🌳 CON: 41.7% (+8.1) 🌍 GRN: 6.0% (-3.0) 🌹 LAB: 3.0% (-2.7) Liberal Democrat HOLD. Changes w/ 2023.

Ed Davey challenges Keir Starmer to 1v1 him in FIFA (2024)

If anyone ever needs another cautionary tale in calling an election, this is one. Just a few hours ago the liberal candidate Elena Lasconi was predicted to get second place and progress to the runoffs, with the far-right in fourth. Unless something drastically changes, those polls were wrong…

There seems to be a perception that Labour and the Greens are the parties of young people - it is true they got most of the 18-25 vote - but we certainly aren’t offering a bad deal for students in the Lib Dems either. You could even say it’s a pretty ‘fair’ deal 😅

This week the University of Bristol Liberal Democrats took part in a mock Question Time event with @bristol_yg and @BrisUniLabour hosted by the UoB Politics Society. Take a look through our thread to see what we learnt 👇

Hello everyone here, especially fellow Lib Dems! I’d quickly like to (with much bias) shout out the @uoblibdems.bsky.social - we’re currently the only Young Liberal group on here apart from our bosses over at @englishyl.bsky.social, so I’d highly encourage anyone interested in the YL to follow us!