The “Ed Davey is obsessed with Farage” takes are weird. A) The media is obsessed with Farage B) If the next election looks anything like the polling, it will basically be a progressive/populist bloc election. Labour won’t be Davey’s enemy. They’ll be his path to govern.

Fact-checkers working hard to keep up…

Nigel Farage's 'repugnant' migrants plan torn apart as NHS would 'collapse' "The effect on the NHS and social care workforce would be no less than catastrophic. It'll be impossible to maintain vital public services," warned UNISON's Christina McAnea www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Holy shit 🤣🤣🤣

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

IMPORTANT 🧵 We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US. But it could happen in UK too. It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim. Read on! 1/11

I didn’t take paracetamol during pregnancy. My son is autistic. Of all the -isms to be worried about in the world today, autism is quote low on the list. In fact it’s not on the list. I’d settle for a POTUS who is half the man my son’s turned out to be. Different does not mean less, you buffoon.

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

To be fair visas are the least of the problems. Lack of public funding for research, no job vacancies, and salaries about a third of what they would be used to in the US are rather bigger obstacles.

Jeffries: As you pointed out, for the last several weeks Donald Trump has been very clear: Don’t even bother talking to Democrats. We’re gonna do this on our own. You can’t do it on your own. It requires 60 votes, which means you have to talk to Democrats…

Ed Davey made a confident speech: there is a great deal of strategic logic in a liberal challenge to Nigel Farage is offering Britain the chaos and cruelty of Donald Trump's America, and in taking a strong stand that Elon Musk should not be above the rule of law www.libdems.org.uk/news/article...

Now that Jimmy Kimmel is getting reinstated, many MAGA figures are trying to argue that this shows Trump *didn't* use authoritarian abuses to originally oust him. This is a transparent scam from MAGA, and media figures should not be gaslit by it. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2008...

Many Fox News figures are now claiming Kimmel's reinstatement shows Trump never used autocratic pressure to get him removed. This suffers from an elementary logical flaw: Just because Trump and Brendan Carr didn't succeed doesn't mean they didn't abuse their powers. newrepublic.com/article/2008...

Viewers in the Twin Cities will be able to watch “Jimmy Kimmel Live” at 10:35 p.m. on KSTP-TV, the station confirmed.

Reform’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants with legal right to remain wouldn’t save the UK money – it would collapse services, rapidly shrink the tax base and cause an economic crisis that would make the £234bn look like pocket change.

Mind the gap. More cheery HE news to digest: 'The introduction of a levy on overseas tuition fees in the UK could deter tens of thousands of international applicants and trigger 135,000 fewer university places for domestic students, a new report has concluded.' 1/3

As an aside, Davey's speech included another go at the BBC for, he says, fawning over Reform and ignoring the Lib Dems. This infuriates the BBC, but as one Lib DEm staffer pointed out, since they started this attack Davey has been invited onto the crucial Today programme 8.10am slot twice.

So it comes down to us. Or Nigel Farage. Liberal Democrat change – true to British values. Transforming our economy, our public services and our politics. The real change people crave. Or Farage’s change. Change away from the country we love. Change towards Trump’s America.

Big shout out to this caption writer.

Americans I am begging you to sort this out. Your mad racist uncle has shat himself in public again.

Okay. So this is wholly on the Republican controlled government then.

Lib Dems the last block against ‘forces of darkness’ led by Farage, says Ed Davey

Trump at the UN: "I look at London where you have a terrible mayor... Now they want to go to Sharia law." This is entirely false. London Mayor Sadiq Khan is politically moderate and has never ever called for Sharia law. This is Islamophobic propaganda and a bigoted attack on Khan.

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

Having pondered it all morning, I'm still incredulous that all that Today programme coverage of migrant hotels at no point (unless I missed it) mentioned why people were here, what they might be fleeing from etc.

Awful Chris Mason interview with Ed Davey. Deliberately misinterprets Davey's comment that it is 'almost as if' Reform press releases are cut and pasted to point out that they are not actually cut and pasted. The guy should not be on air. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Lib Dems pass motion to push for full UK/EU Customs Union by 2030 The most certain way of ending the cost of living crisis and of boosting the economy

Kamala Harris on Mamdani: Look, as far as I'm concerned, he's the democratic nominee and he should be supported.

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

I was a boy in the 1970s and I thought it was brilliant. As long as I got fed, could play with my mates down the woods, and watch TOTP and the occasional war film, I was happy. But I was looking at my (very narrow) world through a child's eyes. You'd think this point was obvious to everyone else.

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

'The speech this week will be the first time Starmer will publicly take on the arguments of Farage since Reform ramped up its policy announcements and visibility over the summer' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

On the one hand, better late than never. On the other hand: why so late? The case for doing this was just as obvious in May as it is in September.

Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths? Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.

Very sensible proposals here. Pity about the remorseless way in which Reeves hammered home the tax pledges. Should always have placed them within the overarching aim of a “fair and efficient” tax system (as Blair did in ‘97) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Contrary to what Trump is saying, there is a “down side” to separating MMR into three separate vaccines. That’s three unnecessary office visits and three unnecessary copays. This type of policy puts up more barriers to vaccination.

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY TRUMP, RFK JR. OR DR. OZ: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

The libdems have to have a conference for Ed Davey to appear several items down the BBC news items. Farage just has to open his mouth and he appears at item number two on evening broadcast.

Wow, Mason grows a backbone when interviewing Davey, in a way he's never done when interviewing Farage. 100% proving Davey right.

Has the BBC given the Lib Dems or Greens 35 paras IN TOTAL since the election? 'Monday' at BBC Reform.

The BBC showed the Farage and Yusuf presentation unbroken for an hour this morning. No interrogation of the facts or policies, just a party political broadcast, free publicity for a party with 5 MPs.

The BBC don’t analyse & report news anymore, they take dictation & repeat. Having been brought up on BBC news once the 60’s, I can’t listen to it anymore; I can’t afford replacement phones.

Their coverage post 2016 did not reflect the fact that 48% of people voted to Remain in the EU. As far as the BBC was concerned the Leave vote was 100%. That wasn’t an opinion poll, but an actual vote.

The figure has just come up on Radio 4 The World Tonight, too, presented as a disagreement between Reform and Rachel Reeves. The usual “he said, she said”, rather than “we looked out the window and found that the source of this figure has disowned it”.

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

It is representative of a *profound* failure of a country that this group of people are up there talking about medicine and science at all