Baking a fruitcake for the christening is all well and good but now I have to learn how to pipe royal icing

Lib Dems on the Covid Inquiry report yday: "Doctors and nurses left unsafe. Billions of pounds wasted. Our NHS left hopelessly vulnerable. "The Conservatives' contemptible record of negligence has been laid bare. Never again should they be allowed near the levers of power or our health service."

I’d rather the government actually opposed the implicit transphobia! Really this is just a good example of how bigotry and discrimination pickle brains. They’re inherently irrational so once you let it in you’re on a downward spiral.

As our hills are all on fire again I’d like to remind everybody that this moorland is not a natural habitat in England. It was created by humans for agriculture when the trees were felled and the water drained. The best way to minimise these fires is to restore the land to its natural condition.

My son just told me is favourite sentence is: “I didn’t say we should kill him” because if you emphasise each different word it changes the entire meaning

Lib Dem leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk will appeal directly to Mr Burnham to collaborate, asserting that if Mr Burnham is "serious about changing the way we do politics" including electoral reform, then his "door is open" - The right approach 👏👏👏 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Council meeting, LBRuT, tonight complete with our new Political Party questions. As there are no longer any other Councillors but Lib Dems on the Council it is our way to get different voices heard. Only the Greens and Reform have asked questions.

Officers shooting a man, running away from law enforcement, who is not a target of law enforcement, and who poses no threat to law enforcement, is murder. Federal officers do not have the power to commit summary executions because they are aggrieved.

BBC 1&2 are both showing repeats of old Rick Stein cookery programmes today. Are you fucking surprised that nobody is watching???

Can I just say that the rules around marriage and registering a birth/ parental rights are insanely outdated. I have to jump through an extra hoop because I refuse to conform

Ten years ago today, a wise woman told us to "Pokemon Go To The Polls". We should have Pokemon Gone To The Polls. This November, Pokemon Go To The Polls.

So my magic solution to the BBCs problems is to shut down everything but channel 1&2 and radio 1-5. Funnel the entire budget into making new programmes and ditch the repeats. Also need a mindset that ratings are an internal guide on quality. It’s a public service it doesn’t actually compete!

Did Oswald Mosley get police protection?

Finally convinced Zach to watch the Empire Strikes Back. What a victory. Now I need to apply the breaks hard before we go too far the other way and he’s trying to get me to watch Ahsoka or something

We are pushing 20 years since the release of iron man and it blows my mind that they’re still making content. I’m not a fan of super hero films in general so I was always going to get bored quickly but surely it’s just getting silly now.

I’m watching swallows fly around right outside my office window today and it is delightful

And there it is. JK Rowling personally and publicly offering to bankroll litigation against Amnesty International using her massive wealth.

The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.

JK Rowling offers to fund lawsuits against Amnesty is a headline that will cut through.

At a press conference on Thursday, the head of UK Counter Terrorism Policing, Laurence Taylor, said the threat from extreme-right wing terrorism was rising and had been a key driver of the decision to raise the national terror threat level from substantial to “severe” in May

In fairness neither Iran nor America have ratified UNCLOS II

12 people have been arrested as part of an investigation into a suspected extreme right-wing terror plot against an Islamic gathering in Suffolk The UK Ijtima, which hosted 15,000 Muslims for a programme of talks and discussions, was closed and evacuated by police on Sunday

My crusade is to get the British electorate to realise that you can’t be against something and then vote for it. If you vote for it then you are for it. So tired of being asked to weigh the secret desires of the hearts of politicians instead of just looking at the things they actually do

Hatred of lgbt people is a core component of far right politics. Homophobia is on the march in the UK and if you haven’t noticed it yet you need to open your fucking eyes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Londoners in 1550:

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

It is once again time to repost this classic.

Nice of Kemi to run a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Lib Dems

I think this is the worst post I have ever seen

Streatham St Leonard's (Lambeth) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 41.7% (+26.4) 🌍 GRN: 35.0% (-12.5) 🌹 LAB: 15.1% (-7.8) 🌳 CON: 4.3% (-3.1) ➡️ RFM: 2.6% (-4.2) ✝️ CPA: 1.3% (New) Liberal Democrat GAIN from Green. Changes w/ 2026.

Greetings programme

Horrific

Its disheartening that in the replies to this post, so many people are in disbelief. Trans voices just cannot reach the cis populous through the fog of legacy and MSM press. Lee Hurley isnt being hypothetical, the woman in question got prison for a blow job. She will be a registered sex offender.

Your regular reminder that Ireland has had gender self-ID for 11 years and civilization here seems to have carried on just fine. The only place this is "an issue" is the opinion columns. Unlike in the UK where they are obsessed with this, while their economy sadly craters around them... 👇

Here the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Japan is see posing with the grim reaper in front of the Houses of Parliament. This is clearly a threat of violence against the United Kingdom.

Denmark is procuring new maritime patrol aircraft. A capability the UK an island nation and aspiring maritime power has not had since 2010.

Despite more than 1 in 4 MPs signing my motion against the Code, it is due to come into force without any debate or vote in Parliament. I have written to the Minister for Women and Equalities urging her to withdraw it now. 2/2

Trump: "Would you go to Moscow?" Zelensky: "It's difficult. There are a lot of Ukrainian drones there. It would be dangerous."

Labour’s failure to take a proper public stand in defence of Denmark & Greenland is one of Starmer’s greatest failures.

I will only call him Mr Binface because I cannot be compelled to recognise or use a foreign title.

So in general I don’t really understand the desire for apologies and pardons for dead people but ok whatever it doesn’t hurt me. But I do think it’s kind of mad to give out pardons to people who were fairly convicted under the laws of the time. You could surely end up pardoning everybody?

Almost every argument I have on here is caused by people who just can’t follow a basic argument. Most recently several people who just couldn’t work out that “build more houses” was not mutually exclusive with “build more council houses”. It’s quite scary.

I’m glad Natalie is speaking about this and helping raise the profile of this important case and the continued discrimination against lgbt people in these countries

This is exactly the kind of thing that needs to happen in the absence of legislation banning noncewear outright - people wearing it need to be made to feel like perverts.

In the same week that the the UK government announced it will not replace the Royal Navy’s air defence, Ukraine is desperately scrambling to find ever more air defence. The strategic stupidity of our government can’t be overstated.

The Chancellor has the power to stop Farage's cynical ploy. I've written to her this morning urging her to act. Farage should not be allowed to resign until the investigation into his dodgy dealings has concluded. The people of Clacton deserve the facts first.

Nigel Farage has lined his own pockets and is using this by-election to escape scrutiny. The people of Clacton deserve better.

nuff said

I hope all those Americans on Bluesky who try to tell the rest of the world that they’re the good ones are feeling ashamed of their pathetic attempts to excuse their country’s/Fifa’s corruption and cheating. Was it really worth your integrity? Was it a hill worth dying on?