One of the biggest topics of discussion at #LDConf has been the threat from Reform and how we fight back. The depressing spectacle of the Conservatives' capitulation to the populist right, and Labour's equivocation, means it falls to the Lib Dems to lead the charge against Farage. And we will! 💪🏻🔶

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.

🎺🎺We are proud to announce that the new @greenparty.org.uk leader, @zackpolanski.bsky.social will be joining our protest against Donald Trump on September 17😎😎

This is excellent and long overdue

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history. And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Angela Raynor resigns. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Now do Farage, who has bought his house in Clacton under his girlfriends name, and used a private company to avoid tax on his gbnews wages. Do your job bbc! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.

A courteous but very impressive rebuke to Nigel Farage from the Bishop of Oxford. "I heard no compassion in what you said...". "I disagree profoundly with your attempts to ... increase fear of the stranger in our communities". Do read. blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...

I guess someone else is feeling the gravitational pull of the coalescing new left party.

Nigel Farage pretending to be patriotic while pledging to rip up Britain's proud record of leading the world on human rights.

Maria Kirch was an astronomer, and the first woman to discover a comet. Even though her husband took the credit. #GirlPower

Watch @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk call out the BBC for their failure to hold Nigel Farage to account.

Well done both supervisors and student - the examiners were certainly happy! And a great chance to catch up with @drzoewaller.bsky.social and Gary Parkinson.

Well done Lancaster Brewery. Note, seems the organisers may not have been clear who the booking was on behalf Wondering why Reform feel they have to creep around undercover - I think we all know why

We’ve gone from 25% steel tariffs, to 0%, up to 50%, and now back to 25%. We’ve all seen this routine before. Trump causes chaos, Nigel nods along, and British workers pay the price. It’s time the government got serious about trade with our European and Commonwealth allies.

Souvenir of an inaugural #DNA meeting to remember - #IMAJ1!

Featuring a family member 🤩

Tell me The Vatican made the perfect choice without telling me The Vatican made the perfect choice.🤣

"This is an accomplished and stylish piece..." Absolutely LUSH review of the opening night of my rock musical at the #BrightonFringe We're expecting this run to sell out, so grab your tickets while you still can folks! 7 more shows to choose from... www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/05/05/t...

www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/05/05/t... #brightonfringe

Lincolnshire Mayor Andrea Jenkyns full on for fracking. Hugely unpopular with residents, will this dent her support? Early days drillordrop.com/2025/05/04/l...

youtube.com/watch?v=E28V... #BrightonFringe

🔴The Media Needs to Take a Long, Hard Look at Itself After These Elections. #ukpolitics

LibDems gain Goring & Woodcote on a sizeable turnout of 42%. Maggie Filipova-Rivers wins from Conservative (though incumbent had jumped ship to Reform UK). 🔶 LibDem 1611 🔵 Con 946 ➡️ Reform 586 💚 Green 245 🌹 Labour 61

Remember when Twitter used to be nice and had lovely things like #dogsatpollingstations ? Let's make it happen over here.

stop doomscrolling and checkout #DogsAtPollingStations

For the long read on a weekend crowd.. 🧵 of long reads. Pop kettle on! Firstly, here's our election rundown. bsky.app/profile/oxfo...

•INSPIRING AMERICA• A man stood outside the courthouse of Judge Hannah Dugan and spoke of the horrors that befell his family in Poland and Germany at the hands of the Nazis during WWII — and how we must fight to stop and eradicate fascism in America NOW. “We know what fascism looks like…

BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight. This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.

The man is human pollution, America's id. The international community is going to rally against this country to make sure we're hurt for decades because of all of this and we'll have deserved it.

D’accord

"Who would have thought, if we had been told that the owner of one of the largest social networks in the world would support the new international reactionary movement and intervene directly in elections." 💥President Macron We should have done better.

Over the course of a week, the UK debate has completely changed. Just days ago, the right was still trying to use Trump to humiliate Starmer. Now, after the Zelenskyy meeting & Vance's nonsense, there's a consensus against the US administration. British Trump supporters utterly marginalised.

Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques notesfrompoland.com/2025/03/03/w...

If you would like to write to President Zelenskyy and offer your support or apology, here is his contact information: 202-349-2963 -- Pres. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Embassy of Ukraine, 3350 M. St. NW, Washington DC 20007 -- [email protected]

Democracies stand with Ukraine.

Germany’s likely new chancellor Friedrich Merz: And for me, the absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that we step by step to also truly achieve independence from the USA. I would not have believed that I would have to say something like this on TV...

map of where some of the "money for Ukraine" went bsky.app/profile/trum...

Zelensky is perhaps the defining figure of our age. Brave, ingenious, pragmatic and defined by his convictions. They hate him because he kills fascists.

I’ll be speaking at this rally tomorrow. ✊🇺🇦 If you’re anywhere near London - come along! Let’s make some real noise!!

This timely reminder from Carole Cadwalladr. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Of course it’s a woman…

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

Gov. Mills is a strong woman. And we all know how much Trump hates strong women.