Canvassers out in force in Clacton.

Well that's my (already cautious) honeymoon over.

Remember the magical nudity detection software being mandated for UK phones, the one which prompted Jess Phillips' resignation? It's not just that the product is snake oil. The whole company is smoke and mirrors. Albeit smoke and mirrors invested in by Rupert Lowe of the Restore party.

"At it's core the Wealth Tax is Paternalistic Conservatism ... a plaster intended to stem the bleeding of a failed economic system, while keeping the people it benefitted in places of power." My piece on Gary Stevenson's documentary and why I oppose a direct Wealth Tax.

Why are Amnesty International more afraid of Rowling than they were of Pinochet?

Have the Modern "Classical" Liberals ever heard of soft power? I think it could blow their minds.

My keyboard has been wobbly for months and I've only just found out that was because there was a pencil underneath it. I am very dumb.

"I just did a stunt but now it has backfired massively and I am in a fight with a bin, but I'm committing to not admitting this was a stunt and hoping nobody thinks me an idiot for fighting the bin." - Basically this whole by-election.

This raises serious questions about the decision making within the International Olympic Committee. Opposition to this cannot simply be chalked up to ‘anti-Russian sentiment’. It’s about not legitimising a regime that is waging an illegal war & committing countless war crimes.

Consider this my application for the Binface campaign.

This leaves it as a straight fight between Farage and Count Binface

The Government must block Nigel Farage’s resignation until the Standards Commissioner finishes investigating him. The people of Clacton deserve the full facts. If a by-election does go ahead, all parties should stand aside. We cannot give oxygen to this vanity project.

It's people v establishment in Clacton, but the establishment has mysteriously disappeared.

And this is the problem; no meaningful left/right when it comes to sexual abuse. What exists is conditioning, normalisation, enabling harm by party lines The only people who win in this slow-witted game are other abusers. Any time you apply good faith to someone accused, you make us pay the price

Toblerone is like hostile architecture for the mouth.

The heatwave is dead, long live the heatwave.

Very proud to announce this! We've been working hard to put together a group that will push a vision of the Liberal Democrats that merges our Liberal and Social Democratic traditions to create a national message that inspires! We hope you might join us!

Henry George

In 1966 the newly-elected Liberal MP for my area was campaigning for tax breaks for large-chested schoolgirls.

I've been made aware of some rumblings that the Lib Dems reportedly refused to use an opposition day to force a vote on the EHRC Code of Practice. This isn't true for a few reasons, and it's really important not to spread disinformation when we're all already nervous and exhausted.

Frankly I think the fact you can go from a refugee to Lord Mayor in the UK is a testament to it's status as a free country, we should be celebrating achievements like this.

Correction, I have two life achievements.

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

My latest hot take is that the new Deltarune chapter is that the difficulty wasn't actually too bad, it just takes a bit of learning the attacks.

Prime Ministers need to stop calling their plans 10 year projects, its been really bad luck for the past six of them.

As far as I understand Locke the whole point of moving towards an actual State was that it wouldn't leave people in a worse position than in the State of Nature, and that property rights could only exist so long as property was used. He's hardly a hypercapitalist is he?

To give Americans an idea of how much the climate has changed and how quickly in the UK, I just checked the Sheffield weather station reports for 1996, 30 years ago. If I'm reading them right, the highest temperature it reached all year was 21.5 degrees C. It won't get that cool tonight.

Victoire pour la diversite! Francaise est un lesbienne

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

"i must run but I have unbelievably stubby legs"

the most stable figure in british politics in the last decade is the man who sets up the lectern the PMs resign from

I love how first past the post delivers such stable governments. This'll now mean 7 prime ministers in 10 years. So stable!

I read the summary they did of the report and literally laughed out loud at the bit where they went: "Why are kids not reading?" "Cuz the books are GAY!" Truly brilliant analysis 10/10 no notes.

Keir Starmer should stand for Mayor of Manchester

The voter sets the questions, it is the job of politicians to be able to provide an answer. It's delegated responsibility; if we let the voters decide everything there'd be little point to the existing system of a democracy that balances interests and checks power.

Tip: If you want to scam me, don't send the exact same email pretending to be two different guys.

The point of a Liberal Party is to ensure individual freedom, that does not preclude us from using welfare to that end, and if anything should be the defining difference between a Socialist "welfare from above" and a Liberal "welfare from below" approach.

Sad to see the Green Party bringing up a four year old photograph of one of our mps being harassed and physically bullied as some sort of proof we aren’t trans inclusive Come on, not ok. We are in this together trans rights are bigger than tribalism

Blue sky making a strong case for banning adults from social media.

I've just realised I actually have time to write things for once. Maybe I should do that?

As a small history aside, a lot of the feminist leaders who helped secure Women's Rights during the Imperial period in Germany went on to support Nationalist Parties that were nominally against them. Why? They didn't like what the younger women did with them. Perhaps that comparison is more apt?

"Sl*gs”, “sl*ts”, “psychos” and “b*tches” are just some of the terms that current BBC presenter Ashley Cain has used to describe women on social media. At a time when violence against women and girls is recognised as a national emergency, the BBC's decision to hire and promote Mr. Cain is shocking.

If we all get banned for social media it was nice knowing you all. I aint ever giving any website my ID.

Genital Inspectors at work

The Tory party is desperately in need of a moderate wing with just a fraction of the militancy the Labour right has.

Techbros are really out there every day doing their best to make me simultaneously more capitalist AND more socialist, because everything they are doing is in marked opposition to both.

There are, in my view, 25 things everyone needs to understand in light of recent events: 1) Those out in our communities last night were not protestors, but organised far right extremists. 2) Their actions align with fascist ideologies. 3) So yes: these are fascist practices on our streets. 🧵

If this is the most Left-Wing Parliament we've ever had then I might as well be a Communist.