I really just ought to start linking this instead of having arguments with people because it is more thorough than some books on the subject. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiOc...

You will be visited by three spirits.

Pro-Europe and Anti-Liberal describes far too large a chunk of Lib Dems for my liking.

Our government's policy on Europe is heavily influenced by a desire not to alienate dead people.

🚨BREAKING🚨 MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union. The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.

Yet another court decision that will lead to massive overreach. It's all become worryingly rapid in the past two weeks.

I don't like Spotify anymore...

See? Look what happens when I stop subscribing to things, bagels destroy them! It'll be Netflix next...

The creative process unveiled.

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

I'm not even angry at this, just numb beyond compare. Harold Wilson (supposedly Starmer's favourite PM) was more bold about the rights of minorities when he had a majority of four seats in 1964, and he benfited from it greatly in 1966.

Starmer: I have none of the attributes of a successful political leader

@jamesgraham.theliberati.net I know you often talk about the AI bubble bursting, but have you considered it'll burst consumer electronics first? www.pcmag.com/news/rip-cru...

The transgender experience in the UK right now is basically just waking up to discover what else you've been banned from.

Common Sabrina W.

Took a look at the actual data and laughed; not only does it represent former members, but is disproportionately representative of men over 65. If this were even half true she'd have to explain why the party voted to scrap her transphobic constitutional ammendment without discussion.

One of my favourite side-effects of the Online Safety Act has been Imgur deciding it isn't worth the risk to continue services in the UK, which means websites that use it often look like this to me:

ideally I'd like them to have a conference once a month, for morale

A collection of thoughts about Ed Davey's reaction to the Mansion Tax and how it's become representative of a larger problem in the Lib Dems. www.libdemvoice.org/the-lib-dems...

BBC neutrality in action: * Reeves didn't mislead people. * Reeves did mislead people. Entirely separately: * We've been mislead about war crimes.

Ed Davey has u-turned on Lib Dem support for a Mansion Tax and has used Tory rhetoric in his response to the budget. If you don't feel he's speaking for you, if you're worried about direction our party is heading, please sign our open letter to Ed from grassroots members: radicalassociation.o...

"Making comics is fun!" I say knowing if I post my comics, at minimum twenty robots will 'borrow' them to make a piece of pattern-recognition apparently on the same level as art.

British politics is now just about making up a guy and assuming he will vote for you

Hi Mum, I got mentioned in the big Liberal blog again!

Why would they pass this anti-milk legislation? Are they lactose intolerant?

Maybe it's in jest but I think this is bloody stupid. Find a seat, grow roots, and make sure you're elected as MP. No sitting PM has ever been deposed at a General Election.

Imagine someone walking into your house, claiming it as theirs, and then the person you asked for help bullies you into leasing them a room. That is this deal.

Huge congratulations from us to @joshbabarinde.bsky.social and Connor! We *think* this was the first ever proposal by an MP actually in the chamber! 💛🏳️‍🌈

We are disappointed that, due to legal pressure from transphobic campaign groups following the For Woman Scotland decision, two eminently reasonable quotas in our party's election regulations have been suspended. These suspensions are profoundly anti-queer, anti-trans and anti-feminist... 1/4

The vast majority of those who would be impacted by this would be women, obviously lesbians first and foremost but also tall woman, women without curves, women who have an athletic build, muscular women and on and on and on. Is it any shock that the minister has refused to implement it?

Having previously owned Neon Tetras I can confirm they are absolutely the kind of fish that would involve themselves in organised crime.

Shot - chaser - finisher The EHRC admits there's no way to enforce anti-trans exclusion using paperwork. Therefore it's only possible using gender stereotypes. Therefore they defend excluding basically anyone who might be suspected of being trans. A recipe for utter chaos.

Labour’s core voter is a Londoner. While they fret about imagined Reform defecting voters in the “red wall” they’re at risk of losing their 21st century heartland entirely. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-l...

It's funny, the Wikipedia for Black Mirror says "some critics have found the formulaic morality themes of the series obvious" and yet it's already clear that the series is *far* too subtle for techbros and their financial backers.

"Beyond GDP: Reclaiming the Economy as a Tool, Not a Goal" Jack Fleming writes about the pitfalls of using the metric of GDP as the ultimate government target, rather than measures focused on the actual wellbeing of society.

Let's bring the bloody code back too: Have a smelly pigsty too near your neighbour? It's over for you my friend. Luckily the British public have never passed anything bad via Referendum, so we're safe.

Roy Jenkins is one of my alltime fave SDPers, he has a very special spot with Kennedy in my heart. Here's another quote: (That I could fit!) "Neutrality is essentially a conservative policy, a policy of defeat, announcing to the world that we have nothing to say to which the world will listen."

"You can't trust the BBC, it's propaganda!" Says untrustworthy propaganda outlet.

Last hour to go to vote in federal elections, please give me your #1 if you A - like the cut of my jib B - Are big into collective voice and power sharing C - Are PISSED off with Terfs and generally want more to be done in how we are being held hostage by cruel, illiberal ideologues Ta x

“In the last year of the Conservative Government alone, 115 prisoners were released in error, including a series of serious offenders. “At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.”

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

A reminder reform are losing 40-50% of the seats they are winning (unsustainable wins/many false starts) LDs retain closer to the 90% mark.

While I don't agree with everything in @rosenstead.bsky.social's piece, she's bang on about One Nation Cons not being Liberals I mentioned this in a recent article, while some remaining Tories are gettable tactical votes, they're not long term switchers thepartyanimal.substack.com/p/keeping-th...

When I made my blogpost on this I was asked if the flaggers were actually aware if what they were doing would be percieved as racist and if my Nazi Germany comparison was just. I said yes with some doubts, but it's safe to say my gut feeling was 100% correct.

I can't stop thinking about what Macron said about this last month. “We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to American and Chinese social networks, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

A little post I wrote on the current direction the leadership of the Liberal Democrats seem to be taking, and why it's fundamentally misguided. newmodelliberal.blogspot.com/2025/11/one-...

Not convinced we should be putting companies out of business and centralising wealth even further in the name of further oppressing 1% of the population but if you want a perfect encapsulation of rightwing ideology, this is it.