I’m wary of whether this seat can be polled well but this info is still better than the guff the parties have been putting on leaflets so far, and there’s clearly a lot of voters trying to figure out the best anti-Reform option

Labour lost three by-elections yesterday - all to different parties mobilising disaffected voters on their liberal left flank: Greens (see below), Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru. Starmer/McSweeney strategy of marginalizing the left flank to go after socially con Reform curious continues to backfire

No, you don't understand, it's "better than expected"! Westminster expects to give Wales *nothing*, so whenever they spend any money at all in Wales it's "better than expected". Wales loses out every single time London gets to decide on our behalf.

First senior member of the royal family to be arrested since Charles I...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.

Alison Hargreaves was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest solo, unaided, and without bottled oxygen (1995). She was also the first person (man or woman) to solo the six "great north faces" of the Alps in a single summer season (1993). She was born #OTD in 1962. #mountaineering

Love this guy deciding for me that i've removed myself from my own community. What a bizarre thing to say. That's before he even gets on to defending John Mann! 🤣

I would love to see Yusuf and his mates living in "relative poverty" for a year, and then see if they think it's still "fake" or not. Yusuf and Reform want to cut support for the poorest and give tax cuts to billionaires. They don't care about working people.

Huh, maybe there's a reason all that red (and white) tape is there...

DOD own goaling itself all the way to obscurity - critical thinking is woke, AI can do all our thinking for us Just so profoundly mind numbing, in addition to everything else

On the one hand I think there are several structural factors that have brought Orbán to a reckoning; on the other, I choose to believe the prospect of a re-democratisation of Hungary is down to Troy Parrott.

Just going to leave this here

Yes, we talked to a geologist who curls about the very special geology of curling's stones, please enjoy

Burnham calls for powers for councils to be able to compulsorily purchase privately rented homes that don’t meet decent standards. He also calls for “a new politics” based on the sort of things he has done in Greater Manchester. You could call this speech…. wide ranging.

Leo Kearse of GB News believe a Bangor politics society putting out a statement about why they weren't interested in Sarah Pochin MP's request to be invited to a student Q & A could well now (& in his view, infers it shoould?) lead to Troubles-style firebombing campaigns in Wales & beyond

🎯from Green MP Siȃn Berry: “The public is fed up with the outrageous profiteering of rolling stock leasing companies as they line the pockets of shareholders with record profits, while rail passengers are made to pay the bill with rising rail fares."

Lovely to hear from another person who loves her country so much that she left it for Dubai to dodge paying UK tax here. Dim diolch.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Bad that Ford wasn't asked. Inexcusable that the second leaflet wasn't recalled.

Elon has apparently finally abandoned his 20 year long assertion that he was just about to build a city on Mars any day now :-)

Epic. A Ukrainian Air Force F-16 takes out a Russian-Iranian Shahed-136 at a close distance. The witnesses are extremely happy and supportive 😀

Newly appointed Reform UK Wales leader Dan Thomas does not appear in the electoral register compiled in December 2025 that covers the part of Wales where he has his roots, we have been informed ✍️Martin Shipton

The man who was a council leader in London for more than a decade claims he bought a £1m house in Bath at the same time as moving out of London - just so he could live in a completely different house which he can't tell us anything about. Sure.

#LGBTHistoryMonth The Ladies of Llangollen. If you wanted to live differently in the 18-19C it *really* helped to be upper class, but Eleanor & Sarah (& Mary) still had a lot to overcome. Still, they got there, even to the point of a pension arranged by Queen Anne. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_...

More geographical confusion. Nigel Farage said Reform's new leader in Wales had "come back to the Valleys", so his children could grow up Welsh. Nation Cymru report he had moved from London to Bath in the west of England, about 50-60 miles from Islwyn, across the border nation.cymru/news/the-new...

Very good piece by Gordon Brown. I agree with it but would add proportional voting for the HoC to end safe seats and the cosiness that accompanies them. We have no equality without democratic equality. All votes should matter. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How polite.

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

Here is former Tory James Evans (who has just joined Reform) saying he would never join Reform...

A correction for the ages (from The Guardian's review of 'Melania'):

As with many constituencies, an Alternative Vote system would give a clearer indication of public preferences, without second guessing whether on the left or the right. It would help voters at many points of the political spectrum

I don't know what possessed me to make this, but I did..

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

🟩 It’s Greens vs Reform in Gorton and Denton! 🚪First door knocking session COMPLETED!

Please enjoy the absolutely certain knowledge that in another part of the multiverse, the same people going HAW HAW COWARD here are instead giving it OH PARACHUTING A LONDON ASSEMBLY MEMBER IN IS IT, gods, FPTP is such a stupid system with a stupid framework and stupid expectations around it

There can be no clearer evidence that the White House remains wedded to a Unipolar world.

This will not stop until the users doing this and Elon Musk and his X developers are prosecuted and jailed. What are we waiting for?

"Without us you'd be speaking German" is an interesting line to take in Switzerland

I was heckled by another MP while asking about inclusive relationship education in schools Sickened but not really surprised that homophobia is alive and well on the bench behind me 'They're primary school kids' he says - as if no primary school kids have lesbian or gay parents!

I for one am looking forward to the Reform electorate's reaction to a manifesto commitment to ditch the pensions triple lock, drop the winter fuel allowance entirely, and spend the savings on tanks

also I'm working on a paper on the UK proposal for setting the upper limit of airspace at 40km so that we could fly supersonic troop transports over the Middle East without having to worry about those state objections to reinforce garrisons in Malaysia and Borneo... wild stuff...

I wish Trump would get a move on with his next rambling press conference so I can decide whether to get the whisky out or not.

Where are the trees? We have A LOT of this landscape and less than 4% native woodland. This should be a rich mosaic of habitats, moor, bog, woodland, montane scrub…We force it to remain in this artificial state. We don’t need to give every inch of our uplands over to sheep, grouse and deer stalking.

OMG, he actually did the ‘I can’t be sexist, my wife is a woman’ line.

Utterly disgusting to read this about Eddie Dempsey, leader of @rmtunion.bsky.social which also has serious questions to answer, allowing him to become leader. I'd like to think hard working members will refuse to pay their subs until RMT explains why its leader supports colonialism + genocide.

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

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