BREAKING: Emmanuel Macron declares that France recognises the state of Palestine

Flights have been halted to Copenhagen Airport after multiple drones were spotted over the Øresund Strait, Reuters reports.

BBC push alert tomorrow: ‘The Rapture is here. Why this could be good news for Reform UK’

The contaminated blood scandal is one of the gravest injustices in NHS history. Decades of delay and denial have left victims and families still waiting for justice, while many continue to die without the compensation they were promised.

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

The BBC is our national broadcaster, people expect and deserve balanced news coverage. It's clear to everyone the BBC is giving Nigel Farage and Reform far too much coverage. #LibDems 🔶 Petition 👇🏽 www.libdems.org.uk/bbc

This is a shameful dedication of our media outlets to getting the far right into power. They’re being given a free platform to air their ill-conceived plans day after day after after month. This is no accident.

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

I’m watching and it’s astounding. We all knew something like this was going on - but the extent of it! While so many were suffering, dying, sunk into loneliness - a few were absolutely RAKING IT IN. The COVID health crisis was a very, very lucrative opportunity for some.

Anyone shocked that Reform plan to deport immigrants with Indefinite Leave to Remain hasn’t been paying attention. Next it will be stripping citizenship from dual citizens, then deporting them. Who do you think Reform are? This. This is who they are.

The ITV exposé on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…

British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right… What a grim betrayal of our democracy. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

I’m only surprised this headline didn’t finish with ‘and why this is all good for Nigel Farage’

I won’t even link to it because it deserves utter obscurity, but the Times, a former beacon of good journalism, has today printed an offensively mendacious bit of trash opinion by a trash columnist, seemingly with zero editorial control or standards. How far it has fallen.

On X I used data to show London does not have the highest crime rate in the world. 10 mins later a right winger linked to my book. 10 mins after that I got 40 1-star reviews from unverified accounts (previously 4.9 star avg). Fair play to Amazon - they removed them all. But that's how it works.

"It’s not too late to puncture the Reform leader’s populist myth. His ‘make Britain great again’ act is out of step with the British people" 🎯 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/19/donald-trump-us-abyss-nigel-farage-britain

“Eye-watering waste [ie Tories siphoning off £bns of pubic money to their mates] running into £bns resulted from huge Covid contracts for mountains of PPE & tests” NB £1m spent at £1 a second would be gone in 11.5 days. £1bn billion would take more than 31 years. www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/d...

Lib Dem Tim Farron MP: "I'm a proud patriot, but I am no nationalist...You can tell the difference. "Patriots love their country. Nationalists hate their neighbours. I am a patriot." He says he's ashamed racists have tried to steal the flag. Farron hits out at the "poison of nationalism".

🇬🇧 brilliant BRILLIANT speech by the one and only Tim Farron - a patriot but 'not a nationalist' Ending with flags waved and a battle cry to never ever bow to nationalism. #LDConf 🔶️🔶️🔶️

The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies

Some more culture war pushback from the Lib Dems - people who use the union jack or St George’s cross as a form of aggressive nationalism do not love their country, Tim Farron tells their conference. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Lib Dem Tim Farron MP tells party conference Reform UK "spent a lot of their time [at conference] giving a platform to people who think that the Covid vaccines gave the royal family cancer, to self confessed convicted racists, and worst of all, Lembit Opik"

🔴The British News Organisations 'Obeying in Advance' to Donald Trump The coverage of this week's Trump state visit is a worrying sign of what will happen if a Trump-like figure is ever elected on this side of the Atlantic www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-britis...

I’ve just realised that I haven’t listened to BBC radio 4 routinely now for years. I stopped the news programmes including the today programme over a year ago when they became unashamed mouthpieces for Farage. I was a lifelong radio 4 listener. I wonder how many others there are.

And in other news, apparently it is easier to pontificate about running a council than it is to run one. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a great cover.

The need to silence your critics only reveals how weak and fragile you are.

He’s baaack

Andrea Jenkyns, Mayor of Lincolnshire, DOGE warrior... A story in three parts....

What Davey’s stunts always demonstrated - but which his self-deprecating good humour often masked - is that he‘s genuinely fearless. Having truth on your side always gives you the ultimate advantage. It’s the opposite of lawyerly, and a political engine he rides with great aplomb.

Starmer has pulled out all the stops to flatter and impress Trump, but still hasn’t managed to get him to drop his damaging tariffs, take on Putin or tell Netanyahu to stop waging genocide. It’s time for the UK to stand tough with allies who share our values.

Bit strange to hear the Today programme interviewing the CEO of Newsmax like he's a public intellectual, then interviewing a Labour minister like he's a war criminal

Democracies don't have some god-given right to prevail. Great nations can descend into autocracy, and more - throughout history - great civilisations have been known to crumble practically overnight. 80 years of peace and relative prosperity have lulled millions into believing it all immutable.

Right now, Donald Trump is at a lavish banquet at Windsor Castle, while in Gaza a genocide is unfolding. He alone can stop the assault on Gaza City, end the aid blockade and secure the release of hostages - Keir Starmer must make that clear to him before this visit ends.

Never have we needed a leader like Ed Davey more than we do now. #EdDavey #LibDems #UK #Trump #Labour #politics

"One thing I think it's good to do when you're taking on opponents is ridicule them" Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey explains why he posted a picture of SpongeBob Squarepants after Elon Musk called him "a craven coward" on X. #Newsnight

Badenoch totally unwilling to condemn Musk for seeking to incite violence. Gutless leadership... I mean it's not even leadership.. it's just gutless

Yes, it’s satire, and glorious satire at that, but #freedomofspeech. youtu.be/CPNZTtoQBmA?...

But if you dare to criticise me I'll ban you from my party conference bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

Please consider signing this petition calling on the BBC to balance their coverage of opposition parties. Currently, 60% of BBC coverage of opposition parties goes to Reform, which has 4 of the 250 opposition MPs. : www.libdems.org.uk/bbc?emci=e0b...

British party leader taking on Farage and promoting renewables. There are other ways than sucking up to Trump, big oil, and the tech bros. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...

"I'd like Government contracts with Tesla to be cut and ended." Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey calls for the Government to block Tesla contracts after Elon Musk told protesters to “fight back or die” and that “violence is coming” at a rally this weekend. #Newsnight

Kemi Badenoch refusing to acknowledge that Tommy Robinson is "far-right", now on LBC, and refusing to condemn Elon Musk's words. In fact she says what Musk said *isn't* incitement. So what would be incitement then? How violent would his words have to be before he was deemed a threat to this country?

I’m old enough to remember when Conservative Party leaders believed in law and order.

"If you've had enough of politicians, if you don't trust Westminster, join us." What a revolting, cynical statement for a man who was an MP of the party that ruled for 14 years until five minutes ago - and David Cameron's speech writer before that. What contempt for voters. ~AA

🚨 New: Lib Dem leader Ed Davey becomes the first major British party leader to call Israel’s actions in Gaza a "genocide"

as a free speech champion, Trump will hate these arrests www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey on BBC R4’s Today: “We represent traditional British values: things like the rule of law, things like working with other countries… If you hold to those liberal beliefs that have made our country great, I think that’s true patriotism.”

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

Good to see the blue-on-blue fight for relevance is taking up so much more time than actually addressing the issues. The Tories caused a lot of what’s happening- you’d think introspection would be a good idea. But they seem to be choosing running away instead. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...