Every day, I become more vindicated in my decision to leave Labour and join the Lib Dems. Also, how the fuck was Theresa Bae better on trans rights than Keir.

An update from Tim Bick, Group Leader of the Cambridge City Lib Dems, about tonight's election of a leader, explaining what we've been trying to do and, in the end, what we delivered.

This is exactly what the Epstein class was about. Epstein was a power broker. The sex abuse was *part* of a broader corruption. People with money able to buy/blackmail people with power or influence. Does anybody think that stopped with one man's death, or isn't now happening through someone else?

2 June 1920 | A Polish Jewish woman, Salomea Kinrus, was born in Łódź. In 1944 she was deported from #Litzmannstadt Ghetto to #Auschwitz and then transferred to Bergen-Belsen where she perished.

Aggregate Result of the 5 Council By-Elections Since the 2026 Local Elections: LDM: 3 (+2) | 28.2% (+7.7) CON: 1 (-) | 21.5% (+0.8) GRN: 1 (-) | 19.0% (-1.4) RFM: 0 (-) | 21.5% (+21.5) LAB: 0 (-) | 4.7% (-11.9) Ind: 0 (-1) | 3.6% (-6.2) Loc: 0 (-1) | 0.0% (-10.1) electionmaps.uk/council-by-e...

You are calling that one right. Trump is a master at spinning compete bullshit…as truth…and his followers are desperate to believe all of it. In five months we’ll see what Americans think.

There has been a school of thought that Trump would step down after 21st January 2027, so that VP Vance would be eligible to serve a full 2 terms plus the remainder of Trump's. Trump so often looks like a man in a hurry, and rushing through a ban on the IRS ever investigating him? Still on track.

Lib Dems top the Ipsos net favourability ratings for first time in this or previous Parliament.

"The EU is imperfect, irritating, boring, but we haven’t come up with anything better in our history. A time of peace, prosperity, freedom, democracy, and solidarity among nations that have fought each other for centuries is a miracle. May it last as long as possible." Donald Tusk on Europe Day

My personal view about FPTP, it is not * just * campaigning that is so negative, it is politics in general in the UK. I'm Dutch, and it is UNTHINKABLE that a dying government in the Netherlands would spend its last year in government not doing actual governing, 1

Central (Hull) council election result LDM: 31.3% (+5.0) LAB: 28.4% (-33.4) RFM: 23.2% (+23.2) GRN: 13.4% (+13.4) CON: 3.6% (-4.5) Lib Dem GAIN from Labour Changes w/ 2023.

St. Loyes (Exeter) council election result LDM: 25.6% (+19.0) RFM 25.5% (+25.5) CON: 25.3% (-23.2) GRN: 12.9% (+4.5) LAB: 10.7% (-25.7) Lib Dem GAIN From Conservative Changes w/ 2024.

Sibsey Trader Windmill, Lincolnshire #EnglishHeritage

This. I condemn violence. But this is true.

Whilst I support Ukraine in its struggle against the invader, there's an existential alarm in a battle being won solely by machine. War as video game is still war, still kills and destroys. An enemy - or even an AI - controlling killing machines would not be so welcome. Where does this end?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #DoctorWho @radiofreeskaro.bsky.social

Low-key jealous of the #DoctorWho fans who will be at Riverside Studios this afternoon for the @filmisfabulous.bsky.social event, celebrating the recovery of two episodes of Dalek Masterplan. Enjoy all. Watching them yesterday made me wish Adrienne Hill was alive to see so much of her screentime.

"Welcome to the news. The headlines tonight: As Russell T Davies makes a passing remark about Doctor Who during an unrelated conversation we ask: how many articles can we repackage this into?" #DoctorWho

Bond villain Doctor Who villain Star Wars villain Indiana Jones villain Blakes 7 villain Camfield’s Ivanhoe Expert on Beowulf He’s in Z-Cars, Avengers, The Sweeney, Space: 1999, Callan, Crown Court, Rumpole, Taggart, Cadfael, Midsomer Murders, Game of Thrones and Inside No 9. Amazing body of work

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“Australians can now live & work freely in the EU for 4 years and vice versa That means they now have 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 EU rights than British people. Free movement offered millions of us fantastic opportunities but Brexiteers slammed that door shut, most shamefully on their own children”

Any pretense of an "independent" regulator is over.

British Lawmaker Ed Davey Tells Parliament That Trump's Oil Announcements Look Likes Insider Trading: "This looks like corruption of the very worst kind"

“Voters aren’t turning to Reform and the Greens because they’re becoming ‘extreme’. They’re, fairly, concluding that the mainstream offer is managed decline and they’d rather roll the dice. The answer is to put forward something genuinely bolder that really changes things for them.”

When the king of scary is using the word screaming . WE SHOULD ALL BE SCARED 🫣

Finnish President Alexander Stubb says Brexit was a “colossal mistake” “It’s like amputating your leg without medical reason for doing it”

Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.

Woke up bleary eyed this morning, turned to my phone and OMG TWO MISSING EPISODES OF DOCTOR WHO HAVE BEEN FOUND!! Now I am far from bleary-eyed! #DoctorWho BBC News - Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

EXCL: Reform UK have been processing cryptocurrency donations through Poland, under a 'lax' regulatory regime which previously housed a Cambodian crime syndicate sanctioned by the US Treasury for laundering $4 billion in illicit funds (inc. proceeds from North Korean state-sponsored cyber heists)

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

If there is still a monarchy in the decades to come, I have a feeling the title of Duke of York - previously commonly given to the second son of the monarch - may be rested at least for a generation or two.

The problems with using betting markets as a substitute for scientific polling are obvious. This has nothing to do with how the electorate are thinking of voting but how punters - not all of whom are voters - gamble their money. If you have money you could easily manipulate this to your advantage.

Manchester Mill find the small group of Reform activists includes several with v overt prejudices. They fairly note that Goodwin can't be expected to vet them all in advance. To date, the site report he is not willing to criticise ant of it once revealed either manchestermill.co.uk/goodwins-gan...

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

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

Historian Simon Schama: "America is no longer an ally of Europe. Trump has set his marks on enfeebling NATO and destroying the European Union. He said many times that the EU was founded to screw the USA; he always hated it. In the nuclear age, power is an immense, ferociously dangerous thing."

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey has said the govt should start selling war bonds as there is a need to "move far faster" on UK defence spending members of the public cd loan the govt money in the form of a bond which would run over a two-to-three year period+pay out the same interest as standard govt bonds.

Gary Lineker for DG

Are things like this, all happening on social media, mostly under the radar, the reason I hear ordinary people talk about Keir Starmer with such vitriol like I've never heard before? @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social @restispolitics.bsky.social

#DoctorWho fans will breathe a sigh of relief that the Disney hiatus is over, whatever the longer term future may be. If something can be worked out, perhaps the 2026 special will see Ncuti return (saved by Bad Wolf herself) and lead us into a proper new series (or is that new new new series?

It’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that large parts of Westminster remaining on X - a platform that tolerates and amplifies extremism and racism - has led a great many people to normalise what previously was unacceptable.

I appreciate that the Green Party is going through a massive surge of support. But anyone with any sense knows this is actually a dangerous moment, as new members vastly outnumber long-term ones, and thereby end up as something else entirely.

In any sane world, the President of the United States posting an image of himself wearing a crown, flying a plane called "King Trump" and depositing, erm, brown fluid over "No Kings" protestors would surely be grounds for censure or impeachment. That it won't happen justified the real protests.

“The UK has a system in which a TV channel can pay a political leader almost half a million pounds a year and give him an hour an evening to react to his rivals without breaking a single rule.”

Love seeing all the mahoosive protests across the US for #NoKings.

BBC News's John Simpson hitting the nail on the head: "What this doesn't do in any way is sort out the Palestinian question" "What it does is stop the agony that people in Gaza have been suffering for two years" "But it doesn't create a future path for them" "Maybe that can come"

Lord Heseltine, "If the Conservatives want to be reelected they have to appeal to the centre ground of British politics" "And the rhetoric we're beginning to hear in some parts of the Conservative party is not designed to do that"

A century ago, in the 1920s, the rise of Labour split the Liberals in two, pulling social Liberals to the left and pushing economic Liberals to the Tories in response. Are we seeing the Tories finally splinter, the fringe off to Reform, so the liberal Tories head off in the other direction?

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

www.instagram.com/reel/DOoRY-h... Seems to me this is an important point to remember.