Fucking madness from Brook there. #theashes

Ahh fuck, damn it Crawley #TheAshes

So that one achievement that Starmer can point to for all the grovelling to fuhrer Trump looks like it was utterly worthless.

How the fuck did GB News think this was even remotely acceptable?! Ofcom receives complaints over GB News item on defendants’ ‘foreign-sounding names’ Lib Dem MP says way figures were compiled on ‘non-British-sounding’ surnames in court was ‘frankly racist’ www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

youtu.be/mEUl4DThSwE?... Such a great haunting rendition of an already unnerving song by Phoebe Bridgers. She's so good.

So so good from South Africa there. What a win, so pleased for them. #cricket #IndvSa

@rafnicholson.bsky.social nice mention from Mark Robinson in the latest Wisden pod.

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Liberal Democrat MPs have today tabled a motion in Parliament to remove Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board. Robbie Gibb was appointed by Boris Johnson, he was an editorial adviser to GB News and a director of communications for Theresa May. He is not neutral or impartial.

In a just world, Richard Thompson gets the Legends spot at Glastonbury in the coming years. Wont happen, but should. #Folk

twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.

The Greens think that they could persuade Putin to give up his nuclear weapons. How exactly? By hypnotising him?

If the sandwich don't split, you must acquit.

For those of us outside of the USA, one consequence of the great win by Mamdani could be a Trump pivot to be much more domestically focused between now and the mid terms. I dont know if this is good or bad.

I'm trying to use Bluesky to sell tickets to my comedy special taping. Don't make me promote on Twitter. I'd rather have an empty house. But it'd be so much nicer if it were full.

Happy Halloween Nigel 🎃

Cricket out here catching strays in the Loot episode.

Bromsgrove South (Worcestershire) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3) ➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5) 🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8) 🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1) No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous. Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform. Changes w/ 2025.

I recall in the 60s, Remembrance Day was one solemn Sunday morning. That was it. It was a moving occasion at our local memorial and attended by actual WW1 and WW2 veterans. Unlike the mawkish weeks long competition for the most tasteless display of a poppy that it's become Often, less is more.

Quality stuff from Harry Brook today. The century was good also. 🤣 #NZvENG #cricket #gimp 🏏

Apologies, im clearly on one today. Now with nuance. He is not and never has been a progressive and that he is lauded by so many progressives is sooo depressing. His bias is so frustrating as he has such disproportionate influence. And yet... LDs need him to flip to them. Maybe one day.

Rory Steward is a turd.

Farage is basically Mad Jim Jaspers.

It's genuinely crackers that in the UK, a social media company can *take advertising money from a fraudster*, the bank has to repay the victim out of its pocket, and the social media company doesn't even have to give the advertising cash to the bank! They make money on the transaction!

@bwalker.uk interesting just listening to the emergency @newstatesman1913.bsky.social pod. It seems a pretty constant feature of uk elections over the last couple of years now. How do we start to model for tactical voting?

Excellent knock that from Shai Hope #IndvWI

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚 #amindofmyown

Absolutely mad at the #ILT20 James Coles unsold at $10k Tom Bruce has just gone for $80k Im incredulous, Bruce's record is veeeery mediocre and he's very inconsistent. Madness. #Cricket

Seems a bit bizarre but Ashwin just went unsold at the #ILT20 He seems such an obvious buy that you wonder if he's going to be made an example of by BCCI/IPL

Off sick with the new #Covid varient. It is a stinker, throat is proper razorblades. But on the plus side I got to watch Tim Robinson's 106*. Really excellent innings #NZvAUS The Aus fielding was bizarrely bad though.

Ming Campbell was a dedicated public servant and a true Liberal giant. His principled leadership opposing the Iraq War was a mark of his morality, courage and wisdom. But more than that, he was an incredibly warm and caring friend and colleague. We will miss him terribly.

Jaydev bowling nicely for #SussexCCC this morning! Obviously he took a wicket next ball. My first visit to Worcestershire Cricket, what a great place to watch. #countycricket

#FPL #FPLadvice Ive played my wildcard, I've gone slightly mad. Is this too mad?

Fuckbags. Tits on toast. Piss on the moon.

Picked up some Lib Dem stats at conference. Some of these surprised me (especially given media coverage): 1. The Liberal Democrats now control more councils than the Conservative Party 2. In May's local elections in England, the LDs elected more councillors than either Labour or the Tories. (1/x)

Lib Dems: We have 12x Reform's MPs, can we have the same coverage? BBC: But Reform has 2x your poll rating. If there were an election tomorrow, they'd be running the country. Lib Dems: So you're putting their people and policies under scrutiny, right? BBC: Lib Dems: Right?

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

Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.

Pretty gutted. So sad for Lenham, so confused about Foreman, the other three I do understand.

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.

🍫 KitKat rewards for MPs 🏏 Cricket bat photo ops 🐢 A ‘more tortoise than hare’ strategy @sophiealichurch.bsky.social looks inside the Lib Dems' evolving media tactics, and who exactly the party's 'jam and Jerusalem' strategy is targeting

Back our campaign today to balance the BBC 👇www.libdems.org.uk/BBC

The BBC must balance their political news so it doesn’t boost Nigel Farage’s dangerous, divisive politics.

Lovely read this from @melindafarrell.bsky.social In it she lands the "two Tribes go to war" haymaker then the knockout blow at the end of the piece where Zak goes full Good Will Hunting.

@melindafarrell.bsky.social just listening to you on BBC comms at Hove and I reaaaally can't recommend sixes enough. The Hove one is extra good as you can play against the actual Sussex players.

So @michaelswaim.bsky.social continues his long tradition of putting a shocking amount of effort into joke analysis only to get reamed by algorithms. Watch his incredible movie-length video essay on Groundskeeper Willie, and help him ream back. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLMc...

After a three week appeals process YouTube let me post my latest Cracked video, SIMPSONS TAUGHT ME EVERYTHING: THE MOVIE. It's all about Groundskeeper Willie, Scotland, and many many many many many other things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLMc...

The #cricket hill that I will die on is that 50 over cricket, is the best format. It g8ve most spectators most of what they want, most of the time. The nuances of test match cricket, there is some of that, the bombastic of T20, yep thats in there, a result inside a single day... always.

Well it is safe to say, that was a #RighteousKill. I loved #TheRoses, lots of genuinly big proper belly laughs. The character chemistry was sumptuous. Coleman, Cumberbatch, Samberg, McKinnon... sensational. #MovieSky #QuaidArmy