My interview on the BBC was immediately preceded by: 1) A UN expert characterizing atrocities in El Fasher, Sudan as crimes against humanity. 2) A former prosecutor for the International Criminal Court characterizing U.S. maritime strikes as a crime against humanity. What a time.

UPDATE: Cornish Lib Dem MP Ben Maguire, has now called for Cllr Giles to quit, telling me: “This is vile & blatant racism from a sitting Conservative Councillor. “The Conservative Party couldn’t condemn Sarah Pochin’s racist comments. Now they allow one of their councillors to come out with this."

It’s hip on the left and right alike to hate “liberal feminism” (a term I challenge detractors to define—usually the “liberal” is silent). But the fascists of our moment hate nothing more than the actual liberal feminist ideal: a public sphere where women are equal. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

Elon Musk is deliberately using his platform to poison our politics and divide our country. It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.

German lawmakers accused the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party of operating as a "sleeper cell loyal to Russia". AfD is accused of submitting numerous inquiries to the federal government on the armed forces and critical infrastructure. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/4VP9

"...and the City AM op-ed written by my MP, Jack Rankin, in late October, in which he called my lifeline, Motability, “an insult to tax payers”... Simon Dudley, the former council leader of my local council of Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, described Motability as “low-hanging fruit”."

My 1st Proper Bluesky Post with My 1st Article for West England Bylines. I am sad that this Article needed to be written, I am glad that the @westenglandbylines.co.uk and @bylinesnetwork.co.uk exists to allow people to write and add to the public discourse. Special thanks to @cookiem72.bsky.social.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

I was on a German panel last night, where *every speaker* had strong French links (study etc). And every speaker expressed massive dismay over the state of Franco-German defence-industrial cooperation. How can we not get this right?!

The Motability scheme is a lifeline for some disabled people like me but I hope you never need it | Lizzie Jones

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Ever wondered what it'd be like if Snipe and I actually did a Warhammer podcast rather than whatever the fuck we usually do? Well wonder no more since we took over the latest episode of Adeptus Podcastus!

If this is what happens when Reform runs a council, just imagine Farage running the country. Care homes closed and vulnerable people abandoned. We cannot let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.

Farage gave us Brexit and Britain got poorer. It was never going to work. It's time to rebuild our relationship with Europe.

Chris Philp opens by gymnastically framing the train attack with relation to asylum seekers, concludes that the reason for knife crime is foreigners in prison, then LOSES HIS RAG when LibDem Home Affairs spox @maxwilkinson.bsky.social pulls him up on it. "Withdraw! Withdraw!" Utter clown. 🤡 ~AA

Fifty episodes of Neon Liberalism. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...

Fellow Lib Dem members: You should have now received an email entitled: "Your chance to vote in the 2025 Internal Federal Elections". Please do use your vote, and please give me your first preference to help re-elect me to the Fedral Board. facebook.com/FawcettForFe...

Critics of AI, also known as “paperclip minimizers,”

My latest article for Sussex Bylines has just published. It's not your usual 'spooky' Hallowe'en tale.... It's far more horrifying than that.

What do you get when you cross Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" with @gavthorpe.bsky.social's short story "Shadow of The Past"? You get this year's Halloween special! Be sure to like, comment, share it around & all that good jazz. It's my birthday so you have to :P youtu.be/4lp95pP1gfw

My Halloween special is up featuring artwork from @proflambeo.bsky.social @talesofkaimere.bsky.social Emily Stepp Nickoraptor youtu.be/kEFMYTZ7hR8?...

The last survivor of the Crimean War died in 2004. "Timothy" spent 40 years in the Navy. After retirement, having moved in with the Earl of Devon, she revealed she was a girl. She would wander round his garden wearing a sign that said. "My name is Timothy. I am very old. Pease do not pick me up".

@armida.bsky.social of @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social said: "The election results won't mark the end of populism in the Netherlands. While the PVV may have lost seats, the far-right vote has not disappeared, it has splintered. About 30% of PVV voters in 2023 now vote for JA21.”

Very poor from the government: it won't review suitability of X for its communications, and insists on keeping secret its previous review.

It do be like that.

Ed Davey's speech on the ECHR is a must watch if you haven't seen it. He definitely had his Weetabix yesterday morning! This is a strong, passionate, liberal argument for our rights and our future as a free liberal democracy... Seriously, watch it.

I asked Jimmy Wales why the reporting of the Daily Mail isn't linked to on Wikipedia. Fair play for a frank answer: www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...

And that company was….. Palantir Slow slow handclap to Cummings and his unerring instinct for a bad ‘un

"The country’s drone industry depends on Chinese engines, batteries, and flight controllers for roughly 60% of components—and Beijing just cut off the Baltic and Polish supply routes that provided them." euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/29/c...

Liberal England... Kirsty Williams: Online trolling forced me out of politics When she told her daughters about her new role as chairwoman of the Cardiff and Vale health board, they said: "Don't do it, we can't go through this again." liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/10/kirs...

Latvian Parliament votes to withdraw from domestic violence treaty

Ed Davey SLAMS Farage's plans to leave the ECHR

Billboard Featuring Freddie Mercury Celebrates UK Immigrants - Freddie Mercury of the iconic Queen, appears on a billboard reading "Thank God for Immigrants," as part of a series installed by the activist group Everyone Hates Elon, in Liverpool.

Pakistan’s defense minister is threatening to “obliterate” the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan after peace talks collapsed. Read more in the latest Daily Review:

The week difference between US and UK daylight savings really throws me off as a Brit working for Americans and I have no idea what time it is anywhere

Tag yourself. I’m “buoyant oscillating”

Use only water or fresh air on tear gas or pepper spray. No milk, vinegar, antacids, urine, etc. and especially not in eye. Thank me later, An actual expert

🚨🧵Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has fundamentally transformed global energy flows and had enduring consequences for UK energy security.

This should include giving the energy minister a permanent seat on the National Security Council (NSC) to ensure security is treated as a core enabler of sustainable economic growth.

The geopolitical shift has created critical new vulnerabilities for the UK. Following Europe's pivot from Russian gas, the UK’s dependence on US LNG has increased, exposing it to potential shifts in American politics and market conditions.

Huge congrats to Rob Jetten, our D66 friends, and VVD in the Netherlands! 💛 Proof that hope, optimism and liberal values can beat the fear and division of the populist right. Let’s do the same here in the UK and wipe the smile off Farage’s face at the local elections in May.

Tolkien understood masculinity to a level Elon Musk and fascist tech bros can NEVER understand. All the shit they do in Call of Duty he did for real in the mud and blood of the Western Front. He came out of that rejecting all of the macho bullshit they claim it teaches you. Fuck 'em.

What a hideous man he is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We just stopped Nigel Farage’s plan to drag Britain out of the ECHR and tear up people’s rights. Farage wanted to scrap Churchill’s legacy and bring us closer to Trump's America.

Worth noting that in Nov 24 the govt wrote to South Cambridgeshire to say that voters were best placed to decide on council effectiveness and that Labour would bring an “end to micromanaging” I’d like to see the full text of this latest letter to see what has changed

It‘s going to be a wild ride tomorrow when pundits around the globe explain to us what kind of party D66 is and why they did exactly what they have always told us their favorite strategy is And just to emphasize it again: yes, PVV is down by a lot but the other two far-right parties are up by a lot

Conservatives have today ditched their Mass Deportation Bill, 5 months after Chris Philip tabled it in the Commons, but a week after it was dubbed the Idi Amin Tribute Act, as it proposed Deportations of settled & legal migrants on a scale never seen since 1972 & never proposed in a democracy before

Unbelievable thread. (You should be following Emma btw.)

Covid Bereaved Families: "We know exactly why Nigel Farage, IDS and other establishment figures have questioned this inquiry...[It is] an opportunity for ordinary people like us to hold powerful people like them to account...[We] will continue to campaign for justice for as long as it takes."

Veterans dedicate their lives to protecting our country, yet often they’re left without the support they need. The Armed Forces Covenant is meant to protect them - but it’s failing. Words on paper mean nothing without action. The Govt must act now to ensure no veteran is left to struggle alone.