Green Party got 47% in the Gorton & Denton by-election their previous highest by-election result anywhere, ever, was just 10%

I'll add to this, now it's not the middle of the night: the Greens had a "story". Hannah the Plumber was memorable. Tbf, it was the same for Reform. It's just that their candidate was memorable for the wrong reasons.

A Green win must mean that "left behind" voters forgotten by Westminster want open borders and legalised class A drugs. That's how it works right?

So my guess is the undecideds worked out which way to go. Win for tactical voting. And Hannah Spencer of course, who looks like she'll be an excellent MP.

Lots of interesting things about this by-election, not least that it is the first time Greens will have won one (if they do, as is looking likely). But also I don't have a clue who the Conservative candidate even is - do they even have one? Extraordinary for a party which was so dominant for so long

Goodwin lol more like Matt Badloss

Honestly I just wanted to see him lose.

On the one hand YouTube is a giant radicalisation machine that is pushing existing global political structures to breaking point. On the other, there’s ALWAYS a video by a retired handymen showing how to fix the door slide on your specific brand of kitchen drawer. So I’m calling it a score draw.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Curling is the cricket of winter sports and that's a hill I'll die on. It's the one winter Olympics sports I instantly turn off (other than ice hockey) even if we are guaranteed a medal....

Oh My Word! #BigAir #WinterOlympics

Im definitely leaving the country if this happens.

This would seem to be the tactical logic of going head to head with the Greens. If Reform felt it was turning into a head to head Reform v Green race, then Reform ought to want to amplify the 3-way fight

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

It feels like we only do Gold! 🪙

Just in case you were thinking about it, here's the link to join TeamGB's Skeleton team.😬😬😬...#WinterOlympics www.thebbsa.co.uk/join-the-tea...

I rarely watch bbc breakfast but got it on waiting for the Olympics coverage to start and cripes I don't think I'd realized how dumbed down it has become. Presenter just suggested Brazilians should be better at skiing because...Andes?!

Yuma clapping and giggling while presenting us a sobbing Shun is absolutely sending me. I love them. #MilanoCortina2026 #figureskating

What a night ! #WinterOlympics

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

The United States is the most dire threat to the planet's future and it's not even close.

#WinterOlympics Source: BBC share.google/8uhDOdbeLUgx...

Absolutely spot on.

Watching the Brits not win another medal in the Olympics....😩

Absolutely loving the BBC commentary on the snowboarding. Ed and Tim in their little huts are legends. Oh my word!

Absolutely loving the women's Big Air but another 4th place for the plucky Brits 😭😭😭.

As a Brit, I don't understand the Superbowl half time show. What is this, like a whole concert? In the middle of a sports event? What's going on????

‼️#USA 🇺🇸: 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 in the special election for Louisiana D60 🔵 Chasity Martinez – 62% 🔴 Brad Daigle – 38% 𝗜𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰, 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘄𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝟭𝟯𝗽; Democrats improve by 37p. 👇 whovotesnow.com

Backside rodeo rotation two side backside spinning on his front side half pipe pretzel. Yes. I'm watching the #WinterOlympics

Young men are the second most liberal group in the country after young women.

This is an excellent article well worth a read.

Perfectly put. Trump plays everyone over and over. When will everyone learn?

The address!

I seriously thought this was a front page from 2018 or so being shared for some reason.

Reform: pro nature but no, not all those green policies which actually means we'll still have nature to conserve 🤦🏼‍♀️. I see why Goldsmith is doing this but he *really* shouldn't be green washing Farage. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Measles vaccination, human rights, international peace, European unity. The far right have never met a 20th century achievement that they don't want to destroy, and all in the name of the most fragile and pathetic men on the planet.

62.5% of current Reform MPs are former Tory MPs so they are in fact the Conservatives.

This is a very irritating article. "Here's all the data that shows the 4 day week is working but on the other hand here's a couple of moany residents so blah blah blah". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Right up until the end I was worried I wasn't going to like the ending but. .. totally pulled it out the bag 😭 #TheTraitors

Nooooooo (I'm 8 minutes behind)

American woman on Ch4 News embodies up the very, very worse kind of American.

I had never heard of Panenka before tonight #AfCon

I'm done. How do you fight this? And yes it's in the US, but the same people live in the UK.

Jenrick saying he's "put aside personal ambition" too join Reform is the single most shameless statement I've ever heard. If he "put aside personal ambition" he'd disappear. That's all there is.

Good for her.

🧵 This is a very useful piece from @shippersunbound.bsky.social providing an insight into the two policy main brains in Reform UK - Danny Kruger and Zia Yusuf and how they are thinking about their approach Kruger says ‘It’s got to be Trump 2, not Trump 1.’ spectator.com/article/we-w...

#TheTraitors I don't understand the questions thing, surely the Traitors can just lie? And why would they agree to recruit Matthew, when they haven't even discussed it between them? It just doesn't work.

"I'll trade your country for your prize"....

History books will quote this as a metaphor for the Trumpian era.