Wishing you all a very merry Christmas however and wherever you are spending it. With lots of love for the coming year from Matthew and Lucas (and Molly of course!) xx #merrychristmas #dogsatchristmas #spaniel 🎄 🐶

The Liberal Democrats won 106 Council By-Elections in 2025, more than any other party #ByElectionsWrapped 1) LDM 106 2) RFM 104 3) CON 45 4) LAB 36 5) GRN 24

Doing fondant icing from scratch and attempting to put onto cake is not my strength it turns out…

Don’t look the other way. There’s always something to be found, it only takes a minute & feels great to do your bit to protect animals & the #environment Litter breeds #litter. Picking it up reduces the amount dropped Join us! 29,000 dog owners & counting.. Help us reach 30k

UK asylum seekers not widely abusing modern slavery rules, report finds

What else would you expect? The World Travel and Tourism Council will move its HQ from London to Madrid because of Brexit. https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/london-madrid-uk-brexit-world-travel-tourism-council-b2886955.html

Doesn’t feel good that the head of BBC News Content is instructing reporters to refer to trans people with slurs. If this leak is real it raises questions about who made this decision, who was consulted, and why the BBC chose to ignore its own editorial guidelines on slurs and offensive language

A few quick thoughts about this morning's decision. Don't believe the spin from various Russians & others: it's a big deal. The EU has now unambiguously demonstrated that it is able and willing to provide the external financial support Ukraine needs, for as long and as much as it takes. (1/N)

I mean at this point, is it any surprise? Egregious, cruel, cowardly.

Sigh. The market analysis section of this Charter Review somehow manages to be even more stupid than in previous ones. Labour are going to destroy the BBC.

Apparently dealing with Trustworthy Trump is the reason we can't materially improve our relationship with those dodgy characters in the EU that we used to deal successfully with for 40 years.

It’s a grey rainy start to the last full working week of year so here’s Molly with a #mememonday #spaniel #gameofthrones

Further evidence, if it were even needed, that transphobia is rife across the BBC, not just the Gibbs influenced BBC News

Cowardly, cruel and idiotic - which sums up Starmer’s Labour really…

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion. It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

When I arrived in the UK 25 years ago I had a job at a university that paid £21k. I could barely make ends meet but I worked hard and eventually I succeeded. I guess this Labour government considers young broke hardworking me a “taker”? Fuck this.

I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so. This is very long overdue.

I am running out of patience for progressives who still are on the ‘let’s change Labour from the inside!’ wagon because it’s clear that Labour are not even trying to appear to be a left-wing party.

And nor should it go away! Should be hung around his neck at every interview and appearance...

Absolutely insane to me that GB News retains its broadcasting license. It's BNP TV.

I have called on the Equalities Minister to withdraw badly written guidance for single-sex spaces to protect everyone's rights and ensure trans people are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.

This is the guy who gave Boris Johnson £1 million and then won a big MoD contract....

Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“Labour seems determined to upset and alienate its own voters to appease Reform’s base – who overwhelmingly didn’t vote Labour in 2024, when it won a landslide. Last week’s immigration figures show it will never pay off. Even if the figures say what those voters want them to, they won’t believe it.”

This is heartbreaking and the people who pushed Girlguiding into a position they clearly don't want to be in should be ashamed of themselves. The government must act - we cannot allow trans people to be bullied out of society like this.

Mason's misinformation was the top news item for two days. Not a bulletin went by on national TV or Radio in which he didn't put in a shift. Today he is NOWHERE to be found, of course. The correction was given 25 seconds, at the end of News at 6, "in other news", just before an item about Santas.

Imagine being turned away from a bathroom, hospital, or cinema for “not looking female enough”. The leaked EHRC guidance could do just that. Along with my Lib Dem colleagues, I’ve written to the Minister calling for new, inclusive, practical guidance that protects everyone’s rights.

Shabana Mahmood said this month that her migration policies are a "moral mission". Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Such great news we've convinced thousands of international students to take their fees elsewhere. Shame it means my local university will be closing its music department reducing the opportunities for UK students, but at least it means there are fewer Johnny foreigners.

"That Britain is doing the precise opposite by undermining the #BBC, probably the world’s most widely respected #publicservicebroadcaster, is just another example of the country’s seemingly endless capacity for national self-harming." 3.

🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 65,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 70,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

With Mouldemort’s millions and an almost universally transphobic mainstream media, this was going to be a potential consequence but this is a badge of deep shame for our political class and parties - Labour in particular

Pretty on brand for them!

OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity

In future job interviews, imagine them being asked "What's the worst mistake you've made at work, and how did you rectify or learn from it?"...

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff has been outed as a Russian asset. This is traitorous stuff.

In many of the red wall towns Labour is desperate to hold, the university is major employer, often the biggest employer. If it were a steel mill, the government would be falling over itself to pump in money, but because it's a university they're happy to see it die on its arse.

This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"

Back to work tomorrow after two weeks of annual leave - definitely got the Sunday scaries! Maybe making some progress this evening sorting/clearing garage will help?!

I'd encourage all my fellow dog walkers to follow this advice. I often carry a plastic bag to collect rubbish I find on walks with Molly, but even one or two bits picked up and popped into a bin makes a difference.

Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*

At Labour’s conference, Keir Starmer promised his government would “fight with everything we have” against those pushing racism and the idea of two-tier Britishness. Now it is the clear and stated policy rationale of his government that the racists were correct and must be appeased.

Labour has fully abandoned the right to represent anyone other than racist far right

Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right? Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.

Thank you, @joshbabarinde.bsky.social for pressing the government on today's appalling leaked EHRC proposals. It is both sickening and predictable that they should leak on Transgender Day of Remembrance. Thank you for committing the @libdems.org.uk to standing up for our rights.

VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance, a day when we remember trans people who are longer with us, either by their own hands or at the hands of others through violence. I will be remembering them today, and I ask you to do the same. We will remember those we have lost. #TDOR 🏳️‍⚧️ #RestInPower

Christmas cake stage 1…

Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it). "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".