Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela. Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe. Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.

Starmer must condemn Trump’s illegal actions in Venezuela

We are part of Europe! Why people such as Starmer won't accept that and further move us politically and economically to where we belong is very difficult to understand.

Has he thought this one through?

Doing the right thing is not always easy but using Twitter supports hate and Musk so I would urge those still using it to consider not doing so. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Proud to have pushed in 2025 for a cap on political donations, and hugely proud of my Liberal Democrat colleagues for leading on important campaigns and changes for our country 👏🔸️⭐️ 👇

We strongly condemn the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on five European individuals, including former Commissioner Thierry Breton. Link to full statement: link.europa.eu/NtMX4K

Every year, people mock this tree. But I love it anyway. It reminds us that if we stand together in tough times, we can overcome anything. Merry Christmas from my family to yours. 🎄✨

It's long been known that if you do redactions improperly, someone can copy and paste redacted text and get it to appear. I recall that happening with a document we received at the Chicago Tribune more than a decade ago. The fact that the Trump regime doesn't know this is a scandal in itself. 1/2

Reform led Derbyshire Council are planning to shut 8 care homes. Reform led Lancashire Council are shutting 5 care homes and 5 day centres. Perhaps the people of those counties might want to reconsider who to support at the next local elections? 🤷‍♂️

If this is true it shows that the redaction was carried out incompetently and must put victims' names at risk of exposure

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Driverless cars are malfunctioning in SF’s power outage & are blocking intersections, turn lanes, and streets all over the city right now. This is impeding buses, emergency vehicles, and other traffic. It is forcing pedestrians outside crosswalks and cars to use oncoming traffic lanes. It’s a mess.

Source: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Donald Trump has made it his explicit policy to interfere in European politics and ‘cultivate resistance’ in the UK and elsewhere. The government should include the US administration in the scope of its investigation.

Failure to include Trump’s government as part of this new probe would be deeply irresponsible and would leave a gaping hole in our defences against the manipulation of our politics.

Here is the vision It is 1½ pages from the preamble to the Liberal Democrats' Constitution Interestingly the Labour party Constitution does not have any philosophical preamble

The Epstein Files, everybody!

Jeffrey Epstein & David Walliams leading all the bulletins but Kemi Badenoch knows that only men from ‘different cultures’ pose a threat to women.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

It seems like every week we hear of racism in the Reform Party. Time and again, Farage & Reform's leadership refuse to condemn it. This is not a party fit to lead or represent any part of our country.

It IS our war. We made a deal with Ukraine that if they gave up their nukes, we’d protect them from Russia.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Liberal Democrats have won more local by-elections than any other party in 2025. In real elections up and down the country, only the Lib Dems are taking on Reform and winning.

When political lies meet economic reality: Reform, which promised to keep Council tax low and cut spending, then increased it by the maximum permissible, and still its deficit is skyrocketing. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

In the year since the dictator Assad was overturned, 3.2 million refugees have returned to Syria. Many more are waiting for the rebuilding of essential infrastructure, now underway. That’s quite a success story.

Labour are launching an investigation into historical foreign interference in UK politics. But they are explicitly excluding the Brexit referendum from the investigation. That's like pledging to investigate instances of arson while ignoring the wall of flames spanning the horizon.

"I defected from a totalitarian regime, and like hell am I going to be cowed again," & "I'm pissed off as hell about people capitulating to Trump" She warns that people voting for such leaders are choosing "the same ball of wax" she fled, where figures dictate life, rights, & feelings. Thread 1/5🧵

Keir Starmer needs to stand up for the BBC against Trump's outrageous $5bn lawsuit and protect licence fee payers from being hit in the pocket. Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.

Too many people are stuck in hospital because there isn't the social care they need. Our plan for a dedicated winter discharge unit would get thousands out of hospital and home in time for Christmas. @alisonebennett.bsky.social

Reform is mired in scandals of racism, corruption and Russian interference. It's no wonder more and more people are turning to the positive voice of the Liberal Democrats as the antidote to this divisive politics.

Johnson - I was repeatedly assured that there were no parties - move on. Farage - It was 49 years ago & only banter - move on. Trump - It was years & years ago and 14 is old enough to consent - move on You see the pattern - move on.

Children with SEND deserve real support, not empty promises.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

CALL TO Activism- Joe Gallina Republicans just suffered one of the most humiliating election wipeouts in modern history: A Democrat just won a Republican GERRYMANDERED Georgia district that Trump carried by 12 points last year. Voters ungerrymandered it themselves. Trump is toxic.👏😎💙

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Contrast these two stories: a 19-year-old college student living in the U.S. since age 7, deported on her way home to surprise her family. Meanwhile, Trump pardons a convicted drug trafficker who brought 400 TONS OF COCAINE into the U.S.

Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans. Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills. Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.

I'm not kidding: I reported on this FOUR YEARS AGO in "The Decade In Tory" It also contained the entire COVID Inquiry (cost: £200m). And every single Brexit mistake (£140bn per year). And it's £2.50 on Amazon. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)

Our maternity services are in crisis, with staff stretched beyond breaking point. Systemic failures are costing lives, and mothers are suffering the consequences daily. The Government must urgently reverse cuts to ring-fenced maternity funding and implement all actions from the Ockenden Report.

“A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles and ordered them returned to the control of the state's governor,” according to Reuters. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Last night, Eileen Higgins defeated her MAGA opponent to become Miami’s next mayor — the first Democratic-aligned candidate to win this seat in nearly 30 years. This is a massive flip: In 2021, the Republican incumbent won re-election by more than 60 points. Last night, Higgins won by 19 points.

"London had around 104 homicides last year. Let’s put that number into context – New Orleans had 124 homicides last year. That might make London look just a little bit safer than New Orleans, but here’s the thing – more than nine million people live in London, but only 360,000 live in New Orleans."

Day 2140 of #Brexit: ‘Today was a historic victory for the Liberal Democrats – winning a vote in parliament to finally end the economic nightmare of the Conservatives’ broken Brexit deal.’ - Ed Davey, Lib Dem leader www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Eileen Higgins becomes Miami’s first Democratic mayor in 30 years www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When billionaires take control of communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy. This is a danger to the free press.

BREAKING: The Lib Dems 10-minute rule bill to rejoin the customs union has just passed! After a 100-100 tie the deputy speaker followed convention and cast the deciding vote in favour. It’s unlikely to get government time so probably won't progress - but indicates strength of feeling on this issue

this is insane

🚨BREAKING🚨 MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union. The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.

🚨 Today Al Pinkerton will introduce a 10-minute bill that calls for a UK-EU customs union. It's time for Labour MP's to back our bill and help turbocharge our economy.