Nobody has the faintest fucking idea what they’re doing. Those that you think do, don’t. Those that think they do are deluded. Those that say they do are liars. There are no adults in the room. Everyone’s just blagging their way through it the best they can. No one is coming to save us.

Congrats to the Lib Dems for their successful local elections campaign.

Jewish descendent of holocaust victims and survivors here. What he said was fine. Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough. I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.

For someone already reluctantly operating in this area AI Skills Hub is extremely underwhelming, the courses listed are already available for free should you care to look. I really hope a special advisor vibe coded the portal on their lunch break, rather than waste real developer time on this.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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The UK was better off in the EU and Europe was better off with the UK in it. All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow. WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.

Must be difficult for Badenoch to resist one of those trademark Tory parties on this news.

Excited to finally see my point of view on a policy benefit from something being put into the long grass.

That NEC decision on Burnham was predictable, but also: cowardly, insecure, factional, long-term counter-strategic and symptomatic of administrative malaise.

This mendacious drivel should be a resigning issue, for both the author and anyone who thought it was right to publish it

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

After Mark Carney's speech yesterday, another truth bomb for the Middle Powers of Europe. Feels like we need a galvanising speech every day until they seize the moment instead of the past.

Lab to DK is a group twice as large as Lab to Ref (and losses to DK are often easiest to win back) Lab to Grn/LD is a group three times as large as Lab to Ref (and on multiple metrics this group looks more open to returning to Labour)

24% of people who voted Labour at the last general election now plan to vote Green or Lib Dem. 0% of those who voted Reform at the last election now plan to vote Labour.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Mark Carney has delivered one of the most important speeches of our era. There is a better future waiting for Britain if we dare to follow his example. inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Don’t know about you but I’d like to ban social media for boomers.

This thread? This thread is beautiful. It shows that a person who is just an ordinary, imperfect person can choose to do right, even though they are imperfect and have not always chosen right before, and it can have a massive impact. If you see injustice? Choose to do right.

Main impression after 2 days in London: any politician, official or commentator who now prioritizes party politics, petty scores or their personal career advancement over dealing with this crisis should find a new job. Time to be serious. As a lot of serious people have said for a very long time.

With even Zach Polanski writing about how we need new defence capability, we're going to have to talk about how increasing these capabilities will cost money. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Lib Dem source: “Just 45 more Tory defections until Ed becomes Leader of the Opposition.”

every provocateur who wangs on all the time about Britain being “broken” should be sent to an actual failed state or autocracy for a month as a learning experience, there’s no shortage of them

These proposals avoid the two elephants in the room around online age gates. The technology used to enforce age gates for OSA is terrible. Lib Dem Conference noted this in the Autumn but we have yet to come up with an alternative and opposed Digital ID. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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.

I believe this may be a first: Badenoch has actually out maneuvered someone.

Robert Jenrick's departure is actually good news for what is left of the sane wing of the Conservative party, when they finally get rid of Badenoch. Places James Cleverly in a very strong position

The LibDem MP @laylamoran.bsky.social has decided to quit Twitter

This would be more convincing if the party at large and Munira herself weren't still using the nazi CSAM production app :/

Nadhim Zahawi and family fled to the UK from Saddam Hussein's Iraq as a child refugee in 1978. Unable to speak English when he arrived, he became a hugely successful businessman and an MP before serving as Chancellor of the Exchequor. His origin story is the very antithesis of the Reform narrative.

If your favourite bar is suddenly full of perverts and paedophiles your options are: 1. Complain to management. ❌️ He loves it. 2. Complain to government. ❓️Maybe but Trump, or scared of Trump. 3. Leave. ✅️ It is not to keep hanging out there in the hopes your puppy dog eyes will reform them.

Channel 4 News close to examplary this evening. It pains me to point out that some people working for the broadcast partner of Bari Weiss's CBS News, the BBC, could learn a lot from Matt Frei & Anushka Asthana. But I also wonder how much 'balance' we give to obvious liars, however powerful they are.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

The Commons Women & Equalities X account with 27 thousand followers gets less views on their posts than I get on my Reddit comments on the UK Politics subreddit. Regardless of your views on Grok AI it's pretty clear that the platform is dead for liberals. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Why is Labour giving Trump a free pass to break international law? We know what happens when US Presidents launch illegal wars. It’s why the Liberal Democrats opposed the Iraq War and it’s why we condemn Trump’s law-breaking in Venezuela today.

A better way to persuade the public to support digital ID would be for the government to come out as vehemently against it.

Ffs at very least say "taking action on" rather than "talking about".

Shamima Begum was a minor when she left the UK. We had a duty of care which was conveniently forgotten about. High time she had her citizenship reinstated.

A vulnerable child was groomed and trafficked and then subjected to the most shocking experiences imaginable including the deaths of her babies. Instead of taking responsibility the British establishment stripped her of her citizenship and dumped her like old rubbish. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just a gif of the EU flag projected onto the London Eye as part of Mayor Sadiq Khan's London's New Year's Day fireworks 😀 The UK is £90 billion a year poorer because of Brexit i.e. tax rises and spending cuts, it's absurd One day soon the madness will end and the UK will #RejoinEU ☺️

Fascinating thread but I don't feel it's that complicated? This is what happens when you go out of your way to performatively kick your own coalition in the hope of impressing voters who never liked you to start with.

This is exactly why I strongly opposed the move to strip Shamima Begum of her citizenship. Plenty of Brits have dual citizenship, often through a parent, or have access to another citizenship whether they intend to take it up or not, including all Jewish people & most people born in Northern Ireland

The nice thing about being a liberal is that I don't have to twist myself into pretzels pretending Alaa Abdel Fattah seems like a swell guy (like the govt) OR call for massive authoritarian overreach (like the opposition), I can think he sounds awful but he's British and that means something

It should never be possible for any minister to revoke citizenship with a stroke of the pen. #checks #balances Jenrick - like Farage - wants to be an unaccountable tyrant like Trump.

Something of a shame that the Old Queen's Head became the most haunted pub in Sheffield only after the previous holder of the title Carbrook Hall became Sheffield's most haunted Starbucks.

East Yorkshire: Life on the edge and the villages lost to the sea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyone done a cumulative cost of how much the UK has spent on the work done for Leeds not to have a Tram in the years between 1980 and 2025. My back of an envelope call is about £1Bn ……. And that doesn’t include the opportunity costs and lost economic benefits