Shyamali Rodrigues
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She/Her Interest in Portuguese, European, UK & Indian politics. Londoner / Lisboeta
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If everything in this world is about oil and petrol, then I'm glad that I've spent my entire adult life walking, taking buses, tubes/metro, trams, coaches, trains and the occassional taxi.
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Jared 🔶
about 4 hours ago
It’s this that really keeps me up at night. The UK will become uninhabitable if the AMOC shuts down.
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Freddie van Mierlo MP 🔶
about 23 hours ago
Today, I introduced the Water Industry Act 1991 (Amendment) (Payment of Fines) Bill. This Bill would prevent water companies, like Thames Water, from negotiating away fines. The government must act to close loopholes in the current legislation.
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Michael
about 21 hours ago
If you live in Morley South, vote lib Dem to beat Reform!
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Alex Wilcock 🔸🏳️🌈
about 19 hours ago
OTD 1937: Conrad Russell Liberalism exists to stop bullies. The most interesting Lib Dem intellectual guru of my lifetime A leading Civil War historian An incisive opposition peer (by a quirk of history both the last Liberal and first Liberal Democrat Lord created) He was my friend, and I miss him.
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James Talarico
1 day ago
Elon Musk’s $78 million private jet? He can write that off. Jeff Bezos’ $500 million mega-yacht? He can write that off, too. It’s a scam. This is why billionaires buy politicians — to rewrite the rules and rig the system for themselves.
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Liberal Democrats in Europe
1 day ago
Labour are finally waking up to what we’ve been saying for a decade. We’re glad they’re coming round but now is the time for action. With worsening relations with the US we need to strengthen ties with our neighbours, and start the journey to rejoining the EU.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour MPs call for Swiss-style EU deal and review of US ties to revive party
Group including former cabinet minister Anneliese Dodds also calls for roburst defence of climate policies
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/14/labour-mp-group-proposes-new-policies-to-beat-rightwing-populism
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The world ditched wasteful toilets, the US stayed behind
US toilets use far more water than many of their global counterparts. President Donald Trump is pushing to loosen water pressure standards, a move critics say would increase waste.
https://p.dw.com/p/5BZNo
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Kit Bradshaw
2 days ago
NEW: Tunbridge Wells MP Mike Martin describes South East Water CEO's evidence to Parliament as "utterly pathetic". The Lib Dem told ITV News Meridian the company is a "disgrace" and that David Hinton "must resign" as chief executive.
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Rebecca Jones 🔶🇪🇺
2 days ago
Well done the
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representing the Lib Dems as the sole pro-trans voice in the trans rights debate in parliament today. So important to have a dissenting voice to push back on so much bigotry from Labour, the Tories and the DUP.
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Parliamentlive.tv
Westminster Hall
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Alistair Carmichael MP
2 days ago
This morning, Police Scotland released a public service announcement, warning for rural communities to be vigilant for “suspicious people” of ill-intent. In unrelated news, on Tuesday morning Nigel Farage flew to the Northern Isles in his private plane.
www.shetnews.co.uk/2026/04/14/f...
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Farage in town on flying visit to Shetland
REFORM leader Nigel Farage has arrived in Shetland as part of a tour around the country as the Scottish elections loom. He arrived at Sumburgh Airport earlier...
https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2026/04/14/farage-in-town-on-flying-visit-to-shetland/
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Euronews
2 days ago
A study by Irish travel insurance company JustCover has chosen Lisbon as the most colourful city in the world. More than 2.6 million colours were detected in the photographs analysed of the Portuguese capital. ➡️
https://l.euronews.com/dyzi
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Calum Miller
2 days ago
Only 5% think Brexit has worked. Two-thirds of Gen Z want a rejoin referendum. The Brexit settlement is dying in real time - and the only party honest enough to say so is the Liberal Democrats. Closer to Europe. Stronger at home. It really isn’t complicated.
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Mark Pack
2 days ago
Starmer defends King’s US visit as Davey calls Trump a ‘dangerous and corrupt gangster’
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Starmer defends King’s US visit as Davey calls Trump a ‘corrupt gangster’
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer defended the King's upcoming US state visit as Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey launched a sharp attack on Donald Trump during a parliamentary statement on the Iran crisis....
https://buff.ly/1mkmvl4
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Dave Thompson 🇨🇦
5 days ago
Shubho Nobo Borsho! Many thanks to the Victoria Bengali Cultural Society for a wonderful Halkhata event with history, culture, singing, dancing, and of course delicious food!
#vbcs
#yyj
#victoriabc
#bengalicommunity
#newyearnewbeginnings
@victoriabengaliculturalsociety @victoria_bcs
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AGL, as ever
3 days ago
Can I be the first person to post this, please???? 🎶 You can be the President, I'd rather be the Pope 🎶 Prince, ahead of his time, as ever 💜
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Pope
YouTube video by Prince - Topic
https://youtu.be/HKRRxbA5dWE?si=4Rm5nZpfti5eS0oC
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Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine
3 days ago
Israeli forces teargas schoolchildren in West Bank. Settler violence has also surged in the West Bank since the start of the Iran war. Excluding East Jerusalem, 500,000+ Israelis now live there in illegal settlements, among 3m Palestinians.
#Palestine
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Israeli forces fire teargas at schoolchildren holding West Bank sit-in
Incident took place on first day back at school in small village, as settlers blocked pupils’ access
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/13/israeli-forces-fire-teargas-at-schoolchildren-holding-west-bank-sit-in?CMP=share_btn_url
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Le Monde in English
3 days ago
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's wife charged with corruption
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's wife charged with corruption
A judge formally charged Begona Gomez with embezzlement, influence peddling, corruption in business dealings and misappropriation of funds. It is now up to the courts to decide whether she will stand trial.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/04/14/spanish-prime-minister-pedro-sanchez-s-wife-charged-with-corruption_6752383_4.html
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ManNextDoor
about 1 month ago
Tom Misch - Days Of Us
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Tom Misch - Days Of Us (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Tom Misch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKP-ghq29AQ
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Henry Long
3 days ago
Wisteria on Drummond Street.
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Rachel Gilmour, MP for Tiverton and Minehead
3 days ago
There are no words to describe the choices of the President of the United States sometimes - but these words from the Holy Father seem to do the trick...
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Iain Dale
3 days ago
On my @LBC show... 7pm Phone-in with @EdwardJDavey 8pm Cross Question with David Simmonds MP Luke Akehurst MP Colin Seymour aka Crystal Poppy Coburn 9pm Should the government be intervening on Spotted Dick in our school dinners?
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Byline Times
3 days ago
🔴Conservative Candidate Tells British MPs to ‘Go Back to Pakistan’ EXCLUSIVE: Kemi Badenoch suspends the Conservative party’s candidate for North Harrow, after a Byline Times investigation uncovered a series of vile messages he posted over recent months
bylinetimes.com/2026/04/13/c...
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Conservative Candidate Tells British MPs to 'Go Back to Pakistan'
EXCLUSIVE: Kemi Badenoch suspends the Conservative party's candidate for North Harrow, after a Byline Times investigation uncovered a series of vile messages he posted over recent months
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/04/13/conservative-candidate-tells-british-mps-to-go-back-to-pakistan/
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Press Gazette
3 days ago
A federal judge has dismissed Trump’s $10bn defamation lawsuit against the publisher of The Wall Street Journal over its report of his birthday greeting to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/b...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/business/media/trump-wall-street-journal-lawsuit-dismissed-epstein.html
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Jon Worth
3 days ago
“Our economic growth has been flat!” says Matt, talking about the UK Errrrrrr…. 2016, what happened? Brexit!
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Make Votes Matter
3 days ago
Our political views are diverse. That's a good thing. No one party speaks for the whole country, and our opinions cannot be reduced to a choice between two options. It's time for a voting system that recognises this. It's time for Proportional Representation.
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Brian Finucane
3 days ago
I agree. It is sickening.
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Mujtaba Rahman
3 days ago
Le Pen furious and worried that the model she and Jordan Bardella were going to offer to the French people next year - pretending to be European but wrecking the EU from the inside - has been rejected by the people of Hungary and will be rejected by the French as well
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Victoria Derbyshire
3 days ago
Reform’s Deputy Leader Richard Tice ‘failed to pay £91k in tax’ according to Sunday Times. He says ‘overall HMRC received the correct amount of tax due’
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Rob Blackie
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Reform are telling an outright lie about Tice's taxes. If you pay £1 less in corporation tax and then pay out that £1 in dividends, you will pay no more than 39p in tax. ie For every £1 you've avoided you are still 61p up. And that assumes you pay all the money out of your company.
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Ben McKenna is Unwell
3 days ago
Sorry, but this is Low era Bowie
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The London Economic
3 days ago
The leader of the Lib Dems has come through with the put-down of the weekend for pro-Orban politician.
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'Spend more time on the couch': Ed Davey rips JD Vance over failed Orban campaigning
Never change, Ed Davey. The leader of the Lib Dems has come through with the put-down of the weekend for pro-Orban politician.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/viktor-orban-ed-davey-jd-vance-hungary-elections-404978/
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Reuters
3 days ago
Argentina credit stress deepens as inflation and utility costs hit households
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Argentina credit stress deepens as inflation and utility costs hit households
Gonzalo Martinez, a 37-year-old teacher, hopes that one day when he opens his bank account, he'll have no more debt looming over him.
https://reut.rs/48CHHtJ
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Nils Gilman
3 days ago
“For existential philosophers, AI poses an existential threat because it offers answers faster than humans can ask the questions that help them contemplate their existence. And when humans stop asking existential questions, they stop being human.”
www.forbes.com/sites/pialau...
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This Existential Threat Calls For Philosophers, Not AI Experts
Google’s former AI chief, Geoffrey Hinton, says there are two ways in which AI poses an existential threat to humanity. But he misses the biggest existential risk of all.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/pialauritzen/2025/06/22/the-biggest-existential-threat-calls-for-philosophers-not-ai-experts/
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PoliticsHome
3 days ago
The Lib Dems can win over pre-"Corbyinsta push" Green supporters who care about the environment but aren't as left wing as Zack Polanski, leader Ed Davey said in an interview with PolHome's
@zoecrowther.bsky.social
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Ed Davey: Hillary Clinton Told Me To “Stand Up To Bullies” Like Reform UK
Former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton privately urged Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey to “stand up to bullies” like Reform UK during a ...
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/ed-davey-interview-hillary-clinton-stand-up-bullies-reform-uk
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Sam Bright
3 days ago
In absolutely chef’s kiss timing, Matthew Goodwin is due to speak at Orbán’s in-house propaganda group MCC *today* Badloss strikes again.
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What’s Next for Europe? A Series with Matthew Goodwin - How Mass Migration is Reshaping the UK and Implications for Europe
Join us for an insightful discussion with political analyst Matthew Goodwin on the evolving impact of mass migration in the UK and what it could mean for Europe’s future. Explore key trends, policy ch...
https://mcc.hu/en/event/2026-04-13-whats-next-for-europe-a-series-with-matthew-goodwin-how-mass-migration-is-reshaping-the-uk-and-implications-for-europe
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Max Bergmann
3 days ago
Big challenge now for EU-pessimists. All they had to do to prove their point that the EU was doomed was say "Hungary" or "Orban." Yet he's gone, and EU still standing. Maybe it's time to rethink EU-doomerism.
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Jacob Öberg
3 days ago
unravel key pillars of Orbán’s “illiberal democracy” — demolishing the former prime minister’s tight control over the judiciary, state companies and the media. Declaring that “the regime is over” and that Hungary will again be “a strong ally in the EU and NATO,”
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Jon Worth
4 days ago
I did appreciate the Russian doll with Orbán on the outside and Putin inside at the Tisza party 😀
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Edward Luce
4 days ago
People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.
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Liberal Democrats
4 days ago
This is not just a victory for the people of Hungary, but for all those around the world who believe in international cooperation, democracy and the rule of law 🇭🇺
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Dave Keating
4 days ago
How are Orban's other far-right backers reacting to his defeat tonight? I'll keep a running tally in this thread. Send me any you see.
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Dave Keating
4 days ago
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, like Trump, is also licking her wounds tonight after Orban's defeat. She full-throatedly endorsed Orban for re-election three months ago in a campaign video in which she appeared alongside Le Pen and Netanyahu.
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Público
4 days ago
AfD promete eliminar os subsídios para a construção de infra-estruturas de energia solar e eólica e reactivar o gasoduto russo NordStream, inutilizado desde 2022.
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Extrema-direita alemã quer reactivar gasoduto russo e deixar de apoiar renováveis
AfD promete eliminar os subsídios para a construção de infra-estruturas de energia solar e eólica e reactivar o gasoduto russo NordStream, inutilizado desde 2022.
https://www.publico.pt/2026/04/12/mundo/noticia/extremadireita-alema-quer-reactivar-gasoduto-russo-deixar-apoiar-renovaveis-2170981
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Europe Elects
4 days ago
Hungary, List vote, 88.9% counted: National parliament election TISZA-EPP: 53.7% (+0.2) Fidesz/KDNP-PfE: 37.7% (-0.1) MH-ESN: 5.9% (-0.1) DK-S&D: 1.2% MKKP→G/EFA: 0.8% +/- vs. 74.4% counted ➤ europeelects.eu/hungary
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Ed Davey
4 days ago
Has anyone noticed that wherever JD Vance goes, he just makes a mess. In Munich he insulted European allies. In Greenland he turned everyone against Trump. And now he’s helped Viktor Orbán lose re-election. Maybe better to spend more time on the couch VP.
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Al Jazeera English
4 days ago
“I’ve congratulated the victorious party.” After 16 years as PM, Hungary’s Viktor Orban conceded defeat to opposition leader Peter Magyar and his Tisza party.
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Ed Davey
4 days ago
Trump, Putin, Farage… your boy took a hell of a beating. Congratulations to the people of Hungary for showing that populist extremists can be defeated – even despite Donald Trump’s best efforts.
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Jessica Elgot
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