From Chișinău to London: why Moldova's European choice must spark Britain's EU re-engagement www.libdemvoice.org/from-chiinu-...

From Chișinău to London: why Moldova's European choice must spark Britain's EU re-engagement www.libdemvoice.org/from-chiinu-...

RIP my Dad, died #onthisday in 1989. This year I retraced his footsteps as an airman shot down in Holland. The sacrifices of that generation seem more real. Thanks to the Dutch for the support given to him in 1943 #RAF #WW2 Flowers and the story: thevaliantheart.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/i...

Hello! This is about my Dad! RIP Died 36 years ago tomorrow. #POW for 2 years when so young, shot down over #Gelderland #dutchairwar #bombercommand cared for so well by the Dutch but came home a different person

Hermitage Beer Festival, near Newbury. Sat 4 October Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/hermitage-... westberkscamra.org.uk/festival/her...

Swindon Beer Festival 2025 at STEAM, Swindon 23-25 October NB Friday 24 October is split into 2 sessions. 80 real ales + Cider/Perry westberkscamra.org.uk/festival/swi...

It’s nice when your local rugby club facilitates the collection of aid for Ukraine. 🇺🇦🏉

I am so proud of our whole team of 72 Liberal Democrat MPs - working tirelessly to deliver real change and stand up for our communities. Today I've expanded our frontbench team to take the fight to Nigel Farage and stop him turning Britain into a version of Trump’s America.

Paul Cezanne The Bend in the road 1905 oil, canvas

Looks like Putin's attempt to bully Moldova has failed. With 90% of votes counted, the pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) has a 20 point lead over the Russian-funded Patriotic Bloc open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

Israeli forces are destroying infrastructure and neighbourhoods, restricting access for medical teams.

thevaliantheart.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/i... Ten minute documentary and a blog post about my Dad's war story. #Bombercommand #pow #WW2 #netherlands #airwar Thanks to all the #dutch who inspired him so much #brummen

www.libdems.org.uk/nodigitalid Thanks to @sturdyalex.bsky.social for sorting my head out on this. Agreed with every word and can now sign this petition #ID

+4 daily trains Koln - Antwerp c/o DB from September 2026.

They are so afraid of this they won’t seat a newly elected Congresswoman from AZ to keep it from happening.

In case you missed yesterday’s post, here’s another image of a big selection of Ladybird books at Oxfam, Newbury

Enjoyed an afternoon at The Catherine Wheel, Newbury on an Oktoberfest weekend. NB Dress appropriately for a free drink! Theakston Portergeist / Salted Caramel Porter recommended. Cheers!

A rose spotted in Newbury today

Autumn colours #Newbury

Tediously often Wales is treated as some sort of odd cousin of little import while specifically English stuff is presented as "The News" in many big media contexts, and the upshot of that attitude laid bare here, as something of grave seriousness to all of Britain is sidelined/ignored

Source: the Guardian This is one for @timofnewbury.bsky.social

Virgin Active call themselves an LGBTQ+ ally, but decided to ban trans people from using their changing rooms and bathrooms... so we created a new slogan for them 👀 We need to make make as much noise as possible and make Virgin Active feel the pressure. Will you join us? 👇 goodlaw.social/d922

So it comes down to us. Or Nigel Farage. Liberal Democrat change – true to British values. Transforming our economy, our public services and our politics. The real change people crave. Or Farage’s change. Change away from the country we love. Change towards Trump’s America.

The government’s new Planning and Infrastructure Bill could give businesses the green light to trash habitats and threaten wildlife. Say no to attacks on nature! If you agree – join me and add your name with @friends-earth.bsky.social👇 foe.uk/tffac

I was just coming on here to make exactly that point. Maybe it is fake news to scare women, undermine them and make them feel guilty.

LibDem Lisa Smart, "We're calling on the Labour government to declare the asylum backlog a national emergency" "And set up Nightingale processing centres, just like the Nightingale hospitals during the pandemic" "We need Labour to clear the asylum backlog within six months"

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

📹 VÍDEO | Así ha anunciado el primer ministro británico, Keir Starmer, que Reino Unido reconoce el estado Palestino social.elpais.com/ek6b512

Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

That’s my boy!

“Why I’m demonstrating against Trump’s visit” Good on Max Hastings - where’s the demo? www.thetimes.com/article/db35...

Exciting that political discourse has now shifted so far to the right, Max Hastings is a leftist agitator.

This is the standard approach through history: The community of the free. We've always had people insist on liberty, but only for their group, typically white men with property. Progressive liberalism was about rolling out those rights for everyone, a process that is now being reversed.

Today's proceedings at Windsor should be watched with the aid of a sick bucket.

Right now, Donald Trump is at a lavish banquet at Windsor Castle, while in Gaza a genocide is unfolding. He alone can stop the assault on Gaza City, end the aid blockade and secure the release of hostages - Keir Starmer must make that clear to him before this visit ends.

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

A clear reminder that Farage and Reform are NOT on the side of the tens of millions of working people in this country, nor their families. A vote for Reform is a vote to scap all these rights and more. (Image posted by the Labour Party on Instagram today) www.instagram.com/p/DOtnIaziETO/

Your favourite book fair returns next month, this time with opening party. I'll be leading a modernist walking tour of Marylebone as part of the programme -- more soon. the-modernist.org/blogs/news/t...

this doesn't look like a normal distribution

What is happening in Gaza is a genocide. And the President of the United States is doing nothing to stop it. Keir Starmer must raise this with Trump during the state visit.

I’m old enough to remember when Conservative Party leaders believed in law and order.

Truck lifts deep container for rubbish from the pavement so that its contents can be dropped into the back of the truck. Another mystery solved!

No 💩, 🔎

El propio Trump se muestra inquieto por las constantes dudas de la opinión pública sobre su relación con Epstein. Eso y las protestas en la calle pueden acabar agriando una visita que se pretendía cargada de pompa

Nice to see the Piet Blom cube houses in Rotterdam.