The by-election is Reform's to lose and this is Polanski's first big test.

The UK absolutely needs to join the EU Customs Union. Trump cannot be trusted and it's a mistake to even try to appease him when there's no economic benefit anyway.

This year has shown the real impact of practical, values-led policy to deliver change across the country and in our communities.

If we were serious as a country we would take on the challenge of EVs and look to invest in becoming a world leader, building EVs and developing new tech at home. I guess not though - the Tories would rather leave that to China. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I studied for a Level 7 Degree Apprenticeship because I couldn't afford to take on a full time MSc. But now Government changes are removing Level 7 Apprenticeship funding for those aged over 21 - penalizing especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

I've been working with my industry body and they've launched this petition to protect funding for Level 7 Apprenticeships. Please sign and share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Kamala Harris level word salad here.

Local universities are about to go bankrupt, killing jobs in the process (and students spend a lot of money locally, too).

I'm lost for words. Horrifying.

My favorite thing is when people spend all summer saying British houses are built for the cold and then winter arrives and we all discover that that's not true either.

(1/10) 🚨Preprint alert!🚨 In this article, I challenge claims of a generational rise of conservative men. In the media and recent academic publications, the so-called ‘youth gender gap’ has been interpreted as a generational phenomenon. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

California voters HANDILY passed the Gerrymandering Hardball measure. Every single blue state should follow suit.

🚨Zohran Mamdani has won the mayor’s race for New York City. He becomes the first Muslim and first South Asian to serve as mayor of New York City.

Three Northern regions since 1950. Labour's overperformance in the North West is a relatively recent phenomenon, whereas in the North East it peaked in 1997

womp womp

People's jobs are on the line as the UK has fallen behind our peer countries on pharmaceutical spending.

Those two albums in particular got me through a lot of university stress. But each subsequent release has been a tougher and tougher listen 😭

Adding to the Swift discourse. I listened to the album a couple of times, but each time it just went in one ear and out the other. I could barely pay attention to the music or lyrics - it was boring. It's also become quite hard to tell many of her recent works apart, sonically and lyrically.

What they've done is reinvent National Insurance numbers but with extra steps, haven't they 😂

It's astounding how, just as Nigel Farage was getting bad media about paracetamol, the Government distracts from it with a debate about pointless ID cards. It's as if Labour wants Reform to win the next election.

Graduating before AI took off feels like winning the jackpot. www.newstatesman.com/business/wor...

The polarisation of immigration goes both ways. The Lib Dems want to stop the boats because seeing people dying in the channel is barbaric. They also want to clear the backlog because asylum seekers being in limbo, living for months in hotels, is horrible. The difference is what their solution is!

It took 48 hours but I managed to get from Hampshire, UK to Rome, Italy entirely by train 🚂 I'm exhausted but it was such a fun adventure.

Nigel Farage and the Reform Party’s Taliban Tax means sending hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money to an oppressive regime that British soldiers fought and died to defeat.

Potentially putting Afghan asylum seekers who worked with the British armed forces into concentration camps and then paying the Taliban to accept them back Afghanistan so that they can execute them should be a greater cause for alarm than it appears to be.

I was never on the Pete train and I'm glad about that.

Netanyahu’s plan to occupy Gaza is abhorrent and it's increasingly clear that his goal is ethnic cleansing. The UK can't just sit on its hands. The Prime Minister must stop all arms exports to Israel and sanction Netanyahu and his cabinet.

The anti-LGBTQ+ lobby won't be happy until full gender segregation has been passed into law. I wonder if they have thoughts about the human rights situation in Afghanistan right now?

The pharmaceutical industry is on its knees right now, with revenue down across the board and R&D spending cuts coming through. Many British jobs are affected. The UK Government needs to step up where the US is walking away, and secure British jobs and growth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I saw a Dolly Parton news piece on the TV in the office lobby and nearly had a heart attack. Why did they make it look like she had died 😭😭

Rip :(

I have thought on it and prayed about it, and I have decided: I am running to be the next U.S. Senator from North Carolina.

Local Plan documents in the UK should specify major thoroughfare routes to stop developers making every development a gigantic cul-de-sac. This would enable public transport access to new areas.

Ok Keir Starmer, let’s see the RAF leading the way.

President Emmanuel Macron announces France will officially recognize Palestine as a state.

Beautiful writeup www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Generating electricity from solar or wind is now much cheaper than gas. But people aren’t seeing the benefit of cheap renewable power, because electricity prices are still tied to the price of gas. Our plan would halve bills and save families £870 a year on average. www.libdems.org.uk/energy

Until 2000, the Armed Forces had a ban on LGBT personnel, who could be discharged or face criminal prosecution. Jess Brown-Fuller has won action from the Government to speed up compensation for LGBT veterans who lost their jobs and were stripped of their pensions.

I always knew the vibes were off on MasterChef. Could never get into it.

State capacity has been reduced to such an extent that significant parts of our public services are now provided by private providers who have councils and government over a barrel - profiting from the disadvantaged and our taxes. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

These scenes are sickening www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Only the Lib Dems are capable of beating Reform

Personally I don't think that it's credible to claim that the Prime Minister and his advisor/chief of staff are not responsible for policy. It also feels insanely sexist that this government is blaming every unpopular decision that it makes on its front bench women.

I really, really dislike how much of the hate is directed at Reeves when clearly the problem is Starmer. Her job is to balance the books. His is to set the constraints in which she must balance them. It's not her fault he can't do it. And it feels very, very gendered.

Tories are so nasty, man

1. Oppositions don't win elections, Governments lose them. 2. Government requires a degree of long term planning that goes beyond the next set of elections

The first Sainsburys shop after a holiday is such a traumatic experience. It's such a physical manifestation that life is back to normal.

Sheffield has better beer than London.

I'd quite like to keep having cheap flights if I don't need bags :(