Make the apology always front page however trivial. That’d concentrate minds.

Rejoin is coming: Talk of the customs union and single market is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future iandunt.substack.com/p/rejoin-is-...

Robert Fico, the corrupt pro-Kremlin Prime Minister of Slovakia, is clearly worried by Orban's fall in Hungary. He's trying to rig the electoral system in his favour, but many people in Slovakia aren't happy about this. Things may be about to get interesting. apnews.com/article/slov...

Vic (62), endorsed by Trump, JD Vance and Farage is fresh from running a mid‑sized Central European country and now wants to bring his unique brand of corruption to your local ward. He's a perfect fit for Farage's future Britain. Vote Reform get this...

The news we've waiting to hear🍾🇭🇺🇪🇺 Viktor Orban has conceded defeat, and Peter Magyar will be Hungary's next Prime Minister. A great day Hungary and all European democrats! A terrible day for Putin, Trump, Le Pen, Farage, and corrupt autocrats everywhere! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

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.

Hungary, welcome back 🇭🇺🇪🇺 This is a turning point for Europe. The times of autocratic backsliding must be over. We look to a brighter and united future. Defending rule of law, freedom and democracy. Tonight, we celebrate in the streets of Budapest.

This was an ideological victory. Péter Magyar is no liberal, but he is pro-European. Voters utterly rejected Orban's relentless campaign of hatred against Ukraine and Brussels.

This is appalling. How on earth can the trip planned by King Charles possibly go ahead after this?

#NoKings ✊🏾 #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory

"It's not fair of environmentalists to point out that in addition to being finite resources that are actively destroying the planet, fossil fuels also leave us at the mercy of fragile supply and logistics chains significantly controlled by autocrats in geopolitically chaotic parts of the world."

Excellent piece by Ian Dunt on voting systems. Arguably a good voting system would elect not the most popular candidate, but the least unpopular one - i.e. the candidate that most voters are content with. Ranked choice voting can do that, and if implemented as STV can give decent proportionality too

We've won the UK's first ever SLAPP suit - acting for @danneidle.bsky.social - and made some really important law protecting the right to call out barristers whose misconduct facilitates aggressive tax avoidance.

Please everyone, follow the Young European Movement at @yem1.bsky.social The young people are our future! #RejoinEU #YoungPeople

Tim Shipman accused me the other day of not knowing how to “political journalism works”. Well, the modus operandi is clear for all to see. Unattributed briefings to channel, without responsibility, whatever undeclared agenda a source or political journalist wants to pursue

Never underestimate the eagerness of our press to abase and disgrace themselves for foreign billionaires

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: "Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

Worth a signature

Starmer needs to get on the phone to Trump and ask him to set out a plan to protect civilians and support a democratic transition in Iran. We've seen before that bombs don't bring about democracy and regime change without a plan just leads to more chaos and suffering.

🧵Reform's Matt Goodwin has said he is “not part of the establishment”, and criticised the “elite class”. But we found that his definition of “the elite” excludes the bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him /1 bylinetimes.com/2026/02/25/r...

They always try to give the impression that these "health and safety" protections have been dreamt up on the hoof, when in fact they have been hard fought for and every consideration will have been as given to how those protections will impact capital. Ironically removing protections will cost more

Well worth reading this thread about why Reform/Tories/Restore constantly harping on about how equality legislation has destroyed meritocracy is deceitful nonsense

Or maybe you and your party should be fully supporting electoral reform, so that we no longer get governments elected on under 50% support, with huge majorities under the FPTP voting system. Labour got a huge majority on under 34%. Reform or another could gain a majority on just 25/30% 🤷‍♂️

Anyway I'll be writing to Reform later to demand that they let me speak at their conference on the main stage. If they refuse me they'll be showing themselves to be enemies of free speech

Alternatively… here’s the direct link: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership-ab

Presumably the Daily Telegraph and GB News will go big on this story?* Deeply embarrassing: Michael Prescott himself doctored a Trump quote in his anti-BBC report against...doctoring a Trump quote. *waits until end of time www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

In the UK, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's friendship with Epstein has led to total disgrace. He's been stripped of his titles, reduced to the status of a pariah. Nobody is defending him. He's a TOTAL disgrace. In America, Jeffrey Epstein's close mate, Donald Trump, remains the president. Insane.

Oh will you look at that - men in respectable clothing turn out to be arseholes. Who'd have guessed? Never trust a man in a suit and tie. That's my motto and it's a good one. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Amazing

Not trying to be divisive but if your profile mentions a star sign then I'll not be following you back

It's that time of year when National Trust members have the opportunity to stop the reactionary Tufton St mob from gaining influence.

Exactly what's happening on the BBC. They report on some outrageous news story involving Reform which gives them more publicity, so they rise in the polls, so the BBC justifies amplifying them further. BBC doesn't seem to realise they're promoting a far-right org that will defund them if voted in.

Every single attempt to optimize away the understanding part of writing code will introduce bugs that end up taking 10 times longer to find and fix. The finding part requires first understanding what the code is supposed to be doing, and identifying that it is not doing that.

The hypocrisy of Reform going on TV to allege that certain groups are constantly over represented on TV is truly epic.

How thoroughly unpleasant … how does she think non white British born families felt for decades being invisible on TV. Our diversity is our strength

Don't overthink it, Guardian. Having been born to believe he was a member of their ridiculous god's chosen family, of course he would take whatever he wanted from wherever he could. Time to abolish the scrounging royalty and put an end to this pox on the nation. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Superb piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social mag: "Britain's Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism - Why?" This article alone was worth my annual sub to one of the very few news outlets still doing proper journalism

A good example of why the press should be forced to give corrections equal prominence to the original article, not hide them away on a page nobody will see

I really don't care for any sort of religion. That's what I decided when I was 5, and 55 years later I can't see any reason to revise that view. Why do people believe the peculiar myths - please enlighten me

Suggest you jump in on this poll. —> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...? And share…

Kemi Badenoch has chosen the side of Vladimir Putin and Nigel Farage with her plan to leave the European Convention on Human Rights. The ECHR is a proud British creation, championed by Churchill, that protects everyone's rights and freedoms.

Clearly it's high time that there were stringent limits on political donations. No corporate donations should be allowed at all. Individual donations should be capped annually - at an amount that the everyday citizen could feasibly afford. Jail for anyone caught gaming the system

Want to know more about the history of the Lib Dems? Here's a short history of the party and its predecessors

Don't forget why there's a by-election next week in #Corby. It's due to their Councillor Robert Bloom's resignation following the news that he shouted the ‘n’ word repeatedly at a black family who live close by to him. www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...

I'm glad Keir Starmer is finally stepping up the fight against Nigel Farage, and I hope this will mark the end of his government parroting Farage and copying his divisive politics.

If your party welcomes the woman who tweeted 'set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards' as a star conference speaker, maybe don't accuse other politicians of 'inciting violence'

Good gracious me. Donald Trump just told his military leaders that 'no more fat soldiers or fat generals' would be allowed to stay in post. Does the same rule apply to Presidents?

“We aren’t racists”, cry the party who not only invited Lucy Connolly, convicted for inciting racially motivated violence, to its conference, but interviewed her on stage, chat show style, as if she was the most heroic freedom fighter the world has ever seen. Sod off, racists.