Got to love Ed Davey

this is a great piece, and i'm not just saying that because i'm quoted in it

This government would ban George from the Famous Five.

🚨 NEW from @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social Britain backs Binface 🚨 When asked who they would prefer win the Clacton by-election... 33% say Count Binface 21% say Nigel Farage 32% say neither 13% are undecided

The Chancellor has the power to stop Farage's cynical ploy. I've written to her this morning urging her to act. Farage should not be allowed to resign until the investigation into his dodgy dealings has concluded. The people of Clacton deserve the facts first.

Labour there, increasing the hold of the privately educated on British theatre and cinema.

So, a joke MP with 5 houses bought for cash, links to criminality and a £5Mill ‘gift’ in his bank… is so enraged at being held to account… that he resigns from the MP role he never did anyway…and demands a “people v the establishment” by-election to vote him back in. What an insufferable wanker.

It might happen!

That Farage statement in full

data visualization is my passion.

Fascinating archive piece from when computers were "only 22 years old", but just as relevant to how they work now they're 82. It shows how far things have come in the last 60 years without any really fundamental changes!

Saw this ad for a goat on Facebook. It’s perhaps the greatest advert I’ve ever read. It’s just superb.

RENEWABLES: They're still wildly popular with the British public, not that you'd realise from news coverage * Only 4% are opposed Even for wind/solar farms in your local area, opposition is very low * 74/68% would either be happy to have a local solar/wind farm, or don't care

I genuinely do not understand why vocational pathways are for working-class youths rather than for youths as a whole. Just as universities are meant to be available for higher education learners, not for middle-class learners or the posherati.

Unpopular opinion: Manchester is the least "Northern" city or town in the UK.

Ed Davey calls to rejoin the EU Single Market to grow our economy And explains why Free Movement of People benefits Britons Starmer could have done the same, instead he adopted his island of strangers nonsense along with his growth-stunting red lines

Microsoft has quietly extended its free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for consumers by an additional year, allowing enrolled devices to continue receiving security updates until October 12, 2027.

Today I wrote to the Government demanding a rethink on remoteness funding, co-signed by leaders of six councils and all Devon Lib Dem MPs. This is an opportunity for this Government to do something positive for rural communities, whilst they still can. #Devon #RuralLife #MP

The South West can be at the heart of the clean energy revolution. Clean, home-grown power would mean skilled jobs and an industry our future generations could build a life around. That is the future I want for us, and I will keep fighting to bring those jobs and that investment here.

I struggle to understand the fascination with mainstream economists' (broadly accurate) Brexit forecasts... ... the leave forecasts on the other hand www.ft.com/content/f99c...

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

The chamber erupts in comotion after Ed Davey scolds Kemi Badenoch for her nonchalant attacks on Keir Starmer, "It's an important reminder that while we debate issues robustly in this house that we are all human"

Ed Davey urges the Government to drop its red lines on Europe.

Ed Davey did not need to remind Badenoch of the need for simple decency and compassion in politics, there was certainly no benefit in it for the Lib Dems, but he did it because he is a gentleman. Badenoch's comments were deeply unnecessary and classless.

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

Tell me that you learn nothing from experience without telling me that you learn nothing from experience.

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey has unveiled a billboard campaign across the UK to mark the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum today. The billboards call out Reform leader Nigel Farage’s £5 million "reward for campaigning for Brexit, whilst people across the country feel the pinch."

Liberal England: A journey along the Welsh Border in 1963

10 years on, the very same politicians who caused the Brexit mess say nobody can dare try to fix it. We say enough. It's time for a bold new deal with Europe to make Britain safer, richer and stronger. Watch our new film here ⬇️ youtu.be/ihdhBLT6YYM

On Wednesday, Parliament will vote on the UK's 7th Carbon Budget, aligned with the scientific advice from the Climate Change Committee. Kemi Badenoch will lead her party in voting against it. The temperature in London on Wednesday:

This would be a disaster. Fixing our relationship with Europe is far too urgent to be postponed by Labour's leadership chaos.

Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.

The British people are sick of being let down by an endless merry-go-round of Prime Ministers while nothing really changes. This time must be different. It can’t just be about changing who’s in Number 10, it has to be about changing our broken politics so we can fix our country.

Pure logic and facts. This will be far too much for the bungalows and fossil fuel sponsored RefUKs and Tories to understand (which is kind of the problem).

God i LOVE experts. This is GLORIOUS.

New blog post: Two Way TV - product photos of 1997's hottest gadget https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/06/two-way-tv-product-photos-of-1997s-hottest-gadget/ Back in the late 1990s, I did a brief stint of work experience at the BBC. One of the most memorable moments was sitting in on a meeting about …

Americans – whether leftist, liberal, MAGA or anything else – really, profoundly do not understand how they are looked upon by the rest of the world. No nation is looking over and thinking "I want me some of that".

Don’t just share this on here. Stick this on your family WhatsApp group. Send it to your Brexit uncle. Print it out and give it to that neighbour. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....

What a waste. Just what a waste.

Outgoing Senator Bill Cassidy (R) used to support Trump. Now calls Iran agreement "worst foreign policy blunder in decades." #leopardsatemyface #Politics #News

If you can’t spot the sucker at a Versailles settlement, you are the sucker. Humiliating peace, large cash payments….

Keir Starmer says scrapping the 2 child benefit cap is his proudest moment as PM Starmer could have scrapped the cap on day one of becoming PM. Instead he suspended 7 Labour MPs for voting to scrap it & the govt had to be dragged kicking & screaming to do it over 20 months later

It really is bleak where Cadbury's, a deeply ethical company with a beautiful history, has ended up. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lib Dems to urge Labour to drop ‘torpor and timidity’ on EU and rejoin single market

Opinion: The medium-term horizon for UK-EU relations contains only two destinations. The first is something not so different from today, with marginally more alignment and integration. The second is rejoining the EU. ft.trib.al/eEfxjxr

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

If I'd been banned from the online spaces I used to socialise as a teenager, my life would have been radically and immeasurably worse. Banning social media is a pathetic alternative to regulating it. Tech companies collecting yet more private data to 'enforce' a ban will be fucking disastrous.

I'm old enough to remember when Nigel Farage would hold a press conference at the drop of a hat. So why is he now launching his divisive policies in a blog post from the safety of his keyboard? I can think of 5 million reasons why…

What’s most interesting (sorry to be a broken record) about the demonisation of “soccer” — a word used without controversy in Britain and Ireland up to the late 1980s — is how people old enough to remember seem *genuinely* to have forgotten that this was the case.