Sent in by a Birmingham supporter… “my 13 year old son is autistic and not a big fan of football he agreed to come the blues with me on Saturday (his first football match). It was the best day of my life.” Love this… 💙👏#KRO #BCFC pic.twitter.com/EeX4zLeFs1

Once again proving every criticism that the Labour Right had against the Labour Left was correct while the reverse is also being proved by the Labour Right in government

Very proud to have helped Philip Mills become a councillor in Moseley alongside the amazing @izzyknowles.bsky.social! They’ll make a great team I’m sure.

Camberley West (Surrey) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 49.5% (+16.6) ➡️ RFM: 25.9% (New) 🌳 CON: 20.4% (-28.8) 🌹 LAB: 4.3% (-11.4) No WPB (-2.3) as previous. Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative. Changes w/ 2021.

Guildford South East (Surrey) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 41.3% (+18.0) 🌳 CON: 22.8% (-8.1) 🏘️ RGV: 16.3% (-21.4) ➡️ RFM: 12.0% (New) 🌍 GRN: 5.0% (New) 🌹 LAB: 2.6% (-5.6) Liberal Democrat GAIN from Localist. Changes w/ 2021.

Camberley West-Surrey LD GAIN from Con LD (Alan Ashbery): 1,617 (49.5%, +16.6%) RFM: 845 (25.9%, New) Con: 666 (20.4%, -28.8%) LAB: 140 (4.3%, -11.4%) Well done to Cllr Alan Ashbery and the Liberal Democrat team!

Guildford South East-Surrey LD GAIN from RGV LD (Catherine Houston): 1,426 (41.3%, +18.0%) Con: 788 (22.8%, -8.1%) RGV: 565 (16.3%, -21.4%) RFM: 416 (12.0%, New) GRN: 172 (5.0%, New) LAB: 89 (2.6%, -5.6%) Well done to Cllr Catherine Houston and the Liberal Democrat team!

Staines-Spelthorne LD GAIN from GRN LD (Laura Barker): 804 (38.0%, New) RFM: 499 (23.6%, +21.6%) IND: 261 (12.3%, New) Con: 231 (10.9%, -21.9%) GRN: 163 (7.7%, -36.3%) LAB: 158 (7.5%, New) Well done to Cllr Laura Barker and the Liberal Democrat team!

Staines (Spelthorne) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 37.9% (New) ➡️ RFM: 23.5% (New) 🙋 Ind: 12.3% (New) 🌳 CON: 10.9% (-4.7) 🌍 GRN: 7.7% (-27.8) 🌹 LAB: 7.4% (-17.1) 🧑‍🔧 TUSC: 0.4% (New) No Ind (-27.4) as previous. Liberal Democrat GAIN from Green. Changes w/ 2023.

Ashton (Preston) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 37.3% (+15.8) ➡️ RFM: 25.9% (New) 🌹 LAB: 24.3% (-34.6) 🙋 Ind: 5.7% (New) 🌳 CON: 3.5% (-16.3) 🙋 Ind: 3.4% (New) Liberal Democrat GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2024.

Ashton-Preston LD GAIN from LAB LD (Ronan Hodgson): 659 (35.5%, +14.0%) RFM: 548 (29.5%, New) LAB: 429 (23.1%, -35.7%) IND: 101 (5.4%, New) Con: 61 (3.3%, -16.4%) IND: 60 (3.2%, New) Well done to Cllr Ronan Hodgson and the Liberal Democrat team!

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

UK's Labour Party abandoned transgender people. The gambit to pursue rightwing voters by abandoning a targeted minority failed, and now they're facing the prospect of a historic loss. US Dems could learn a lot from their failure. Great piece from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Interesting that every time we discuss women's rights at Lib Dem Conference the group that claims to care so deeply about "the rights of women and girls" is completely and utterly absent.

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

“ He’s MLK……But don’t quote him.” The truly bizarre people who are so desperate for heroes, so impoverished of leaders with integrity and goodness, so without boundaries that they are continuously manufacturing fantasies of their own nobility…..It would be just pitiable if it wasn’t so dangerous.

WOOHOOOOOOO!!!! 😁🥳

The baffling thing about Starmer's Labour Party is it didn't have to be like this. A bulletproof majority, guaranteed power for five years - and they chase Linehan and Farage. They could have actually done some good.

Reform UK, the right leaning think tank Policy Exchange, and some Labour grandees, are all pushing for us to either leave the ECHR, or disapply parts of it temporarily or permanently. This puts me, you and everyone at risk, not just those seeking sanctuary.

I was and still am absolutely furious about this. Conservatives are all about short term gain for long term pain and shouldn’t ever be trusted with power in any society that wants to improve and make progress.

Solihull residents need answers and a plan to deal with the problems the council faces.

Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.

Had a great day helping St Margaret’s Church’s gardening team! Great family fun day tomorrow in Olton so please come along!

Just this week, another person died in ICE detention in FL. A 75-year-old man, gone. This is why we took the Justice Journey from North Carolina to Louisiana and beyond to lift up the voices of those trapped, silenced, and targeted.

The Supreme Court promised that its decision "would not be disadvantageous to or remove protection from trans people" so we are surprised and disappointed that the Westminster Parliament has surrendered to hate. goodlaw.social/qduz

ConLab Authoritarians defeated in court! Great work Liberty!

Hatred against trans people has been pursued by rich awful people using institutional capture. Nothing about anti trans hatred is normal or natural. The conservatives and labour should be electorally smashed to smithereens for this harm and betrayal.

The utter ignorance and lack of understanding of people is why Lib Dems need to replace Labour in years to come. If any of these people actually spoke to residents suffering with the two child cap, they would understand why it should be removed!

I feel this very strongly

Obligatory driving is making Canadians unhappy too. Unhappy about the cost and stress. Unhappy about the time wasted. Unhappy about cooking our only planet. Unhappy about being so much like that place with the orange guy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024... #elbowsup #cdnpoli

By betraying his voters so comprehensively and so soon, Keir Starmer has done us a favour. He has given us 4 years to design the government we want. In this week's column I explain how it can be done. There's massive potential, but we need to start now. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This kind of post does nothing to help fight Reform and only intstills a superiority complex among non reform voters that Reform can use to show that they are against the “intellectual elites”. Fight Reform on policy not by insulting their voters.

Ginny cares for her husband Tim, who has myotonic dystrophy. She works part-time, on top of caring for him every day. Now, under the Government’s PIP changes, they face losing £12,000 a year. Today I asked the Prime Minister: what does he expect carers like Ginny to do?

Wealthy Britons avoiding more tax than thought, spending watchdog says

Eight spices? Oh, some must be doubles. "Oregano"? What the hell?

Today I challenged the Home Secretary to issue an impact assessment setting out what the consequences will be of stopping overseas care worker visas this year. The Home Secretary avoided the question. The government must consider the impacts on the sick, the frail and the elderly.

4. So why is rainforest on high Dartmoor confined to a few tiny pockets, of which this fragment is the largest? Sheep. Sheep selectively browse out tree seedlings, which are highly nutritious. So when the old trees die, there’s nothing to replace them. You can see the results inside Piles Copse.

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Massive well done to Ed Davey for beating both Conservatives and Labour and showing that there is a much better way of governing that the two main parties have completely failed to do. We must reverse disparities with strong regulations on people with a lot of power and money.

Good morning Warwickshire!

Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.

Inefficient land use: 40% of UK arable land grows feed for livestock. Does a shift towards plant-based food offer a better way to use land? asks @jennyrhodes42.bsky.social Time to speak up via public consultation - read on. #PlantBasedDiets #SustainableFood

Resist! 🏳️‍⚧️✊️

Horrendous that LGBT rights are being taken away in the UK in 2025. Trans rights are human rights and taking away rights from any minority makes it easier for them to take rights away from everyone and force everyone to conform to stereotypes. Please reach out and let me know if I can help.

The UK Supreme Court can rule whatever it likes about whether trans women are legally women or not. The law will eventually change and equality will prevail. Fuck this government and its alignment with such hate.

Important for Dems to not only pull out all the stops to bring Garcia home but keep his story front and center. This is much more than abt immigration now - this is abt the basic foundations of our Constitution. Our country's founding fathers fought a revolution & declared independence over this.

Much needed catharsis

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

when they go low, we go Jasmine Crockett @repjasmine.bsky.social 🔥

ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.