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Dr Al Pinkerton MP @alpinkerton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The PM says he wants a cross-party coalition on Europe. Excellent. We’ve done the work. Single Market. Customs union. Defence cooperation. I set out the roadmap at Lib Dem conference. A little late to the party, Prime Minister, but you’re very welcome. Here’s my speech: youtu.be/__cQ0AAx-P8?...

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Al Pinkerton Keynote Speech | Autumn Conference 2026

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Tom Gordon MP @tomgordonld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I listened to Ed Davey on the Today programme this morning, and frankly, I think he missed the point. The idea that we're keeping the triple lock to help millennials is at best for the birds, and at worst downright insulting. I say that as a millennial.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah yes there are those ‘valid concern about biological sex based rights’!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It really sets in stark relief the asymmetry of coverage of the "debate" over trans and women's rights across our media. On the GC side court losses are reported as wins, racism is glossed over and hate is endlessly sane-washed. Meanwhile successes on the pro-trans side are met with silence or lies.

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Stephen Harte @sjharte.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is a special place in hell for those who try to claim that they are a victim of some sort of oppression to deflect being held accountable for their own behaviour.

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Prue Bray @pruebray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I guess Reform must be thinking if we scrap the state pension, there will be a lot fewer old people and they will have solved the social care crisis?

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It cannot be overstated how essential the mainstreaming of anti-trans sentiment has been to the rise of the far right. The acceptance of hounding trans people in the media laid a path for everything else. There is no answer to the rise of the far right which does not include combatting transphobia.

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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ed Davey stands with trans rights by backing our motion at Lib Dem conference!

Ed Davey stands with trans rights
Reporter: You want the conference motion [Restoring Trans Rights] to pass?
Ed Davey: I do - I'll be voting for it if I'm in the hall!

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Emily @suika.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A new report from Utrecht University and the Trimbos Institute shows a sharp decline in positive attitudes towards homosexuality among children in the Netherlands, aged 12 to 16. Only 36.5%, down from 59.1% in 2021, have positive attitudes towards it. Among girls, 51.3%. Among boys, a mere 22.3%.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It would be useful if the BBC article explained how this is essentially what the US and Greenland/Denmark already have!

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Susan Murray MP @mpsusanmurray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Labour has got it wrong on whisky. Scottish producers like @portofleithdistillery have invested millions to achieve the single malt label. The Labour Government are set to undermine that by allowing English producers to obtain the same label under a different set of rules.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On Labour planning to introduce tougher residency requirements in response to Reform's £72m donations, Lib Dem spokesperson Lisa Smart MP said it's "not good enough" and calls for an overall cap. "We can't keep playing whack-a-mole with each new attempt by Farage to sell out our democracy."

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 14/09/2026

WATCH: @alisonebennett.bsky.social call out Lee Anderson on Reform’s compliance chaos. “What’s a bit rich, Lee, is your Reform team are all over the place - that’s why the Met are investigating you.”

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Amanda Jeyaretnam (she/her) @liberalisms.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ed Davey on Farage “Reform want to turn Britain into Trump’s America. […] We cannot allow that to happen” #NeverTrump #Resist #Pinks

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Scottish Liberal Democrats @scotlibdems.org.uk · 14/09/2026

The struggle to access healthcare has become a universal experience for people across Scotland. We would increase capacity across our NHS, resolve staffing issues with a rolling 10-year NHS Workforce Plan, and increase the efficiency of IT systems to help cut waits.

STV News.

Scots left feeling ‘helpless’ as 17% of calls to NHS 24 abandoned with no answer.

A caller looking for help waited three hours 39 minutes for a response in October 2025, with another caller waiting three hours and 25 minutes.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"It's trauma and shock - he saw a cyclist stop at a zebra crossing" From the latest Private Eye, out now.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You can't even see Putin's lips moving

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

1/ Russia's police will be used to detain men en masse and force them to sign military contracts, according to a Russian source. It's claimed that rather than carrying out a 'traditional' mobilisation, the same effect will be achieved by exploiting pretexts to force men to join the army. ⬇️

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Stephen Harte @sjharte.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How must it be to have it confirmed that you can’t trust a large chunk of your neighbours?

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 03/09/2026

Farage has always behaved as though the rules apply to everyone but him. These allegations against Reform look like the latest example. Lib Dem Cabinet Office spokesperson @lisasmartmp.bsky.social has written to the police and the electoral commission asking them to investigate.

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Scottish Liberal Democrats @scotlibdems.org.uk · 03/09/2026

Sewage was dumped 100,041 times in 2025. It's horrific to find out that sewage dumping is four times as high as we thought it was last year. Yet even that number is likely an underestimate of the true scale of the problem, as Scotland is way behind England on monitoring.

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blairanderson35.bsky.social @blairanderson35.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Conversion therapy is alive and well in the UK. Every day that the UK and Scottish Governments fail to ban this evil practice is another day that queer people’s lives are ruined.

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

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Sheila Ritchie @europesheila.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Please could you all repost this…

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In 2025 trade unions gave £4.9 million to Labour. Individual donors gave £16 million to Reform & £9 million to the Tories. In total Labour raised £10 mill, Reform £19 mill & the Tories £21 mill. If the *unions* are blocking a donor cap, they've lost their minds www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Andy Burnham has dropped his support for capping political donations, causing anger among activists and Labour MPs who have long campaigned for change to the way parties are funded.

The prime minister has decided not to back amendments to the elections bill, which would cap the amount a person or an organisation can give in a single donation, according to government sources.

The decision comes after a lobbying campaign from Labour’s trade union backers, who said amendments to the bill, which returns to parliament for its remaining stages next week, could undermine their ability to donate to the party. It is also a retreat from the support Burnham gave to the idea just a few weeks ago, when he emailed a campaigner for electoral reform to say he would support a donations cap of £500,000.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think of Superman not as a power fantasy, but as a fantasy of the powerful as really good people. I kind of feel that way about Dolly Parton, too.

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton on trans rights. God I loved her.

When looking at the issue of anti-trans legislation, Parton said that “I try to get into the human element of it.” Pointing out that she has people in her life who identify as queer and trans, the 77-year-old star said it was important to hear what they’re saying.

“I know and love them all, and I do not judge. And I just see how broken-hearted they get over certain things and I know how real they are,” she said. “I know how important this is to them. That’s who they are. They cannot help that any more than I can help being Dolly Parton, you know, the way people know me. If there’s something to be judged, that is God’s business. But we are all God’s children and how we are is who we are.”

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(spo)okie 🎃 @okie.gay · 25/08/2026

Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 25/08/2026

Mostly, when someone dies, I like the Jewish phrase "May her memory be a blessing". But the uncertainty seems wrong for Dolly. Her memory is, without doubt or question, a blessing unto us all.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Timeline literally 100% united, many not even having to say her name. What a brilliant way to live your life. RIP

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Stephen Harte @sjharte.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Made some chutney with the small plum harvest from the garden.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A bit of context for non-Canadians: he's deliberately adapting a long-standing Quebec nationalist slogan ("maitres chez nous") to apply to all of Canada 🇨🇦

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Stephen Harte @sjharte.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We get a small but decent crop of apples each year form a small tree in the garden (depending on if we pick them on time before pests gets them and they start to rot) maybe a dozen or so fruit.

A bowl full of a dozen or so conference pears harvested from a garden pear tree

About 16 small plums harvested for a. Small garden plum tree

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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

much as the murder of Brianna Ghey mysteriously stopped being about the climate of transphobia in the UK and became about teen access to social media, the death of Jason Arday is, equally mysteriously, no longer about racism and is becoming about free speech in academia

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Columnist Class hounding a Black academic for fun, over claims in his memoir that rudimentary research show to be true, doubling down because they've got a good anti "woke" narrative going now & falling over each other to defend the sweaty little white supremacist whose racist blog kicked it off

Palin in Death of Stalin, saying 'Rod Liddle would be loving this' instead of 'Stalin would be loving this'

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

💥 Israel is dropping bombs on civilian areas in Taybeh, South Lebanon—despite a so-called “ceasefire.” No justification. No military targets. Just terrorism, destruction and war crimes in broad daylight. 8/22/26 @sarahabdallah.bsky.social

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 22/08/2026

The media class is coming for ADHD and autism because they think they're successfully delivered fully on kicking trans people back into the closet. So they're coming for the next scare story about young people they can sell to older folk whilst punching people they don't think can fight back.

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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 22/08/2026

Rowling did not make a statement. She replied to a trans woman in the comments section on Twitter. Rowling did not say anything supportive, she basically said “you were so mentally ill that the only way to cure you was surgery and hormones.” She notably did not say the woman in question is a woman

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James Heale @jaheale.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A proper Liberal/Lib Dem too. How many other parties can boast a Bond girl on the campaign trail?

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The banality of media evil

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