Vijay - /ʋɪd͡ʒjeɪ/

Switch in Prodigy for Lower Decks & I gotta agree.

It also covers two-thirds of all nursing home stays.

Ronald De'Souza: Final member of Stockwell Six cleared nearly 50 years after being framed by corrupt officer Ronald De'Souza has been cleared on the same day Errol Campbell had his conviction cleared in a separate case - with both men having been investigated by the same corrupt police officer.

One of several issues I have with the “bring back hanging” brigade

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16 and 17-year-olds to be able to vote in next general election - live updates Lowering the voting age across the UK means around 1.5 million 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to vote at the next general election.

I was calling for votes at 16 in Parliament only yesterday! The @libdems.org.uk have campaigned for this change for years - warmly welcome this decision.
bbc.in/46PycaD

Transitioning to eVisas: What You Need to Know - Citizens’ Rights Project The UK Home Office is replacing all physical documents with a new digital system known as the eVisa. This change affects both migrants already living in the UK and new visa applicants.

You can no longer use your Biometric Residence Card to enter the UK - these physical documents have been replaced by a digital eVisa.

If you need help understanding how it works, Citizens Rights Project offers free support:

🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/eVisa-transi...

BBC won't even mention it next time they're on.

Hey everyone - particularly Southampton & Solent transit/urbanism people - I've got a project I've been working on. Thought I'd finally announce it here!

SoConnect Getting Southampton Connected

Finally feel confident to announce: SoConnect.
A new community forum for the people of Southampton to discuss what matters—local transit, public spaces, and urban development. Your voice is welcome.
Sign up and start a discussion now.
#Soton #Forum #transit #urbanism
soconnect.org.uk

Watch @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk call out the BBC for their failure to hold Nigel Farage to account.

If the only way you'll ever hear someone call out Nigel Farage's destructive, divisive politics on the BBC is for me to do it, then so be it.

YouTube video by Words Unravelled with RobWords and Jess Zafarris Exposing grammar myths and mistakes with Grammar Girl

Is “funnest” wrong? Why does “cheese and macaroni” sound cursed? Is “drive slow” bad grammar?

@robwords.bsky.social and I grilled @grammargirl.bsky.social on common grammar gripes, from flat adverbs to the Oxford comma.

New Words Unravelled episode out now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C9n...

Hey, everyone, hopefully you don't have to hear me say this if you follow me, but NO. We don't have to Fridge women & specially not minority women to propel a male lead. And not just because it's a hackneyed old trope. But that reason should be enough for you before we get to the other problems.

Keir Starmer to remove Labour whip from at least four ‘persistent rebel’ MPs Rachael Maskell, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman and Chris Hinchliff to be pushed out as PM takes action

The erectile dysfunction is turning up the volume www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Guy can't even throw a proper tantrum. Johnson managed to destroy a whole wing of his party - what, exactly, is expelling 4 MPs even going to do? Seems more personal than political with only 4

Hallelujah. Better late than never.

Reform UK sheds another councillor: Sam Booth Sam Booth (Bentley ward, Doncaster Council) was elected as a Reform councillor in May but has now resigned.

Reform UK sheds another councillor: Sam Booth

Andrew Marr writes of the state of British politics that, "beyond Westminster, a far bigger story continues to grow". Yet I was surprised to see that his account of that story leaves out the party that finished second in both of the last two rounds of council elections, that has control of more councils than either Reform or the Conservatives, and is the only party that consistently goes head-to-head with Reform in council by-elections and beats it. And in Westminster too, it is the party with 18 MPs for every 1 MP that Reform has. Perhaps next time, his picture of British politics should include the Liberal Democrats?

A letter to the New Statesman.

The BBC are constantly bending over backwards to please Reform.

I fear they're becoming a mouthpiece for Nigel Farage, a guy who wants to destroy them.

10-25c is the perfect temperature range and anything outside of it is terrible

Does anyone who follows me subscribe to the hard copy of the New Yorker? And do you have this edition and would you sell it to me? 🙏🏼

Perhaps we should be admiring the Labour government for its pace and productivity at getting to a point in just a year that governments usually sluggishly take a decade to reach.

It's a misread of public opinion to see opposition to Israel as a woke metro elite thing (though progressives care about it a lot more).

In a recent YG poll just 12% thought Israel's actions in Gaza were justified.

this feels like people are erroneously assuming that things that are broadly true of US politics must also apply to Britain - the same heuristic that sometimes misleads politicians into assuming there must be votes in sucking up to Trump

One of the many reasons I could never get into Ted Lasso was that if you spend any time following non-League the real material is just so much weirder. We all live in a Streatham Rovers world.

Oh, yeah - totally agreed. I'd say it's bizarre, but all the rational Tories & any with a coherent ideology (even if you disagreed), were kicked out. There's no intellectual backing for modern Toryism. All that's left is purity tests - ironically a lot like the far left.

Quite. But they're not going to form a government without the "Blue Wall" seats, so you'd think they wouldn't want to entirely replace those new Lib Dem voters by going even harder for Reform votes.

The Tories seem to have forgotten they lost about 60 seats to the Lib Dems that they probably can't return to government without.

The post-Tory Conservative Party increasingly resembles the Marxist-Leninist pseudo-revolutionary groupuscules that spent most of their time expelling the ideologically impure and fighting each other in the 1990s Berlin and London scenes

'updates made in January to the UK Home Office’s guidance, which now deems regions such as Kyiv and western Ukraine to be “generally safe”.'

Ten people have been killed by bombing in Kyiv this week alone. 28 last week.

Abolish the Home Office.

MPs to vote on foreign ownership of newspapers after Lib Dem rebellion Commons handed chance to veto law change amid concerns about planned Telegraph takeover

A reminder: the government is wanting to keep secret who took part in the consultation on this legislation -

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...