Declan Merrington

Quite right!

Your Party: they’ve voted to be at the bottom of every ballot - and I suspect the bottom of every poll, also

Darren Grimes being a Cllr where Luke Akehurst is an MP is some very funny stuff

#doctorwho thought that episode was good tbh

Thank you!

Please can Doctor Who Bluesky be a thing because *that* reveal!

Well, I wasn’t exactly spot on but I was very close! #localelections

Rumour is that Labour’s totally lost everything in Durham…

Getting ready for a “serious lessons to be learned” klaxon

@kateosbornemp.bsky.social speaking on the Supreme Court’s decision, wearing a very very nice Tardis pride pin. Huge respect!

Today has been awful. My heart goes out to everyone whose day just got a little more grim when this ruling came out. Horrible, bigoted, terf island.

Hopes Sunderland's glassworks heritage saved with new £5m centre - BBC News Glassworks: Sunderland is set to replace the National Glass Centre, which is closing next year.

Absolutely wonderful news for Sunderland - but I think the cost highlights exactly why the choice was to get rid of the Glass Centre in the first place. Refurb was beyond justifcation in comparison to this cost - but God am I glad the tradition has been preserved here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lisa Nandy vows to bulldoze barriers in arts and turbocharge growth Culture secretary announces investment in arts at Gateshead summit and accuses Tories of stifling creative industries

One real highlight in here is £5million to secure the future of the National Glass Centre in Sunderland. It’s been under threat for a while due to spiralling maintenance costs.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Brilliant graphic for this, fair play

no one with any shred of decency should share a stage with bigots like joyce and bindel.

more writers should be encouraged to pull out

Public service workers across the UK are working 365 days a year, seven days a week and 24 hours a day to keep us safe, healthy and warm. We just want to say a special 'thank you' to everyone working over Christmas and New Year.

Belfast rap group Kneecap have won their discrimination court case over the “unlawful” refusal of arts funding taken by then-Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch.

Kneecap were originally approved for a £14,000 grant, before Kemi Badenoch then rejected the funding.

Cardiff Council’s proposed blanket ban on student parking is easily one of the most egregiously age-discriminatory things I’ve seen in three decades of knocking about universities

It really is isn’t it? For years, the social media realpolitik has been “fit in or F off” for every decision that has been made with no hope of reversal, but now that it’s being used against them, they’re suddenly not happy

👋 I know you’ve been off and on with Twitter so it’s nice that there’s an actual alternative now!

Thursday 🍻

We’ve made a starter pack of Labour council leaders here on Bluesky! 🌹 bsky.app/profile/did:...

All just woke nonsense to him…

The GNE strikes last year were an awful time for getting in to work in the city. So glad there’s investment in the North East to improve the services.

To be fair Jacob Rees-Mogg is still coming to grips with the electric light.

Distinct lack of Tory MPs on this platform so far…

If I’ve followed you and you hate me - blame the autofollow app from Twitter!