@margedsfach.bsky.social
Brexit😢, pro-tactical voting, #FBPPR, #FBPE, #KTTO. Europhile centrist linguist. Liberal Democrat in Guildford, UK, but non-tribal. Supporter of Macron/Lecornu, Harris/Walz and Zelensky/Ukraine. Anti-authoritarian. Pro-social justice & the environment
🔵 Democrats flip another seat in the New Hampshire State House.
Democrat Bobbi Boudman wins a special election in a Trump+9 district, after losing the same seat by 14 points in 2024. A 13-point Democratic overperformance.
Today I will mostly be trying to bribe people with cheap petrol, in the hope that they will forget that I have been cheering on the orange idiot whose war is pushing up fuel prices.
Trump has now conducted 42 boat strikes, killing nearly 160 people.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
🚨👀 Nigel Farage says Reform UK never promised to cut council tax. An election leaflet says otherwise...
Rand Paul: "As far as reasons for the war, there have been many different ones floated, but none have been very convincing... we were told their nuclear weapons were obliterated, and now we're told their nuclear weapons are just moments away from being a bomb. I don't think the arguments are valid."
By sticking to the correct and popular position on Iran, even under relentless attacks from the right-wing press, Keir Starmer has forced his political opponents into an embarrassing reversal.
It is a lesson his Government should learn from bylinetimes.com/2026/03/10/n...
"In the last 24 hours both Farage and Badenoch have U-turned on their previous support for Britain joining Trump’s war, with both even daring to suggest that they had never really backed joining it in the first place."
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/10/n...
Hi Robert, quick question. Why was your leader in Mar-a-Lago, trying desperately to get an audience with the main proponent of the war, if there are “too many problems at home”?
Reform UK Warwickshire leader is facing a vote of no confidence after being accused of bringing the authority into disrepute.
So, as people stuggle with their mortgages and bills, Farage invests £215,000 in Kwasi Kwarteng’s crypto business.
And plans to deregulate that high-risk industry by removing our rights and consumer protections.
He’s laughing at voters. All the way to the bank.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
The RW screeching is not working - just the opposite
In a stunning upset, Democrats Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard unseated Republican incumbents Tim Echols and Fitz Johnson by record margins — installing Democrats on Georgia’s Public Service Commission for the first time in more than 20 years.
UK government releases list of 76 EU laws that it says UK will align with under food standards treaty with EU www.gov.uk/government/n...
A reminder that if you back regime change (morally) you ought to accept the likely consequences. www.youtube.com/shorts/Uuber...
Trump is insulting all those, including British families, worried about his illegal war driving up their energy bills.
Enough is enough. Keir Starmer must show Trump the UK won’t be pushed around and call off the King’s state visit.
BREAKING: “ Decisions about what’s in Britains best interests are decisions for the Prime Minister of Britain”
PM keir starmer responds to recent criticism from President Trump
Labour will today set out how UK exporters and importers are expected to benefit from the new Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) agreement with the EU!
Announced last May and negotiated since, it aims to make trade between the EU and UK easier, cheaper and quicker.
It will cut paperwork....
Massive humiliation for Farage, who tipped off the UK press that he was flying to Florida to have dinner with Trump... only for Trump to decide he had more interesting things to do when Nigel arrived.
EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : la Russie a lancé environ 1 750 drones contre le pays en une semaine, dit Volodymyr Zelensky
EN DIRECT, guerre au Moyen-Orient : plus de 500 000 déplacés par les frappes israéliennes ont été recensés au Liban
that the Trump administration is trying to shut down a leading AI company because it’s unwilling to develop autonomous murder systems is terrifying, and should be of grave concern to everyone in the world
Trump does whatever he can to help Putin:
1. Refuses to deliver any arms for sale to Ukraine.
2. Hikes the global oil and gas prices to Russia's benefit through his madcap war against Iran.
3. Eases oil sanctions against Russia to help financing its war against Ukraine.
They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175
Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...
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To clarify this: the context is college sports. Trump is saying that Russia helping Iran target Americans in a war is less important than the pay structure for athletes. (1/3)
This is due to Liz Truss as Energy Secretary…she allowed our Centrica storage site to be shut down.
Everything she touches.
And to be fair to Ed Miliband, once closed, surveying in detail & re-opening storage again is not quick I am told.
Trump has threatened our allies, eyed up Greenland and is now criticising Britain over a war he started.
We shouldn’t reward his bad behaviour with a state visit.
@alpinkerton.bsky.social
Given Trump's illegal war that is devastating the Middle East and pushing up energy bills, Keir Starmer should advise the King to call off April’s state visit to the US.
A state visit should not be given to someone who repeatedly insults and damages our country.
This directly contradicts Trump and Hegseth’s claims that Iran bombed the area where the Iranian school was hit. We knew it, but it’s good to have the video.
Take back control, they said.
Free us from the tyranny of the EU, they said.
And now they are calling for us to be shackled to the Trump regime; else we’ll be a piffling irrelevance.