'View of the Garden, St Margarets, Summer' by Ian Archie Beck ianarchiebeck.co.uk

How is it acceptable for #bbcnewsnight to have two representatives from right of centre parties on this evening? Balance? I look forward to councillors from other parties being given a platform.

At LondonPianoFestival, as a tribute to football crazy Shostakovich, I played the Match of the Day theme by Barry Stoller in the style of the Russian classics. Thanks to Charles Owen @katyaapekisheva for inviting me & Petroc Trelawny for leading the conversation. Match of the Day

Londoners were promised a 24/7 police station in every borough. The Mayor should be standing up to the Government demanding the funding London’s police desperately need. But if he won't, we will - the London Liberal Democrats letter to the Chancellor today

Man who never shells out for a ticket complains about never winning the raffle.

Dunster - Somerset Council Liberal Democrat Gain from Conservative! 🔶 Cara Strom Liberal Democrat 1142 49.6% ➡️ Reform UK 666 28.9% 🔵 Conservative 449 19.5% 🔴 Labour 44 1.9% Congratulations to Cara and the Lib Dem Team!!

Milton & Tamarside - Torridge DC Liberal Democrat Gain from Independent! 🔶Nigel Kenneally Liberal Democrat 37.5% ➡️ Reform UK 31.1% 🔵 Conservative 16.7% 🟢 Green Party 5.9% Congratulations to Nigel and the team on a great result!

Moseley (Birmingham) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 34.7% (-11.9) 🌹 LAB: 24.4% (-14.1) 🙋 Ind: 19.6% (New) 🌍 GRN: 10.1% (+1.5) ➡️ RFM: 7.3% (New) 🌳 CON: 2.4% (-4.1) 🙋 Ind: 1.7% (New) Liberal Democrat GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2022.

Time for MRPs to be reported with more caution 3/4 yrs out from an election. Result closer to constituency polling - but still 10% off for Plaid. We’ve gone back to consuming polls as gospel only a year on from Labour lead being grossly overstated & seat forecasts 50 seats out

Lucy Powell is elected deputy leader of Labour Party with 54% of votes. Participation of eligible members was low at 16.6% of those eligible to vote

Reform MP Sarah Pochin: “It drives me mad when I see adverts full of Black people, full of Asian people, full of people that are basically anything other than White.” If the colour of someone else’s skin drives you ‘mad’, you are a Grade-A racist.

Sarah Pochin's awful remarks are sadly another example of what is becoming more overt as Anoosh Chakelian writes in The New Statesman - racism wherever it exists should be challenged.

Michael Heseltine: Reform is fascist. We must stop Nigel Farage thetimes.com/article/9048b1…

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Proud to support the ECHR. It’s clear that only the Lib Dems are brave enough to stand up to Nigel Farage and Reform.

One of the biggest threats to our democracy is our growing inability to disagree civilly, driven by algorithms that reward hostility. As Kirsty’s experience shows, this is driving good people (especially women) away from public life. We must change that. nation.cymru/news/former-we…

Congratulations to @libdems sister party D66 - putting rightists back in their box.

If most Brits seriously think that inadvertently failing to obtain an obscure housing rental licence makes someone unfit to serve as Chancellor, then quite frankly we richly deserve to be governed by uninspiring technocrats.

Bromsgrove South (Worcestershire) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3) ➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5) 🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8) 🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1) No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous. Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform. Changes w/ 2025.

The same Priti Patel MP who had to resign due to unauthorised meetings in Israel and then ought to have been sacked for bullying officials?