Banbury Liberal Democrats
@banburylibdems.bsky.social
The name largely says it all really - unofficial because keep getting told off for being slightly ahead of the party - for Banbury Constituency with the Districts and Wards within.
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Going hard core. Dom West reading Yeats.
Wish my father was still around to talk to now. Of war and pre war Then and now he took a 8 year journey from 1936 to 1945 to see his parents, they were in Ceylon. The price was high
Our comfortable is gone, accept there is pain
Going hard core. Dom West reading Yeats.
Wish my father was still around to talk to now. Of war and pre war Then and now he took a 8 year journey from 1936 to 1945 to see his parents, they were in Ceylon. The price was high
Our comfortable is gone, accept there is pain
Dominic West reads "The Second Coming" by WB Yeats | A Fanatic Heart: Geldof on Yeats, RTE One
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January 30, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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Going hard core. Dom West reading Yeats.
Wish my father was still around to talk to now. Of war and pre war Then and now he took a 8 year journey from 1936 to 1945 to see his parents, they were in Ceylon. The price was high
Our comfortable is gone, accept there is pain
Going hard core. Dom West reading Yeats.
Wish my father was still around to talk to now. Of war and pre war Then and now he took a 8 year journey from 1936 to 1945 to see his parents, they were in Ceylon. The price was high
Our comfortable is gone, accept there is pain
Great essay by Adam; would argue some points obviously.
But his minor point about Jazz is clearly correct
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
But his minor point about Jazz is clearly correct
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
America is a ‘battlefield’, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, ‘and you can only become passionate about the battle it is...
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January 30, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Great essay by Adam; would argue some points obviously.
But his minor point about Jazz is clearly correct
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
But his minor point about Jazz is clearly correct
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Got called a Stalinist in Sibford Ferris for 'cancelling elections' I had literally just handed the resident a leaflet for Mays election.
Pointing this out didn't seem to help.
Now going to start a campaign for the forced collectivisation of The Sibfords.
Pointing this out didn't seem to help.
Now going to start a campaign for the forced collectivisation of The Sibfords.
January 29, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Got called a Stalinist in Sibford Ferris for 'cancelling elections' I had literally just handed the resident a leaflet for Mays election.
Pointing this out didn't seem to help.
Now going to start a campaign for the forced collectivisation of The Sibfords.
Pointing this out didn't seem to help.
Now going to start a campaign for the forced collectivisation of The Sibfords.
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The existence of Find Out Now implies the existence of a second pollster called Fuck Around Now
I have no thoughts on Find Out Now’s methodology, but I’ve always found their name weirdly threatening for a polling company
January 28, 2026 at 11:27 PM
The existence of Find Out Now implies the existence of a second pollster called Fuck Around Now
Not his finest but BROOOCE is as angry as you would expect. CSNY's Ohio for this century?
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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January 28, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Not his finest but BROOOCE is as angry as you would expect. CSNY's Ohio for this century?
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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I’m offering the UK govt free training on how to be less of a fucking embarrassment
January 28, 2026 at 10:37 AM
I’m offering the UK govt free training on how to be less of a fucking embarrassment
The government is a total shambles.
The proposed savings are less than £2/ person. Actually costs will be magnitudes more. Should be increasing PE for all sorts of health, wellbeing and fun reasons (although this the Government is obviously against fun)
Expect a U turn immediately - a screeching U
The proposed savings are less than £2/ person. Actually costs will be magnitudes more. Should be increasing PE for all sorts of health, wellbeing and fun reasons (although this the Government is obviously against fun)
Expect a U turn immediately - a screeching U
Government row breaks out over proposals to slash spending for PE in schools
Government row breaks out over proposals to slash spending for PE in schools
Both the health and education departments have proposed cuts to funding for physical education
A major row between government departments has broken out after the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) proposed cutting all its funding for physical education in schools, the Guardian understands.
The DHSC is now intending to restore the funding despite insisting privately for weeks that it would end its contribution, until the Guardian contacted the department. Ministers are understood to have overruled the cuts. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:05 PM
The government is a total shambles.
The proposed savings are less than £2/ person. Actually costs will be magnitudes more. Should be increasing PE for all sorts of health, wellbeing and fun reasons (although this the Government is obviously against fun)
Expect a U turn immediately - a screeching U
The proposed savings are less than £2/ person. Actually costs will be magnitudes more. Should be increasing PE for all sorts of health, wellbeing and fun reasons (although this the Government is obviously against fun)
Expect a U turn immediately - a screeching U
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It's going to be one of those circus by-elections where the geezer in the dolphin costume is the sensible candidate.
January 27, 2026 at 2:13 PM
It's going to be one of those circus by-elections where the geezer in the dolphin costume is the sensible candidate.
I assume it should read '...paying more than £250 ... a year will be paying less'. Rather than a month, which is obviously factually true, but not really the point.
To be patronising and wrong is a winning combination.
To be patronising and wrong is a winning combination.
Brilliant news that Ground Rents are to be capped at £250 a year. This means that leaseholders currently paying more than £250 on Ground Rent a month will be paying less.
January 27, 2026 at 3:22 PM
I assume it should read '...paying more than £250 ... a year will be paying less'. Rather than a month, which is obviously factually true, but not really the point.
To be patronising and wrong is a winning combination.
To be patronising and wrong is a winning combination.
I knew a soldier who commuted from Windsor Barracks to the Defence School of Languages in Beaconsfield by Hang glider.
So could use the funds for a landing/ take off area, in The Parks say, for various gliders, microlights etc.
Almost certainly less dangerous than the scooters
So could use the funds for a landing/ take off area, in The Parks say, for various gliders, microlights etc.
Almost certainly less dangerous than the scooters
Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he?
There are other purposes to which these funds could be used.
There are other purposes to which these funds could be used.
“The success we are seeing is a combination of the ‘carrot’ of free Park & Ride, and the ‘stick’ of the congestion charge.” Oxford Bus Company’s MD Luke Marion writes for the Clarion on why the city’s Park & Ride buses should remain free: oxfordclarion.uk/why-the-park...
January 27, 2026 at 3:07 PM
I knew a soldier who commuted from Windsor Barracks to the Defence School of Languages in Beaconsfield by Hang glider.
So could use the funds for a landing/ take off area, in The Parks say, for various gliders, microlights etc.
Almost certainly less dangerous than the scooters
So could use the funds for a landing/ take off area, in The Parks say, for various gliders, microlights etc.
Almost certainly less dangerous than the scooters
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And quite right too! @libdems.org.uk
Everyone’s favourite cycle parking design, the Sheffield stand, will be mandated in Oxford City’s Local Plan. In a peak Liberal Democrat moment, the party’s amendment to require that “Cycle parking design should comply with [guidance document] LTN 1/20” was passed in the council debate this evening.
January 26, 2026 at 10:15 PM
And quite right too! @libdems.org.uk
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Very sad to hear about the passing of former colleague Mark Tully, the "voice of India" and also a wonderful presenter of "Something Understood."
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Sir Mark Tully obituary
BBC correspondent and author whose sensitive reporting from India made him a revered public figure in the subcontinent
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January 25, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Very sad to hear about the passing of former colleague Mark Tully, the "voice of India" and also a wonderful presenter of "Something Understood."
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
Not sure I am 'culturally coherent' whatever the hell that means. But I am Cornish, so I am probably not in their world.
Clearly my wife is in the x hairs of Lam,due to her political asylum (under Thatcher, Conservatives used to welcome those who stood against tyranny) status & Liberalism. #SCUM
Clearly my wife is in the x hairs of Lam,due to her political asylum (under Thatcher, Conservatives used to welcome those who stood against tyranny) status & Liberalism. #SCUM
Tory Home Office Shadow Minister Katie Lam suggested that large numbers of *legally* settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.
So it's not just those here illegally, anyone not "culturally coherent" is at risk.
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So it's not just those here illegally, anyone not "culturally coherent" is at risk.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/kati...
Tory MP sparks backlash after calling for legal migrants to 'go home' to make Britain ‘culturally coherent’ | LBC
Katie Lam said many migrants who came to Britain legally will 'need to go home'
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January 25, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Not sure I am 'culturally coherent' whatever the hell that means. But I am Cornish, so I am probably not in their world.
Clearly my wife is in the x hairs of Lam,due to her political asylum (under Thatcher, Conservatives used to welcome those who stood against tyranny) status & Liberalism. #SCUM
Clearly my wife is in the x hairs of Lam,due to her political asylum (under Thatcher, Conservatives used to welcome those who stood against tyranny) status & Liberalism. #SCUM
I spent a terrible summer in 1973 in Dawlish, not that that the town had anything to do with it, but still have issues ...
January 23, 2026 at 11:42 PM
I spent a terrible summer in 1973 in Dawlish, not that that the town had anything to do with it, but still have issues ...
I served in Iraq with US forces - and boy did i need to deal with some proto-fascists. But only in the officer corp.
The non- commission solid Democrats, but well colour...
Farage can go fuck himself (to quote our President @joshbabarinde.bsky.social)
The non- commission solid Democrats, but well colour...
Farage can go fuck himself (to quote our President @joshbabarinde.bsky.social)
This is one of the first days I haven't seen Chris Mason or the BBC clambering to report on what Farage thinks. In fact they didn't even mention him or try and get a comment. The BBC should also be ashamed...
January 23, 2026 at 11:36 PM
I served in Iraq with US forces - and boy did i need to deal with some proto-fascists. But only in the officer corp.
The non- commission solid Democrats, but well colour...
Farage can go fuck himself (to quote our President @joshbabarinde.bsky.social)
The non- commission solid Democrats, but well colour...
Farage can go fuck himself (to quote our President @joshbabarinde.bsky.social)
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This is one of the first days I haven't seen Chris Mason or the BBC clambering to report on what Farage thinks. In fact they didn't even mention him or try and get a comment. The BBC should also be ashamed...
January 23, 2026 at 7:24 PM
This is one of the first days I haven't seen Chris Mason or the BBC clambering to report on what Farage thinks. In fact they didn't even mention him or try and get a comment. The BBC should also be ashamed...
Not exactly a suprise, but still sad Hunter couldn't fine the help/ support he obviously needed. He did write beautifully in his prime and his views on the political situation now would be great. On Nixon he was genius, ... well now, obviously we'll never know. SAD
January 23, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Not exactly a suprise, but still sad Hunter couldn't fine the help/ support he obviously needed. He did write beautifully in his prime and his views on the political situation now would be great. On Nixon he was genius, ... well now, obviously we'll never know. SAD
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Colorado investigators confirm Hunter S Thompson’s 2005 death was a suicide
Colorado investigators confirm Hunter S Thompson’s 2005 death was a suicide
Journalist’s wife had contacted authorities with concerns and ‘potential information’ regarding inquiry into his death
A review of the 2005 shooting death of the journalist Hunter S Thompson has confirmed authorities’ original finding that his death was a suicide, Colorado investigators said on Friday.
The review by the Colorado bureau of investigation (CBI) was announced in September after Thompson’s wife, Anita Thompson, contacted authorities with “new concerns and potential information regarding the investigation” into Thompson’s death, the agency said in a news release. Continue reading...
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January 23, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Colorado investigators confirm Hunter S Thompson’s 2005 death was a suicide
Have to say I never thought a Central Banker would be one of my political heroes, of this year,or any year. Strange times
Mark Carney, "Canada can’t solve all the world’s problems"
"But we can show that another way is possible"
"That the arc of history isn’t destined to be warped towards authoritarianism and exclusion"
"It can still bend towards progress and justice"
"But we can show that another way is possible"
"That the arc of history isn’t destined to be warped towards authoritarianism and exclusion"
"It can still bend towards progress and justice"
January 23, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Have to say I never thought a Central Banker would be one of my political heroes, of this year,or any year. Strange times
What is so great about the Trumpian Christian Nationalists is how much they hate Christianity, or any religion for that matter that doesn't worship hatred, division, racism and bigotry cf Reform UK Christian Network etc
As clergy pray, arrests begin
January 23, 2026 at 8:31 PM
What is so great about the Trumpian Christian Nationalists is how much they hate Christianity, or any religion for that matter that doesn't worship hatred, division, racism and bigotry cf Reform UK Christian Network etc
There is a wasp on my table. Obviously alive if not exactly flourishing, what the hell is it doing here in January?
January 23, 2026 at 6:32 PM
There is a wasp on my table. Obviously alive if not exactly flourishing, what the hell is it doing here in January?
Not sure this is true.
January 22, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Not sure this is true.
Olly's normal sunny disposition seems to be slipping.
I mean he his right to be sceptical and cynical.
I mean he his right to be sceptical and cynical.
"Northern Powerhouse Rail has taken so long to get to this point, we need to just get on and plan and build it."
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January 19, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Olly's normal sunny disposition seems to be slipping.
I mean he his right to be sceptical and cynical.
I mean he his right to be sceptical and cynical.
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I think it is worth remembering that a US president with an ‘ancestral dislike’ of Britain once moved a bust of Winston Churchill, and in many ways that was far more anti-British than slapping us with a sizeable tariff for sending a military officer to Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 10:11 PM
I think it is worth remembering that a US president with an ‘ancestral dislike’ of Britain once moved a bust of Winston Churchill, and in many ways that was far more anti-British than slapping us with a sizeable tariff for sending a military officer to Greenland.