Laura Gordon
@lauragordon.bsky.social
Lib Dem based in Oxfordshire
County Councillor for Kidlington North and Otmoor
Elected member of Federal Policy Committee
Promoted by Oxon Liberal Democrats at Unit C5 Grange Court Business Park, Barton Lane, Abingdon, OX14 3NB
County Councillor for Kidlington North and Otmoor
Elected member of Federal Policy Committee
Promoted by Oxon Liberal Democrats at Unit C5 Grange Court Business Park, Barton Lane, Abingdon, OX14 3NB
How do you get to go to the theatre and have shorter queues for the ladies than the gents?
Answer: go see a play about football of course!
Answer: go see a play about football of course!
January 29, 2026 at 9:03 PM
How do you get to go to the theatre and have shorter queues for the ladies than the gents?
Answer: go see a play about football of course!
Answer: go see a play about football of course!
Good news on buses 🚌
Oxford bus company are adding an extra bus to the 700 route from Kidlington to the Headington hospitals to improve reliability. There will also be a new timetable which will maintain the 20 minute service at peak times www.oxfordbus.co.uk/service-chan...
Oxford bus company are adding an extra bus to the 700 route from Kidlington to the Headington hospitals to improve reliability. There will also be a new timetable which will maintain the 20 minute service at peak times www.oxfordbus.co.uk/service-chan...
January 29, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Good news on buses 🚌
Oxford bus company are adding an extra bus to the 700 route from Kidlington to the Headington hospitals to improve reliability. There will also be a new timetable which will maintain the 20 minute service at peak times www.oxfordbus.co.uk/service-chan...
Oxford bus company are adding an extra bus to the 700 route from Kidlington to the Headington hospitals to improve reliability. There will also be a new timetable which will maintain the 20 minute service at peak times www.oxfordbus.co.uk/service-chan...
This is why I'm concerned about the proposed ban on social media for under 16s. Social media is clearly an issue more broadly and needs an approach that is more nuanced.
This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sidcup man convicted aover explosive attack on Ulez camera
Kevin Rees's homemade bomb caused damage to vehicles and property including a child's bedroom.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:41 AM
This is why I'm concerned about the proposed ban on social media for under 16s. Social media is clearly an issue more broadly and needs an approach that is more nuanced.
Cllr Lesley McLean and I have written to the Key Medical Practice asking them to reconsider their decision to close routine medical appointments for a month from 26th January, and to the Integrated Care Board to ask them to intervene to protect patients' access to essential care.
January 28, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Cllr Lesley McLean and I have written to the Key Medical Practice asking them to reconsider their decision to close routine medical appointments for a month from 26th January, and to the Integrated Care Board to ask them to intervene to protect patients' access to essential care.
Great to see more activity on this account and with OCC leaving X there will be more to come. Give it a follow for news and updates 👇
We've got a new booking system for our household waste recycling centres.
Before each visit you’ll need to book a time slot, you can do it as little as 30 minutes before your visit or up to two weeks in advance www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/waste-and-recycling/book-recycling-centre-visit
Before each visit you’ll need to book a time slot, you can do it as little as 30 minutes before your visit or up to two weeks in advance www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/waste-and-recycling/book-recycling-centre-visit
January 26, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Great to see more activity on this account and with OCC leaving X there will be more to come. Give it a follow for news and updates 👇
Absolutely gobsmacked by this story. These improvements are badly needed - why would you turn down funds on the table? And keeping it secret. The Clarion are being far too kind saying there are no villains here - the villains are the people who kept the issue secret so no solution could be found!
🚨 CLARION EXCLUSIVE 🚨
£10m of Government funding for Oxford was sent back. Could it have paid for the cancelled Dutch-style cycleway on Woodstock Road?
In a deep dive, we ask why a Government grant was returned, and if it could have been spent elsewhere in Oxford.
oxfordclarion.uk/exclusive-10...
£10m of Government funding for Oxford was sent back. Could it have paid for the cancelled Dutch-style cycleway on Woodstock Road?
In a deep dive, we ask why a Government grant was returned, and if it could have been spent elsewhere in Oxford.
oxfordclarion.uk/exclusive-10...
Exclusive: £10m of Government funding for Oxford was sent back
A £10m grant for infrastructure in north Oxford was returned to Government unspent – just as a safe cycleway on Woodstock Road, to be funded by the very same Government body, was cancelled due to a £1...
oxfordclarion.uk
January 26, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Absolutely gobsmacked by this story. These improvements are badly needed - why would you turn down funds on the table? And keeping it secret. The Clarion are being far too kind saying there are no villains here - the villains are the people who kept the issue secret so no solution could be found!
There's always a local angle 😂
Oxford graduate Nigella Lawson has been confirmed as new host of TV's Great British Bake Off. While studying at LMH, she was allegedly approached by her tutor to join MI5, but was advised against it by her father Nigel Lawson (later Chancellor of the Exchequer).
www.oxfordstudent.com/2013/01/24/o...
www.oxfordstudent.com/2013/01/24/o...
January 26, 2026 at 4:50 PM
There's always a local angle 😂
Really pleased by this! Thanks to @garethepps.bsky.social for helping me raise it and @neilmfawcett.bsky.social for making it happen. It's a shame because old twitter was great but it's not coming back, and we couldn't stay complicit in the industrial-scale abuse of women and girls it now pumps out.
Oxfordshire County Council withdraws from X
Oxfordshire County Council is joining other councils, including district councils in Oxfordshire, in being deeply concerned about the rise in online hate speech and abuse targeting women and girls on ...
news.oxfordshire.gov.uk
January 26, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Really pleased by this! Thanks to @garethepps.bsky.social for helping me raise it and @neilmfawcett.bsky.social for making it happen. It's a shame because old twitter was great but it's not coming back, and we couldn't stay complicit in the industrial-scale abuse of women and girls it now pumps out.
Reposted by Laura Gordon
Western countries are hitting refugees twice: they are making it harder to claim asylum *and* they are cutting aid to troubled regions.
I went to Sudan, the world's worst humanitarian situation, where the UN refugee agency has had to cut half its staff. Please have a read: as.ft.com/r/df593f1e-e...
I went to Sudan, the world's worst humanitarian situation, where the UN refugee agency has had to cut half its staff. Please have a read: as.ft.com/r/df593f1e-e...
Adapt, shrink or die: the global crisis in humanitarian aid
[FREE TO READ] On the road in Sudan with the UN’s outgoing High Commissioner for Refugees
as.ft.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Western countries are hitting refugees twice: they are making it harder to claim asylum *and* they are cutting aid to troubled regions.
I went to Sudan, the world's worst humanitarian situation, where the UN refugee agency has had to cut half its staff. Please have a read: as.ft.com/r/df593f1e-e...
I went to Sudan, the world's worst humanitarian situation, where the UN refugee agency has had to cut half its staff. Please have a read: as.ft.com/r/df593f1e-e...
ICE murdered an unarmed man who was not resisting them on video and this is the BBC headline. This is a travesty and the BBC must do better.
January 24, 2026 at 11:53 PM
ICE murdered an unarmed man who was not resisting them on video and this is the BBC headline. This is a travesty and the BBC must do better.
Thanks to the Kidlington Firefighters for hosting me, @garethepps.bsky.social and Cllr Lesley McLean - the consultation has been extended to the end of the month so please make sure you take the time to respond letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/ofrs-consult...
January 20, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Thanks to the Kidlington Firefighters for hosting me, @garethepps.bsky.social and Cllr Lesley McLean - the consultation has been extended to the end of the month so please make sure you take the time to respond letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/ofrs-consult...
Call me a hawk but I don't think it's a good idea to leave NATO and do unilateral nuclear disarmament while Russia is invading Europe
UK should consider expelling US forces from British bases, says Zack Polanski
Exclusive: Green party leader advocates leaving Nato and says Britain should wean itself off its reliance on the US
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Call me a hawk but I don't think it's a good idea to leave NATO and do unilateral nuclear disarmament while Russia is invading Europe
Flicking through the contents of a new bit of bedtime reading while waiting for the OCC lane rental scheme briefing to start and if that's not a quality evening in I don't know what is
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Flicking through the contents of a new bit of bedtime reading while waiting for the OCC lane rental scheme briefing to start and if that's not a quality evening in I don't know what is
Bloody hell they're scraping the barrel a bit aren't they?
Romford MP Andrew Rosindell quits Tories and defects to Reform UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Andrew Rosindell quits Tories and defects to Reform UK
Andrew Rosindell quits Tories and defects to Reform UK
www.bbc.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Bloody hell they're scraping the barrel a bit aren't they?
Has to be done carefully but this is potentially quite an elegant way to handle the issue
Lib Dems call for film-style age ratings for social media to protect children online
Lib Dems call for film-style age ratings for social media to protect children online
Lib Dems unveil a new policy to protect children online, through film-style age ratings of up to 18 for harmful social media platforms.
buff.ly
January 18, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Has to be done carefully but this is potentially quite an elegant way to handle the issue
I don't buy this: it would require FIFA to be capable of embarrassment
January 18, 2026 at 12:25 PM
I don't buy this: it would require FIFA to be capable of embarrassment
So we need to increase defence spending to develop a fully- independent nuclear deterrent, disentangle from US procurement and reinforce alliances with the rest of NATO, right?
January 18, 2026 at 12:12 PM
So we need to increase defence spending to develop a fully- independent nuclear deterrent, disentangle from US procurement and reinforce alliances with the rest of NATO, right?
Reposted by Laura Gordon
Right-wing agitators fail. Good.
Now, to claim the Council's costs....
Now, to claim the Council's costs....
🚨 BREAKING:
A legal bid to halt Oxford’s congestion charge has been turned down. The High Court today refused an application for judicial review by Open Roads For Oxford Ltd, which had raised £60,000 “from private donations, transfers from aligned funds, and our GoFundMe campaign” to bring the case.
A legal bid to halt Oxford’s congestion charge has been turned down. The High Court today refused an application for judicial review by Open Roads For Oxford Ltd, which had raised £60,000 “from private donations, transfers from aligned funds, and our GoFundMe campaign” to bring the case.
January 15, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Right-wing agitators fail. Good.
Now, to claim the Council's costs....
Now, to claim the Council's costs....
The feature I'd love to see is a change to how replies display so that instead of seeing an entire thread you can open a tweet and just see the replies to that tweet (like on twitter)
it's kind of funny that you can slowly see this site a/b test its way into being a more usable version of pre-musk twitter
January 16, 2026 at 6:58 AM
The feature I'd love to see is a change to how replies display so that instead of seeing an entire thread you can open a tweet and just see the replies to that tweet (like on twitter)
Welcome, northwesters, to the fun game of 'I wonder where the top secret Tour de France route is going... Could it be the small rural b-road that is being mysteriously resurfaced?'
Signed, someone who lived in Yorkshire when the tour came through 😂
Signed, someone who lived in Yorkshire when the tour came through 😂
The Tour de France 2027 is going right through my constituency! Book your Milnthorpe/Carnforth/Morecambe hotels now!
January 15, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Welcome, northwesters, to the fun game of 'I wonder where the top secret Tour de France route is going... Could it be the small rural b-road that is being mysteriously resurfaced?'
Signed, someone who lived in Yorkshire when the tour came through 😂
Signed, someone who lived in Yorkshire when the tour came through 😂
Plotting in secret? Seemed like he was plotting fairly openly to me!
BREAKING Kemi Badenoch has sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership.
She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform
She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform
January 15, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Plotting in secret? Seemed like he was plotting fairly openly to me!
*not building
Superb and absolutely damning long read on HS2.
www.ft.com/content/3f73... How the UK ended up building the world’s most expensive railway
www.ft.com/content/3f73... How the UK ended up building the world’s most expensive railway
January 13, 2026 at 10:48 AM
*not building
Leaving it up to councils is the right approach IMV but would be good to see a ban in most of Oxfordshire. As well as blocking pedestrians (especially wheelchair users and buggies), pavement parking destroys the pavement which then either looks unsightly or costs £££ to fix
“Pavements are for pedestrians, not vehicles,” says Oxfordshire County Council’s Cllr Andrew Gant as the Government introduces new rules on pavement parking where councils will be allowed to introduce and enforce a ban: “We welcome the opportunity to apply for the powers to enforce this.”
January 12, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Leaving it up to councils is the right approach IMV but would be good to see a ban in most of Oxfordshire. As well as blocking pedestrians (especially wheelchair users and buggies), pavement parking destroys the pavement which then either looks unsightly or costs £££ to fix
Why is he on a screen? I thought working from home was for the wokes?
Nadhim Zahawi being unveiled as Reform’s newest defector
January 12, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Why is he on a screen? I thought working from home was for the wokes?
Reposted by Laura Gordon
Zahawi can lead Reform's crackdown on tax avoidance. Plenty of experience.
January 12, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Zahawi can lead Reform's crackdown on tax avoidance. Plenty of experience.