Vijay - /ʋɪd͡ʒjeɪ/

Andrew’s Previews | Substack "All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order". Click to read Andrew’s Previews, by Andrew Teale, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

✅ Liberal Democrat HOLD

Shirley (Southampton) council by-election result:

LDEM: 27.4% (-11.8)
LAB: 26.8% (+2.8)
REF: 19.1% (+19.1)
GRN: 15.1% (+7.6)
CON: 8.1% (-16.1)
IND: 3.4% (-0.2)

+/- 2024

Estimated turnout: ~34% (+4)

andrewteale.me.uk/previews

And seen 6 prime Ministers...

Any excuse to whip this out

#ITVYouthTracker EU referendum voting intention for 16-25 year olds

✅🇪🇺 Join the EU: 83%
❌🇪🇺 Stay out of the EU: 17%

Savanta for ITV Youth Tracker, Sample Size: 1,040 UK based 16-25 year-olds, Fieldwork 4-9 February 2026

The European Dream(s): Defending Core Values Under Pressure | Panel Discussion YouTube video by Munich Security Conference

This is pretty weird - somehow German Greens (Franziska Brantner) & British Tories (Priti Patel) are now more aligned on European values than with the US.

I'd like to thank the current US adminstration for doing more for European unity than anyone since Napoleon.

www.youtube.com/live/jVkbZRr...

All this Star Trek "discourse" makes me want to get my sci-fi magazines from the 90s out of storage because haters have been complaining about the same tired things for 30+ years. Grow a personality.

"Under Destruction" - Day 1: Merz, Macron, Newsom | Munich Security Conference 2026 | BR24live YouTube video by BR24

The first day of #MSC2026 is coming to an end.

You didn't take the time to watch all of it? Don't worry, we have got you covered: Binge-watch all sessions from our Main Stage in one go ⬇️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUiI...

Satirical ‘Misleading Times’ targets MPs over UK election loopholes A satirical “fake newspaper” sent to UK MPs uses humour to expose the lack of factual rules governing election advertising ahead of the bill.

We've had some great international coverage of our fake newspaper stunt with MPs this week. Thanks @mediaweekau.bsky.social

www.mediaweek.com.au/satirical-fa...

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Star Trek has changed over the years. The Star Trek that was made in the 60s and the Star Trek being made in the 2020s are very different beast, presented and constructed differently.

I believe that the core message is the same, even if it looks different. I like that it grows

#StarTrek

Here I am getting silently annoyed that you don't like it enough! Ignore the haters - me included (I'm not really a hater - too much effort).

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I was told that my reviews are no longer valid because 'I put my stamp of approval' on Starfleet Academy.

We must always make up our own minds about what we enjoy, and what we choose to spend our time watching.

Don't let me, or anyone, decide what you enjoy, or don't.

You are unique :) xx

The Atlantic’s profile of Bondi has some wow.

@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

You realise it is three years to the day that Brianna Ghey was murdered.

An innocent young girl killed because of transphobia and hate. What's changed in the three years since? Transphobes have upped their attacks. The government has increased discrimination.

It doesn't have to be like this.

🚨Do. not. use. individual's. actions to. attack. whole. groups.🚨
Not unless you want to take the blame for every person in your social demographic.
Bad people exist in every group. That's not an excuse to use the actions of individuals to target those groups, particularly already marginalised groups

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The House is now sitting, starting with questions to Energy Security and Net Zero ministers.

Watch live ⬇️
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Adam Ernest Pickard has won the UK Pun Championships at the Leicester Comedy Festival... punnage alert:
1. ‘The song Greensleeves was composed by Henry VIII. I’d play some of it here, but it’s not royalty-free.’
www.chortle.co.uk/news/2026/02...

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Here’s what our Patreon subscribers are enjoying today. Any resemblance to authors living and currently typing are purely coincidental.

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You can't always help who know socially - I've got a photo of an ~8yr old Rishi Sunak at my ~6th birthday, with him, me & his younger brother in McDonald's hats somewhere. My claim to fame!

(Not satire or a joke - I still know his parents too, they're lovely).

Keir Starmer, you have two choices now – sort your warring party out or call an election | Ed Davey The country just can’t afford another three and half years of this dysfunctional soap opera, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey

On point @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 👏🏾

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

FIVE MONTHS. TWO NEW PMs. WE CAN DO THIS

Hold on, this Anas Sarwar? Surely not.

NEW

The constitutional significance of what happened to the Prime Minister last week

Members of parliament moved for a parliamentary committee to decide what is prejudicial to national security instead of the government

By me.

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Labour's problem, you know aside from how bad Starmer is as PM, ties to Mandelson, links to a think tank trying to blackmail journalists, repeated scandals over various MPs, including Ministers, spending, taxes etc...actually this could be quite a long "aside list", so let's move on to the point. 1/

I think the Turkish barber event horizon is a definite possibility around here.

Very much the same - I like when Parliament asserts it's authority. It shows that MPs still have institutional pride as Parliamentarians over complete partisanship.

Significant, even if unsurprising.

This week, @chriscoghlanmp.bsky.social stood up for SEND families, pushing for Christopher’s Law after the heart-breaking case of Christopher Laskaris.

We won't stop fighting for real change for SEND families.

SHE’S FINISHED! My 5-foot-long Enterprise D oil painting is complete after nearly 100 hours of work!

I remember being 13 years old or so and trying to draw her and it was so hard, and all I wanted was to be able to do something like this. Truly a dream come true. 🥰🖖

The hill I will die on: Britons love saying thank you – I think we should ban the phrase | Sangeeta Pillai Really, what is the point of this endless conversational back and forth? Step out of the loop, and change your life, says author Sangeeta Pillai

This is just rude from @soulsutras.bsky.social - the Hill I'll die on is that I much prefer the British culture of thanking everyone for literally everything than the Indian one of almost never saying it to anyone. Take away my OCI card if you have to.

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