Glorious conjunction of stories on the Guardian homepage this morning. Right next to each other. “Let me be clear: divided parties fail,” Levido told Tory MPs. “It’s time to get serious – I am fighti… (View Post)

Welsh anti-20mph Facebook groups are being run by, er, a Tory councillor in Sunderland who supports 20mph in his own ward: https://twitter.com/WillHayCardiff/status/1746942241950560337 (View Post)

Interesting long-range election preview from Oxfordshire's indie news blog. They seem to think that three county seats could fall to the LibDems, one to Labour, and can't call the fifth. ht… (View Post)

If Lee Anderthal joins Reform, the main outcome won't be him taking votes away from Labour, it will be the Conservatives swerving right in sheer panic and thereby nuking their remaining chances … (View Post)

You say "idiotic", but John Burn-Murdoch, who is by no means an idiot and almost certainly smarter than you or me, says this is broadly what is happening: https://www.ft.com/content/c361e37… (View Post)