Smoking ban in pub gardens is extremely illiberal. Smoking bans indoors which cause harm to non smokers (especially staff) seemed a reasonable balance of harm when you had the option to smoke outside. Banning adults from smoking in gardens is not the same. Next limit x units of alcohol per person?

Blur should reform for gigs this year too. 52% of the population like Oasis more so I guess we can’t revisit Blur too….

Starmer refusing to join the youth mobility scheme is the start I fear of me rage posting about the Labour Party. Which is weird having hated on the Conservatives for so long.

Flooding on the old Fort William road (between Oban and Fort William round loch Creran)…. Take the bridge instead!

Mike Lynch’s boat sinking, and his co-defendant in the HP Autonomy trial (Stephen Chamberlain) being killed within a couple of weeks of both winning the fraud case is a very strange coincidence.

Right, fellow LibDems, there is now a LibDemSky feed.

If you would like your content to be added to it, let me know. If you just want to follow it, go to feeds in your menu and search for LibDemSky

The Guardian still writing to me as Dear Mr… despite me contacting them a few times to remind them of my name. First world issue I know but it’s a bit annoying as a paying subscriber!

Clearly Putin is waiting for US elections. Should Trump win the assumption is Ukraine is cut off from the military assets. Question is what happens if Harris wins?

I've created a starter pack for Lib Dems joining Bluesky based on people who were active during the Quiet Times and people who replied to @markpackuk.bsky.social the other day. Feel free to share! go.bsky.app/MRZY7w7

If it was a tweet on Twitter, what is it on Bluesky? A BS?

I loved Twitter, but Musk really has broken it. Was quite a joy to delete my account last week. Let’s see if this fills a Twitter hole for me.