Terry Weldon
@terryweldon.bsky.social
S African/British LibDem councillor (Waverley, Surrey)
Gay, married, practicing Catholic
2 daughters, 4 grandchildren
Living "with & beyond" a rare cancer (GIST);
Interested in queer religion, politics (SA, UK, USA); obsessive poll watcher
Gay, married, practicing Catholic
2 daughters, 4 grandchildren
Living "with & beyond" a rare cancer (GIST);
Interested in queer religion, politics (SA, UK, USA); obsessive poll watcher
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Terry Weldon
@terryweldon.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Reintroduction🧵:
Lifelong liberal activist since 1970, knocking on doors in Cape Town; now Liberal Democrat councillor in Surrey UK.
Openly gay, married - with two daughters from previous marriage.
Practicing Catholic; previously active campaigner for LGBT inclusio, ran "Queering the Church blog
Lifelong liberal activist since 1970, knocking on doors in Cape Town; now Liberal Democrat councillor in Surrey UK.
Openly gay, married - with two daughters from previous marriage.
Practicing Catholic; previously active campaigner for LGBT inclusio, ran "Queering the Church blog
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Come on EU and UK start being brave
and Starmer get us back in the Eu FFS. The world is a very different place from 2016 and who cares what noise the RW makes.
Man up.
and Starmer get us back in the Eu FFS. The world is a very different place from 2016 and who cares what noise the RW makes.
Man up.
Suggested EU response:
- US airbases now represent an armed presence, inside our borders, of a nation that is openly threatening to invade our territory
- Withdraw the threat or we have no choice but to close those bases
- This turns USA from a global power to a regional one, overnight
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- US airbases now represent an armed presence, inside our borders, of a nation that is openly threatening to invade our territory
- Withdraw the threat or we have no choice but to close those bases
- This turns USA from a global power to a regional one, overnight
1/5
January 19, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Come on EU and UK start being brave
and Starmer get us back in the Eu FFS. The world is a very different place from 2016 and who cares what noise the RW makes.
Man up.
and Starmer get us back in the Eu FFS. The world is a very different place from 2016 and who cares what noise the RW makes.
Man up.
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Hypocrisy runs deep with Farage.
Fartrage says it is unacceptable for King Donald the Mad to apply economic pressure on a long-standing ally of more than 100 years.
But only a few weeks ago he was in the US asking them to put sanctions on the "undemocratic" UK.
What a complete and total shit wankstain this man is.
But only a few weeks ago he was in the US asking them to put sanctions on the "undemocratic" UK.
What a complete and total shit wankstain this man is.
January 19, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Hypocrisy runs deep with Farage.
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Every word of this is spot on. Well said, Ed Davey 👏🏻
“Trump is acting like an international gangster”
Ed Davey
Ed Davey
January 19, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Every word of this is spot on. Well said, Ed Davey 👏🏻
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Don’t vote for your worst nightmare! 😱
Vote:Liberal Democrats
Vote:Liberal Democrats
January 19, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Don’t vote for your worst nightmare! 😱
Vote:Liberal Democrats
Vote:Liberal Democrats
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Cc Starmer
Fukuyama: Trump is a bully who wants to dominate everyone around him. Trying to placate him with concessions is a fool’s errand. He despises weakness.
As an American, I say to my European friends: do not back down. Appeasing Trump with flattery has failed and must stop.
1/3
As an American, I say to my European friends: do not back down. Appeasing Trump with flattery has failed and must stop.
1/3
January 19, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Cc Starmer
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If ever there was a reason why we need to abolish the way that such sycophantic Clowns and Muppets are elected to the House of Lords... surely this would be it.
The world’s wrongest man, Daniel Hannan, contending that Trump’s utter unfitness for office only emerged *yesterday*…
Because it’s the only way the irredeemable idiot can cling on to the delusion that he’s not an irredeemable idiot.
Because it’s the only way the irredeemable idiot can cling on to the delusion that he’s not an irredeemable idiot.
January 19, 2026 at 9:11 PM
If ever there was a reason why we need to abolish the way that such sycophantic Clowns and Muppets are elected to the House of Lords... surely this would be it.
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Never forget: never let anyone else forget either.
January 19, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Never forget: never let anyone else forget either.
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Boots on the other foot now Nige…
2017. Farage: Carswell should face by-election after quitting UKIP
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...
2017. Farage: Carswell should face by-election after quitting UKIP
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...
Farage: Carswell should face by-election after quitting UKIP
The former UKIP leader says he will write to every house in Clacton to ask if they want another vote.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Boots on the other foot now Nige…
2017. Farage: Carswell should face by-election after quitting UKIP
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...
2017. Farage: Carswell should face by-election after quitting UKIP
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...
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And here we are with Starmer being all nicey nice don't poke the bear. The bear is already loose. The time for tiptoeing around is done. Stand with Germany and France FFS.
January 19, 2026 at 4:10 PM
And here we are with Starmer being all nicey nice don't poke the bear. The bear is already loose. The time for tiptoeing around is done. Stand with Germany and France FFS.
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also this:
"If Americans thought defending the liberal world order was too expensive, wait until they start paying for what comes next."
"If Americans thought defending the liberal world order was too expensive, wait until they start paying for what comes next."
Great Kagan piece, esp this:
"Perhaps more extraordinary than America’s ability and willingness to play the dominant role was the readiness of most other great powers to embrace and legitimize its dominance—even at the expense of their own potency."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
"Perhaps more extraordinary than America’s ability and willingness to play the dominant role was the readiness of most other great powers to embrace and legitimize its dominance—even at the expense of their own potency."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
America vs. the World
President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
also this:
"If Americans thought defending the liberal world order was too expensive, wait until they start paying for what comes next."
"If Americans thought defending the liberal world order was too expensive, wait until they start paying for what comes next."
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We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...
January 19, 2026 at 9:12 AM
We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...
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Stanley exemplifies everything that is wrong with British media and public life.
January 19, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Stanley exemplifies everything that is wrong with British media and public life.
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I've harped on congressional war powers for a long time and we do need to fix all that, but threatening to invade Greenland while ranting at Norway about the Nobel Peace Prize and imposing trade sanctions on NATO is more the kind of thing you can only fix by not having a literally insane president.
January 19, 2026 at 8:35 AM
I've harped on congressional war powers for a long time and we do need to fix all that, but threatening to invade Greenland while ranting at Norway about the Nobel Peace Prize and imposing trade sanctions on NATO is more the kind of thing you can only fix by not having a literally insane president.
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Ten years on: "For Britain, voting to leave will be a galvanising, liberating, empowering moment of patriotic renewal". Michael Gove.
January 19, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Ten years on: "For Britain, voting to leave will be a galvanising, liberating, empowering moment of patriotic renewal". Michael Gove.
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Palantir runs the tech for linking huge amounts of NHS data, and now for the UK Ministry of Defence too
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
January 19, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Palantir runs the tech for linking huge amounts of NHS data, and now for the UK Ministry of Defence too
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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i feel like Americans don't get the level of eye-rolling this is getting from Europe
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 AM
i feel like Americans don't get the level of eye-rolling this is getting from Europe
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Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
January 18, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
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Remember all those Tory defectors to the Lib Dems in 2019...? Gone, like tears in the rain.
It’s by no means impossible that Reform could fall back somewhat in the polls and be overtaken by the Conservatives - at which point it will be fascinating/priceless to watch the response of all the defectors.
January 18, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Remember all those Tory defectors to the Lib Dems in 2019...? Gone, like tears in the rain.
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
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The very stable geniuses of British politics should not be allowed to forget their sycophancy towards Trump.
January 18, 2026 at 8:40 PM
The very stable geniuses of British politics should not be allowed to forget their sycophancy towards Trump.
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Try harder, who was in gov in 2023? The contract for the NHS was already awarded… & it would have been prohibitively costly to extract ourselves. techinformed.com/palantir-win...
Palantir wins £330m software deal for NHS data platform - TechInformed
US-headquartered data analytics company Palantir has secured the contract to provide the technology for an NHS new data platform
techinformed.com
January 18, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Try harder, who was in gov in 2023? The contract for the NHS was already awarded… & it would have been prohibitively costly to extract ourselves. techinformed.com/palantir-win...
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This is great, a readable scientific and cultural history of vaccines that show just how amazing they are
The golden age of vaccine development - Works in Progress Magazine
The first vaccine was a lucky accident. Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.
worksinprogress.co
January 18, 2026 at 3:09 PM
This is great, a readable scientific and cultural history of vaccines that show just how amazing they are
If Polanski really believes he can convince Putin to give up nuclear weapons, he's even more naive than I previously thought.
Totally disqualifying for high office.
Totally disqualifying for high office.
Polanski believes that he can potentially convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to give up his nuclear weapons. Here is why that is not only dangerously foolish, but disqualifying.
www.frenchdispatch.eu/p/quick-reac...
www.frenchdispatch.eu/p/quick-reac...
Quick reaction to Zack Polanski’s Putin naïveté
Polanski believes that he can potentially convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to give up his nuclear weapons. Here is why that is not only dangerously foolish, but disqualifying.
www.frenchdispatch.eu
January 18, 2026 at 3:10 PM
If Polanski really believes he can convince Putin to give up nuclear weapons, he's even more naive than I previously thought.
Totally disqualifying for high office.
Totally disqualifying for high office.
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It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions.
Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.
Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.
January 18, 2026 at 10:51 AM
It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions.
Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.
Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.
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This sort of piece is truly embarrassing for all concerned. Just not serious. www.thetimes.com/article/a580...
Niall Ferguson: I was wrong to call Donald Trump a would-be tyrant
The historian was once a critic of the president-elect, but now says he is glad that Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris — and has already visited him at Mar-a-Lago
www.thetimes.com
January 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This sort of piece is truly embarrassing for all concerned. Just not serious. www.thetimes.com/article/a580...