Lizzi Collinge MP
@lizzicollinge.bsky.social
Labour MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, general interest nerd.
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- Confirmed bereavement leave after pregnancy loss, so that anyone who loses a pregnancy before 24 weeks, including partners, will have a right to two weeks’ leave
October 28, 2026 at 11:42 AM
- Confirmed bereavement leave after pregnancy loss, so that anyone who loses a pregnancy before 24 weeks, including partners, will have a right to two weeks’ leave
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In case you missed it, the Labour government over the past few weeks has:
- Doubled the rough sleeping fund, adding an extra £432m to offer everyone sleeping rough a route off the street by Christmas
- Extended statutory paternity pay to self-employed dads and same-sex partners
- Doubled the rough sleeping fund, adding an extra £432m to offer everyone sleeping rough a route off the street by Christmas
- Extended statutory paternity pay to self-employed dads and same-sex partners
October 28, 2026 at 11:42 AM
In case you missed it, the Labour government over the past few weeks has:
- Doubled the rough sleeping fund, adding an extra £432m to offer everyone sleeping rough a route off the street by Christmas
- Extended statutory paternity pay to self-employed dads and same-sex partners
- Doubled the rough sleeping fund, adding an extra £432m to offer everyone sleeping rough a route off the street by Christmas
- Extended statutory paternity pay to self-employed dads and same-sex partners
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🧵Spotted at the Ngatimoti Festival in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A small human (5?) with curly red hair, glares with absolute outrage at bucket full of peonies.
Pointing with UTMOST accusation, she roars: "LOOK AT THOSE SILLY FLOWERS!"
She does not truck with floral frippery.
A small human (5?) with curly red hair, glares with absolute outrage at bucket full of peonies.
Pointing with UTMOST accusation, she roars: "LOOK AT THOSE SILLY FLOWERS!"
She does not truck with floral frippery.
October 27, 2026 at 1:51 AM
🧵Spotted at the Ngatimoti Festival in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A small human (5?) with curly red hair, glares with absolute outrage at bucket full of peonies.
Pointing with UTMOST accusation, she roars: "LOOK AT THOSE SILLY FLOWERS!"
She does not truck with floral frippery.
A small human (5?) with curly red hair, glares with absolute outrage at bucket full of peonies.
Pointing with UTMOST accusation, she roars: "LOOK AT THOSE SILLY FLOWERS!"
She does not truck with floral frippery.
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I'm delighted that the Prime Minister has today introduced two weeks paid paternity leave for self-employed dads
16% of working men in Bracknell Forest are self-employed. Today's announcement is worth up to £194 extra a week for self-employed dads at a time when it can make the biggest difference
16% of working men in Bracknell Forest are self-employed. Today's announcement is worth up to £194 extra a week for self-employed dads at a time when it can make the biggest difference
October 27, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I'm delighted that the Prime Minister has today introduced two weeks paid paternity leave for self-employed dads
16% of working men in Bracknell Forest are self-employed. Today's announcement is worth up to £194 extra a week for self-employed dads at a time when it can make the biggest difference
16% of working men in Bracknell Forest are self-employed. Today's announcement is worth up to £194 extra a week for self-employed dads at a time when it can make the biggest difference
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What if we could heat our homes without relying on expensive gas?
Introducing… the Warm Homes Loan scheme
Introducing… the Warm Homes Loan scheme
October 27, 2026 at 10:55 AM
What if we could heat our homes without relying on expensive gas?
Introducing… the Warm Homes Loan scheme
Introducing… the Warm Homes Loan scheme
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All of which means that the answer to the question “why is Portugal a nation” is, basically, “because it is”. You can see points in the story where it could have been otherwise – but none of those things happened.
On Portugal and Portugueseness
Yet more waffling on the contingency of national identity. Also: some gratuitous Americanisations.
jonn.substack.com
October 25, 2026 at 9:44 AM
All of which means that the answer to the question “why is Portugal a nation” is, basically, “because it is”. You can see points in the story where it could have been otherwise – but none of those things happened.
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What’s that you say? Liz has a new book out which even the Telegraph is saying is even more unhinged than the last one? Wonderful, I’ll post this then.
![[Scene is a PUBLISHER's OFFICE. The PUBLISHER is sitting having a casual chat with her author, LIZ TRUSS].
PUBLISHER:
Liz we are so excited to be publishing your book
Now all we need is a really punchy title. I was thinking-
LIZ:
'I Didn't Kill The Queen'
PUBLISHER:
Sorry?
LIZ:
'I Didn't Kill The Queen'
PUBLISHER:
Why would you call it that
LIZ:
Because it's true, I didn't.
PUBLISHER:
I didn't say you did.
LIZ:
Well of course you wouldn't cos I didn't.
I mocked it up, look.
[Liz shows the Publisher a book cover she has mocked up herself. It shows Liz standing next to a Union Jack, and reads: LIZ TRUSS: I DIDN'T KILL THE QUEEN]
PUBLISHER:
Don't you think if you call your book I Didn't Kill The Queen' it sounds a bit like... you killed the Queen?
LIZ [pointing at the cover]:
No look there's a 'didn't'.
LIZ [Changing tack, looking creative and excited]:
OK, OK. How about:
'I Just Met The Queen and Then Two Days Later She Died'.
PUBLISHER:
Let's drop the Queen bit.
'I Didn't Kill The Economy'?
PUBLISHER:
No.
'I Didn't Kill The Conservative Party'!
PUBLISHER:
No. Look, Liz-
All we need is a forward-looking title that an American will see in a bookshop and think:
"She looks unhinged, let's put her on Fox News".
LIZ:
'The Wokes Are Coming To Kill You'
PUBLISHER:
We're so nearly there.
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October 27, 2026 at 11:16 AM
What’s that you say? Liz has a new book out which even the Telegraph is saying is even more unhinged than the last one? Wonderful, I’ll post this then.
My kids are absolutely the best people. Yday we found out that my FiL died - my 11yo held himself together to walk my 8yo back home before we told her, and took himself away so she had peace to hear it. Today the 8yo deliberately distracted me from tears by asking about my favourite zoo animals.
my heart!
Alt: A woman in an audience says my heart!
static.klipy.com
October 27, 2026 at 8:11 AM
My kids are absolutely the best people. Yday we found out that my FiL died - my 11yo held himself together to walk my 8yo back home before we told her, and took himself away so she had peace to hear it. Today the 8yo deliberately distracted me from tears by asking about my favourite zoo animals.
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Half term continues, and if you're after ideas to keep everyone entertained, head to the website for:
🚶♂️ Our free walking app
🚌 Travel inspiration – discover how easy it is to visit by train and bus
📆 Events guide – find out what's happening across the National Park
📸 Reluctant Explorers
🚶♂️ Our free walking app
🚌 Travel inspiration – discover how easy it is to visit by train and bus
📆 Events guide – find out what's happening across the National Park
📸 Reluctant Explorers
October 27, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Half term continues, and if you're after ideas to keep everyone entertained, head to the website for:
🚶♂️ Our free walking app
🚌 Travel inspiration – discover how easy it is to visit by train and bus
📆 Events guide – find out what's happening across the National Park
📸 Reluctant Explorers
🚶♂️ Our free walking app
🚌 Travel inspiration – discover how easy it is to visit by train and bus
📆 Events guide – find out what's happening across the National Park
📸 Reluctant Explorers
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Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory.
Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry.
Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry
Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988
Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry.
Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry
Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
October 27, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory.
Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry.
Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry
Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988
Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry.
Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry
Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988
Had this conversation at a recent local project meeting where someone suggested we need to have a less dense population in part of one of our towns...
TBH, with a literal handful of exceptions, you can have the old high street back if you are willing to knock down and densify the actual buildings on, in and around the high street.
The old high street isnt coming back - so what does the new one look like?
October 26, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Had this conversation at a recent local project meeting where someone suggested we need to have a less dense population in part of one of our towns...
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Leaving a high-control religious group is one of the most painful experiences a person can go through.
You can lose everything and everyone.
We're here to help. Are you?
Donate to @faith2faithless.bsky.social.
Even £5 can help our service keep going.
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You can lose everything and everyone.
We're here to help. Are you?
Donate to @faith2faithless.bsky.social.
Even £5 can help our service keep going.
humanists.uk/donate/actio...
October 26, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Leaving a high-control religious group is one of the most painful experiences a person can go through.
You can lose everything and everyone.
We're here to help. Are you?
Donate to @faith2faithless.bsky.social.
Even £5 can help our service keep going.
humanists.uk/donate/actio...
You can lose everything and everyone.
We're here to help. Are you?
Donate to @faith2faithless.bsky.social.
Even £5 can help our service keep going.
humanists.uk/donate/actio...
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London has probably now got the cleanest air out of any equivalent sized cities in the world thanks to Ulez, electric cars and buses.
October 24, 2026 at 2:02 PM
London has probably now got the cleanest air out of any equivalent sized cities in the world thanks to Ulez, electric cars and buses.
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There really isn't much more to it than that. Disaster prep is just the latest discourse. Look at the actual advice, it's all pretty normal and sensible. There's no big secret D-Notice forcing the media to coverage it. It's just getting sweet, sweet clicks.
October 25, 2026 at 5:12 PM
There really isn't much more to it than that. Disaster prep is just the latest discourse. Look at the actual advice, it's all pretty normal and sensible. There's no big secret D-Notice forcing the media to coverage it. It's just getting sweet, sweet clicks.
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The government has renewed longstanding advice in disaster preparedness, with a bit more energy than usual because lots of cyber stuff atm, bit of Russia, and particularly el Niño. Have you seen the weather this weekend?
The media is doing loads of coverage because you're clicking it.
The media is doing loads of coverage because you're clicking it.
October 25, 2026 at 5:12 PM
The government has renewed longstanding advice in disaster preparedness, with a bit more energy than usual because lots of cyber stuff atm, bit of Russia, and particularly el Niño. Have you seen the weather this weekend?
The media is doing loads of coverage because you're clicking it.
The media is doing loads of coverage because you're clicking it.
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Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
October 24, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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National Commission – an idea whose time has come – but what’s the idea?
Join us – to discuss the promised National Commission on Electoral Reform.
Zoom session 7pm Tuesday 3rd November – email [email protected] to register, and we will send you the link on Monday 2nd.
Join us – to discuss the promised National Commission on Electoral Reform.
Zoom session 7pm Tuesday 3rd November – email [email protected] to register, and we will send you the link on Monday 2nd.
October 23, 2026 at 6:21 PM
National Commission – an idea whose time has come – but what’s the idea?
Join us – to discuss the promised National Commission on Electoral Reform.
Zoom session 7pm Tuesday 3rd November – email [email protected] to register, and we will send you the link on Monday 2nd.
Join us – to discuss the promised National Commission on Electoral Reform.
Zoom session 7pm Tuesday 3rd November – email [email protected] to register, and we will send you the link on Monday 2nd.
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This is genuinely incredibly infuriating in a housing crisis - and a classic consequence of purity over pragmatism.
1744 much needed homes, 98 for social rent and 231 affordable. Yes, not as many as you'd like but now you're not getting a single one.
Green politics again.
1744 much needed homes, 98 for social rent and 231 affordable. Yes, not as many as you'd like but now you're not getting a single one.
Green politics again.
I've written to the Mayor of Lewisham after Landsec deprioritised the Lewisham Shopping Centre redevelopment.
The scheme wasn't perfect, but losing a once-in-a-generation £1.5bn investment in our town centre raises serious questions.
We need to know what happens now.
The scheme wasn't perfect, but losing a once-in-a-generation £1.5bn investment in our town centre raises serious questions.
We need to know what happens now.
October 24, 2026 at 7:37 AM
This is genuinely incredibly infuriating in a housing crisis - and a classic consequence of purity over pragmatism.
1744 much needed homes, 98 for social rent and 231 affordable. Yes, not as many as you'd like but now you're not getting a single one.
Green politics again.
1744 much needed homes, 98 for social rent and 231 affordable. Yes, not as many as you'd like but now you're not getting a single one.
Green politics again.
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There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere*
Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines
As a species we decided, “we will survive”
Let’s do that some more
Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines
As a species we decided, “we will survive”
Let’s do that some more
Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
October 24, 2026 at 1:39 AM
There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere*
Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines
As a species we decided, “we will survive”
Let’s do that some more
Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines
As a species we decided, “we will survive”
Let’s do that some more
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In England, no women aged 20 to 24 died of cervical cancer between 2020 and 2024, according to a study published in The Lancet. Researchers link it to the HPV vaccine.
October 23, 2026 at 11:31 AM
In England, no women aged 20 to 24 died of cervical cancer between 2020 and 2024, according to a study published in The Lancet. Researchers link it to the HPV vaccine.
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🤦 U-ground cables bc they can't be air cooled for free like OHL have to be wider spaced. To match a 400kV double circuit OHL you'd be looking at a dozen cables across 4 trenches and 200+ft wide disturbance zone!
October 23, 2026 at 6:19 PM
🤦 U-ground cables bc they can't be air cooled for free like OHL have to be wider spaced. To match a 400kV double circuit OHL you'd be looking at a dozen cables across 4 trenches and 200+ft wide disturbance zone!
Undergrounding cables is vastly more environmentally destructive and expensive than pylons.
I live very near two nuclear power stations, a wind farm, a huge substation and loads of pylons. I drive past them loads and I'm dead proud that Heysham is central to our energy security.
I live very near two nuclear power stations, a wind farm, a huge substation and loads of pylons. I drive past them loads and I'm dead proud that Heysham is central to our energy security.
Wales plans to ban steel pylons as government launches consultation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wales could ban steel pylons as government launches consultation
The Welsh government says it is consulting on an "undergrounding-first approach" to electricity lines.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Undergrounding cables is vastly more environmentally destructive and expensive than pylons.
I live very near two nuclear power stations, a wind farm, a huge substation and loads of pylons. I drive past them loads and I'm dead proud that Heysham is central to our energy security.
I live very near two nuclear power stations, a wind farm, a huge substation and loads of pylons. I drive past them loads and I'm dead proud that Heysham is central to our energy security.
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that's fine, I'm sure we can astral project all the new renewable energy to where it needs to be
Wales plans to ban steel pylons as government launches consultation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wales could ban steel pylons as government launches consultation
The Welsh government says it is consulting on an "undergrounding-first approach" to electricity lines.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2026 at 1:18 PM
that's fine, I'm sure we can astral project all the new renewable energy to where it needs to be
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Agree with every word of this: and the same applies to British politics.
The idea there is a uniparty or it just doesnt matter is one of huge privilage: Labour winning in 2024 matters to the 350k kids who have been lifted out of poverty or every renewable plant that is built.
The idea there is a uniparty or it just doesnt matter is one of huge privilage: Labour winning in 2024 matters to the 350k kids who have been lifted out of poverty or every renewable plant that is built.
Yes and also this sort of 'uniparty' nonsense feels so hollow deployed in the midst of a national stove-touching.
It turns out the difference between a 'milquetoast corporate Democrat' and Trump was really big!
President Harris would not be driving trans soldiers out of the military!
It turns out the difference between a 'milquetoast corporate Democrat' and Trump was really big!
President Harris would not be driving trans soldiers out of the military!
youtubers, streamers, podcasters, etc are always on this beat bc they don't know how anything works & know that if they say something like this, their audiences will lap it up now & also 3 years later when they point to total gay commie revolution not happening and go "see? i was right!"
October 22, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Agree with every word of this: and the same applies to British politics.
The idea there is a uniparty or it just doesnt matter is one of huge privilage: Labour winning in 2024 matters to the 350k kids who have been lifted out of poverty or every renewable plant that is built.
The idea there is a uniparty or it just doesnt matter is one of huge privilage: Labour winning in 2024 matters to the 350k kids who have been lifted out of poverty or every renewable plant that is built.