Christopher Woolmer 🔶

🔶 Organist / LibDem Councillor for Sutton West & East Cheam in Sutton Borough/ Chair of Environment & Sustainable Transport

[Chris Rennard 🔶💙🇺🇦 @LordRennard]

With all the scandals surrounding money and politics, we need to cut the capacity for political parties and elections to be bought. As a step we need to lower the national spending levels, which the last Conservative Government increased by 80% just before the last election.

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Our democracy is under threat. From the Kremlin to Mar-a-Lago, powerful men are trying to destroy our great country.

Our new laws would ban foreign money, block foreign ads, and stop tech giants like Elon Musk buying influence.

We need action now. Only our party is offering it.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Pope Leo XIV’s address in English at the publication of his Encyclical Letter Magnifica humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the age of Artificial Intelligence.

Do listen to all of it. It is very good.

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Russia’s massive attack on Ukraine last night shows the Kremlin’s brutality and disregard for both human life and peace negotiations.

Terror against civilians is not strength. It's despair.

We stand firmly with Ukraine, with further support on the way to reinforce its air defence systems.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Since last night, first responders and all necessary services have been working wherever needed. As of now, at least 83 people have been confirmed injured since midnight. Tragically, there are fatalities. My condolences to the families and loved ones.

It was a heavy attack – 90 missiles of various types, many of them ballistic missiles – 36 in total. There were 600 drones. Unfortunately, not all of the ballistic missiles were intercepted – the largest number of hits was in Kyiv. Kyiv was the primary target of this Russian attack.

Putin can’t even pronounce the word “hurrah” clearly anymore – slurs and mumbles – yet he is still vanquishing residential buildings with his missiles. Launched three Russian missiles against a water supply facility. Burned down a market. Damaged dozens of residential buildings. Hit several ordinary schools. Launched his “Oreshnik” against Bila Tserkva. They really are unhinged.

It is important that this does not pass without consequences for Russia. Today, everyone in the world who will not stay silent and chooses to help Ukraine is a defender of life. It is critically important to continue working to secure air defense for Ukraine, especially anti-ballistic capabilities.

We are doing our best to achieve peace and protect people – everything. It is important that Ukraine is not alone. Decisions are needed – from the United States, from Europe and others – to make that old “Oreshnik” in Moscow finally utter the word “peace.”

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Our intelligence services reported receiving data, including from American and European partners, about Russia preparing a strike with the Oreshnik missile. We are verifying this information.

We are seeing signs of preparation for a combined strike on Ukrainian territory, including Kyiv, involving various types of weaponry. The specified intermediate-range weapons could be used in such a strike. It is important to act responsibly on air-raid alerts, starting this evening. Russian madness truly knows no bounds, so please protect your lives – use shelters.

Second, we are drawing the attention of our partners in the United States and in Europe to the fact that the use of such weapons and the prolongation of this war also sets a global precedent for other potential aggressors. If Russia is allowed to destroy lives on such a scale, then no agreement will restrain other similar hatred-based regimes from aggression and strikes. We count on a response from the world – and on a response that is not post factum, but preventive. Pressure must be put on Moscow so that it does not expand the war.

Third, we are preparing our air defense as much as possible, and we will respond fully justly to every Russian strike. We have given permission for a parade, but Russia has no permission for madness. This war must be ended – we need peace, not some missiles satisfying the sick ambitions of one individual. I thank everyone helping to protect lives. Once again, please take care of yourselves and use shelters tonight.

[Meanwhile in Ukraine @MeanwhileInUA]

Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works.

Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this."

That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door.

Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply.

Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

❗️Part of a residential building in Kyiv crashed by the Russian attack.

There are people trapped under the debris.

Russia attacks Ukrainian civilians. Every single day.

[Cllr Jake Short 🔶 @jakeshortj]

First proper meeting of the new 51-strong @SuttonLibDems administration group yesterday 😍 (and these photos aren’t even all of us!)

[Chris Rennard 🔶💙🇺🇦 @LordRennard]

Ironic that @ZackPolanski only joined the @TheGreenParty when @LibDems wouldn’t allow him to be our candidate in the Richmond parliamentary by-election. Now the Greens have lost all their seats on Richmond Council and Lib Dems have made a clean sweep winning every seat! 🔶🔶🔶

[Christopher Woolmer 🔶 @CMWoolmer]

@MarishaRayLD @marisharay @LibDems Thank you Marisha! I am on @cmwoolmer.bsky.social

[Christopher Woolmer 🔶 @CMWoolmer]

I am honoured and delighted to have been re-elected as a Councillor for SWEC in Sutton with 1967 votes and I am immensely proud of my colleagues in the ward, Cllr Louise Phelan and Cllr Qasim Esak!
The LibDems in Sutton now have 51 out of 55 seats.

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

People across the country are turning to the Liberal Democrats as the only party that can stop Reform and elect strong local community champions.

We focus on church roofs, sewage and the cost of living, not copying the Trump playbook of divisive populism.

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

It looks like Farage has been bought out by foreign Bitcoin billionaires, but he’s deluded if he thinks the British people will stand for this.

From lobbying for crypto tax cuts to online bitcoin stunts, it seems Farage is only interested in lining his own pockets

[Christopher Woolmer 🔶 @CMWoolmer]

Unite to Save the Pipes: 1978 Casavant Memorial Organ - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/r8zbQDpQUW via @UKChange

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

What a story. What a woman. What an example to every one of us.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Trump, Putin, Farage… your boy took a hell of a beating.

Congratulations to the people of Hungary for showing that populist extremists can be defeated – even despite Donald Trump’s best efforts.