Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

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So to recap: 🟣Farage made Gill Welsh UKIP leader 🟣Gill left UKIP 2 days after Farage and has admitted to his first count of Russian bribery THE SAME DAY 💎Gill joined Brexit party and re-elected to Brexit Party during the bribes period 💎Gill made Welsh Reform UK leader 11/14

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

The accidental decriminalisation of racist abuse We can't have this infinite tolerance of racism online without socialising impunity for overt racism this summer against minorities in parks, buses, racist stickers/graffiti on lampposts & restaurants and in person abuse bsky.app/profile/sund...

Totally lost the plot! Apologies to all foreigners legally settled in the UK. This is not who we are or who we want to become. #NotInMyName www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.

To remove indefinite leave to remain from people who already have it they'd have to dismantle our entire system of rights legislation and probably end judicial independence. But they could do that with a majority. They've said they'd do that.

Ed Davey: "Elon Musk is a danger to this country...He said civil war is inevitable...He said our democratically elected government should be overthrown. He's incited violence "He isn't interested in Britain and the British people. He's interested in his own economic interest, his own bank account."

Another fun game that sources data from Our World in Data!

Almost 900 fewer people have been injured on Welsh roads since the default speed limit was lowered from 30 to 20mph two years ago Casualties on 20 to 30mph roads between July and September 2024 were the lowest for the three month-period since records began in 1979 👏 Evidence-led policy

Welsh poll sees Plaid and Reform contesting a polarised electorate. Reform is the leading party among the over 50s (half of whom are on the righ politically). Plaid is resonating with the Welsh under 50 (where two-thirds vote for centre-left parties)

No party can dominate the Senedd. That’s the point. Labour scraped a majority once, in 2003. Every other year since 1999, Welsh Government has only functioned because someone else helped make it work - Lib Dems, Plaid, independents…

Reform Senedd election hopeful quits party amid blazing row over ‘rigged’ selection process

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…

Also the government & Labour party should get the hell off X. They wouldn't use a hostile foreign propaganda platform like Russia Today to deliver information to the UK public. So why expect UK voters & tax-payers to wade through torrents of disinformation & hate on Musk's hostile foreign platform?

🔴 NEW - Why you should leave X Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch. 📝 latest Substack 👇🏻

Angry Downing St aides need to reflect on their collective position that a structurally hostile information economy shouldn’t be changed.

Some people in Wales had a good idea. And perhaps we should all be adding RNLI flags to the current fashion? www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Cardiff will host a second Ukraine Film and Cultural Festival later this year, building on the success of last year’s inaugural event

You can read the Wales report here: www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-an...

At the 2026 election, this formula will help shape the Senedd. It allocates seats in rounds, turning votes into representation. Here’s how it works and what that means for voters in Wales. https://bit.ly/41pWuVi

For anyone who needs respite from the news, I highly recommend Taskmaster, an extremely silly long-running UK show in which five comedians compete at absurd tasks. Low-stress, high-pleasure, lots of laughs, utterly disconnected from reality. As your doctor, I hereby prescribe one episode minimum.

Hannah Arendt said 'The death of human empathy is one of the earliest & most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism' We saw the recent cruelty of MAGA denying empathy to Melissa Hortman Empathy for Kirk—not because he ever acted like a decent human—but because we are decent humans

There's no point trying to Notice something when there's not an official Event Of Noticing going on lad, that's just noticing

This isn't "just" Shaheds on Poland It's jamming v/d Leyen and German general's planes It's bombing the EU HQ in Kyiv It's bombing Ukr civilians every day and night with 800+ drones and missiles AND THIS IS JUST LAST WEEK.

This is a masterclass in narrative tension

My attempt to make them think again, supported by some of the wisest peers in the House of Lords, has so far fallen on deaf ears: video here parliamentlive.tv/Download/Ind... #BorderSecurityAct /2

We can’t ignore the consequences. A platform that thrives on despair and distrust corrodes our faith in institutions, our respect for each other, and our belief that progress is possible. 5/7 www.politicshome.com/news/article...

All these factors massively harm people & our communities. And they all come at an eye watering cost to us as taxpayers. Which is why Labour always pledged to close them. Now they’re planning to open more.

Police said two local teenagers were arrested following an April fire at a church in the Welsh town of Port Talbot, and they dismissed recirculating online rumors blaming Pakistani migrants for the blaze. Read more: u.afp.com/WelshFire

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

It is curious that we had decades of breathless excited reporting about building crack 'rebuttal' teams and databases - Excalibur, no less - and that all seems to have been switched to "mute" and "do not respond" when the primary oppponents are crammed full of cranks and racists

According to my local parent WhatsApp group, the new school playground insult is: "Your dad paints roundabouts"

Government and Parliament—often confused, yet their roles couldn’t be more different. Let’s take a closer look at what each does. https://bit.ly/4nGmZiw

Raskin: "The dictators of the world have got nothing to fear from this hearing. Republicans called it to attack our democratic allies in Europe. The star witness is not a human rights leader like Navalny, but a far-right pro-Putin politician who leads the UK Reform Party."

CAN YOU IMAGINE CALLING FOR SOMEONE TO BE ARRESTED FOR A TWEET?!?!

here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road

How do new political institutions evolve their practices? I take a look at the first meetings of the Welsh Cabinet in 1999. ukania.substack.com/p/the-first-...

Many readers know Desmond Clifford from his weekly book reviews on Nation.Cymru. Now, as he takes on the role of Books Editor, Des offers a fresh glimpse into his bookshelves and reading habits...

Disagree. Concern over immigration is entirely tied to prominence of immigration-related scare stories in the media. Correlation of latter with numbers of small boats or any other quantifiable phenomenon is uncertain and variable.

I sent her a response today: Washington state will not be bullied or intimidated by threats and legally baseless accusations.

Legendary singer Dafydd Iwan is furious after a racist far-right group used his anthemic song Yma o Hyd in a promotional video without his permission ✍️ Martin Shipton

“A family say their lives have been ruined after a video of a black man and his brother playing in the park with his white granddaughters was shared by Tommy Robinson and weaponised by the far right.”

You've GOT to be kidding me! The Conservatives - who oversaw every single thing on this list - are trying to claim that only the Conservatives would "stop the madness" - that they created...? So incredulity aside, what about the list itself? Let's go Debunking! 1/34

🤖 What many already knew. Helpful proof, reporting, documentation from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social: Meta allowing sensual roleplay with kids, promoting discrimination, giving false medical info. But listen, there's a tech PR trick I need to draw your attention to here. 🧵 www.reuters.com/investigates...

Once again, another excellent article from Fraser Nelson - who, as Editor of the Spectator, did more than anyone else in the UK media class to normalise the far-right conspiracist catastrophism he now so rightly decries. archive.ph/AFWfc#select...