From our latest (and final... perhaps!) pod, Lee questions the lessons that the Labour Party in Wales is - or isn't - taking from the devastating losses for the party in Scotland. from which is has never recovered. @lauramcallister30.bsky.social #Wales #Cymru

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

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A truly bizarre article about Reform and the Heartland Institute that astonishingly omits to mention that Heartland is funded by and represents the US oil industry.

“For Farage, being close to the US president is an end, not a means. It is a kind of social revenge” - excellent column by Janan Ganesh in the FT on.ft.com/4m5JKdJ

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana

That's even better! Temporary art is a living thing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A virtue of a necessity. I suspect Welsh VCs will resist, until they can't. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dockless bicycles become the ‘winners’ of London’s Tube strike on.ft.com/3V5Cp31

British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold. “We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.

Media when doctor shows up at WH while Biden is in office: President Definitely Has Parkinsons Media when a drawing of a young girl in a birthday card to the world's most famous pedophile is signed by the current President: we've seen no wrongdoing

Basically every trip in London is fastest by bike, it’s remarkable

Will this get as much attention at that poll showing Reform on 35% a few weeks ago? Ofc not. Always look at trends not individual polls.

What a great shot Robin Weaver — Neighbours in Blaencwm, 1973 britishculturearchive.co.uk/product/neig...

Talk about tone deaf… www.thetimes.com/article/6bd1...

Disposable face masks used during Covid have left chemical timebomb, research suggests

Narrator: they did not, in fact, get anything in the reshuffle:

£100m profit last year. A company that has lost its way.

With such astute advice all will be well

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Another example of civil society censoring itself, creating a simulacrum of normality when things are not normal

This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4

Just as he was doing interesting stuff on digital he gets moved. Crazy way to run a country

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Curtice sets the data out clearly. He notes quietly that Reform is the party of Brexit when Brexit is unpopular gives them a path to 30% and a likely ceiling which will hurt them in FPTP if the other 50-60% decide that Farage as PM for triple Brexit should be stopped www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reform and X are not Britain, as John Curtice shows, though this loud minority voice thinks it is Migration bad for economy? 32% of public - but 73% of Reform Bad for our culture? 31% of public - 81% of Reform Rights for ethnic minorities have gone too far? 18% of public - but 49% of Reform

Sort of dizzying to think about how many people are alive today because Patricia Hewitt (ban on smoking in enclosed spaces) was health secretary and because Norman Fowler (mandatory seatbelts) was transport secretary and health secretary (HIV/Aids).

Carbon capture set to be less useful in tackling climate change, scientists warn - FT on.ft.com/4nigq4Z

This is brilliant 👏🏼

That’s the wrong answer

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Shamaan Freeman-Powell was interviewing Zahin in Nuneaton when a group of white women interrupted them, hurling abuse & threats. Here Sky News discusses that confrontation The entire mainstream media should reflect on their role in bringing us to this point. They wont, of course

British baby dies from whooping cough as vaccination rates fall

Director of European Transport Safety Council: "Europe now risks being flooded with oversized, under-regulated US pick-up trucks and SUVs – heavier, more dangerous to other car drivers, pedestrians and cyclists, and completely out of step with Europe’s vision for safer, more sustainable mobility.”

If Angela Rayner lived in a cardboard box, the Telegraph would claim she nicked it.

Doctors develop AI stethoscope that can detect major heart conditions in 15 seconds

New Chief Economic Adviser to PM is former Bank of England deputy governor, deputy managing director of the IMF and vice-president of the World Bank. Is the answer more orthodox technocracy? on.ft.com/4mzagxj

BREAKING: 60 UK politicians have signed PauseAI's open letter to Demis Hassabis on Google DeepMind’s violation of the Frontier AI Safety Commitments.

“What started as a programme to boost the economy is now a massive drain on taxpayer money…Public money is flowing straight into commercial banks’ coffers because of a flawed policy design” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

For those in Wales unsure of how to vote next May in the Senedd elections - bear this in mind...

This is just next level insanity. In January this year, Reform picked Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, to run as their Croydon Mayoral candidate. There was just one rather significant problem. She had sadly died in July 2024. insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...

Well I was already feeling old…

"Farage is a far-right activist who's stirring up trouble.” Home Office Minister Lord Hanson tells @cathynewman.bsky.social the Reform UK leader's mass deportation plans for asylum seekers are “not deliverable and not supportable”. Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/farages...

This is what happens when you build key public services out of town with no public transport links www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Farage doesn't have plans. He has the back of a cigarette packet. And after ten years of this nonsense, chaos and hate you'd think someone would have the bollocks to point that out.

““We won’t be commenting on this matter” is a pretty lame response from Plaid nation.cymru/news/plaid-c...

Speedboat that can be dropped by helicopter, controlled from anywhere in the world via a tablet, and launch hundreds of armed drones being trialled Robotic warfare is here Report in Times: www.thetimes.com/article/b7a4...

Isn’t this what the secret police do in oppressive regimes?