🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 47% = Plaid / Green 😲

Caerffili 2-0 Farage #HopeNotHate #NoPasarán ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Labour - the party's over

📣 Now available globally in paperback & ebook 📣 Four classic titles for students of #ScandinavianStudies #NordicStudies & #MedievalLiterature @oxscandistudies.bsky.social @apardjon1.bsky.social @sagathingpodcast.bsky.social @loremyth.bsky.social @northerntapestry.bsky.social

🎉 Published Today 🎉 New paperback & ebook editions of The Saga of Hávarður of Ísafjörður www.welsh-academic-press.wales Available globally via #Ingram #IPS #LightningSource #NordicStudies #IcelandicSagas #ScandinavianStudies

Published today! Allan heddiw! Comprehensive explanations of the names of 900 towns, villages and hamlets - from Aberangell to Ystumgynon - in the historic Welsh county of Montgomeryshire / Sir Trefaldwyn. ➡️ www.welsh-academic-press.wales @placenames.bsky.social @englishplacenames.bsky.social

🏉OFFLOADING - TACKLING MY TRUTH🏉 The powerful and deeply personal memoir of former Wales and Lions rugby international Dafydd James who poignantly and courageously reveals the human cost of his sporting success. Available in pbk from @swanseastones.bsky.social from 30 Sept

Snubbed Leicester legend was 'the best coach England never had' The first biography of 'Chalkie' White - Out 25 Sept in pb & ebk www.rugbypass.com/news/preview...

OTD: 8 September 1936. Lewis Valentine, Saunders Lewis & DJ Williams, leaders of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru, now @plaidcymru.bsky.social burnt down the partly-built RAF bombing school at #Penyberth and changed the course of Welsh history. Now available in pbk & ebk: www.welsh-academic-press.wales

📚Out 23 October📚 Over 900 place-names explained, from Aberangell to Ystumgynon. Order now: www.welsh-academic-press.wales

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Cracking #WalesCast interview with @emyrlewis.bsky.social outlining how the UK Parliament (& UK Govt behind the scenes) has AGAIN created convoluted legislation to specifically avoid giving the Welsh Parliament the right to legislate on important domestic matters - here assisted dying: #Senedd26

June 23 is St John’s Eve — Midsummer Night. In Welsh folklore, it was a night to beware the Cŵn Annwn —ghostly hounds from the Otherworld — who roam the lonely roads and byways of Wales in eerie procession. Listen carefully, they might be closer than you think... #Wales #Folklore

🚨🚨 #brexit anniversary: Office of Budget Responsibility predictions of £ 40 bn hit to public finances has proven correct according to research by top economist @johnspringford.bsky.social . www.thetimes.com/article/346e...

Five things to remember about war:

'There is now ample evidence that independence for Scotland and Wales would result in a stronger economy than remaining in the UK' ✍️ Read the full article: www.thenational.scot/politics/252...

Dear America friends, this is what Scotland did when our equivalent to ICE tried to take away our friends and neighbours We freed them and then ran the uniformed goon squad out of town Do not back down. You’ll win if you stand firm Some reading if it’s required en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenmure...

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Clydebank Waterfront (West Dunbartonshire) council by-election result: SNP: 35.6% (+5.6) REF: 26.3% (+26.3) LAB: 25.3% (-29.5) LDEM: 4.7% (+4.7) CON: 2.9% (-8.4) Seat change: SNP HOLD. +/- 2022 andrewteale.me.uk/previews

Starmer's Britain. Not even subtle.

After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening. That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk. Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

A reminder that when the Sycamore Gap tree was cut down people immediately started blaming immigrants and teenagers... It was neither. It was two white Englishmen in their 30s.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

Wow! Seismic poll for the 2026 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 election • Plaid to govern Wales • Plaid ahead in Cardiff 🤯 • Labour to lose a Westminster/Senedd election for the first time since 1922! Anhygoel! 💪🏽

A sensational new poll on voting intention at next year’s Senedd election has put Plaid Cymru in the lead with 30% of the vote - 12 points ahead of Labour on 18% and five points ahead of Reform UK on 25% ✍️Martin Shipton

The cruelty is the point. The banal, vicious, performative cruelty. Turns out ‘anti-woke’ just meant anti-decency, anti-humanity & anti-rule of law.

Not only is the 41% for #IndyWales a true breakthrough moment, but the 72% support from the 25-34 demographic clearly shows the direction of travel. @yes.cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #annibyniaeth

“There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’” My myth-busting piece for The Guardian today arguing that it is factually inaccurate & totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ & are automatically ‘criminals’. I bring receipts:

Marine Le Pen and her €4.7 million stolen from EU funds, she calls it politics. When thieves wear suits and wave flags, it’s not nationalism—it’s organized crime with a voter base.

Turns out Le Pen is not mightier than the fraud.

Mutiny brews in French bookshops over Hachette owner’s media grip

Quelle suprise

Kaja Kallas, "Our democracies should not be spaces where foreign actors can pressure us to think in certain ways" "Russia has invested over a billion euros in their state controlled propaganda" "We must consider the integrity of our information space as important as our territorial integrity"

Trump has demanded multiple concessions from Ukraine BUT nothing meaningful from Russia. Putin offering a 30 day pause on energy infrastructure attacks is only because Ukraine now has 600-mile range Neptune missiles. Other Putin demands are ludicrous & designed to drive wedge between US & EU/NATO.

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

America 2025. #StandWithUkraine🇺🇦 "The State Department has quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of alleged Russian abductions of Ukrainian children—a potential war crime."

In all honesty, James, if you don't know the background by now where have you been for the past 20 years? Any half-arsed glance at Putin's record since 1999 should have provided a decent clue. As a Welshman, Ukraine's plight v. 🇷🇺 should be ringing loud bells in your musical ears. C'mon mun!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 has lost a musical giant with the passing of Geraint Jarman. Embedded in the Welsh literary tradition but profoundly influenced by the sounds and culture of Cardiff's Tiger Bay, Jarman was a musical genius who fused his two loves to create something completely original youtu.be/3LGhGKPfGbI?...

Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped. American voters:

If you think standing by your allies is expensive, wait until you see the cost of abandoning them.

In Welsh, we'd say "coc oen" (a lamb's cock: i.e. an insignificant & inconsequential prick), but this also applies 👏🏽👏🏽

Farewell to the last remaining member of Badfinger. Sad to hear Joey Molland passed away over the weekend. One of the greatest bands to come out of Swansea, Joey played guitar on ‘Without You’, ‘Day After Day’ and the glorious ‘No Matter What’. #Badfinger

🎯 👇🏽 (See also, Brexit)

He didn't wear a suit, but he received a pardon and was treated better than Zelenskyy was.

Putin's Poodles #KGBNews