I'm not sure I understand religion. My Christian family insists we all say what we're thankful for before dinner. They say things like "I'm thankful for the strength to be a good person," but get really angry when I say I'm thankful for things like Anusol and Sellotape.

Children embrace Cornish language as it enjoys ‘remarkable resurgence’

An enthralling, supernatural tale of friendship, zombies, and language. ‘Anfarwol’ is a marvelously written page-turner which follows a group of 11 year olds on a trip to a language immersion course to learn Welsh for the start of secondary school which suddenly goes awry ✍️Onwy Gower

Tom Morello can do no wrong.

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Yesterday, a judge ruled that four Palestine Action activists should be sentenced as terrorists, despite being tried by their jury for lesser charges relating to criminal damage. This is unprecedented. Anandita Abraham was outside court where John McDonnell MP and one of the jurors made speeches

Space ships, yeah? We’re all going to Mars are we? 2.2 Billion people in the world don’t have access to clean drinking water. Are you bringing them to Mars too? You bunch of gullible, greedy cunts.

I did a version of this years ago based around the actual illustration from a real army recruitment ad

Sex, austerity and mugs of vodka: how the Greek myth Iphigenia became a Welsh-language film sensation

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“AI makes no demands, requires no moral consideration, and does not attempt to germinate a culture, a cuisine, or a language in your sacred soil”: @doctorow.pluralistic.net on how billionaires are using AI to dispense with inconvenient humans www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to stay silent at Hay festival

A leaked letter signed by 400 female writers has criticised the corporation for what it calls the ‘silencing of women’s voices’ in women’s stories for commissioning a male writer for a drama about the Met police and the Sarah Everard murder. Read it in full here: www.thenerve.news/p/female-scr...

Disgyblion Ysgol Glantaf a Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen yn cyrraedd maes Eisteddfod yr Urdd yn 1978 i gystadlu côr bechgyn dan 12.

The former Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, on @Nigel_Farage's claims of Russian hacking.

Feeling bad about the Guardian's best 100 novels piece? Don't worry. I've made this just for you… mrmenbooks.lovable.app

As requested I have now added a link through to (where available) stories about how the Reform councillors lost their position: refukked.lovable.app

This is an excellent article on what we as libraries do. We are now more than ever often social workers as well as the multitude of other things we do. Staff shortages are now the norm and have been for years, unfortunately.

Linden Kemkaran of Reform there... head of a council that spent £600k of taxpayers money on eight free parking spaces for her and her colleagues

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

Cynhadledd gwych a diddorol iawn. Great conference, and an interesting one. Diolch! #CILIPCW26

Rhun Ap Iorwerth was answering questions from the media when they were interrupted by an impromptu rendition of Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau. No more questions. Sut rwy'n dy garu di, Gwlad y Gân. #Cymru #Annibyniaeth

The Reform group meeting when they find out that immigration isn’t anything to do with the Senedd 🥴👀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Public Duty Cost Allowance (PDCA) given to multi-millionaire former UK PMs in 2024-25. John Major £115,000 Tony Blair £115,000 Gordon Brown £114,644 David Cameron £85,054 Theresa May £114,319 Liz Truss £97,152 Boris Johnson £115,000 Rishi Sunak declined. All supported means-testing for benefits.

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Wales has 7.2k children/young people in care. Profit-making companies provide 80% of children’s residential home places, and a 1/3 of fostering. From 2030, profit-making will be banned in the sector. But there are serious issues with the plan . willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/the-most-v...

You have to feel sorry for James Dyson. Imagine buying up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax, only for Labour to then close the loophole. We need more patriots like him, who drive up farmland prices and vote for Brexit then fuck off to Singapore.

Isn’t this fantastic news. Beastings by @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social Which we published in 2014 Has been optioned by Mark Herbert at Warp Film (This is England) and Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters at Matriarch Productions (Adolescence & A Thousand Blows) Magic. @thetimes.com

NEW Stewart Lee column on Farage being a bad loser. "Maybe it’s time for Laura Kuenssberg and Nick Ferrari, and the phalanxes of Farage’s other supine news media enablers, to start calling him out" 🔗☟☟

CILIP highlights the importance of trained librarians who possess "the skills, knowledge and experience to ensure stock is appropriate for the communities they serve." And cautions "the need for critical judgement when using AI": https://ow.ly/L0HM50YBjZc

Every nation should treat billionaires like a natural resource and mine them of their riches until exhausted, just like a nice thick seam of coal or a reservoir of oil, then make the spoils available to the nation's citizens. If they crop up again, mine them again.

The company you keep, Nigel.

I'm a mature middle aged man with a family, serious job, responsibilities, atheist, but when I finish a boiled egg I still put my spoon through the bottom of the shell so the evil witches can't use it to sail across the river and attack the fairy kingdom.

It’s a pretty basic question. Does this guy own a chunk of our oldest Sunday newspaper @theobserveruk.bsky.social. And why won’t you tell us @theguardian.com? 11/

New in - The Toast Rack. The Hollings Building is a Manchester brutalist icon and now you can have it on your wall. Available as a print and a greeting card. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/brutalist-co...

Hannah Spencer being sworn in as a Green Party MP this afternoon, after winning the Gorton & Denton by-election last week. Photo: House of Commons

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February 2026: Maldives #AnywhereButClacton

You reap what you sow.

Reform-led Worcestershire set to issue England’s largest council tax rise

Glasgow Turkish barber hits back at Nigel Farage comments with hilarious hairstyle snaps

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Have a read of this. Great scoop, obviously, but it’s also an absolute masterclass in how to report on these jokers. Plenty of London-based hacks could learn a lot from Martin Shipton here. If they actually wanted to… nation.cymru/news/the-new...