The hoarding of power by Westminster isn’t doing anyone outside London any favours. Whoever is the next Prime Minister must ensure Wales gets a fair deal where devolution is respected and greater powers are given in line with the mandate delivered by the people of Wales.

Despite Hitchens’ attack, Raymond Williams was generally right about Orwell.

Seventy years after Paul Robeson testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, his searing testimony continues to echo.

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

"Internationalist, not isolationist" 🔥 While Reform and the Tories want to close Wales off to the world - Plaid Cymru is proudly showcasing our talent, skills, and culture to bring more investment to our communities. When Wales works internationally, Welsh people benefit. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Dead Poets Society (1989) Director: Peter Weir

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

One of the most talked-about films to come from Wales this decade, Effi of Blaenau, hits cinemas from today - with showings across the UK, from Glasgow to London and right across Wales

Cydnabyddiaeth arbennig i Dr Simon Brooks Cafodd gwobrau arbennig y Coleg Cymraeg eu cynnal yng Nghaerdydd, nos Fercher, Mehefin 17 i gydnabod addysgwyr, dysgwyr a phrentisiaid o fri ✍️ Fflur James

Plaid Cymru have held on to three Wrexham Council seats despite a strong push from Reform UK

For the third by-election in a row Reform UK offered voters the politics of rage and for the third time in a row they have been roundly rejected as a result. How Andy Burnham's massive victory in Makerfield shows the wheels are now coming off of the Nigel Farage project

A great honour to have my book ‘Black Skin Blue Books’ in the @barackobama.bsky.

Acton & Maesdrye (Wrexham) Council By-Election Result: 🌼 PLC: 38.8% (+1.8) ➡️ RFM: 34.1% (New) 🌹 LAB: 11.1% (-14.4) 🙋 Ind: 8.2% (New) 🌳 CON: 5.9% (-6.4) 🔶 LDM: 0.9% (New) 🌍 GRN: 0.9% (-2.4) No Ind (-21.9) as previous. Plaid Cyrmu HOLD. Changes w/ 2022.

Remember all those articles about how young men are becoming much more right wing and pro-Reform than older men? Well it turns out the opposite is actually true

🚨 Today, this Plaid Cymru government is announcing £55m to complete the childcare expansion for 2 year olds - and support the full roll out of our transformative childcare offer. We said we'd roll out free childcare to support families, and that's exactly what we're doing. ❤️

Wales' oldest surviving synagogue is to undergo a major restoration after receiving nearly £4 million in funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund ✍️ @emilypricejourno.bsky.social

This confirms something a lot of people in Westminster noticed: while Farage was happy to bluster through the Schoolboy Nazi stuff, he has gone to ground over the £5million "gift". The story has Reform worried.

A Reform MS has been sharply criticised for making "vile" remarks about asylum seekers in the Senedd, with one MS of Pakistani heritage becoming visibly emotional following the "disturbing" contribution ✍️ @emilypricejourno.bsky.social

Reform choose to spread division and stoke hatred. Plaid Cymru chooses to bring communities together.

For many people seeking safety in Wales, arriving is only the beginning of the journey. Leaving behind home, family, language, work, and familiarity takes enormous courage. Often, this courage to rebuild is strengthened by experiencing somebody else’s compassion ✍️ Laura Kemmer-Amoda

Fans of Welsh Literature academics might like to see photos of @awwe.bsky.social's 2026 conference at Prifysgol Aberystwyth University in May. flic.kr/s/aHBqjCWMDH

Werner Sollors @swanseauni.bsky.social South Wales Miners’ Library, Y Storfa, Swansea. June 24. On Werner see: www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/12/harv...

A special event marking the anniversary of the Epynt clearances will revisit one of the most significant forced displacements of a Welsh-speaking community in modern Welsh history

This week in the Senedd I was proud to set out my priorities as Cabinet Minister for Social Justice and Equality. / Yr wythnos hon yn y Senedd roeddwn yn falch o nodi fy mlaenoriaethau fel Gweinidog y Cabinet dros Gyfiawnder Cymdeithasol a Chydraddoldeb.

I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.

Erthygl gyntaf Dewi i @nation.cymru

A reasonable expectation. But Sioned Williams’ spirited performance resulted in defeat for Reform. The reality of trying to form a coherent opposition from the Far Right is what bit. Respect to the other opposition parties for holding the line.

‘Respect, solidarity, and fairness’ are the values that ‘underpin’ the new Welsh Government’s work to tackle poverty and reduce inequality, Wales’ new social justice minister has declared ✍️Ella Groves

It is, of course, very much in Rupert Lowe's political interest to "confirm" this story... Still, you can see it happening, and it'll put real pressure on the perception of the Senedd electoral system when a party-based vote might end up in members defecting to an entirely different (fascist) party

The @plaidcymru.bsky.social Government has won the first vote in this Senedd. Our childcare offer - a well‑planned, sustainable expansion of funded childcare - is moving forward. In line with our 100-days plan, we will provide an update on the initial costings and phasing before the summer.

Llywodraeth @plaidcymru.bsky.social wedi ennill y bleidlais gyntaf yn y Senedd hon. Mae ein cynnig gofal plant - uchelgeisiol ac ymarferol - i ehangu gofal plant yn symud ymlaen. Yn unol â'n cynllun 100 diwrnod, byddwn yn darparu'r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf am y camau a chostau cychwynnol cyn yr haf.

Plaid Cymru has tabled a series of amendments to the UK Government's Railways Bill calling for rail infrastructure powers to be devolved to Wales

The BBC 10 o’clock news says the right wing idea of ethnic minorities being given preferential treatment in criminal justice is likely to become a “growing fault line in our politics” WITHOUT POINTING OUT THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. What’s the point of the news if it doesn’t correct disinformation?

Lovely to see our exhibit out in the wild. It also attracted the attention of Sioned Williams MS, the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice and Equality at the Senedd. So good to have Williams come for the exhibition's opening in May.

🧵Something historic is happening. Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland are all governed by parties that want to leave the UK. So, to dig deeper into this new Celtic Alliance phenomenon, The National is heading to Belfast and Cardiff next week!

The absurdity of contrived BBC 'balance' on full display here. Apparently choosing not to politicise a tragic murder is somehow the same as choosing to do so.

Plaid Cymru peer, Carmen Smith will present a Bill to the House of Lords for its first reading today, calling for the 'undemocratic, unrepresentative and outdated' institution to be 'abolished' in line with the 2024 Labour manifesto

Astudiodd Deb Haaland am flwyddyn yn Adran Saesneg, Prifysgol Abertawe. / Deb Haaland spent a year as a student in the Dept of English Literature, Swansea University.

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Northern Ireland FM Michelle O'Neill speaks exclusively to The National

Epstein’s gone, writes Lindsay Beyerstein, but we’re stuck with a class of people with effectively infinite resources that they can devote to whatever they want—whether it’s undermining democracy, crushing unions, or abusing children.

‘The mantra, repeated ad nauseam in those years, was “competition drives up quality,” an assertion that anyone looking at, say, the privatised water companies or privatised train companies might greet with a hollow laugh.’ Stefan Collini on the crisis in universities www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

£300,000+ a year.

Just finished Any Questions, up against Richard Tice. I knew there would be plenty of BS on climate, but he spouted rubbish on *every* subject. Even claimed that the EU is not our biggest trading partner, but the US. In fact, we have 3x more trade with the EU. He believes whatever he wants to.

Political pan-Celticism having a "reports of my death greatly exaggerated" moment?

The immense economic power of the richest Americans allows them to wield immense political power, too. They can pour millions into our elections to elect politicians that will continue to rig the system in their favor. We must end this vicious cycle.

BBC Question Time now doing exact same with AI they did with Farage? This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice. Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And a Tory MP

Tony Blair implies the UK has less responsibility to act on climate change because it is responsible for less than 1% of the world's carbon emissions. But that is also true for 92% of the nations on earth. If all of them take this attitude, we'll burn.

Squadrons of Pigs www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2