"The best news for Keir Starmer – and the thing that’s currently keeping him in office – is that the efforts of his rivals so far have been at least as underwhelming as anything he has done." www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...

Reform UK's leader of Kent County Council, Linden Kemkaran, humiliates herself trying to find flaws in The Green LK, "How much have you taken off your long term debt in the last year?" Rachel Millward, "We're actually not in debt"

Diwrnod hanesyddol a bythgofiadwy! An historic and unforgettable day! So proud to be sworn in as Plaid Cymru MS for #BrycheiniogTaweNedd and be part of a fantastic group of Plaid Cymru Members of the Senedd. Diolch to everyone for their support 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

If you like data, here is something interesting for you: Bridget Phillipson interview on LK: 9m 40" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 31 Richard Tice interview on LK: 8m 23" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 9

Left: Yvette Cooper wondering why the local election results were so bad Right: That time Yvette Cooper proscribed a protest group and the Uk High Court deemed it unlawful

A few weeks ago I tried to explain what was about to happen to Welsh Labour. Perhaps of interest now that the 'humiliating defeat' has come to pass? www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...

📍 Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Plaid Cymru WIN 2 SEATS 💚 Plaid Cymru yn ENNILL 2 SEDD Llongyfarchiadau Sioned Williams a Rebeca Phillips! ✨

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A wall of crypto money is powering Nigel Farage, both politically and personally. And much of the British media just shrugs app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73421/...

Thanks to Ruth Davidson for drawing the @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social commentariat’s attention to the fact that the BIG story is in Wales!

A very interesting article that contextualises Welsh devolution in the longue-durée history of the British state and reflects on what Reform's rise might mean for "Welsh European" regional autonomy.

Questions over Nigel Farage's £5m gift - @vicderbyshire.bsky.social runs through the timeline #Newsnight www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFMoS_zquFc

Rhywbeth i’w ddarllen tra'n aros am y canlyniadau, efallai. @richardwynjones.bsky.social @danieljhartley.bsky.social @jasminedonahaye.bsky.social nationtimecymrusydd.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/i...

new! The Future of Totality Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory @dukepress.bsky.social has the intro available for download in advance of publication thanks as ever to the wonderful @roberttally.bsky.social ! www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-o...

With great sadness UWP learnt of the passing of Colin H. Williams, a renowned expert on language planning and minority languages. He published many volumes and critical articles on this subject from the 1970s onwards ... (1/2)

The media are ignoring this story and hoping you didn't notice. Please let them know your thoughts by GOING OUT AND VOTING TOMORROW! 👊💥👍 ##localelections #reformuk #labour #greens #libdems #tories

Reform UK are refusing to explain why Nigel Farage posed for a "Christmas drink" with far-right activists, some of whom took part in a violent attack at a church. One of the men pictured with Farage was convicted of assault by beating last month, after storming an anti-racism meeting at the church

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has been mocked after publishing a campaign message in a Welsh newspaper attacking London Mayor Sadiq Khan and urging Powys voters to back his party in the "London elections" this week ✍️ @emilypricejourno.bsky.social

Get out and vote! And vote @plaidcymru.bsky.social !

Wythnos yr etholiad! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mae pôl arall heddiw yn dangos ei bod hi’n ras hynod agos rhwng Plaid Cymru a Reform UK - dros Gymru ac yma yn #BrycheiniogTaweNedd Dyma’r wybodaeth am y pôl fel y gallwch weld drosoch eich hunain - dim sbin: willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/new-pollin...

Election week! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Another poll today showing it’s neck and neck between Plaid Cymru and Reform UK across Wales and here in #BrycheiniogTaweNedd. Here is the information on today’s poll so you can see for yourselves - no spin: willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/new-pollin...

Polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice confirms Thursday’s election is between Plaid Cymru and Reform UK in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Together, we can make history by choosing hope with Plaid Cymru, and reject chaos and division. Vote Plaid Cymru on 7 May. ❤️ #bbclaurak

4 diwrnod cyn etholiad y Senedd, mae Nigel Farage yn cuddio rhag craffu. Mae Reform UK yn cymryd pobl Cymru yn ganiataol. #bbclaurak

So we're all just letting Farage get away with the £5 million "gift" huh.

A great last Saturday of the Senedd election campaign speaking to residents of #Gwauncaegurwen #Cwmllynfell #Cwmgiedd And a lovely lunch at the The New Tredegar Arms in Cwmtwrch Uchaf 💚 For new leadership for Wales, vote for @plaidcymru.bsky.social on 7 May 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #BrycheiniogTaweNedd #Senedd2026

Recorded this day, 1988: Miles' only tour of Australia, New Zealand & Hawaii arrives in Melbourne for a great quality FM broadcast. This one has turned up on bootleg CDs but this version sounds better (particularly the second half)! #jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis

When Wales votes next week, we will take with us to the polling booth a hot cawl of complex emotions - some joyful, some painful - shaped by personal journeys, collective histories, and a burning belief that, as a nation, we deserve better ✍️ Beca Brown

Over recent weeks and months, we’ve knocked thousands of doors and voters in all parts of Wales are saying the same thing: Labour’s time is up, Wales needs a fresh start. For positive change, to stop Reform, and for new leadership for Wales, vote Plaid Cymru on May 7 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Rhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru, "I watched the clip of Nigel Farage saying that he doesn't believe in paying for the NHS through general taxation, that means privatisation" Dan Thomas, Reform UK, "But not in Wales" #BBCQT + Clip of Farage saying he doesn't want the NHS funded through taxation

A global network of people with links to Wales represents a major untapped economic opportunity for the next Welsh Government, according to new research published ahead of the Senedd election

New copy of earliest poem in English language discovered by researchers in Rome phys.org/news/2026-04... "Caedmon's Hymn" at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19677 #books #literature #poetry

🌎 Mae dadansoddiad maniffestos gan Greenpeace UK yn cadarnhau bod gan Blaid Cymru'r cynllun mwyaf uchelgeisiol a chredadwy i fynd i'r afael â'r argyfyngau hinsawdd a natur yng Nghymru! 🗳️Poeni am yr amgylchedd? Pleidleisiwch dros Blaid Cymru - 7 Mai.

Cyn bwrw pleidlais wythnos nesaf, beth am ddarllen am hanes amlweddog ein gwleidyddiaeth gyda'n Rhestr Ddarllen Gwleidyddiaeth Cymru? O hanes a syniadaeth y pleidiau i ddylanwad y cewri gwleidyddol, mae'r llyfrau hyn yn cynnig digon i gnoi cil drosto. 📚 www.gwasgprifysgolcymru.org/rhestr-ddarl...

If you were hanging out with me in 1999, you’d have found I was knee deep in the Venerable Bede & my ancestor Giraldus Cambrensis. They give a glimpse into the Middle Ages, that is fascinating. A great Trinity find here:

Rhaid i bobl Cymru ddewis pwy fydd yn arwain Llywodraeth Cymru nesaf - Plaid Cymru neu Reform UK. Dewiswch Blaid Cymru gyda gobaith a gweledigaeth, dros Reform UK gydag anhrefn a thoriadau. Pleidleisiwch Blaid Cymru ar 7 Mai i arwain Cymru o’r Newydd.

Jane Dodds and Ed Davey are symptoms of a party that no longer has a historical reason for existing. The Lib Dems represent no particular group or class and have no distinctive vision of the future. Their party in Wales, as in England, is an empty husk.

Former Irish president Michael D Higgins is not rich. He’s down to Earth, a poet, an academic & a scholar. He also demonstrates how politics can be done. He’s incredibly popular* Michael D Higgins returned €2.6 million of pay and allowances to State over 14-year presidency

My VC last year: ‘I envisage a university that doesn’t directly employ anyone’. He means it too - all need staff are hired by a subsidiary company without any of that pesky ‘decent pension’ or ‘rights’ stuff.

Here it is seat-by-seat. Reform are 6th a lot and Plaid are 7th a lot. It wouldn't take much to flip a lot of those.

Plaid Cymru are the greenest party in Wales! 🌱 Manifesto analysis by Greenpeace UK confirms Plaid Cymru has the most ambitious and credible plan to tackle the climate and nature emergencies. Care about the environment? Vote Plaid Cymru - 7 May.

One of the most remarkable achievements in modern political history has been the emergence of "anti-establishment, anti-elite, people's army" parties - committed to "bringing back the nation-state" - that are led, directed & financed by the richest, most privileged & most mobile people on the planet

Reform leader in Wales Dan Thomas has suggested cutting some financial support to grassroots sport clubs. Worth bearing in mind that Wales already has some of the lowest spending on sport of any country in Europe and is even below the UK average.

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

“We found two of the worst men in politics to replace one woman who was competently doing her job”

Reform UK’s leader in Wales is attacking the grassroots sports clubs that hold our communities together. Their plans would cause 42,000 job losses. Plaid Cymru backs grassroots sport - and will invest more in culture and sport.

British MP who went to Oxford herself spending several posts explaining to Bluesky users that she does not wish to defend higher education in the UK, because 4 in 5 in her constituency don’t go to university, is the perfect embodiment of a particular kind of British class bullshit too

When a King and direct descendent of King George III has to remind the American government about the utmost importance of checks and balances, you know we're in deep trouble.