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While the UK has been uncertain over Erasmus+, Wales has rolled out its own programme – and the new Senedd should retain it | Gareth Wyn Roberts

Join our live webinar for a powerful conversation on justice and equality. We’re bringing together four incredible women – including survivors of the Epstein and Harrods cases – to explore power, resilience and building a safer future. www.tickettailor.com/events/bylin...

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🔥 Now THIS is timely… Bringing together Epstein & Harrods survivors to highlight the huge legal gaps in justice for women & girls. This follows our Bylines Gazette on the topic, with a special interview with Sangita Myska. Come along to the webinar—> www.tickettailor.com/events/bylin...

Love and acceptance: helping trans children live happy lives This Transgender Day of Visibility, parents reveal the simple formula that can make all the difference to trans children in difficult times | Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social

Inside Gaza’s food crisis: how communities endure shortages through mutual aid – and what it teaches us about resilience and food security | Jane Powell

Debate over the Wales Office reflects deeper questions about devolution, as Mick Antoniw links abolition to constitutional reform and Eluned Morgan backs its current role | Huw Evans

Wales’ experiment in governing for future generations is being tested by electoral politics, tight budgets and growing demand on services | Lowri Sian Wilkie

The US president’s claim that the war is ‘very complete’ was little more than wishful thinking | Paul Rogers

A “once-in-a-generation” water reset? Critics say the government is fixing the symptoms while leaving the broken model intact | Kate Bayliss

Brexit’s fallout in Wales has sharpened a political divide between Labour’s cautious reset with Europe and Plaid Cymru’s pro-EU vision | Gareth Wyn Roberts

1 hour to go, not too late to book. Tonight, 6pm POWER, PEOPLE & DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA Mike Galsworthy, in conversation with: Alexandra Hall Hall, Former UK diplomat, Washington DC. Anouska de Georgiou, Epstein survivor. Ben Meiselas, Meidas Touch Network. Sign up here bit.ly/bookBN

I’m honoured to be taking part in this event in a few hours time, with excellent co-panelists. Please join if you can. Unfortunately, a LOT to discuss….

Brexit’s fallout in Wales has sharpened a political divide between Labour’s cautious reset with Europe and Plaid Cymru’s pro-EU vision | Gareth Wyn Roberts

The ancient Middle East is woven into Welsh place names, linking distant landscapes and raising questions about present-day turmoil, land, belonging and peace | Jane Powell

'There’s no sense of male domination in the Bylines network, firstly because our vibrant team is predominantly female; secondly because, the males involved don’t dominate. Both genders are supportive, funny, and jointly committed to the hard graft of speaking truth to power. ' #IWD 8/

If you could sit down with one woman from the past who would it be and why? 'Aunt Truus, Dutch resistance fighter who risked her own life to save Jewish children and adults before and during WW2. There really ought to be a film made about her. She was truly incredible.' | Anna Schurer 3/ #IWD

Things may have improved, but we still have a long way to go, It is not that long ago that women were not allowed to open their own bank accounts or take on a job without their husbands permission. This ingrained prejudice is still present in people’s minds. @jolk.bsky.social @bylines.scot 2/ #IWD

'Bylines Network has the privilege of having a high proportion of women who are, or share the job of, Editors-in-Chief across all 10 of our publications – standing at an amazing 83%, while the industry standard is 46% in the UK.' An #InternationalWomensDay thread from those Editors-in-Chiefs 1/

Making sense of a chaotic and confusing world - our new series of live-streamed webinars hosted by Mike Galsworthy starts 12 March with special guests from America. Join our community and access these events for free: bit.ly/friendsofbyl...

Rebecca Solnit argues that the future isn’t fixed: through stories, ideas and small actions, ordinary people can reshape the world | Brian McHugh

Renewable energy plans in Wales risk leaving natural habitats in the Cambrian Mountains broken, weaker and less resilient | Lorna Brazell

Americans will not forget the warnings of the past, and will fight in solidarity to protect their constitutional rights | Douglas Rowland II

Welsh Labour urges voters not to treat the Senedd election as a verdict on Starmer, that alone reveals how entangled Welsh and UK politics have become | Jack Meredith

As the shadow of ICE hangs over a neighborhood, volunteers quietly and quickly keep families fed | Ari Johnson

The Harrods abuse scandal reveals that predators depend less on secrecy than on disbelief, silence, and the failure of institutions to act | Justine

Neil Shea’s Frostlines explores an Arctic in flux, where melting ice threatens not just wildlife, but identity, memory and belonging | Brian McHugh

The UK finally confronts ‘forever chemicals’ – but its first PFAS plan is already accused of arriving too late and acting too softly | Brian McHugh

From courts to protest, many Americans say their fear for the future of US democracy is rooted not in panic, but in pattern | Douglas Rowland II

Sexual abuse is often imagined as hidden and marginal, yet wealth and power quietly enables harm to continue, unseen and unchallenged | Margo

Wales is moving to ban political lying during elections – but critics warn the law may threaten free speech and democratic debate | Stephen Clear

A neglected Newport child and a damning failure of the UK care system that inspired the world’s longest-running play | Peter Brown

From courts to protest, many Americans say their fear for the future of US democracy is rooted not in panic, but in pattern | Douglas Rowland II

Home, not school or traffic, is where Welsh children face the worst air pollution –wood burners are a key cause | Brian McHugh

Sexual abuse is often imagined as hidden and marginal, yet wealth and power quietly enables harm to continue, unseen and unchallenged | Margo

The Mandelson–Epstein row asks a brutal question of Keir Starmer: when judgment fails at the top, what accountability is owed? | Jack Meredith

The UK finally confronts ‘forever chemicals’ – but its first PFAS plan is already accused of arriving too late and acting too softly | Brian McHugh

Wales is moving to PR, but closed lists weaken voter power – open-list PR would put accountability and choice back in voters’ hands | Jack Meredith

Rhondda Cynon Taf Council has approved a £2.57mn purchase of 16 Ynysybwl homes after repeated flooding and increased climate risks | Brian McHugh

Wales is moving to ban political lying during elections – but critics warn the law may threaten free speech and democratic debate | Stephen Clear

With 38 million birds being lost from the UK skies in the past 60 years, recording the decline is the first step in conservation | Brian McHugh

Wales’s devolution settlement lacks a clear vision, leaving fragmented powers, weak coordination and unresolved questions over justice, policing and governance | Dr Huw Evans

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