Gareth Leaman
@garethleaman.bsky.social
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Writer. See garethleaman.com for published work.
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A new essay, for Cwlwm, about Idris Davies and Gwent:
cwlwm.substack.com/p/these-trou...
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âThese troubled hillsâ: Idris Davies, poet of Gwent
What makes our idea of a place? Gareth Leaman considers the work of the poet Idris Davies from Gwent in the imagining of our corner kingdom
https://cwlwm.substack.com/p/these-troubled-hills-idris-davies
over 1 year ago
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My report for Novara on Labour's collapse in Caerphilly:
novaramedia.com/2025/10/24/p...
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Plaid Cymruâs Caerphilly Victory Matters Everywhere | Novara Media
The Caerphilly Senedd by-election win for Plaid Cymru is indicative of dissatisfaction that reaches far beyond the townâs boundaries. We should remember that Reform can still capitalise on this anger ...
https://novaramedia.com/2025/10/24/plaid-cymrus-caerphilly-victory-matters-in-every-constituency-not-just-in-wales/
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My report for Novara on Labour's collapse in Caerphilly:
novaramedia.com/2025/10/24/p...
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Plaid Cymruâs Caerphilly Victory Matters Everywhere | Novara Media
The Caerphilly Senedd by-election win for Plaid Cymru is indicative of dissatisfaction that reaches far beyond the townâs boundaries. We should remember that Reform can still capitalise on this anger ...
https://novaramedia.com/2025/10/24/plaid-cymrus-caerphilly-victory-matters-in-every-constituency-not-just-in-wales/
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They're going to come for the left:
disposableeverything.com/2025/09/21/t...
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Theyâre going to come for the left
We know, obviously, that the new British right defines itself not by what it stands for, but by what it opposes. Reform UK, along with the incipiently fascist street movements theyâve provided poliâŠ
https://disposableeverything.com/2025/09/21/theyre-going-to-come-for-the-left/
2 months ago
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A useful read for fellow UNISON members ahead of the General Secretary election:
jmknight.substack.com/p/opinion-no...
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Opinion: Nomination maneuvering means that UNISON establishment is worried
Reflections on the National Executive Council's nomination meeting, Regional Officer overreach and the mystery candidates.
https://jmknight.substack.com/p/opinion-nomination-maneuvering-means
2 months ago
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An important listen for anyone interested in the future of professional sport in Newport, and what it means for the local economy and culture in general
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2 months ago
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www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...
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Cymunedoli: The glue that binds - Red Pepper
Economic power in the community â cymunedoli â is the antidote to the far rightâs growing appeal in Cymru, write Beth Winter and Leanne Wood
https://www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-unions-work/alternative-economies/cymunedoli-the-glue-that-binds/
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The only way to save Welsh rugby as a cultural force is to go back in time to the start, tweak the rules so it's incompatible with the rest of the sport, and it becomes (South) Wales' answer to GAA. It was always going to fade out Old but still relevant:
disposableeverything.com/2020/03/03/t...
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Welsh rugbyâs great sell-off
International rugby may soon disappear from free-to-air television. This has obviously created a degree of collective consternation about the implication for Welsh mass culture, and rugbyâs apparenâŠ
https://disposableeverything.com/2020/03/03/the-reification-of-welsh-rugby/
3 months ago
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Alex Heffron
4 months ago
'Some of it may be useful, most of it is banal, but the algorithm can never satisfactorily differentiate, leaving all users to wade through the resultant mire in the hope of finding something valuable.' Very good from
@garethleaman.bsky.social
disposableeverything.com/2025/06/15/o...
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On Twitter and Bluesky
The liberal exodus from Twitter/X, which has seen millions of people ditching the platform and migrating to Bluesky, has been met with various forms of derision from those who remain behind. ConserâŠ
https://disposableeverything.com/2025/06/15/on-twitter-and-bluesky/
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Alex Heffron
4 months ago
The best piece I've read regarding the machinations around the setting up of a new left party. I think
@garethleaman.bsky.social
hits on all the important points.
disposableeverything.com/2025/07/09/t...
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Notes on the 'new left party':
disposableeverything.com/2025/07/09/t...
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The new left party
If the Britishâ left is to organise itself electorally, then clearly a new political party is needed. After the failures of 2015â19, it was always going to come to this.
https://disposableeverything.com/2025/07/09/the-new-left-party/
5 months ago
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A review of Adam Curtis' Shifty:
disposableeverything.com/2025/06/29/a...
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Adam Curtis, âShiftyâ
Shifty is, perhaps, the ultimate Adam Curtis film. Eschewing the expansive globetrotting that defines much of his work, it instead dives deep into all heâs ever tried to say about the British stateâŠ
https://disposableeverything.com/2025/06/29/adam-curtis-shifty/
5 months ago
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disposableeverything.com/2025/06/15/o...
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On Twitter and Bluesky
The liberal exodus from Twitter/X, which has seen millions of people ditching the platform and migrating to Bluesky, has been met with various forms of derision from those who remain behind. ConserâŠ
https://disposableeverything.com/2025/06/15/on-twitter-and-bluesky/
5 months ago
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Some brief notes on 'the red Welsh way':
disposableeverything.substack.com/p/the-red-we...
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The red Welsh way
This isn't a full essay, but the phrase 'the red Welsh way', introduced by Eluned Morgan earlier this month, is too annoying to ignore.
https://disposableeverything.substack.com/p/the-red-welsh-way
6 months ago
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Some brief notes on 'the red Welsh way':
disposableeverything.substack.com/p/the-red-we...
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The red Welsh way
This isn't a full essay, but the phrase 'the red Welsh way', introduced by Eluned Morgan earlier this month, is too annoying to ignore.
https://disposableeverything.substack.com/p/the-red-welsh-way
6 months ago
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Some notes on celebrity spaceflight:
disposableeverything.substack.com/p/for-all-ma...
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For all mankind?
On celebrity space tourism
https://disposableeverything.substack.com/p/for-all-mankind
6 months ago
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I tried to talk about what I think 'vibe' is, and used it to scratch the surface of a pet project:
disposableeverything.substack.com/p/vibe-is-se...
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Vibe is sentient capital
Notes on everything that moves
https://disposableeverything.substack.com/p/vibe-is-sentient-capital
8 months ago
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Pete Davies
about 1 year ago
"As the rightâs ascendency inadvertently demonstrates, the main psychic need of capitalist culture, its central desire, is for an anti-capitalism. The right has individuated this feeling â the task is to (re-)collectivise it before itâs extinguished."
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones
about 1 year ago
This by
@garethleaman.bsky.social
is brilliantly clarifying on how a successful hyper-capitalist like Trump presents (and even embodies) a kind of anti-capitalist affect
disposableeverything.com/2024/11/21/l...
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Some notes on the US election, the collapse of liberalism, and the rise of the 'anti-establishment' right
disposableeverything.substack.com/p/liberals-h...
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Liberals have nothing left
Notes on the US election, the collapse of liberalism, and the rise of the anti-establishment right
https://disposableeverything.substack.com/p/liberals-have-nothing-left
about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
Only just come across this article by @garethleaman Its fantastic. Idris Davies in one of my favourite poets somewhat unsurprisingly being both from Gwent and a Socialist. Highly recommend giving this a read.
www.cwlwm.cymru/p/these-trou...
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âThese troubled hillsâ: Idris Davies, poet of Gwent
What makes our idea of a place? Gareth Leaman considers the work of the poet Idris Davies from Gwent in the imagining of our corner kingdom
https://www.cwlwm.cymru/p/these-troubled-hills-idris-davies
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones
about 1 year ago
Just as I'm contemplating getting properly stuck into Idris Davies, I find this great piece by
@garethleaman.bsky.social
âThus the land is set, its name embedded into history, its etymology a portent of its future meanings: Gwent is a market.'
www.cwlwm.cymru/p/these-trou...
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âThese troubled hillsâ: Idris Davies, poet of Gwent
What makes our idea of a place? Gareth Leaman considers the work of the poet Idris Davies from Gwent in the imagining of our corner kingdom
https://www.cwlwm.cymru/p/these-troubled-hills-idris-davies
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A new essay, for Cwlwm, about Idris Davies and Gwent:
cwlwm.substack.com/p/these-trou...
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âThese troubled hillsâ: Idris Davies, poet of Gwent
What makes our idea of a place? Gareth Leaman considers the work of the poet Idris Davies from Gwent in the imagining of our corner kingdom
https://cwlwm.substack.com/p/these-troubled-hills-idris-davies
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