"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

During the week that Westminster announces more Barnett betrayal on the transport funding front, and the siphoning of funding from our elected Senedd through town centre improvement cash… nation.cymru/feature/orew...

The best thing Starmer could do now would be to start negotiations for re-entry to the customs union and promise a referendum on returning to the EU. That should spike Farage’s guns✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-1aHF

A reminder that when Gary Lineker was under fire a couple of years back for criticising the Conservatives while a BBC presenter, the channel said, by contrast, it was fine for Lord Sugar to repeatedly endorse the Tories because he was "free to say, as a business person, what he wants to say."

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

Diolch to all the lovely people we've been seeing this festive season! Dont forget, in addition to our normal hours we're also open Sundays & Mondays in the build-up Sun & Mon 11am - 4pm Tue - Sat 10am - 5:30pm See you soon 🎶❤️🎄

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.

The thing I still can't forgive Corbyn for is the generational harm he caused by enabling Brexit. When Starmer is gone, hopefully soon, I will feel the same way about the profound harm he has caused by making it palatable for the Far Right to ditch human rights norms. It will be his shameful legacy.

Fixed it for you, bloody nationalist that I am….

A ble mae @yes.cymru yn hyn i gyd? Beth am drefnu ambell i brotest chwim tu allan i swyddfeydd Llywodraeth Prydain yng Nghaerdydd er mwyn corddi’r dyfroedd, yn hytrach na set-pieces bach neis bob chwe mis?

@pollytoynbee.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @theguardian.com @willhaycardiff.bsky.social and anyone else - this is calculated systematic impoverishment of Wales. It is beyond unfair. It is neglect. It is racist. UKLab come across here as English nationalists on the scale of Farage.

Here we go again! When will people like @jostevenslabour.bsky.social and @abarroscurtis.bsky.social stand up for constituents? Scotland and NI get funding why not us? This is the systematic impoverishment of Wales. Over and over and over.

Big news: 1. Leaked Welsh Labour report shows what went wrong in Caerphilly. 2. Sec of State for Wales seemingly doesn't attend Welsh Gov summit because she wasn't given speaking roll. 3. I questioned UK Gov minister who told Wales to "be grateful" for terrible rail deal. tinyurl.com/yc5wbvy2

Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors. At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

At some point politicians and commentators in Europe might want to start defending our system as really not too bad and far better than any realistic alternative notwithstanding frustration that we aren't all richer.

Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.

O ddifrif calon, dychmygwch fod yn gymaint o gocoen a Gianni Infantino. A'n gwaredo....

lol thehardtimes.net/music/new-sp...

Sir John Curtice "Joining the EU Single Market and Customs Union would give the Labour government a distinct purpose. There'd be immediate economic benefits and clear electoral difference to Reform Farage and Tories." Labour needs to ditch the Morgan MacSweeney strategy that is destroying Labour

Diolch @jostevenslabour.bsky.social for your insistance on communicating in only one of our national languages, making it clear where you and UKLab stand - in opposition to Wales and even Welsh Labour. Complete lack of respect or awareness.One more piece of evidence for the need for independence. 👏

We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.

2025: Keir Starmer, "The Brexit vote was a fair democratic expression" 2020: Stewart Hosie, "The UK gov actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered in Brexit" - UK's Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament Keir Starmer now telling lies like Boris Johnson, sad

It’s clear to anyone paying attention that Farage won’t investigate the Russian infiltration of Reform. The Prime Minister must step up and launch a national investigation.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Arrogance on stilts. No longer can this be called 'A voluntary union' if English politicians keep denying to recognise a legitimate mandate. If Westminster cannot say what the mechanism is that we can use to leave, Then it is tantamount to a hostage situation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

With respect - because it’s pretty obvious where his sympathies lie - but apart from the second bullet there’s nothing uniquely fascist about those actions as presented.

A quick reminder of who Nigel Farage was most concerned about when Putin's tanks first rolled into Ukraine

This is batshit crazy by UK Ministers. The bloody thing’s spiralling with unintended consequences because it’s an Yvette Cooper pet project and huge overreach. What if I then support Sally Roony, do I become a terrorist too for backing a writer? They’re just about dumb enough! #Farenheit451

NEW: Wales’s first minister @prifweinidog.gov.wales backs call for a full investigation into Russian interference. Wales’s Senedd elections next spring ‘at risk’. @bbcwales.bsky.social report below.

Wales does NOT like the Russians! Link to petition --> https//petitionmap...

- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn - Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn What gets more attention? James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.

14 mlynedd. Diolch Gary / 14 years. Thanks Gary. “You will always be,at Wales with me” #Speedo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚽️❤️

This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. Please sign and share 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites. About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

RIP Jimmy Cliff Jimmy Cliff at the Big Weekend, 2007 Photo: Carl DeAbreu #jimmycliff #bigweekend #cardiff #wales #caerdydd #cymru #cardiffmusichistory

One of the best gig-going nights of my life was seeing Jimmy in Cardiff about 15 years ago. Huna mewn hedd Jimmy.

Dear UK: You don’t pay enough taxes to have an NHS that doesn’t run on immigration and immigrant labour. Sorry to be brutally honest but it’s how it is

So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this

Can you imagine how Reform UK would react if a Welsh leader of any other party had been sentenced for 10 years for taking bribes? Nathan Gill once said he "would never apologise for being patriotic". Tbf he never said to which country...

And despite it all,still riding high in the polls. If only people knew/cared. Well done Starmer 👏🤯

Following Nathan Gill’s guilty plea today, a reminder that @nation.cymru reported his links to Oleh Voloshyn back in March 2023 nation.cymru/news/welsh-p...

OMG! It won! What a brilliant book!

Lost me at: “It’s becoming a political truth that the modern left's guiding assumptions are…no longer modern. Is it a coincidence that nationalist parties lead the polls in England, Scotland and Wales?” Plaid Cymru’s recent success came BECAUSE it embraced progressivism and rejected Labour’s fudge

Fulham's Harry Wilson scored a hat-trick as Wales blew North Macedonia away to secure home advantage for the World Cup play-offs.

🚨 While Scotland and Northern Ireland get billions to compensate for rail spending in England, Labour have deleted Plaid Cymru's calls for Wales to receive our fair share! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 It's clear: Plaid Cymru is the only party that will stand up for our nation and fight for what our communities deserve.

Gair y dydd: tŵr geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Yn y llun, gwelir tri o dyrau dinas Bologna yn yr Eidal, sy'n enwog am ei thyrau canoloesol, gyda dros ugain ohonynt yn dal i sefyll heddiw.

I'm gladder by the day that the people of Caerphilly came together to show that they oppose these dark forces. Let's hope the rest of Wales follows suit at Senedd elections