NEW: This is worth your time. @thenerve_news has the receipts. A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott. Please read & share.

Thank you Caerphilly. Hope not hate.

It looks like an AI hallucination.

Make it worth your time (and money). This one's got Ed Campbell formerly of PoliticsJoe voxpops in it too. What more could you want?

Prepping lectures and listening to a couple of Michael Sheen lectures from 2017. If you want insight on Wales, how it sees itself, and the values needed to move forward, together: 1) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbVd..., and 2) youtu.be/Tj2-kMXenk8?....

Lessons from being online since 1995 1. Brandolini's law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it." 2. Chill before serving. (Mine) 3. It's irony when the actor or observer is "confidently unaware." 4. On the Media's rules.

Feels a bit mean to enter a child into Crufts...

New polling Wales! Headlines: - The Tories could be totally wiped out. - Reform/Plaid still battling for 1st - Labour 3rd - Still seemingly impossible for Reform to for a government with this maths. Data from MoreInCommon/@skynewsrss.bsky.social [Thread]

New party, old Tories www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Paul Nuttall is back hopenothate.org.uk/2025/07/03/w... feels right to bring this back up www.youtube.com/watch?v=eusO...

@jaclarner.bsky.social from the Welsh Election Study: “Looking at the areas now voting Reform, they’re the same areas that always voted Labour, and it’s very easy to just make the logical mistake to assume it’s the same people doing it. That isn’t what we see” #Senedd26 www.ft.com/content/668f...

The UK Treasury has screwed Wales again! They've now classed a railway line running for Oxford to Cambridge as an "England and WALES" project. This robs Wales over £300m+ whereas Scotland and NI get their cash. It's a disgrace that this is still happening after the HS2 robbery.

The Trump tariffs make much more sense if you've ever seen Steiner's math promo. youtu.be/msDuNZyYAIQ?...

Columbia Journalism Dean Jelani Cobb on the recent arrest of a member of the university's community who was one of the organisers of the protests against the war in Gaza Read his Reuters Memorial Lecture in full in this link reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/full-te...

JOB ALERT! - Specialists in any/all of sports journalism, sports commentary, podcasts, sports content creation and PR. Looking for someone experienced as practitioner or academic. Permanent contract, deadline to apply is 23 March 2025. www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...

@distantpod.bsky.social with Shrovetide next week give Wild in the Streets a go for a sports doc. youtu.be/btySAHSMHbI?...

Sometimes you see journal articles and think, that's classic Ramble @footballramble.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1466...

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

If your instinct tends a bit towards catastrophising - not unreasonable right now - and asserting confidently an opinion along the lines of: "all is lost, US is done, nobody can do a thing, may as well calm down, go home, and wait for the end," stop and ask who benefits from people pushed to apathy.

Look at those Reform numbers.

In England. With elections in Scotland and Wales in 2026 these distinctions are crucial for voters to make informed decisions.

Nothing says avoiding an existential crisis like bringing back a leader whose entire government resigned en masse rather than serve another day under him

Cuts to the arts in Wales are threatening what it is to be Welsh. Yes Conservative cuts have forced difficult decisions but the Welsh Government have to also accept responsibility. I wrote this piece for The Guardian exploring the issue: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New research backs up what gamers have thought for years: cozy video games can be an antidote to stress and anxiety. Don't believe it? We made an adorable world for you to explore (and yes, there is gardening) www.reuters.com/graphics/VID...

New data shows devastating impact of budget cuts to apprenticeships: 👉 14% budget reduction, leading to:   👉 Nearly 6,000 fewer apprenticeship starts in Wales this year; and 👉 A £50.3 million ‘short run’ impact on the economy. ColegauCymru is calling on the Welsh Government to restore the budget.

Comes with it's own voting pads... Sadly they're off...

On my way to Newcastle for the Football Collective conference. Looking forward to presenting on how the English Premier League and its clubs present the No Room for Racism campaign on X and Instagram on Friday.