Last week I was at the Plaid Cymru conference. Based on the current polls, they are the party most likely to lead the Welsh Government after May's election. This would mean a monumental change to Welsh politics. You can read my analysis here: willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/inside-the...

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

Being Welsh is about belonging and shared values. I was a loud south-east London girl who became Welsh, heart and soul. Our Wales is one that welcomes, includes and builds, not one that divides. Proud to close an inspiring weekend at Plaid Cymru conference 💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Re: Nation of Sanctuary 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Labour's failure to get the basics right in literacy and numeracy is letting our children down. A Plaid Cymru government will invest in our children's future, with a new plan to help pupils thrive. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💚

Parents should not have to choose between work and childcare. A Plaid Cymru government will deliver a universal new childcare offer for children aged 9 months to 4 years – worth over £30,000 in childcare costs in the first four years of a child’s life. @plaidcymru.bsky.social 💚

Nigel Farage has described a former senior figure in his party who has been convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes as a “bad apple”

Reform's only Senedd politician has been branded a 'part timer' after refusing to join the Welsh Parliament’s education committee ✍️ Emily Price

A Welsh Reform councillor has defended a meeting she chaired with parents from a Swansea school and two notorious associates of Tommy Robinson ✍️Emily Price

A controversial online software system that has been linked to the possibility of vote rigging is being used by Welsh Labour to select Senedd candidates for next May’s election, we have been told ✍️Martin Shipton

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long. There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

There’s lot of Covid going around at the moment, again. I don’t qualify for NHS jabs, which are now very restricted, but I just paid £90 for one at my local pharmacy. As a freelancer, that’s a lot less expensive than having to take a week or two off if I get ill, let alone risking long term issues.

Our latest pod 'Why do we have a new Senedd voting system that no-one wanted?' is now on all the podcast feeds, where @lauramcallister30.bsky.social, Lauren McEvatt and Lee Waters MS discuss the new voting system for #Senedd26 #Wales #Cymru Also on YouTube! 👇 youtu.be/91MyTLRa0iE

Ex-Tory, Reform councillor cosying up to proven racists and fraudsters and spreading lies to stir up hate in her community..... shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone

More than half of Reform UK voters approve of their pensions being invested in green energy despite the party recently launching a “renewables war”, a poll suggests

🤦‍♂️ Just read that Simon Wessley will be vice chair of a Labour investigation into whether mental health and neurodivergence issues are being overdiagnosed.......Ask anybody with #MEcfs how that's likely to go

Just because camilla tominey thinks people's concerns are "legitimate", it doesn't mean they actually are #newsnight

Considering there's an almighty battle going on between Plaid Cymru and Reform in #Caerphilly, everything seemed very quiet and calm yesterday with #CaerphillyCastle looking very majestic #Wales #Castle

Our next pod takes apart the Senedd reform package which sees expansion to 96 members and a new - and universally unpopular - voting system. So why are the Welsh Conservatives talking about numbers? Lauren, Lee and @lauramcallister30.bsky.social have different takes! #Senedd26 #Cymru #Wales

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Members of the Senedd have raised further concerns about Reform UK's links to Russia ✍️Emil Price

This is Reform's only Senedd Member Laura Anne Jones. She is very angry about the Wales' Nation of Sanctuary that mainly supports Ukrainian refugees. However she didn't always feel this way. Here are two speeches she has given where she says opposite things.

👀 "heavily redacted" is an understatement

Welsh Labour has been ridiculed on social media after claiming that an independent Wales would cost every single person £7,000 a year ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-16O7

A former editor of the Wales on Sunday newspaper has gone missing after being kidnapped by Israel in international waters together with many other pro-Palestine activists taking humanitarian aid by ship to Gaza ✍️Martin Shipton

A notorious far-right extremist and Tommy Robinson ally has been photographed at the office of Reform UK's Caerphilly by-election candidate, Llŷr Powell ✍️Emily Price

As Reform peddles its lies against a background of Putinism and personal disgrace, our governing party misleads electors in the service of a Westminster leadership that impoverishes us as a matter of reflex ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-16L6

This was in the Observer today

It is very difficult, indeed almost impossible, to find good coverage of Welsh politics. @willhaycardiff.bsky.social newsletter is always worth reading. The level of hypocrisy shown by Welsh Conservatives here is breathtaking .....and depressing willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/outrageous...

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Labour MPs who voted against welfare cuts this summer have warned that plans to change disability benefit assessments could trigger another mass rebellion Others called for a vote to be delayed until a review into the assessments is complete By me, for Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

A south Wales foodbank is calling for an end to uncapped GP charges for providing diagnosis confirmation letters required to access disability benefits

The politics of drawing a moral line: When we need to call out racism for what it is open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Blair is godfather to the oldest of Murdoch & Deng’s daughters. His TB Institute is swimming in Larry Ellison / Oracle 💰 …to the tune of £half a BILLION Ellison is best mates with Netanyahu Oracle & its partner company Rafael Systems are deep in Israeli defence and intelligence industry.

Please follow @thenerve.news! Were a new female-founded publication that launched yesterday…& it was a huge team effort to get a website up & this investigation over the line. We’re all exhausted but we want to do journalism that matters & we need your support. Thank you!!🙏 www.thenerve.news

Look Victoria, don't ask relevant questions and insist on logical answers....that's just not how this is done #Newsnight

It's a plan set up to fail.....exactly how Netanyahu wants it. Debatable whether Trump realises that though #Newsnight

Sir Keir Starmer has suffered a blow at the Labour Party conference after activists demanded the Government prevents the commission of a genocide in Gaza’

Reform keeps arguing immigration is an issue when it isn’t. There is a by-election right now in Caerphilly and Nigel Farage’s party keeps saying that immigration is an issue there. BUT over 97% percent of people in the area were born in the UK. We need to debate based on facts not scaremongering.

As a #PlaidCymru supporter who has often voted #Labour for tactical reasons, to be called "Poison" and equated with Reform is highly offensive. This negative campaigning will backfire, I for one will not be voting for Labour under any circumstances in the future. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Seeing lots of people highlighting that #BBCLaurak is much more combative with with Starmer than she is with Farage...... but the answer to that shouldn't be, go easier on Starmer

Desperate,Desperate tactics-voting for Plaid in May (or October's By-Election) will not automatically lead to independence.Plaid have said it wouldn't pursue independence in a first term, and even after that, it would need a referendum...... Also, for many, austerity never went away

There seems to be some *confusion* among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them “But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes” “But, but he was in UKIP” “But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy” So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵 1/14

Tom feckin Harwood on #newsnight .........time to turn off

Why progressives in Wales must unite behind Plaid Cymru to stop Reform | Liz Saville Roberts

Mandatory ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-a...

Well this is RACING along and means compulsory ID will be debated in Parliament soon. Needs more Brighton Pavilion signatures in my opinion. You know what to do: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

A Pembrokeshire Labour county councillor has resigned from the party, saying there is a need to build a new socialist party as Labour is failing to challenge “the forces of the far right on the march”