AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

New Substack post: 'The Good Old Days'. open.substack.com/pub/rolandmc...

"In every respect we in Britain are closer to our kinsmen in Australia and New Zealand...than we are to Europe. We are closer in language and origins, in social habits and institutions, political outlook and in economic interest." – Labour Party NEC, June 1950. Or Dan Hannan, c.2000-2024. /6

Long thread on how Brexitism started and evolved over 75 years, drawing from Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon's 'Continental Drift'. Global Britain, Free Trade, Cakeism, Federalism, anti-federalism, EEA, Winston Churchill, Empire, 52-48 referendums, Enoch Powell, 1975, Thatcher.... It's all here. /1

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

People can celebrate the ancient and modern links between Cornwall and Wales, with their Celtic roots, and mark St Piran’s Day at a new event. www.cornish-times.co.uk/news/new-fes...

Start your Tuesday cheerful with this evidence of the life-changing work of @londoncentric.media. Incredible stuff.

Cracking, sobering, insightful long read on the countdown to the disastrous Russian invasion of Ukraine: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

🚨 NEW POD🚨 Will Wales come out to vote in May? @lauramcallister30.bsky.social , Lauren, and Lee debate whether this year the Senedd election turnout will break 50% for the first time and what factors will be at play in getting people to vote at #Senedd26 #Wales #Cymru youtu.be/xlYTfB5lpnk

Interesting piece here by Felix Milbank (FSB Cymru) about looking at Greenland through the prism of little old Wales: bfpg.co.uk/2026/02/brit...

Spoiling a lot of takes but begging a large number of other questions... "Worsening graduate fortunes, it turns out, are a particularly British problem" www.ft.com/content/649d...

Is it normal that convincing people to use amazing labour-saving tools requires threats and compulsion? If they were good and helpful, surely people would use them. Unless we’re saying everyone is stupid.

⚡️ Russia publicly pitches $14 trillion economic deal to Trump tied to lifting US sanctions. "The portfolio of potential U.S.-Russia projects is over $14 trillion," Kremlin economic negotiator Kirill Dmitriev said.

His alleged mistress left her precious heated blanket on the other plane, so Corey Lewandowski demanded the pilot turn the plane around to go get it. When he refused, Lewandowski -- who has zero authority to fire anyone at any time -- tried to fire the pilot IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLIGHT.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Really good listen on the Welsh aversion to scrutiny. Particularly good on weakness of Senedd committee chairs. But if you're going to say "a lot of MSs just read the questions they're given in committees & can't follow up" then you've got to start naming names at some point.

Pride of place in Morrisons Caernarfon charity book table: top trolling dre, da iawn.

and you won't be able to see that that's what's happening. the park should not be full of broken glass. you can't just ban children from the play area and call the problem solved. 1) they now have no play area 2) everyone else is still getting cut to ribbons

Ahhh... hope this isn't too soon for everyone! Our latest pod is in the feeds now and looks at the off-field woes of the WRU and other Welsh institutions and why our parliaments have such patchy quality of scrutiny. #Wales #Cymru #Senedd26 #WALvFRA youtu.be/uHEyiq65_Aw

Five European countries on Saturday accused Russia of poisoning Alexei Navalny with the epibatidine toxin found in the skin of dart frogs native to South America.

O’r diwedd / at last… 🌞 #Pontypridd

!! … ah

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

"History is women following behind with the bucket." So Morgan McSweeney has been replaced by Jill Cuthbertson and Vidhya Alakeson. Antonia Romeo is about to take over from Chris Wormald. Steph Driver may return to fill Tim Allan's vacancy. Sense that now there's a mess to mop up, get the women in

Answer via Emily @nation.cymru 👇

Sort of lost among the hubbub is why the Member of the UK Parliament for Runcorn in England was trying to invite herself to a Gwynedd-based university in Wales, in the first place. Given that Wales and England have different university systems, overseen by respective governments, isn’t this odd?

Nice summary by @wonkhe of how much mileage REFUK is getting out of lying about "freeze peach"... And here, how they are threatening to apply England-only rules to Bangor... wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

168 years ago, on the 11th of February 1858, 14 year old Bernadette Soubirous first claimed to have witnessed an apparition of Mary near Lourdes. Neither Bernadette's sister nor her friend reported seeing the apparition. Now, around 4 million tourists visit each year. #otd #history 🗃️

You may not like it, but strip out the hyperbole and abuse and it's quite hard to argue with this Cummings asssessment of the public mood

University course enrolment changes over last 10 years: > Medicine, dentistry, physical sciences and engineering all down in Wales while growing across the UK.

Medr ask the right question: why are Welsh students leaving, and where are they going? Perhaps one policy response would be differential student support inside and outside Wales? Nudge Welsh students to stay in Wales

Absolutely cracking post on WonkHE, a clear indication of the challenges for the new government #Senedd26 #Wales #Cymru "The question that raises is whether Welsh providers are functioning as a national system serving Wales or as overflow capacity for English demand" wonkhe.com/blogs/wales-...

The reason why the Labour party wants a new leader is that the polls and local elections both put them on the brink of death, the policy agenda is a mess of warmed-over Milibandism pared with hypocritical social conservativism and no obvious route to the upside.

The pod never stops surprising with its metaphors.. lol #Wales #Cymru #Senedd26

Ein pennod diwetharaf nawr ar @ambobdim.bsky.social - Mae @jerryhunter.bsky.social a @richardwynjones.bsky.social yn trafod gwaith Ann Griffiths! 👇 www.ambobdim.cymru/profile-cont...

In our latest pod, @lauramcallister30.bsky.social Lauren, and Lee explore why the relationship between Welsh Labour and UK Labour is like a puppy and its master and why a Wales Office firing wouldn't matter... pod link below 👇 #Senedd26 #Wales #Cymru

More geographical confusion. Nigel Farage said Reform's new leader in Wales had "come back to the Valleys", so his children could grow up Welsh. Nation Cymru report he had moved from London to Bath in the west of England, about 50-60 miles from Islwyn, across the border nation.cymru/news/the-new...

US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe - www.ft.com/content/f869... via @FT

This is, and I will be blunt here, enormously more important a political story than what some twerp of a Labour backbench MP may be whispering.

On Thursday 7 May, voters across Scotland, Wales and England head to the polls in a major set of local and devolved elections. Follow our elections 2026 page for our analysis on why these elections matter www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/our-work/top...

Reform UK yn cyhoeddi James Evans fel arweinydd Cymru newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/32757

Breaking news: Kettle has strong thoughts about blackness of pot

Voters in focus groups are contrasting Labour’s treatment of Burnham and Mandelson – that’s a dangerous comparison for Starmer. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Saturday Night Live UK is out on the 21st March. The players are announced: Celeste Dring, Hammed Animashaun, Larry Dean, George Fouracres, Jack Shep, Ayoade Bamgboye, Al Nash, Paddy Young, Ania Magliano, Annabel Marlow, Emma Sidi.

Interesting read this, extrapolating (via Nairn, of course) that the collapse in the British Royals has a consequential effect on the parties of state in Labour and Cons: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

Old Thames barges have been deliberately sunk in the Blackwater Estuary, to create a new island habitat for birds:

“There are now more people in Wales who say they feel Welsh rather than British, it’s accelerated madly since Brexit and Covid… In England, Britishness is seen as the more inclusive identity, when Englishness isn’t, necessarily” - @jaclarner.bsky.social #Senedd26 #Wales #Cymru

National museum of wales actually has actual information on the painting on the plaques by paintings

I regret to inform you that the madness still isn’t over…

Daily Express: NOW YOU MUST GIVE BRITAIN A PROPER BREXIT #TomorrowsPapersToday