‘What makes the (Welsh Lab Gov) refusal to hold a Welsh inquiry all the worse is that one of the findings of the UK inquiry was that many of the mistakes made in Wales were well after the first lockdown - when they were overwhelmingly in charge of the response’ @willhaycardiff.bsky.social newsletter

Nathan Gill's social media bio... They claim to love the country they would sell down the river for a stuffed brown envelope. He was the head of Reform in Wales. How do you think Reform would react if any other party leader had been found to have committed such crimes?

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...

Bribery is a "malignancy" at the heart of British public life, says judge. The law responds with "stern punishment"

🚨 NEW in @bjpols.bsky.social : When Partygate hit Westminster, trust in Scottish politicians increased. Our experiments reveal a "contrast effect" - scandals at one level can make the other look better by comparison. Who lost most trust in Westminster? Scottish unionists. Read now #OpenAccess 👇

‘Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 27 European countries’ @erictopol.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social @cefincampbell.bsky.social

This,This, Hwn!👇🏻 ‘In Wales, a country where our politicians can rarely go more than an hour without mentioning the Future Generations Act, Does a nation where 45% of those aged under 4 live in poverty really give a crap about future generations?’ @willhaycardiff.bsky.social newsletter 🔥👏

This is shockingly uninformed about how polling works

Sarah Rees, @plaidcymru.bsky.social said: “When even seasoned trade union leaders are saying keeping out Reform means voting for Plaid Cymru, it's clear the tide is turning. "If voters in Wales want to protect our hard won rights, Plaid Cymru is the party that stands up for them and for Wales.”🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

‘Referring to the October 23 Senedd by-election in Caerphilly, Kevin Courtney of TUC Cymru backed campaign group Stand Up To Racism told the conference: “To stop Reform in Caerphilly that means voting Plaid Cymru’” @plaidcymru.bsky.social nation.cymru/news/union-m...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @libdemdaisy.bsky.social @zarahsultana.bsky.social @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social

Two unpopular governments at both ends of the M4 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

The Westminster implications are staggering too. On these numbers, Labour would likely be reduced to just 3 Welsh seats, Plaid would win around 6, and Reform could take most of the remaining 23 seats out of Wales's 32 constituencies 🧵 End

Reform's success creates its own problems for government formation. By cannibalising Conservative support, they may find themselves without natural coalition partners, while their vote could be inefficiently distributed across constituencies 🧵

Latest ITV BarnCymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 poll confirms trend seen over last 6 months - neck and neck race between Plaid Cymru and Reform UK for largest party, with Labour falling to even more distant third. Evidence growing of distinct realignment in Wales 🧵

Any political party that says they can fix the Welsh NHS without tackling its labyrinth of an organisational structure is, in my opinion, not serious about tacking the problem.

This means that even when we are asking basic questions about what the current situation is within healthcare, we can’t be sure if we are getting the right answer.

The Wales Centre for Public Policy made a graphic showing how this works:

The Welsh NHS structure is immensely convoluted. This makes driving system wide change challenging. Let me explain just how complex the NHS in a country of 3m is... [Thread]

Patients died since May 2021 waiting for NHS treatment🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @AneurinBevanUHB 14,180 @BetsiCadwaladr 5,934 @CV_UHB 2,234 @CwmTafMorgannwg 1,920 @HywelDdaHB 6,353 @PTHBhealth 1,182* @SwanseabayNHS 6,571 Now the eagle eyed will notice something strange here’ (see newsltr) @willhaycardiff.bsky.social

A quote from @willhaycardiff.bsky.social’s latest newsletter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿: 🔴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ‘between 2016 and 2022, over 15,000 people had died while on a waiting list 🔴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 since May 2021 Senedd election 38,374 patients died while waiting for NHS treatment This is the breakdown by 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 health board … 1/2

Lots of talk of Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 WAITING LISTS over the last 10 or so yrs … but what about effects on the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿&🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ANNUAL NUMBER OF REGISTERED DEATHS BY PLACE 2015-2024(prov)? DEATHS (All)📈🧐 at HOME 📈🚨🧐‼️ at HOSPITAL ~ at CARE HOMES ~ at HOSPICES ~ at OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS ~ ELSEWHERE 📈🧐 Source :ONS

A Welsh language campaign group has hit out at the 'disappointing' 0.2% increase in the number of children attending Welsh medium schools, at odds with the Welsh Government's target for one million Welsh speakers by 2050

Welsh politics in the media In the latest Blueprint Cymru podcast, I talk with @willhaycardiff.bsky.social about shaping Wales’ future through the media. More @newwales.bsky.social

Bad news. The longes Welsh NHS waits have risen for a 2nd month. The FM had said she wanted the longest waits down to 8k by March. This led to a rapid drop but since lists have started to rise again. If this is the record they are taking into 2026 Reform/Plaid will be licking their chops

And finally finally, please share far and wide! www.trumpactiontracker.info This thread adapted from my substack post here: christinapagel.substack.com/p/introducin... 14/14

Types of help needed in the screenshot - if you think these might apply to you, please do get in touch! [email protected] 11/14

I’ve been tracking authoritarian-like actions of the Trump administration since Jan 2025. In Feb, I introduced 5 broad domains of authoritarianism for the logged actions - then only 79. As the number of actions has grown, I wanted to create a website that lets people explore them easily. 2/14

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

Gwych Will! 👏🌟🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️ Powerful! The sustainable Wellbeing of Cymru’s Future Generations of investigative journalists in action! This is very exciting for Cymru! Looking forward to reading the outputs and seeing their impact !!

The latest podcast is out. This week we look at Wales being ignored, the Welsh Government pretending an issue doesn't exist and how Welsh Labour may split after the Senedd election. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLB5...

Latest newsletter includes: - Secret recording inside Reform UK meeting - Accounts for Welsh Gov owned org left in a toilet (shows £23m loss) - The forgotten Welsh parts of the UK Covid inquiry - The terrible Welsh Gov response to reasonable scrutiny willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/secret-rec...

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT Just over 9 months ago I left WalesOnline to start this newsletter looking in depth at Welsh politics and Welsh issues. The response to this has exceeded my wildest dreams and I have a really exciting announcement - an Investigative Journalism Fund. [Thread]

Join us outside the Senedd to make some noise! "We want to create a wall of sound that will carry all the way to London. The transfer of the Crown Estate is an important step as Wales begins its journey to independence" - Phyl Griffiths, Chair Yes Cymru.

Plaid Cymru MPs listened to disabled people and voted against the welfare bill tonight. This bill was cruel from the start and remains unfit for purpose. These measures will hit Welsh communities hardest - yet the vast majority of Welsh Labour MPs nodded them through. Shame.

👇🏻 Still seems pertinent … (unfortunately) … 🧐

"Hundreds of patients every month come to some degree of avoidable harm because we can't get to them quick enough.” - Jason Killens, Welsh Ambulance Service ‘handover delays happen when hospitals become clogged up, but are largely beyond the ambulance service's control’ @jasonkillens.bsky.social

"This change, without transparent rationale or consultation, would again underline the arbitrary nature of how the Barnett formula is applied to Wales with respect to rail infrastructure." - Guto Ifan www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Treasury has CHANGED the classifcation of a railway project to “England and Wales” after 4 years of treating it as England only. Exclusive in today’s newsletter willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

👇🏻This still seems as fitting today as it did in December 2022, for at least two of these Me Me Mes … We see thee Me Me Me. Gwelwn di Fi Fi Fi 👀🍿

A Welsh company has built the highest altitude waste water treatment facility in the world in just four months - safeguarding the river that runs through a World Heritage Site at Quito, the capital of Ecuador ✍️Martin Shipton

🍽️ Cyfres newydd sbon: Busnes Bwyd 📺 Nos Fory | Tomorrow 🕘 21:00 Cyfres newydd sy'n gweld 6 cynhyrchydd bwyd Cymreig yn cystadlu yn erbyn ei gilydd i ennill buddsoddiad o £5,000 i'w busnes yn ogystal â mentora unigryw. ✨ Cyflwynwyd gan Tudur Owen gyda beirniaid Marian Evans a Dylan Jones Evans.

The ‘system’ has long been broken, kept alive only because of its people - but now the people have been broken (since covid), and communities have systematically been broken in favour of centralisation & an attempt at control, thus losing the preventative sustainable power communities can deliver 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

The system is broken completely, not just managerially, but more importantly spiritually – the soul has gone from the NHS. We need to start with restoring it by bringing back compassion, empathy and humanity✍️ Rajan Madhok

Covid inquiry: 180,000 lives could have been saved www.channel4.com/news/covid-i...

Pick a starter, main, and dessert 🥰

Mental Health Awareness Week has begun 💙 If you’re needing a little support, here’s who to call ☎️  Please share far and wide! #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek