Reform have misspelt 2 out of the 3 Welsh words on their manifesto for Wales. Nigel Farage and Wales leader Dan Thomas proudly held up the manifesto at the launch yesterday. On the front cover it reads "Family, community, country," which has been translated to "Teulu, gymnued, wlad." 1/2

[Tries to estimate the size of Sainsbury's bag required to contain 1,000 postal vote envelopes.]

Wake up honey, New Envoy to the Prime Minister for the Nations and Regions just dropped

To end this conflict, the Iranians would have to agree and the last half of this sentence is increasingly becoming an ideal objective

We don't use the lovely French phrase va-t-en-guerre enough but in these warmongering times there ain't half a lot of them about

"An unelected son-in-law carrying out the will of an autocrat is typical in a kleptocracy. The unusual part is that Kushner is not working for the country for which his father-in-law is president." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...

Last time we meddled in Iran it had < 20m folk, when we invaded with the Soviets im WWI it had 14m, now it has 100m These idiots need to update their demographics, this would involve sending an army of 3m+

Disgraceful

Filmtrailerpolitik.

Tasting notes: bitter mouth feel with strong notes of Russo-Japanese war of 1905 in the after taste

The dark side of sea shanties for @alixmortimer.bsky.social

He'd pick Shia LeBoeuf

Having established that it is ok for Border Patrol and Homeland Security to, say, divide a detainees Xmas shopping between them, or pick up a 16 year old citizen, steal his phone and sell it before releasing him, to then believe that the same people won't be open to an approach from cartels with $$$

We need candidates who fall firmly into “looks like a cinnamon roll, could actually kill you” overlap.

A Fortunate Son being someone like Donald Trump whose landlord father could compel a tenant who was a Dr to write him a medical note to get him out of the draft - so I guess in a way it is apposite

'it’s interesting to compare how hard it was to differentiate a web browser with how hard it is today to differentiate a chatbot' Fab piece from @thebenedictevans.bsky.social asking hard Qs of OpenAI when its tech is similar to other labs and has no network effects www.ben-evans.com/benedictevan...

Ethnic cleansing

I accidently helped get Ulster Scots written into the Good Friday Agreement and now there is a poem in Ulster Scots in Irish Passports

Waiting for the mid-terms is hopium, plan for the long term to overthrow the regime

'Dubai based maga dog walking influencer' i mutter as I douse myself in petrol in the Claire's accessories hair clip section 'DUBAI BASED MAGA DOG WALKING INFLUENCER'

Interesting post for the Rules as Code folk - delivering a programming language that can encode legislation as a commercial project blog.merigoux.ovh/en/2026/02/1...

Benedict Anderson's seminal Imagined Communities looked at the creation of states and nationalism by bounded national press and radio, as well as educational curriculum This is a perfect example of the post-Anderson world - a nationalism of readership of a common language on the unbounded internet

Really pleased to be working with Transform Wales on the National Conversations initiative - trying to put all aspects of digital, public sector, private sector and social on the agenda for the May elections www.linkedin.com/posts/transf...

We know Iran has a major airborne drone industry We will soon find out if they have learnt from the Ukrainians and have naval drones too

Dissecting Trump's words is pointless, dissect his acts

Prof. Robert Pape: "I have studied every air campaign since WWI... I've modelled the bombing of Fordow and regime change in Iran for 20 years... We are now in the grip of the escalation trap... This has never worked in over 100 years... Trump is up against the weight of history".

Would be good to see someone explain the possible impact outside of Iran of the Israeli massacre in Qom To what extent will the wider Hawza in Qom have been impacted?

Follow on post from us on Missions, how they link to outcomes and how this can shift the dial of delivering real change in Wales. There's a third post in this series on shifting from outputs to outcomes, still to come: funding teams to deliver, getting rid of the project mentality. Stay tuned!

reminder that while Alexa/etc are both not people and female, Claude (who is "a software engineer") is a man, and you have to pay him

FAFO as the kids say

I saw that Iran has a stockpile of 80,000 drones and pre-strike was capable of producing 400 per day. UAE, Bahrain run out of interceptors in 4-7 days. Saudi and Israel in 2-3 weeks. Iran may be able to wreak unimaginable devastation after that.

I've just supported 'National Conversations' from @transform.wales & @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com, a project to deliver a bookshelf of essential reads on digital government to every newly elected members of the Scottish Parliament and Senedd Join me here: nationalconversations.org

Just Nick Robinson casually asking a guest on BBC Today if protests against the war 'should be allowed to go ahead' or 'ought to be banned in this country'.

Is it the official Reform Party position that there were thousands of Muslim women who loved Matt Goodwin but their husbands ordered them to vote for Hannah Spencer?

🎶 The yanks are coming, the yanks are coming, over there So beware, say a prayer Send the word, send the word to beware We'll be over, we're coming over And we won't come back 'til it's over, over there 🎶

Nazareth. Biggest Christian town in Israel. No bomb shelters.

Piece from last summer which said the all the shares sold to the public (the Equity Punks) were worthless.

Really welcome from Manish Srivastava on how to do decisions/appeals in an unbundled state in the age of AI https://digitalstatecraft.substack.com/p/the-minimum-digital-kernel-of-an "smallest set of shared digital capabilities needed for an unbundled state to behave like a rule-of-law machine"

An appointment is an activity. A healthier life is a result. If we want to move the needle on climate or health, we have to stop measuring what we spent and start measuring the difference we made. Read why the project model is broken: transform.wales/blog/2026/fr... #Wales #PublicSector (2/2)

Astonishing thread

“We cannot say that the United States’ actions are against international law, but we condemn Iran’s retaliatory actions as against international law,” is neither a coherent nor a compelling position.

International law doesn't provide for a <my military bases are off limits when I attack you> unless the neutral state disarms the combatants based there, which they haven't

The EU reaction to the attack on Iran is like the Polish participation at Munich "well we got Teschen" After Greenland this is pathetic

Tbh I’m annoyed that so much of the sexism targeted towards my candidacy is about painting me as an influencer rather than a journalist. It COMPLETELY erases my bartending career.

Speaking of sticking - we’ve got some new limited edition stickers on the way.

Very true www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/02/24/f...

"These claims deserve scrutiny, not because they are entirely wrong, but because they echo promises made in 1959, in 1973, in 1985, and in 2015. "

I've said it before and I'll say it again - #ForeignInterference in UK politics is CHEAP. US Far-Right talking-points are being imported to the UK by #UsefulIdiots lock stock and barrel for mere pocket-change by US standards. The very name 'reform' is American. bsky.app/profile/flip...