Tale of Two Towns

There are those that think that Farage is somehow better than Labour's Rayner. What deluded people they are.

I’d firmly describe myself as 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #indycurious so looking forward to going to this event in Cardiff on Friday to talk currency and economics with the excellent @markjhooper.bsky.social @tegidroberts.bsky.social and @leannewood.bsky.social : scotonomics.org/event/the-ec...

A new poll has revealed that over half of Welsh people believe Plaid Cymru is the best party to stand up for Wales ✍️Emily Price wp.me/p8Mk4U-13PG

When a government inherits policies from the previous government and some time has passed ( where they could have fixed them) they then become their policies.

Motherfucking wind farms…

And some News: those figures on fleeing millionaires everyone else has unquestioningly quoted? Based largely on LinkedIn locations and statistically unsound extrapolation on.ft.com/4fim7gw

Does this mean the gitwizard wants to annex the Cotswolds?

Nobody is suggesting that an independent country switches its currency on day one. However name me a single former British colony that used sterling long term.

Labour voters in Wales wishing to see an independent Wales need to understand that for Welsh Labour politicians fealty to party comes before loyalty to the Wales and our people. Leading to two-faced arguments for voting Labour. Want an #indyWales? Vote Plaid! #annibyniaeth youtu.be/aXKn-rQVO9Q?...

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Interview request! If you work in the gig economy, or are falsely self-employed, I want to talk to you about how this kind of work affects you and your relationships with other workers - for an upcoming book on competitive individualism. Get in touch if that's you!

Boris Johnson and his pal Nigel Farage. One through ten.

“Which universities have been selected?” “Both of them.”

"When I received word I’d been selected, a light went on inside me. The money would be a huge boost, of course, but also, I felt seen. I felt valued... It turns out that €325 a week [in UBI] can not only help with groceries and doctors’ bills, it also makes you feel like you’re worth something." 🎯

RIP Lalo Schifrin Bullitt - shifting gears [from the car chase scene] youtu.be/4rPlk-wtYww?...

A message from Bernie. zohranfornyc.com/vote

Babel’s Professor Richard Lovell is a truly odious bastard.

What nonsense. This development will be jointly owned by a French state owned energy company and an Irish state owned energy company. Why not a Welsh state owned energy company. Devolve the Crown Estate and we could have one.

#tafwyl excellent viewing area for disabled. Da iawn pawb.

Felix Rösch - Elegy for Peace youtu.be/29MmszWnjQE?...

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A better argument is that the Robeson Channel between Canada and Greenland (Denmark) is only 19 miles across.

£445m over 10 years is completely inadequate.

Cost of rail per mile is >£20m per mile so £440 buys you 22 miles if you’re lucky. But it will be spent on Maintanence I expect.

RIP Sly Stone www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJZH...

Narrator: it is.

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With Musk's man - JD Vance - waiting in the wings.

It seems likely that a Plaid Cymru led government will be installed next year and its radicalism needs to extend beyond social justice and the advancement of independence as the cure to all ills ✍️Ben Wildsmith buff.ly/aYfWMvz

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Morgan has no answers- only insults.

Prices can go up as well as down.

Swiss inflation turns negative for first time in four years https://www.ft.com/content/c4b3cd10-58d5-4fe0-a6f0-075d6e88776d

Oh come off it. It would be easy to be accused of moaning but if you look at the actual RNEP programme, none of this pipeline is targeting Wales apart from some "tactile paving" whatever the hell that is.

Welsh ..“is an indigenous language of Britain. It’s a language that grew here, shaped by the deep time of these islands – by the millennia it has spent in, and of, this land, shaping it and being shaped by it.”

And the government of the day won’t crack down on party political shenanigans.

Worth noting that the total the UK is spending on disability as a percentage of GDP is still lower than other European countries and Australia.

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Today's newsletter: one reason why the government is coming under pressure over its planned cuts to disability benefits is that it doesn't have a good policy justification for them. (Or really, any policy justification for them)

This is worth a listen. It's very good and plenty applicable to Wales. Corp subsidy, university fees, healthcare, democracy. The list goes on. youtu.be/PbWVbQQwWJo?...

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We'll be there.

The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world. We have one of the highest numbers of billionaires in the world [top ten]. We rank 6th with the highest number of Fortune500 companies, and yet we decide to treat our disabled and poor with appalling callousness.

At least we know the Singularity will look like Dieter Rams designs from 50s to the 80s.