Meanwhile, an investigation by Al Jazeera Arabic has found that thermal and thermobaric munitions supplied to Israel by the U.S. have evaporated nearly 3,000 Palestinians in attacks since October 2023, leaving behind no remains other than blood spray or small fragments of flesh.

Israel has killed 581 Palestinians since a U.S.-brokered ceasefire was supposed to have taken effect last October.

Wedding in Cwmcarn, a mining village in Wales's Ebbw Valley, 1965, photo by US photographer Bruce Davidson.

'EXPOSURE' reviewed by CJ Wagstaff @nation.cymru 'sensitive and assured... radically human... an ambitious collection marked by moments of profound clarity and beauty' angelagraham.org/2026/02/radi... @byleaveswelive.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @asls.org.uk

Fab, as per!

Reform banned journalists they dislike from covering their party conference and then Nigel Farage dissembled about it to Congress, so I think we’ve heard quite enough faux free speech bollocks out of them, tbh.

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

Is this the end, or the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning of the end? My SKETCH of Keir Starmer clinging on. thecritic.co.uk/et-t...

This is what we're up against. Bangor University, that fine and noble institution where I've spoken twice, nearly 150 years young and still going strong. The sheer hatred they reserve for us shows what could happen after 2029, but also that they're frightened of knowledge and learning.

Diddordeb mewn addysg uwch yng Nghymru a'r cyfan sy'n dibynnu arno? DARLLEN HANFODOL Interested in Wales' universities and all that depends on them? ESSENTIAL READING wonkhe.com/blogs/wales-...

Glory to the Heroic Defenders of Starmergrad

'Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the moves that would make it easier for Jewish settlers to take over Palestinian land. "We will continue to kill the idea of ​​a Palestinian state," he said.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Given that Keir Starmer has given no concessions to Eluned Morgan on HS2, devolution of justice, reform of Barnett or any of Welsh Labour's key policies, it makes you wonder what it would take for her to call for his resignation...

NEW: Sources close to Eluned Morgan, Labour first minister in Wales, insist that she is not planning to say anything on Keir Starmer's leadership today - despite reports to the contrary.

Am told Eluned Morgan, First Minister of Wales, is going to follow Anas Sarwar in calling for the PM to stand down; Also that there will be "Scottish MP ministerial resignations" afterwards Ministers saying it's the end game...

It is sobering to think that the vast majority of Welsh poetry composed by women in the medieval and early modern periods was composed and transmitted orally and never committed to writing and thus lost to us ✍️Jerry Hunter wp.me/p8Mk4U-1eyv

Rate bit of good news here for Labour.

Right that the prime minister has resigned. His successor, Keir Starmer, has a very difficult inheritance.

This seems to be the first example - from November 1926 - of someone standing for election as a Plaid Cymru candidate. Charles Lloyd Jones was the person in question, seeking to represent Llandderfel on Merionnydd county council. Do let me know if you can think of an earlier example!

Pennod 80: Ann Griffiths (1776-1805) Mae'r bennod ddiweddaraf o Yr Hen Iaith gyda @richardwynjones.bsky.social a @jerryhunter.bsky.social ar gael ar Am nawr! The latest episode of Yr Hen Iaith with Richard Wyn Jones and Jerry Hunter is available on Am now! www.ambobdim.cymru/profile-cont...

Pwy oedd y person cyntaf erioed i ymlâdd etholiad yn enw Plaid Cymru? Tybed os mai Charles Lloyd Jones oedd o? Etholiad ar gyfer sedd Llandderfel ar Gyngor Meirion yn Nhachwedd 1926 Rhan o adroddiad Y Ddraig Goch

Ha! Scotland's wonderful NATIONAL has just run this story.

The newly appointed leader of Reform UK in Wales hasn’t moved back to his home town in the Valleys, but has bought a £1m house near Bath, we can reveal ✍️Martin Shipton

Gyda llywodraeth Lafur San Steffan ar ganol un o’r cyfnodau anoddaf ers iddynt ddod i rym, edrych ar yr her sy’n eu hwynebu yma yng Nghymru y mae ein colofnydd gwleidyddol @richardwynjones.bsky.social, gydag etholiad y Senedd yn nesáu. Darllenwch ei erthygl yn rhifyn Chwefror. #senedd2026

this is vicious and correct www.economist.com/britain/2026...

**NEWYDDION ENBYD MEDI 1910** Mr Bellis o’r Wyddgrug wedi ei fwyta gan aligator yn Ne America.

“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

Watching this Labour government try to kill UK universities is like watching an animal disembowel itself. You just sit there thinking ‘Why?? Why would you rip out something that has always kept you alive?’

Trump’s Board of Corruption signs up a truly awesome member.

I think also this is a reflection of the fact this Labour leadership did very little intellectual renewal, in that the intellectual argument for 'a graduate contribution' IMO remains a strong argument for Plan A tuition fees. It's *also* a really poor one for the post-2012 tuition fees system.

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

“With student loans the UK government has become a loanshark. Trapping poorly paid graduates in decades of “debt” that they can realistically never repay. If it were a commercial deal the government would be trying to regulate the company out of business.” Lewis Goodall

This confirms my feeling…that Find Out Now are not a good actor. Why would you release a poll with a sample size of 143? What’s the point of it? (A boost for Labour, tho, in that I assume they will plaster this all over their ads in the home it “becomes” true.

HOW IT WORKS IN MOVIES: 1. Government lies 2. Brave heroes release video showing the truth 3. Press says “the government is lying!” HOW IT APPARENTLY WORKS IN REAL LIFE 1. Brave heroes release video showing the truth 2. Government lies 3. Press says “Oh no, what now? So confusing! So hard!”

The 'sharply contradictory narratives' of truth and lies.

Wir Dduw, fy mhrif reswm am obeithio y bydd Cymru’n curo Bosnia a’r Eidal yw y byddai hynny’n rhoi cyfle i ni wrthod cymeryd rhan yn y twrnament…

Hanfodol i bawb sydd hefo ddiddoreb mewn addysg yng Nghymru - yn wir, i bawb hefo diddordeb yn ein dyfodol fel cenedl. Essential reading for anyone interested in education in Wales or, indeed, the country’s future more generally. wonkhe.com/blogs/welsh-...

Morning.

Pennod newydd Yr Hen Iaith! Mae @jerryhunter.bsky.social a @richardwynjones.bsky.social yn trafod un o'r enwau mwyaf cyfarwydd mewn llenyddiaeth Cymru (yn arbenigo mewn ffuglen 😆 ) - Iolo Morgannwg. Ar @ambobdim.bsky.social , YouTube, a phob ap podlediadau rwan. www.ambobdim.cymru/profile-cont...

Trafodir ymchwil @theunionsurvey.bsky.social gan @richardwynjones.bsky.social ac @ailsahenderson.bsky.social yn yr erthygl hon 👇 / This article discusses our research about Englishness from The Union Survey 👇 www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...

Making sense of the madness. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Analysis of the international and domestic implications of the ‘Greenland crisis’, including how the ‘Carney doctrine’ could offer a way forward for post-Brexit Britain: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/maki...

Worth a listen. The FM seems to be trying to use the electoral threat of Plaid (‘seperatists’) to generate leverage for the Welsh govt in dealing with the UK govt so as to ensure that it treats Wales ‘fairly’ in those areas in which it has *already* refused to act (rail, justice, crown estate) 1/

Araith Eluned Morgan yn Llundain heddiw…. The First Minister’s speech at the IfS today…. www.youtube.com/live/Wm-OVQW...

I mean, it's not too early is it? We can all see the membership line-up, the constitution and the price for inclusion.

Bardd Rhyddid ac Arch-ffugiwr: Iolo Morganwg Mae Pennod 79 Yr Hen Iaith gyda @richardwynjones.bsky.social a @jerryhunter.bsky.social ar gael ar Am nawr! The latest episode of Yr Hen Iaith with Richard Wyn Jones and Jerry Hunter is available on Am now! www.ambobdim.cymru/profile-cont...

Edrych ymlaen at ddarllen hwn yn llawn. Hefyd yn edrych ymlaen at glywed Jo Stevens eilio syniadau'r PW ac yn amlinellu sut i'w gweithredu... Looking forward to reading the full text and also to hearing Jo Stevens agreeing with the FM's ideas and setting out plans for their implemention...

Trump's utterance that force would not be used against Greenland has no more weight than any other of his utterances, and it certainly does not amount to him "ruling out" the use of force in any meaningful way. Disappointing to see so many news outlets place that construction on what he said.

Farage persistently prioritises the Trump relationship over British public opinion, including his own supporters and potential supporters. That could harm him electorally in 2029 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

‘Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace’

Yesterday's piece by @edwardluce.bsky.social is so searing, so sharp, so well-written. www.ft.com/content/dede...