I love the fact that pretty much the only group of Leavers who actually got the benefit they wanted out of Brexit are the one third of ethnic minorities who voted Leave because they wanted more Commonwealth migration.

Honestly also the brass neck of this paper, which cheered this asymmetric trade deal at the time and advocated that Liz Truss, the Cabinet minister who signed it should become *prime minister*.

God Jul! 🇳🇴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Please sir, my electoral system, he is very sick

Donald Trump has named a special envoy for Greenland, underscoring his determination to take control of the vast Arctic island from Denmark - rpts @richardmilne.ft.com www.ft.com/content/8c0e...

I wonder who is the intended 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 target of this 'drive by' 🤔😱 '[T]hey often think there will be payback; they may even have been promised it. Perhaps a key seat at the next election, a place on the list for the Senedd elections next May...or even a peerage.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Pam y sefydlwyd Plaid Cymru?' Mae testun fy narlith - sef Darlith Flynyddol Archif Wleidyddol @librarywales.bsky.social - bellach arlein os oes rhywun ffansi deunydd darllen dros y Nadolig?! www.llyfrgell.cymru/fileadmin/do...

Wales' unwanted title as the nation with the highest ‘in-country’ imprisonment rate in western Europe is set to be solidified due to the expansion of HMP Parc

To put Labour's 10.4% figure in this poll in context, *if* replicated next May it would be their worst vote share at a national level election in Wales since *rubs eyes* 1906 - an election when it only contested a handful of seats in Wales due to the Gladstone-MacDonald pact #senedd #devolution

🚨 NEW BLOG Labour have won every election in Wales for 100 years, but they are on track to (badly) lose the 2026 Senedd election - why? @jaclarner.bsky.social and I have looked at new data, which shows how support is shifting within (not between) Wales's blocs! blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal...

Bwriadau pleidleisio Senedd / Senedd Voting Intention (YouGov - nid MRP/ not MRP method) / (28/11 - 10/12) PC: 33% REF: 30% LLAF/LAB: 10% CEID/CON: 10% GWYRDD/GRN: 9% DEM RHYDD/LD: 6% ERAILL/OTH: 2% N=1,891 Ein dadansoddiad ni / Our analysis: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal...

Or, indeed, his success at taking on a radical right party whose support has more than doubled in his 15 months in charge and now leads in the polls.

NEWYDD: Dadansoddiad newydd gan dîm Dadansoddi Cyllid Cymru ar y cytundeb cyllidebol rhwng Llywodraeth Cymru a Phlaid Cymru: NEW: New analysis from the Wales Fiscal Analysis on the Welsh Governmentt - Plaid Cymru Budget Deal: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal...

Wondering what the longest period between Keir Starmer making a statement about race and Reform that it is not immediately undermined by something done by his ministers or aides has been. Three days?

Mae'r recordiad o'n Darlith Flynyddol 2025 gan Yr Athro Syr John Curtice, Prifysgol Ystrad Clud, nawr ar gael ar YouTube The recording ofour 2025 Annual Lecture by Prof. Sir John Curtice of @unistrathclyde.bsky.social is now on YouTube 👇 'Can Devolution Survive the UK's New Politics?' #Senedd26

A row has broken out over a multi-billion-pound rail link between Liverpool and Hull which has been designated as an ‘England and Wales’ project by the UK Government✍️Emily Price

I freely confess that I’d never even heard of C18th century poet Angharad James until this episode of @yrheniaith.bsky.social but her work is remarkable Read this lovely overview by @jerryhunter.bsky.social then please search your attic for the lost ‘llyfr coch’! nation.cymru/feature/yr-h...

Rhaid cyfaddef nad oeddwn i erioed wedi clywed am Angharad James (bardd o’r 18fed ganrif) cyn hyn. Os ydych chi’n yr un cwch yna dwi’n sicr y byddwch yn cael eich swyno…! @yrheniaith.bsky.social

From kellnerp.substack.com/p/the-majori...

O ddifrif calon, dychmygwch fod yn gymaint o gocoen a Gianni Infantino. A'n gwaredo....

Pennod 76 - Angharad James Mwynhewch pennod 76 @yrheniaith.bsky.social gyda @richardwynjones.bsky.social a @jerryhunter.bsky.social ar Am nawr! Enjoy the latest episode of Yr Hen Iaith with Richard Wyn Jones and Jerry Hunter on Am now! www.ambobdim.cymru/profile-cont...

Cyfathrebu’n ddwyieithog: “Mae bron pawb yn siarad Saesneg” Wedi i etholwyr ddisgrifio’i phenderfyniad fel un “gwarthus”, mae Jo Stevens wedi cyfiawnhau peidio argraffu gohebiaeth yn ddwyieithog #gwleidyddiaeth ✍️ Rhys Owen

This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?

Love to see the @naaswch.bsky.social shoutout! It was great to be there in-person for the recording. The more we can dissolve the incredibly sticky Madoc Myth the better. No, Indigenous Peoples in the Americans didn't learn how to fish or speak from the Welsh

Lovely stuff.

From @yrheniaith.bsky.social podcast Early Welsh language literature from the Americas includes a poem from 1596 imagining a dolphin carrying a message from a ship in the Caribbean home to Wales Benjamin Franklin (yes, that one) printed a Welsh language book in 1730! nation.cymru/feature/yr-h...

“it was the OBR’s job to stop my nefarious opponents from doing the unaffordable tax cut which I supported and pledged not to undo”

🚨 NEW: 'FROZEN 2': 🧊 Here's the Wales Fiscal Analysis team's first breakdown on what the 2025 Autumn Budget means for Wales 🚨NEWYDD: Beth mae Cyllideb y Hydref 2025 yn ei olygu i Gymru? Dyma ddadansoddiad cyntaf o'r newidiadau sydd ar y ffordd blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal...

The government can stick to this plan, or the government can get re-elected. Unlikely it can do both. Therefore either the government has a death wish or the 27-29 figures are yet another budgetary fairy tale. Remember when this government promised to be serious and not to duck the hard choices?

Looking forward to a much briefed bumper hamper of politics? No, not the Budget, The British General Election of 2024! We had a wonderful all star launch event in London last night, with representatives of all five Britain-wide parties, and now I have a special launch gift for you...read on! 1/?

Yn syth o Ohio, UDA! Y podlediad Cymraeg fyw cyntaf erioed (citation needed!) a recordiwyd yn America? Ein pennod diwetharaf gyda’r ein dau Americanwyr @richardwynjones.bsky.social a @jerryhunter.bsky.social yn trafod y dechreuadau llenyddiaeth Gymraeg America 👇👇 youtu.be/k07njL9OQy4

So many senior MAGA figures are so careless I wouldn't be surprised if two dozen intelligence agencies have cracked their means of communication

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Every "X will be unpopular" take which does not compare X with the other options available should be stuck in a bin. Raising big taxes is unpopular. Not raising them means starving public services. Remind me how many years of starving public services worked out for the incumbent in May last year.

I think if 24 people are dead it's more than "testing" a ceasefire.

It is indisputable that Brexit has been an economic disaster, and notable that none of its political architects have paid any price.

This is very good from Peter - and basically shows how the British Polling Council rules are supposed to work. kellnerp.substack.com/p/how-whiteh...

*Rhywbeth newydd yn y Gymraeg!* ---Podlediad am lenyddiaeth Cymraeg a gyhoeddwyd yn yr Unol Daleithiau cyn ac ar ôl ei hannibyniaeth - gyda Benjamin Franklin (ia, fo!) ymysg y cyhoeddwyr ---Y cyfan wedi ei recordio o flaen cynulliedfa fyw yn nwyrain Ohio... Croeso i @yrheniaith.bsky.social

For Welsh politicos, or those with a newfound interest in Senedd elections, this is an interesting read on the dynamics, and pressures building, within Welsh Labour after the Caerphilly by-election and ahead of next Spring's Senedd election #devolution #senedd

'Et katastrofevalg' Felly, os ydw'i wedi deall, Democratiaid Cymdeithasol Denmarc yw'r model ar gyfer y Blaid Lafur Brydeinig? Hmmm... So the Danish Social Democrats are the new model for the British Labour Party. Meanwhile, in Denmark... www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

Systematic torture and murder, with no consequences. news.sky.com/story/report...

“Things happen.” Jamal Khashoggi was a journalist and Washington Post columnist who was literally murdered and dismembered by agents of the Saudi government inside a Saudi consulate. Shameful. So shameful.

Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...

Both the Budget and the asylum bill are disintegrating before they've even been formally announced. Absolutely dead government.

A chart from "The British General Election of 2024" (out soon!) which is relevant to this debate - here's what voters wanted (black line) and what they though Labour (red) and Cons (blue) would do on tax and spend during the campaign. Higher figures = "put them up". Some important lessons here 1/?

Yr unig bodlediad gwleidyddol mewn unrhyw iaith sy'n cynnwys jôc dda am Herbert Asquith?! Vaughan Roderick ar dân yn y bennod ddiweddaraf The only politics podcast in any of the languages of these islands featuring a good joke about Asquith? What more do you want?! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...