Terrific thread this.

Etholiad y Senedd 2026: Beth ddigwyddodd, a pham? | The 2026 Welsh Parliament Election: What happened, and why? Gyda Dr @jaclarner.bsky.social a'r Athro @richardwynjones.bsky.social | With Dr Jac Larner and Prof. Richard Wyn Jones: 👇 #Cymru #Wales #Senedd26 youtu.be/5bcHjeYrxi8?...

Odd that the question of ‘What does it mean to be #English?’ is now a hot topic of serious discussion in the media but next to zero engagement with the serious and longstanding work of @ailsahenderson.bsky.social & @richardwynjones.bsky.social on @theunionsurvey.bsky.social about it (1/3)

EXC: Leak reveals Scottish Labour plans to review links with UK party after election defeat.

The two tier ‘argument’ is a contender for the most intellectually worthless and partisan contention around.

Troi ei olygon yn ôl at ganlyniadau etholiad y Senedd fis diwethaf mae @richardwynjones.bsky.social y mis hwn. Mae’n cynnig ei ddadansoddiad craff o’r ddaeargryn wleidyddol sydd wedi newid tirlun gwleidyddol Cymru, gan archwilio’r heriau sy’n wynebu Plaid Cymru bellach. barn.cymru/cy/dim-gorff...

People who chose to simply ignore the geopolitical shift that we are living through have nobody but themselves to blame. The signs are out there. Pay attention.

If you read one thing today, make it @stephenkb.bsky.social's admirably clear and rational analysis of the police's actions following Henry Nowak's murder, from the @financialtimes.com Inside Politics newsletter www.ft.com/content/aa94...

Astudiodd Deb Haaland am flwyddyn yn Adran Saesneg, Prifysgol Abertawe. / Deb Haaland spent a year as a student in the Dept of English Literature, Swansea University.

This episode of "Today" desperately needs a historian of policing, to explain why things like anti-racism training were introduced in the first place. This wasn't some departure from a world in which the police treated everyone the same. It was an attempt to bring that world fractionally closer.

Ymunwch â @jaclarner.bsky.social a @richardwynjones.bsky.social ar gyfer ein dadansoddiad ôl-etholiad Senedd Cymru 2026 / Join us for our online event to examine what happened in the 2026 Welsh national election. Dolen cofrestru yma / Registration link here 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/1990480045...

Da iawn bobl! Prifysgol Caerdydd yn oedi cynllun llyfrgell ar ôl pryderon newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/prif...

Monday, June 8th, 7pm, upstairs in Tiny Rebel. We've got Richard Wyn Jones himself chatting to us at the beginning of the next bookclub session. Read the book, bring questions.

We're stuck in "a situation in which, to put it in very broad terms, we have a country which ‘knows’ it has made a mistake and regrets it, and yet has a politics which can barely acknowledge that and certainly can’t address it." Spot-on by @chrisgrey.bsky.social

A long-overdue UN report verified sexual torture against Palestinians — including 14 men, seven women, nine boys, and one girl — during detention and interrogation across multiple facilities. Instead of addressing the findings, Israel accused those behind the report of antisemitism.

Israel has been gradually expanding its "kill zone" in Gaza. Its army has now officially seized 70% of the territory. In a few months, 2 million Palestinians will be crushed into 20% of Gaza. Then 10%. The "ceasefire" is a cover for genocide, not an end to it.

Yesterday Israel ordered the inhabitants of Nabiteh to leave (population of 100,000) They then ordered the inhabitants of Tyre to leave (pop of 200,000). Now they've ordered the entire south to leave - up to 300 towns & villages. Alex Crawford reporting from Lebanon today

Palestinian authorities say Israel has violated the U.S.-backed ceasefire 3,000 times since agreeing to the deal last October, killing more than 900 civilians since then.

For those interested in Welsh politics, this is an interesting read from former Welsh Labour MS & govt minister, Mick Antoniw, offering what might be seen as the devo-maximalist wing of the party’s perspective on this month’s election defeat #Senedd26 #Senedd #Devolution

Freely available intro to/translation of the 'Historia' of St Melangell via @librarywales.bsky.social's, if anyone's interested! (by Huw Pryce) I do wish there was a bit more detail about what miracles exactly her hares did and the precise mechanics of hare-related miracles, but there we go

I live just down the road from this weather station, and can confirm from my own scientific observations that it was at least a gazillion degrees. And to be more sombre about this: any politics that doesn't start from the existential nature of the climate crisis is just not a serious contribution.

Bron i 9000 wedi arwyddo! Wyt ti? Nearly 9000 have signed! Have you?

Amazing piece giving examples of how the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is hitting South Asian nations that rely upon liquified petroleum gas and liquified natural gas 🧵 www.ft.com/content/d3fc...

Two weeks on from the Senedd election, here are a few reflections on what actually happened and what it might mean for the next four years. Thread. 🧵 jaclarner.github.io/jaclarner/bl...

Fabulous clarification in today's Observer. Stonehenge!

From our latest (and final... perhaps!) pod, Lee questions the lessons that the Labour Party in Wales is - or isn't - taking from the devastating losses for the party in Scotland. from which is has never recovered. @lauramcallister30.bsky.social #Wales #Cymru

Fel arfer, mae #Gwleidydda ar BBC Radio Cymru yn codi pynciau o ddiddordeb hollol annisgwl. Dyma Vaughan a @richardwynjones.bsky.social yn trafod cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac ymerodraeth golff Donald Trump. #Cymru #Wales

“U.K. asks for the Moon on a stick, again. Wicked EU unexpectedly says no, laughs in Esperanto.”

Arwyddwch ogydd! Sign please! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Librarians here found out about this via social media on Monday. Those I've spoken to are devastated and furious. No consultation, no attempt to respond to concerns. Just a constant stream of violence against the Humanities in any form it takes by people who do not value it. #skystorians

- Subsidising consumption in the face of a supply shock - reducing incentives to drive less/switch to EVs - using up limited fiscal space to help better-off drivers rather than the most vulnerable. Hard to think of a worse policy right now.

I have spent the last 4 years being lectured by British colleagues about German weakness towards Russia. Well.

What an absolutely woeful shitshow this is.

Is it morally defensible? No. But is it a coherent response to a difficult situation? No. Ah, but is it effective in bringing down fuel prices? Ha, you're not going to believe this...

If you are unhappy about this move, sign the petition here - you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa... Leave feedback directly to Cardiff University here - app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/cardiff/li... We will fight these changes.

📚 'Y llyfrgell yw calon y Brifysgol' Mae cyn-lyfrgellydd cenedlaethol yn rhybuddio y gallai colli mynediad at gasgliadau Cymreig pwysig ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd fod yn 'drychineb'. newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/rhyb...

Utterly the wrong call. Weak. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The new issue of Contemporary British History published today includes my latest article looking at why the Govt of Wales Act 98 swiftly unravelled, the creation of the Richard Commission, & the internal negotiations within the Labour Party that led to the Govt of Wales Act 2006 #devolution #senedd

For those who have only recently taken an interest in Welsh politics, this from the former FM is devastating.

"Why is everyone angry with us?" My SKETCH of Today at the Brexit Reenactment Society. thecritic.co.uk/keep...

The ‘England and Wales’ scheme that just keeps on giving, eh? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...

For Welsh politicos, this is a very good piece by @walesgovernance.bsky.social’s @nyedavies.bsky.social on the historic nature of the Senedd election & the extent to which Plaid Cymru’s rise marks a new chapter for the progressive/radical tradition in Welsh politics #senedd26 #devolution #senedd

Bron 5000 wedi arwyddo! Nearly 5000 have signed you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

The Salisbury collection is a hugely important Welsh studies resource, if the plan is to remove it from the main relevant library space that's gobsmacking

Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

It is surely no coincidence that the first volume of Welsh-language poetry by a woman ever published appeared in 1850, three short years after the ‘slander’ of the Blue Books✍️ Jerry Hunter wp.me/p8Mk4U-1ln0

If you totted up the sums for every financial scandal in British politics (£2k per parliamentary question for cash-for-questions, £200k for Johnson’s No 10 renovation, the cost of that very nice campervan) even with second tier stuff like Rayner and Polanski, would you get close to £5mn *in total*?