HS2 bill could rise to £102bn with first trains delayed until 2039, government admits Transport secretary Heidi Alexander says first official estimate in 2026 prices shows cost turbocharged by inflation www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"‘Should we leave them to die?’ The battle over how to save orangutans from the curse of palm oil As new settlers clear their forest habitat, the apes are coming into conflict with humans. But simply moving them to another part of the forest may not be the answer" www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Gair y dydd: diog geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... 'Gwrthwynebol i waith' meddai'r diffiniad. Mae'n siwr bod ambell un yn teimlo felly ar fore Llun wedi cael penwythnos dda! Gweler hefyd eiriau mwy anghyfarwydd am fod yn ddiog, megis anesgud, diawgrym, a llegennaidd.

Up in the canopy, a Tawny owlet keeps watch. 😍 Owlets leave the nest before they can fly, clambering along branches on fluff and claws. Both parents feed them by night, guided by hungry calls. #SpringStories

Bore Da Bawb - Good Morning All Gwenoliaid Duon ar ddydd Iau yng Nghaerdydd dros y Gronfa Ddŵr Swifts over the Reservoir on Thursday over the Reservoir #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Natur #Cymru Cariad mawr o Gymru! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Bore Da Bawb - Good Morning All Gwenoliaid Duon dros Gronfa Ddŵr Llysfaen ar ddydd Iau Swifts over Lisvane Reservoir on Thursday #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Natur #Cymru Cariad mawr o Gymru! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

What happens when you travel all the way back home from Africa to find your sweetheart with another bird?! 💔 That’s what happened to poor old Mart this week who returned home only to find his beloved Martha had found a new partner! Keep up with all the drama here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaB...

Bore Da Bawb - Good Morning All Gwenoliaid dros Gronfa Ddŵr Llysfaen ar ddydd Iau cyn y cenllysg! Swallows over the Llysfaen Reservoir on Thursday before the hail! #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Natur #Cymru Cariad mawr o Gymru! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Plaid Cymru has forged a brand of inclusive nationalism. That's why it beat Reform in Wales | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Immigration make Britain brilliant

Bore Da Bawb - Good Morning All Teulu o wiwerod llwyd yn yr ardd ar ddydd Iau A family of grey squirrels in our garden on Thursday #Natur #Cymru Cariad mawr o Gymru! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I changed the spelling of my given name when I was 9 as there is no K in the welsh alphabet (a clear indication of my sense of identity as a young boy in Liverpool) - I am now seriously considering changing it again to Cenric ap Ioan Thanks Stephen ap Rhys of @nation.cymru for sewing this seed!!

@apushapus.bsky.social Bore da Jenks! Wnes i weld gwenoliaid duon dros Gronfa Ddŵr Llysfaen echnos a thros y Taf neithiwr - mi fedri di ddychmygu'r wên anferth ar draws ngwyneb! Gobeithio ges i ambell i lun-wnai sbio dros y penwythnos - yn y cyfamser dyma gwennol dros ganolfan y wardeniaid neithiwr

Had the privilege today of monitoring the nestboxes at @rspbcymru.bsky.social ’s Gwenffrwd Dinas reserve with the Fledgemore Nest Recording Group. Pied Flys appear to be back in good numbers with, hopefully, more to come. First eggs expected next week. #NestRecordScheme #Ringing #BirdingWales

So, Labour tears itself apart to try to stop Farage being our next PM just as he finally faces scrutiny in a monumental corruption scandal which could… and really should…end his political career. I’d go hard on that rather than each other right now guys. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Drudwy yn yr ardd ddoe Starlings in the garden yesterday #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Natur #Cymru Cariad mawr o Gymru! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

While all eyes are on Farage, we're overlooking something even worse: the building of the very tight and truly vile operation that is Restore Britain. This excellent essay/report by Simon Pearson should wake us up to the threat - and to what exactly it is. simonpearson1.substack.com/p/tory-30

Bore Da Bawb - Good Morning All Gwenoliaid y Glennydd ym Mae Caerdydd ar ddydd Llun Sand Martins in Cardiff Bay on Monday #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Natur #Cymru Cariad mawr o Gymru! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Bore da bawb! Good morning all! Teloriaid y Cyrs ym Mae Caerdydd ar ddydd Llun Reed Warblers in Cardiff Bay on Monday #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Natur #Cymru Cariad mawr o Gymru! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Remember those days when politicians thought not just about themselves?

"You’ve heard the king’s speech – but I think a better one might run like this" David Blunkett "If I were in government I’d propose a very different response to the challenges we face – starting with protecting people from the cost of living" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Choughs reappear at Tintagel Castle in Cornwall after decades of absence

It's all "me, me, me"! No wonder people are fed up with politicians and the Westminster gossip, with which the media are so obsessed! Indeed "what about the people?" After all that's why you politicians were elected!

Bore da bawb! Good morning all! Gwennol ar ôl pry dros llyn Parc Tredelerch neithiwr Swallow after a fly over Parc Tredelerch lake last night #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Natur #Cymru Cariad mawr o Cymru! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

"Ordnance Survey said it could not change names by itself & has also seen a rise in the number of Welsh names,citing support for recent work to adopt Welsh place names for lakes in Eryri." Er no!!! Ordnance Survey you've just ignored already existing Welsh place names & used English ones instead!!

The Royal College of Nursing Wales has called on the new Welsh Government to introduce a “graduate guarantee” for newly qualified nurses after figures showed almost a third of this year’s expected graduates are not currently guaranteed NHS jobs in Wales

A leading environmentalist has challenged National Grid to explain why it is planning to bring electricity to Wales via a subsea cable while proposing to build a gigantic network of pylons across Wales to service the electricity needs of south east England ✍️Martin Shipton

“A pretty obvious question is: why isn’t the north south link also being put subsea rather than through the middle of Wales?” Yes indeed!!

Me, me, me!! That seems to be the thread running through the Labour Party at Westminster from top to bottom

Let’s call this bull**** out TOGETHER The 200,000 illegal migrants figure Farage is using is over several years and let’s remind ourselves how we got into this mess in the first place - BREXIT youtu.be/A6fCl-uOEVY?...

🎶Absolutely amazing scenes in Wales as Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth - set to be Wales's first pro-independence first minister - is interrupted by an impromptu rendition of the Welsh national anthem

My latest Guardian piece. Plaid won 35.4% of the vote last week while Starmer’s Labour picked up 33.7% of the 2024 GE. Yet Starmer has 63% of the seats in Westminster while ap Iorwerth has 45% of the seats in Wales. Electoral systems matter. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

If you need evidence that supports @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on this- just look across to Wales - in the Senedd election the people of Wales came together under a proportional representation system to reject Reform

Dear Reform-voting ladies… Do you know you’re voting for a party that wants to: ❌ Scrap the Equality Act - your legal protection against workplace discrimination & unequal pay ❌ Kill the Online Safety Act - the law protecting you from revenge porn

Dros Gymru. For Wales. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Bore Da Bawb - Good Morning All Delor y Cnau yn Fferm y Fforest ar ddiwedd mis Ebrill Nuthatch at Forest Farm at the end of April #BirdsSeenIn2026 Cariad mawr o Gymru ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Brexit Racism Russian bribes Christofascist Trump links Clacton house purchase Multiple jobs Tice’s tax The Epstein files The ruinous policies The inept councils The wild corruption… For love of god. When will Farage be held to account? Once he’s been red-carpeted into No.10 and it’s far too late?

If the government wants to tackle the "online breeding ground of antisemitism" why on earth are Keir Starmer, the government and @heidialexander.bsky.social still posting on X? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

People across Wales are feeling let down by Labour. Plaid Cymru has the new energy and new ideas needed to take Wales forward. With just 4 days to go, and for new leadership for Wales, vote Plaid Cymru on 7 May 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

“Nigel Farage was fixed to be here but his team told us he’d changed his mind" - Laura Kuenssberg If only there was some way of knowing why… 🤔 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Bore da bawb - Good morning all Gwennol yn Allteuryn ddoe! Swallow at Goldcliff yesterday! #BirdsSeenIn2026 Cariad mawr o Gymru! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

If I could vote in next week’s Senedd election, I’d choose Plaid Cymru. Here’s why Simon Jenkins www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hilarious. Some guy claiming because his family history extends back to the Crusades, he should be involved in governing the rest of us. And claims that we’ll forget history if we oust him. ALL our family histories go back that far… www.channel4.com/news/the-end...

The emerging contest between Plaid Cymru and Reform at the Senedd election is not simply a clash of policies. It points to something deeper — an uncertainty about the terms on which Wales is governed, and by what standard those terms should be judged ✍️Leon Noakes

Bore Da Bawb - Good Morning All Titw Mawr yn ymdrochi yn y pwll ar ddydd Sadwrn A Great Tit bathing in the pond on Saturday #BirdsSeenIn2026 Cariad mawr o Gymru! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Does Reform want mass deportations of immigrants and to retrospectively remove refugees’ asylum status? Is Reform led by a man with a track record of racist bullying and slurs against ethnic minorities? Is the party crawling with racist lunatics? Yes. Reform is racist. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

After 27 years of Labour failure, the people of Wales are ready for change. This election is a tight race between Plaid Cymru and Reform. Only Plaid Cymru offers the hope and positive change that Wales needs.

"Nordic heatwave part of record year that saw temperatures scorch most of Europe ... Scientists find annual sea surface temperatures across Europe reached highest levels recorded,while deadly wildfires set large parts of continent ablaze" www.theguardian.com/environment/... #AndTheEarthDiedScreaming

McSweeney: "We procured two strong candidate for [the PM]: One was Mandelson and the other was George Osborne." Christ above. What did the weak candidates look like.