South West Wales to share in £214m Pride in Place investment for local projects Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire will each receive £20m, Bridgend £3m and Pembrokeshire £1.5m as part of the UK Government’s new Pride in Place programme.

Once a professor who used to have quite interesting things to say. Now a madman.

👇 We've just won something massive. After months of campaigning, we've secured £20m of long-term funding for Swansea through UK Gov’s Pride in Place fund. Whether regenerating our city centre or boosting our high streets, how it's spent is up to us. Come and get involved.

No smartphone, no Britcard? #bbcpm

Thus isn’t a perfect policy but it is a good thing and definitely better than the status quo. Universal ID offers many benefits.

'Today, Nigel Farage said that all mice are gay and they're from space. We ask experts whether there is any truth in the claims'.

My latest piece for Talking Rugby Union, a season preview of the Welsh teams ahead of the #URC Any likes or shares would be appreciated, still open for any freelance opportunities over the coming season! www.talkingrugbyunion.co.uk/united-rugby...

Fortunately @jillongovt.bsky.social has just written us an excellent explainer on digital ID cards! Everything you need to know here… www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/di... www.thetimes.com/article/3fed...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Semi-regular reminder that a sane country would have already impeached and removed. But then again a sane country wouldn’t have elected a maniac criminal twice in the first place.

Andy Burnham needs to put a stop to this "Prince across the water" nonsense. He's being played by the right wing press. He had his chance and there's more than enough talent in the PLP to follow Starmer, many of whom did the hard yards in Opposition. Side before self, Andy.

I fear for Europe's chances in the Ryder Cup. The USA team must be bloody strong to leave out a player like Donald Trump, who wins every tournament he enters.

It’s odd that there’s all this talk about the “crisis” with NHS drug prices. This is a crisis in which, thanks to good negotiation and bulk buying, the NHS is paying less for drugs than anywhere else. I thought we believed in market foces? www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...

The truth is Farage has 'hacked' the political-media system so is able to fill large chunks of it unchallenged. He has twigged its need for gossip, clicks and 'column inches', and so exploits this. The media shouldn't be going along with it. They should be putting in place measures to stop it.

The polio immunisation program started in the USA in 1955. Look what happened next.

Using Donald Trump’s famous words: They’ll be eating the cats and dogs next in Boston! 🙄

If everyone watched The Hack on ITV right now, we could start to repair our media, our discourse & our country. It is TV drama at its absolute best. I know most of this stuff & I’m reeling.

NEW: China's president Xi Jinping unexpectedly joins the UN climate summit, by video, to offer his nation's 2035 climate pledge * Cut GHGs to 7-10% below peak by 2035, "striving to do better" * Raise non-fossil share of energy to at least 30% * Boost wind/solar to 3,600GW

Do you want fair, independent press regulation? Do you want to protect ordinary people from press abuse? Do you want to restore trust in the press? So do Hugh Grant & Jacqui Hames. Sign the petition to change the law. Let's demand change you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-... #BetterMediaBill

FULL TEXT: Unofficial transcript of remarks delivered by China's president Xi Jinping to the UN climate action summit, including the outlines of China's 2035 climate pledge docs.google.com/docu...

Badenoch has finally found a hard line between the Conservatives and Farage.

The foreigners aren't coming into the UK and 'eating the swans', but they are coming and buying £885,000 houses in cash with money that they earned from *checks notes* being a waitress. I'm sure Nigel Farage would agree, that needs investigating.

If you ever wondered how come the binfire which was the post-referendum Tory party was able to push through Brexit, consider who the leader of the opposition was at that time and wonder no more.

My mum directed Wales Today, Newyddion and Y Maes Chwarae, so I’ve always had a soft spot for the BBC and defended it in spite of some clearly dubious output. But Davie has made it pointless to try and defend. It’s just a total shit-tip when it comes to politics. Fuck it.

One of the most disgusting human beings in the history of the UK.

Just caught up last night's @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Victoria Derbyshire was more interested in who the Lib Dems would go into coalition with in 4 effing years than anything they actually had to say. I stopped watching Question Time. Then Politics Live. It looks like Newsnight will be next...

"The question you have to ask Farage is, why is he deliberately lying about the facts?" x.com/GBNEWS/statu...

The “Ed Davey is obsessed with Farage” takes are weird. A) The media is obsessed with Farage B) If the next election looks anything like the polling, it will basically be a progressive/populist bloc election. Labour won’t be Davey’s enemy. They’ll be his path to govern.

New Tylenol ad campaign just dropped

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

Just rampantly moronic. Imagine if this staggering dimwit were raging like this on a street corner. You'd call social services.

Trump's UN speech was an embarrassing shitshow that brought disgrace upon the United States. Congrats, America.

statistic of the day

I heard autism can be cured by releasing the Epstein files

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

David says opposition to 'tax switch' will come from pensioners. But pensioners have had stronger income growth than working age families over past 20 years. Since 2010 their benefits have gone up by £900 a year, working-age families have seen £1,400 cut. We need more burden sharing across society.

Speaking at our event, David Willetts says that our 2p tax switch is an effective way to protect working people who have been hit hardest recent labour market turmoils and longer term economic stagnation. This is the right direction for our tax system...

Really not sure about the BBC leading U.K. news with Trump's autism crap. Why?

Wow.

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Vindicated.

Telegraph now running fanfic in the comment pages.

I ask you all tonight to light a candle & pray for this lovely young couple Andy & Sarah OK apart from: Toe sucking Extra marital affairs Business meetings with Col Gadaffi Lying to a fake sheikh Building up massive debts Alleged Paedophilia Befriending a pimp. They deserve our love. 🙏🏻

Imagine believing the 1970s* were the very pinnacle of human existence. * 'The good old days'

The Labour government made a record breaking 21 decisions on major infrastructure projects in its first year in government. It's more than made in any other 1st year of a parliament. In total the last parliament from 2019 & 2024 saw 57 decisions in total. The government aims for 150 by 2029. 1/2

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

It’s literally absolute insanity to think that the President of the United States called a press conference to tell the American people not to take Tylenol, for absolutely no fucking reason in the world.

Attached to a box of Tylenol at the store.