NEW Posthumous pardons in England are less about forgiving the offender and their crime, but about the state trying to forgive itself for horrific mistakes. Pardons should be for the living too. By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Looking for experienced scythers to come and teach scything classes at Warleigh Nature Reserve, Bath, end of summer. We’ve got a calcareous grassland to work on and we’re going for heritage low carbon methods for as much of the cut as we can.

Cystadleuaeth Parti Llefari Eisteddfod yr Urdd flwyddyn nesaf? #urdd #eisteddfod Waw

The planned meeting between Rhun ap Iorwerth and Keir Starmer will not take place in June as originally planned. The pair had been planning to meet to discuss potential constitutional changes for Wales. I understand that the Welsh Gov put forward several dates but the PM was unable to make them.

And this is what pisses me off about Welsh media. Instead of explaining why Welsh Govt is supporting projects globally that will have a greater impact on climate change than simply planting more trees in Wales, they're chasing clicks and views on social media to make a quick buck.

A pre-AI take on academic cheating (C.S. Lewis).

I Fyny ac i Lawr Up and down #MelltaTharanau #lightning youtu.be/TlLheyt0WxI?...

I knew he'd lost it some time back, but he's delusional now.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Worth reading all of the decade-old article linked (& translated) here. Quite shaming for a lot of UK hacks happy to let him bullshit away to his heart’s content…

In 2024, over 10,000 houses/flats used as holiday lets in Wales paid no taxes whatsoever...no council tax, and no business rates: this is a loss in council tax revenue of about £48 million for that year alone

Yn 2024, ni thalodd dros 10,000 o dai/fflatiau a ddefnyddiwyd fel llety gwyliau yng Nghymru unrhyw drethi o gwbl – dim treth gyngor, a dim trethi busnes: mae hyn yn golled o tua £48 miliwn mewn refeniw treth gyngor ar gyfer y flwyddyn honno yn unig

Mae'r utgorn mawr yn seinio nawr i ni 
 ollyngdod llawn drwy'r Iawn ar Galfarî: 
 mawl ymhob iaith drwy'r ddaear faith a fydd 
 am angau'r groes a'r gwaed a'n rhoes yn rhydd. PEDR FARDD, 1775-1845 #Pentecost

Autism defined by Autistic people:

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

One reason why the world needs outward facing organisations like the #BBCWorldService that take the global view.

In which i worry about the constitutional literacy of our politicians. Two recent examples of mistaken, or deliberate misreading, of core principles about the role of PM and the issue of confidence. @instituteforgovernment.org.uk www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/labo...

Hen bryd about time map doesn't seem available just yet equaldashearth.com #earth #maps www.youtube.com/shorts/BH9rG...

All this is true & good piece from @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social but if you want to get the best view you need sub-regional analysis. Look at the economic difference *within* regions which can be even more startling...and revealing of the cause of our political problems.

There are certain legacy habits that you wouldn’t adopt if you were starting from scratch now and near the top of the list is broadcasters doing a segment on the newspapers. Not just skewed towards the right (forever the case) but now skewed towards a shrinking demographic of nutters

Superb work from Birdbox www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHR...

Some real make-or-break qualities here If Labour's most popular figure can't win a by-election on his home turf (where's he extra popular) on an anti-Starmer platform, where can they win? If Reform can be squashed out in very favourable territory, really questions their electoral credibility.

USA may soon literally grind to a hallt

Gobeithio fod hwn yn aros fel cytundeb NHS Lloegr a ddim yn dod yn agos at GIG Cymru cc/ @plaidcymru.bsky.social

"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!!

Superb letter, written by a principled and true politician willing to fight, not just speak up, for a cause. The ‘desire not to have an argument’ is a fatal weakness for anyone who seeks to lead - and a jaw-dropping fault in a former lawyer.

❌ Vote AGAINST the bill to stop workplace sexual harassment ❌ Stack the party with anti-abortion politicians - some opposing termination even if rape ❌ Push “pro-family” policies that put women back in the home I guess the question is… Do you hate immigrants more than you love your rights?

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

ANALYSIS: Wind and solar have saved UK from gas imports worth £1.7bn since Iran war began 😎 Record-high wind+solar output 🔥 Record-low gas generation ❄️ First ever winter with wind+solar out-performing fossil fuels 🏆 Wind+solar beating gas for 15 straight months 1/5

Friends, if you’re taking sertraline, check the batch number as there is a recall out and you may have ended up with a mislabelled lower dose of citalopram. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

No, I sadly didn't work on the movie, but I almost did, and I WISH I did! Frankly, I just miss drawing Coyote from my Looney Tunes days. He was the most fun to draw n write for.

Tax cuts proposed by Reform and the Welsh Conservatives would require deep cuts in public services and would disproportionately benefit better off earners, according to an analysis undertaken by Cardiff University academics ✍️Martin Shipton

Thrilled this looks as genuinely good as I’d hoped, but also love how collectively determined we are that this *will* be good out of pure spite.

this is a very dark accidental joke about foreign news priorities about Africa

Want to understand the collapse of Labour in Wales? And the Senedd elections more broadly? Take 6 or 7 minutes to watch this report. (#the implosion of the electorally most successful party in the democratic world.) www.channel4.com/news/wales-e...

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Trump’s blockade is getting an immediate test. A Chinese tanker has cleared the Strait of Hormuz. Will the US seize it? If the US does, is that an act of war? If it doesn’t, does the blockade collapse? This is a scary moment. www.newsweek.com/first-chines...

Even if Magyar is just an anti-corruption version of Orban, willing to smash apart Orban’s political machine and methodology, that is better than Orban. For it shows Orbans can be got rid of.

Even at its worst, Hungary has a former Orban supporter against corruption winning, in the face of Trump and others. Magyar may not be any liberal ideal, but breaking Orban’s illiberal machine and methodology is a welcome break. And the international significance of Orban losing is immeasurable.

No Reform representatives were available to go on the Laura Kuenssberg show, once we realised that Laura was being replaced by an actual journalist, Victoria Derbyshire.

The wrong question is dominating the energy crisis debate. Every interview starts the same: where do we find replacement fossil fuels and what happens to prices? In this BBC interview I push back. This is the moment to talk about escaping fossil fuel dependence - not the daily market noise.

Remember folks, don't use Meta for Welsh translation work..

Trump: “I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for two weeks”

Members of the Iranian Jewish community inspect what is left of their synagogue in Tehran after Israel bombed it. On Passover...

I'm normally very Pro-Private Eye, but this is WAY off the mark. "Currently only 7% of energy is from wind power, oil and gas ten times as much" Really??? That's not according to National Grid Live. (Quick Google search reveals a much different story) Fossil fuels, 4.4%, of all sources.

'Almost three-quarters (73%) of social media posts by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky News did not clarify whether the story was relevant to England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, the study found, along with 57% of TV news items ' www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

Unlike in Scotland, this is particularly bad for Welsh democracy because there’s no dominant Wales-centred English language media. As such anglophone Welsh voters get the London and England-dominated political news. Welsh language media is much better on clarifying Wales v UK matters.