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1 Mar 2025
Welsh Music, But Not a Cliché
Looking for the perfect soundtrack for your St David’s Day? I’ve assembled a mix from Cool Cymru ’90s classics to the freshest emerging Cymraeg acts. No Spotify algorithms—just great music. 🔥 open.spotify.com/playlist/3a…
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Nic Conner retweeted
Jun 15
BBC: “What was your screen time?”
Student: “Nine hours.”
BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?”
Student: “Stare at a wall.”
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Nic Conner retweeted
May 28
I didn’t even know Burnham supported giving all migrants day 1 benefits and access to social housing. Insane.
We are supposed to believe his exile to Manchester led to ‘serious thinking’ and development.
May 27
Andy Burnham drops migrant benefits call in fresh U-turn thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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May 28
On the train to Makerfield took the time to set out some thoughts on Tony Blair’s essay, focusing on inequality, tech and values. (1/16) 🧵
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May 19
My 2023 blog on why I tried so hard to cancel HS2 in Jan 2020. It was a clear disaster and the 'evidence' presented by Cabinet Office/DfT was clearly fraudulent. If you tried to do this in business you'd be jailed.
You can see the original chart below with Ben Warner's 'this is bullshit' scribbled on it in the Cabinet room when they presented.
You can see the smooth exponential which predicts the need for HS3 then HS4 - everyone in yookay either riding on them or building them!
This is how CON-LAB burn your money - and when the Trolley went ahead with it, Labour and Whitehall and FT etc all cheered.
Trebles all round for 'the serious grownups'
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May 14
May 27, 2024 Keir Starmer speech: Country First, Party Second:
"The need to never put working people through the whirlwind of chaos, the rising taxes, rising prices, rising mortgage costs. The price working people have paid for their chaos, it’s unforgivable".
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May 14
"I see no fight in the Prime Minister. They will not change. Seriously – whenever he is confronted by factions in his party, people who are miles away from serving the values of the British people, he caves in – every time. A ‘party-first’ weakness at the heart of his leadership"
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May 14
@Keir_Starmer said it in 2024: "...we will stop the chaos. Look around our country. The sewage in our rivers. People waiting on trolleys in A&E. Crime virtually unpunished. Mortgages and food prices – through the roof. It’s a direct result of the Tory chaos in Westminster". (1/2)
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May 14
(2/2) "A vote for Labour is a vote for stability – economic and political. A politics that treads more lightly on all our lives. A vote to stop the chaos".
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May 13
There were complaints on the right about the failure of Paul Davies to be elected Llywydd, and that it showed evidence of a cosy consensus
But how that played out raises early interesting questions about the relationship between the Tories' and Reform
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May 13
Minister gose on R4 and asked if Wes Streeting is still the heath secretary. His reply: "I don't know". The government is in free full.
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May 11
Labour: it's not us, it's you.
A strange exchange this morning with one of Labour's nine remaining members of the Senedd.
Mike Hedges refused to stop to talk to @itvnews and instead appeared to blame the media for last week's election result.
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Apr 29
UK tax is going to be the highest since 1945. But public spending won't increase; in fact most of us will experience a decline in public services.
Here's why - in a thread that I'd love to be completely wrong.
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Apr 28
Zack Polanski likes an average of 65 posts per day on Bluesky (every day since last April!). I dug into the online habits of Britain's first digital native party leader
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