Columnist @NationCymru, musician, support worker. š“ó §ó ¢ó ·ó ¬ó ³ó æ New book out uwp.co.uk/book/whose-song-toā¦
Joined February 2014
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If Starmer cannot reverse this momentum, the spectacle of hundreds of pensioners being carried into courtrooms to face extraordinary penalties for confected offences will cling to his legacy forever āļø Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1n4d
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Ben Wildsmith retweeted
Jun 13
Try this perspective. Britain is an impotent, biologically failing, antisocial, virtual culture. The left feels the crisis and are disrupting it. The "patriots" are the defenders of the cancerous culture, defending their right to die a slow death.
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Ben Wildsmith retweeted
Jun 11
The exploitation of human suffering is a contemptible tactic that serves only to dehumanise victims and perpetrators alike. It makes tools of living people and grotesques of those we have lost. Donāt stand for it āļø@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1mTe
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Ben Wildsmith retweeted
Jun 7
How nuance can be reintroduced to politics is beyond me, but the binary nature of debate is consistently producing see-saw outcomes in our governance that are becoming absurd āļø@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1mCu
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Jun 4
Nigel Farageās cynical evocation of ācold rageā in response to Henry Nowakās murder was as politically cute as it was morally reprehensible āļø@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1mtF
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Ben Wildsmith retweeted
May 31
After two decades of homelessness, Tom finally got a roof over his head. But finding a place to call home was only the beginning of a much more complicated story āļøSteve Hughes wp.me/p8Mk4U-1mdC
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Ben Wildsmith retweeted
May 28
Blairās nihilistic, soulless outlook is visible to all in our hollowed-out high streets, identikit shopping centres, and the immoral, hypocritical stance the UK takes to the rest of the worldāļø @WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1m3y
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May 25
She makes a living by validating the senile delusions of her parents' generation. In fairness, it's a strong Gen X move.
May 25
Just checking that most of us are still alive after a whole bank holiday weekend of hot weather?
Please do check in and confirm that you and your loved ones have survived the heat apocalypse.
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Ben Wildsmith retweeted
May 24
Plaid is not continuity Labour. Nor, as Wes Streeting suggests, is its politics comparable to the insular jingoism of Reform. As far as Welsh issues are concerned, it is Labour and Reform who have emerged as bedfellows āļø@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1lNk
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Ben Wildsmith retweeted
May 21
Immigration is Elvis and Nigel Farage its Colonel Tom Parker ā re-releasing Blue Christmas every year, long after the Kingās lips had quivered their last āļø@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1lF7
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Ben Wildsmith retweeted
May 17
itās wise to sniff the air for countryside aromas whenever politicians are politicking, and even more so when they are clearly driven by an internal need for advancement āļø@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1lob
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Rep. of Ireland š®šŖ seems to have done an awesome job with getting Irish history in the school curriculum. Everybody Irish Iāve met seems to have a good knowledge about Irish history. Wales š“ó §ó ¢ó ·ó ¬ó ³ó æ has catching up to do in that regard
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Ben Wildsmith retweeted
May 14
Shiny Wes approaches personal advancement like a crack addict with a broken lighter, so to imagine him sweatily lunging for the keys to Number 10 was all too easy āļø@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1lde
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Ben Wildsmith retweeted
May 11
The lengths UK Labour is going to to upstage the election of the Llywydd and Dirprwy Llywydd is insane, fair dos
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Ben Wildsmith retweeted
May 11
Labourās future looks precarious. Whilst Plaid needs to recognise that many of its votes were cast primarily to reject Labour, Ken Skatesā decimated group in the Senedd need to feel the import of that in their bones āļø@WildsmithBen nation.cymru/opinion/the-teaā¦
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Ben Wildsmith retweeted
May 10
This could be the dawn of a new era for Cymru. The simple fact of a ruling party that is only beholden to us is a giant leap in political confidence and accountability āļø@WildsmithBen nation.cymru/opinion/the-teaā¦
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Ben Wildsmith retweeted
May 9
On the Labour table, there was an edge-of-tears camaraderie. Beyond hope, but not yet free of the adrenaline that had driven them through the campaign, occasional bursts of hysterical laughter punctured their mourning āļø@WildsmithBen nation.cymru/opinion/a-nigelā¦
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Just noticed that the tears on a laughing emoji are turquoise.
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Ben Wildsmith retweeted
May 8
Dan Thomas arrived and was, perhaps for the first time in his life, the most famous person in the room. We huddled round as he held court āļø@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1kPs
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Ben Wildsmith retweeted
May 7
There is much to laugh at in Reform UKās antics. Personally, Iād sink into despair if I relinquished the facility to find the funny in their vulgarity, dishonesty, and transparent opportunism āļø@WildsmithBen wp.me/p8Mk4U-1kD8
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