was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands
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Nigel Farage has called Welsh people “Foreign speakers” in a Cameo video.
We hate to break it to you Mr Farage, but if you read a history book you would realise English is more foreign in the UK than Welsh.
BREAKING: The SNP has passed a pro-independence motion telling the UK Government to begin to prepare for Scotland’s exit from the Union
how ironic to see the state protect two people who sought to strip the state while working under the direction of elon musk, who has made it impossible to seek recourse when people get death threats and harassment on twitter
Brexit’s fallout in Wales has sharpened a political divide between Labour’s cautious reset with Europe and Plaid Cymru’s pro-EU vision | Gareth Wyn Roberts
Former political prisoner Nasrin Parvaz reads a letter to Keir Starmer signed by more than 100 pro-democracy, pro-justice and anti-war British-Iranians, including other former Evin detainees Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Aras Amiri. Full list of signatories is at togetherforiran.org
A campaign group has released a barrister’s opinion that argues a contract awarded for the construction of a new cancer hospital broke procurement regulations because two of the companies involved in the winning consortium had convictions for corruption ✍️Martin Shipton nation.cymru/news/awardin...
Gwir pob gair. A diolch i’r rhai sydd dal wrthi’n ymladd drosti.
Celebrating 75 years of Welsh-language education in the Rhondda, the Valley of my birth 🏴
Diolch i'r rhai wnaeth ymgyrchu mor galed dros yr heniaith 👏🏽👏🏽
#Cymraeg
Godidog 🥲
A sad yet joyful read.
‘This biography of Eddie Thomas is a thoroughly deserved tribute to a very special man.’
John H. Stracey
The first biography of champion boxer and world renowned trainer, Merthyr’s Eddie Thomas .
Out 3 Sept 2026 (pbk & ebk)
Pre-order here: st-davids-press.wales
OUT SUMMER 2026 IN PBK & EBK
One Party State - Martin Shipton's explosive new investigation into 100 years of Labour dominance in Wales can be ordered now from welsh-academic-press.wales
Radcliffe is worth £30B and became an immigrant in Monaco to save himself £4B in tax. He now pays £0 tax but complains about immigrants to the UK who paid @ £20-25B in tax (2024-25).
Immigrants' taxes pay for doctors, nurses, teachers, police, soldiers and pensions, while he pays for nothing.
a reminder that Tim Allan, who quit Starmer's Downing St today, previously spun for....not only Kazakhstan and Qatar but also Vladimir Putin’s government
www.ft.com/content/a0a8...
"I have always had an interest in learning other languages", he said, explaining Welsh appealed to him because it is spoken by choice rather than necessity ... Nobody's required to do it, but they do out of love for their culture, and that was really attractive to me."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In other news, I was inadvertently racist at school, I inadvertently lied about my house purchase to avoid tax and inadvertently led a party that was infiltrated by Russia.
📌 ICYMI — How Neo-Nazis Posing as ‘Ordinary Parents’ Embedded Themselves in Anti-Immigrant Protests
A year long investigation by Katherine Denkinson exposes the Neo-Nazi…
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/19/how-neo-nazis...
In an era of great power rivalry, Canada is choosing to be principled and pragmatic. To name reality, to act together, and to build what we claim to believe in.
A new study from Sweden links long-term air pollution exposure to higher risk of motor neurone disease and faster progression.
Bloomberg terminal graph showing sharp spike in yield on US 30 ye Treasuries, suggesting the mad orange fuck might be sawing off the branch he is sitting on.
🚨BREAKING: Danish pension fund AkademikerPension announces it is exiting US Treasuries.
US yields spike upwards AGAIN.
This could be happening.
Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
In Scotland, the SNP & the Greens don't get corporate donations & are massively out-spent by anti-indy parties who do receive them. The media is overwhelmingly anti-independence, yet Scots keep electing a pro-indy majority to Holyrood. Just think what we could achieve with a level playing field.
“You are history. You are legend. You are the heroic example of democracy’s solidarity and universality…we shall not forget you; and, when the olive tree of peace is in flower, entwined with the victory laurels of the Republic of Spain — come back.”
¡No pasarán!
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BREAKING: Explosive new poll for ITV Cymru Wales puts Plaid Cymru surging ahead of Reform UK in May’s Welsh elections.
Plaid 37%
Reform 23%
Greens 13%
Labour 10%
Tories 10%
Lib Dems 5%
Plaid could form majority with Greens on this basis, with Labour out of govt for first time since devolution.
Anhygoel 🤯
🗳 Llywodraeth 🏴 Plaid / Gwyrdd
🏴 47% = Plaid / Green 😲
Caerffili 2-0 Farage
#HopeNotHate
#NoPasarán
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