The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

Important to know just what we are dealing with in Washington

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour Party founder Keir Hardie would turn in his grave at the thought of Nigel Farage posing for a picture by his statue, according to Beth Winter, a former Labour MP now standing as a Community Independent in the Senedd election ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-1js8

🚨 BREAKING: FBU WIN in Oxfordshire

FBU members have been campaigning for months against dangerous proposals for cuts by Oxfordshire County Council.

Firefighters' duty is to protect the public – and that is exactly what members have done.

When FBU members fight back, we win.

In the 1930s, Oswald Mosley claimed to be a patriot, while his British Union of Fascists was secretly funded by the Italian government. We are just beginning to grasp how much of the far right in the UK today has been funded by Viktor Orbán and Russian oil money.
Their "patriotism" is always a con.

That’s a very bizarre take from someone employed by (or at least was)…

Yep, you’ve guessed it…

The fire & rescue service😳(South Wales to be precise)…

Penblwydd hapus iawn🧑‍🚒Happy birthday Recruits Course 1/94. Brought together like lambs to the slaughter 34 years ago today. Great times…

‘Wednesday’s intense bombing of…Beirut and other cities killed at least 253 people…a sudden and arbitrary killing spree reflects Tel Aviv’s rage at the US having concluded a truce with Iran.

Israel was issuing more evacuation orders to densely populated areas today, prefiguring renewed bombing.’

Reform's Welsh leader backtracks on Port Talbot blast furnace pledge admitting reopening them 'clearly isn't possible' Emily Price  Reform UK has been accused of saying anything to win votes after the party’s leader in Wales admitted Port Talbot’s decommissioned blast furnaces cannot be reopened despite the pledge…

Reform UK has been accused of saying anything to win votes after the party's leader in Wales admitted Port Talbot's decommissioned blast furnaces cannot be reopened despite the pledge made by Nigel Farage last year✍️ Emily Price

‘Cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon!’

‘We will never let reform rip the heart out of our nation!’

@rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social yn lawnsio maniffesto @plaidcymru.bsky.social #Senedd2026

Paul Robeson, singing with a Welsh choir in The Proud Valley (1940). 🎬
The American bass-baritone was born in Princeton, New Jersey, on this day in 1898.
A strong supporter of workers’ rights, he formed a lasting bond with the mining communities during filming in Wales.

America decided this insane, incompetent, corrupt, demented, racist sex criminal was preferable to a competent black woman.

Nigel Farage shirks responsibility for Grenfell row in tetchy Sky interview NIGEL Farage has said he "doesn't know" Simon Dudley and had "only met him for two minutes" after he was sacked as Reform UK's…

Ye, right! Apparently, he also had no idea who Nathan Gill was! And it’s always someone else’s fault!

‘NIGEL Farage has said he "doesn't know" Simon Dudley and had "only met him for two minutes"…’

Reform housing spokesperson sacked after Grenfell ‘everyone dies’ remarks Simon Dudley fired after his comments were condemned by prime minister and families of fire victims

And so he should have been…

Reform UK’s housing spokesperoson has been sacked his role after he described the Grenfell Tower fire as a “tragedy” but said that “everyone dies in the end”.

Nineham and Jamal found guilty in ‘dark day’ for civil liberties TWO pro-Palestine campaigners being found guilty of breaching protest conditions yesterday is “a huge setback for civil liberties,” supporters said.Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) director Ben Jam...

‘…not a single piece of evidence was presented at the time or during the trial of any substantive or real threat to anyone seeking to worship in a synagogue arising from the coalition’s marches.’

‘Dudley has made Reform’s position crystal clear: safety is inconvenient, regulation is a nuisance, and death is just one of those things. His idea of ‘balance’ is relaxed… as long as it’s not his family on the wrong side of it. Nothing says leadership like shrugging at preventable deaths.’

Thousands march against far right in London in biggest ever multicultural protest More than 100 charities, campaign groups and trade unions marched in London in a show of unity against far right politics

‘Tens of thousands of people gathered in London to march against the far right in the biggest multicultural demonstration in UK history.

Organisers claimed half a million people had travelled to the capital for Saturday’s Together Alliance march.’

Orgreave inquiry formally under way into policing during miners’ strike Terms of reference are to seek fullest disclosure of information and to produce a report by spring 2028

O’r diwedd / At long last…

‘At Orgreave on 18 June 1984…The ensuing violence has become notorious, with police charging miners on horseback and hitting men over the head with truncheons.’

📣 Mae Cymdeithas yr Iaith yn cefnogi TUC Cymru (United Cymru) yn erbyn y Dde Eithafol!

I’r rheini sy’n dweud mai problem yn hytrach na chryfder yw ein gwahaniaethau, dyma ein
hymateb:

Mae amrywiaeth yn cryfhau Cymru🤝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

#UnitedCymru

Mor, mor greulon…🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #CymruAmByth

Mae’r nerfau yn racs…🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

O Dan James… am gôl #CymruAmByth🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heat

‘…it is now inevitable the planet will – at least temporarily – breach the target of limiting heating to 1.5C above preindustrial levels set by the Paris agreement.’

NEW: This new report, from BBC, is the best takedown of the insanity of Trump you will see anywhere.

Calm, coherent and repeating only Trump’s own words. Devastating.

Brilliant work once again from Roz Atkins.

(🎥 BBC News)

Left: Reform UK's James Orr, "Nigel Farage has never said that the NHS should be anything other than free at the point of delivery" #BBCQT

Right: Nigel Farage calling for an insurance based NHS

Nigel Farage trying to avoid blame for supporting Trumpflation.

The offshore bonanza fuelling Reform UK continues, according to Electoral Commission data for the last quarter of 2025.

Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

To be fair, you absolutely would expect a Reform politician to vote against this sort of thing…

Residential buildings to be made safer in Wales The new legislation follows the Grenfell Tower tragedy in London in which 72 people lost their lives

Under the new Act, fire risk assessments must be carried out, with criminal penalties for those who do not comply. It is vital that sufficient funding is provided to local government so the new rules can be enforced.

📰 Full article: @walesonline.bsky.social
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

We welcome the passage of the Building Safety Act in Wales.

This campaign has been fought for by trades unionists at @fbunational.bsky.social to make shared residential buildings safer in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire.

This is how to protest.