Excellent article by the best informed academic writing about schools policy in Wales, Dr Gareth Evans

@garethdjevans.bsky.social

Link is ukania.substack.com

A post for the devo-enthusiasts.

It’s a very useful resource, hugely helpful for those of us studying Welsh devolution history.

And thanks for the plugs for my Substack!

Getting very alarmed by the overlaps between my research and Adam’s 😉

I think we should meet up next time I am in London or you are in Cardiff.

Orwell: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

"Trump said Monday he posted the image but insisted it was meant to depict him as a doctor, dismissing suggestions it portrayed him as Jesus Christ as a fabrication by 'fake news'."

In a sentence, please illustrate the contradictions of the financialisation of the housing market.

Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff Chief executive is training and testing his own character as part of wider push to develop ‘personal superintelligence’

News - please illustrate Andrews (2020)’s concept of ‘vanity capitalism’:

Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff

www.ft.com/content/0210... Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result:

Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

anyone who says people opposing data centers are just nimbys need to stop echoing industry propaganda and see what it’s actually like to live near one

Leighton Andrews (@ukania) Very good overview by Lawrence Freedman https://samf.substack.com/p/the-causes-and-consequences-of-trumps?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Very good overview by Lawrence Freedman

substack.com/profile/1793...

Melanie looks on as the Easter Bunny takes over from the Mad March Hare.

Fixed it for you, Farage.

In which I explain the occasional benefits of moral panics and populist turns.

Technology Regulation is a process That needs empowered regulators and consistent governments

Latest from me:

open.substack.com/pub/ukania/p...

Technology Regulation is a process That needs empowered regulators and consistent governments

Latest from me:

open.substack.com/pub/ukania/p...

Civic-minded pensioners make the world go round Policymakers need to think about the costs of having a generation of retirees not on the property ladder

Civic-minded pensioners make the world go round

www.ft.com/content/4762...

And here’s the evidence.

The number of uncorrected typos in the Observer digital edition today is unbelievable. Almost makes @samfr.bsky.social ‘s piece on Farage unreadable.

Never mind the Grauniad, this is the Obsrever.

Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors during buyout, jury finds Panel members conclude the billionaire misled shareholders in tweets posted during the $44bn takeover

Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors during buyout, jury finds. www.ft.com/content/8816...

Dw i ddim yn meddwl, ar õl i mi wrando ar ei fersiwn, ond pwy sy’n gwybod?!

Ydy rhywun gwybod pwy sy’n canu Lisa Lân yn ystod cyfres Scarpetta?

Trump has broken it. Now he owns it Continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatens the movement of gas and fertilisers as well as oil

Trump’s War. Call it that.

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Trump has broken it. Now he owns it

This week there were new arrests, though interestingly the arrests were reportedly under the section three offence, and not the section one offence. This means the basis of the arrests was not that the arrestees were suspected of obtaining or disclosing protected information prejudicial to the safety or interests of the United Kingdom. Instead the three arrests this week were on the basis of a suspicion that the arrestees were materially assisting the Chinese intelligence service in carrying out UK-related activities, and that they would know, or should have known, this was what they were doing. The section three offence is framed in broad, fairly elastic terms. It does not require it to be shown that the conduct of the arrestees is prejudicial to the United Kingdom, merely that it would assist (in this case) the Chinese intelligence service, and that the arrestees knew or ought to have known this was the case. There does not even need

NEW

Espionage law on trial

My post at New Statesman on something interesting about the recent arrests for Chinese espionage - that it was the new s.3 offence used for the arrest. This could get interesting.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

The curious section 3 of the new National Security Act A broad and vague provision may be a cause for concern

New at The Empty City

The curious section 3 of the new National Security Act

A broad and vague provision may be a cause for concern -especially for commentators and journalists

Substack version:
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-curiou...

Non-substack version:
theemptycity.com/blog/2026/03...

My involvement in the Chinese spying 'scandal' Martin Shipton Having one’s front door smashed in at 6.20am is not the best way to start any day – nor is the arrival of an eight-strong team from the counter-terrorism division of the Metropolitan Po...

Having one’s front door smashed in at 6.20am is not the best way to start any day - nor is the arrival of an eight-strong team from the counter-terrorism division of the Metropolitan Police as part of an investigation into spying for China✍️Martin Shipton

This is absolutely brilliant 👏