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CCS has published its manifesto for the 2026 Senedd elections
www.cardiffcivicsociety.org/publications

Publications — Cardiff Civic Society

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January 16, 2026 at 9:16 AM

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🚨 ADVERT APPLICATION ALERT! 🚨

Plans have been submitted for a massive new ad screen on North Road, next to the Maindy leisure centre. Details below. Lodge an objection ASAP!

www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess...

#AdvertisingShitsInYourHead
#Cardiff #Caerdydd #Cathays #Gabalfa

December 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM

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Martin Calladine

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I had limited expectations of Keir Starmer, but if you'd told me 18 months ago that he, as a former DPP, would behave as if the mass production of on-demand child porn was not a matter for urgent criminal investigation, I would've been amazed. It's such a basic moral test to fail for a PM.

January 9, 2026 at 8:19 AM

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Perfectly put. Why do we allow the advertising industry to try and manipulate us in this way?!?

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January 8, 2026 at 1:03 PM

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Drew Mabey

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A digital advertising screen masquerading as a public service. This is more public space sacrificed to private profit, driving consumerism in a time of climate emergency

vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/Planning/Dis...

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A planning application for a ‘digital communication kiosk with integrated defibrillator and advertising display’

December 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM

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There's an interesting titbit in this article by the chief executive of Vale of Glamorgan Council. Their ban on advertising unhealthy foods, rather than leading to a LOSS in revenue, actually BOOSTED it!

www.newlocal.org.uk/articles/wel...

#Cymru #Wales #ValeOfGlamorgan
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December 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM

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Adfree Cities

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Calling all #Cardiff Adblockers - here is another sneaky application just in time for #Christmas 🎁 Get objecting to keep your public spaces free from ads ✅

AdBlock Cardiff @adblockcardiff.bsky.social · Dec 14

🚨 ADVERT APPLICATION ALERT! 🚨

Plans have been submitted for a massive new ad screen on North Road, next to the Maindy leisure centre. Details below. Lodge an objection ASAP!

www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess...

#AdvertisingShitsInYourHead
#Cardiff #Caerdydd #Cathays #Gabalfa

December 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM

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Any help to spread the word, encourage people to object, and STOP this energy-sapping ad-spewing nonsense would be appreciated.

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AdBlock Cardiff @adblockcardiff.bsky.social · Dec 14

🚨 ADVERT APPLICATION ALERT! 🚨

Plans have been submitted for a massive new ad screen on North Road, next to the Maindy leisure centre. Details below. Lodge an objection ASAP!

www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess...

#AdvertisingShitsInYourHead
#Cardiff #Caerdydd #Cathays #Gabalfa

December 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM

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🚨 ADVERT APPLICATION ALERT! 🚨

Plans have been submitted for a massive new ad screen on North Road, next to the Maindy leisure centre. Details below. Lodge an objection ASAP!

www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess...

#AdvertisingShitsInYourHead
#Cardiff #Caerdydd #Cathays #Gabalfa

December 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM

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Giving this another plug for any #Caerdydd #Cardiff people who want to object to plans for a massive advert screen by Newport Road, for zero public benefit. Let's keep this stuff off our streets!

#Adamsdown #Plasnewydd #Roath
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AdBlock Cardiff @adblockcardiff.bsky.social · Nov 17

Take a look and share this, #Cardiff #Caerdydd people! A vital opportunity to oppose energy-sapping public advertising in #Adamsdown #Roath #Plasnewydd.

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AdBlock Cardiff @adblockcardiff.bsky.social · Nov 16

🚨 PLANNING ALERT! 🚨

Proposed new ad board near the junction of Newport Road & Albany Road in #Roath #Plasnewydd #Adamsdown. It would be MASSIVE - see guide below, as tall as three people.

Object here: www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess...

#Cardiff #Caerdydd
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November 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM

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🚨 PLANNING ALERT! 🚨

Proposed new ad board near the junction of Newport Road & Albany Road in #Roath #Plasnewydd #Adamsdown. It would be MASSIVE - see guide below, as tall as three people.

Object here: www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess...

#Cardiff #Caerdydd
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November 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives

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New poster I designed for a Brandalism campaign in support of MakeAmazonPay.com

Subvertised fake Amazon ad on a London street. Photo of Amazon echo/Alexa device with the headline: "At Amazon we don't just listen to our customers... We spy on them"

Body text: "Amazon is the world leading provider of your domestic surveillance data to police and security services. From your Ring®️ camera observing you and your neighbours, to your Echo®️ device recording everything you and your family say...

"But don't worry, we don't just spy on our customers, our staff are among the most surveilled workforce in human history, and our racial recognition technology is now used by everyone from the Pentagon and ICE to the Israeli military."

November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM

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Planning application alert in #Cardiff 📢 Stop this huge screen from distracting drivers & causing unnecessary light pollution - OBJECT NOW!

AdBlock Cardiff @adblockcardiff.bsky.social · Nov 16

🚨 PLANNING ALERT! 🚨

Proposed new ad board near the junction of Newport Road & Albany Road in #Roath #Plasnewydd #Adamsdown. It would be MASSIVE - see guide below, as tall as three people.

Object here: www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess...

#Cardiff #Caerdydd
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November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM

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John O’Farrell

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"Daddy why did you go into politics?"
"Well, I always hoped that one day I might be able to make a difference. Like if people were fleeing war and persecution, and they arrived on our shores desperate and afraid, then maybe I could be the one to suggest we nicked their jewellery."

November 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM

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Take a look and share this, #Cardiff #Caerdydd people! A vital opportunity to oppose energy-sapping public advertising in #Adamsdown #Roath #Plasnewydd.

@adfreecities.bsky.social @cardiffcivicsoc.bsky.social @cardiffgreenparty.bsky.social @foecymrucydd.bsky.social

#AdvertisingShitsInYourHead

AdBlock Cardiff @adblockcardiff.bsky.social · Nov 16

🚨 PLANNING ALERT! 🚨

Proposed new ad board near the junction of Newport Road & Albany Road in #Roath #Plasnewydd #Adamsdown. It would be MASSIVE - see guide below, as tall as three people.

Object here: www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess...

#Cardiff #Caerdydd
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November 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM

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🚨 PLANNING ALERT! 🚨

Proposed new ad board near the junction of Newport Road & Albany Road in #Roath #Plasnewydd #Adamsdown. It would be MASSIVE - see guide below, as tall as three people.

Object here: www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess...

#Cardiff #Caerdydd
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November 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM

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Martin Calladine

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If a company makes $16bn a year from advertising what it knows to be fraudulent products, that company is engaged in organised crime.

Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · Nov 6

This piece suggests Meta is dragging its heels on reducing the (very large) number of scam ads on its services because they're concerned it will materially hurt revenue (the article estimates they make as much as $16bn a year from scam ads)
www.reuters.com/investigatio...

www.reuters.com

November 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM

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This from @openrightsgroup.org is well worth a read on the potential for cookie consent rules in the UK to be softened. Plenty of benefits to advertisers, but huge dangers to consumers concerned with #DataProtection and #privacy.

www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-fut...

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Is cookie consent going to change in the UK?

Open Rights Group convened a stakeholder roundtable on the future of adtech and cookie consent requirements in the UK following the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) consultation on a new enforc...

www.openrightsgroup.org

November 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM

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Adfree Cities

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Reducing the influence of advertising will help create healthier food environments and enable the shift towards a more sustainable, just food system - as highlighted by the new EAT-Lancet report, a major scientific analysis of our global food system:
adfreecities.org.uk/2025/11/eat-...

EAT-Lancet 2025 has a vision for a fairer food system (without advertising) - Adfree Cities

The new EAT-Lancet report was published earlier this month, with a refreshed analysis of the global food system and how we might achieve a healthy diet for all which stays within planetary boundaries....

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November 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM

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Spotted earlier in #Cardiff #Caerdydd on a junk food advert.

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October 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM

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Clean Cities

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📣 Big news for safer, fairer streets in Cardiff! 🚙

Cardiff Council has voted to introduce fairer parking charges for the heaviest vehicles in the city 🙌

#carspreading

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

City council approves plans to make SUV drivers pay more for parking

Cardiff Council will increase the cost of parking permits for owners of sports utility vehicles or cars weighing more than 2,400kg.

www.independent.co.uk

October 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM

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Another good piece about the decision by Cardiff Council to increase regulation of public advertising in #Cardiff #Caerdydd. Lots of good progress has been made, plenty still to do!

nation.cymru/news/a-welsh...

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A Welsh council's new policy will restrict the advertisement of junk food, vapes, and petrol and diesel vehicles

A Welsh council’s move to restrict adverts for junk food and other products in public spaces has been welcomed by campaigners but they said the new policy could go further. Cardiff Council became the ...

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September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM

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Nicie piece about @cardiffcouncil.bsky.social further restricting advertising in the city. We're really pleased to see progress on this issue after years of campaigning. Plenty left to do, but it's a huge step forwards.

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

#Cardiff #Caerdydd
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Cardiff council bans junk food adverts from council property

The policy is focused on sustainability and promoting healthy food and drink.

www.bbc.co.uk

September 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM

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Get - and we really can't stress this strongly enough - into the fucking sea.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · Sep 18

Samsung has rolled out a software update to its smart fridges that will display ads, despite saying they had "no plans" to do so. We're headed for a future where you will have to pay extra for appliances without ads.