Shaun Thomas
@shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
Bylines Cymru articles: https://bylines.cymru/author/shaun-thomas/
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Levelling Down | Austerity in Wales
This is nominally free but ‘pay what you can’. Paying to support something you believe in also supports those who can’t afford to. The book may open at the Foreword, but note that there are pages incl...
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So happy to have my article exploring austerity and the way forward for the Valleys included in this ebook.
There's heartbreaking real-life examples of austerity's impact, the cruel economics and its impact on Wales & hope for building a way forward. Well worth a read!
payhip.com/b/9eklJ?fbcl...
There's heartbreaking real-life examples of austerity's impact, the cruel economics and its impact on Wales & hope for building a way forward. Well worth a read!
payhip.com/b/9eklJ?fbcl...
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Over 1,000,000 have now signed a petition demanding we do not mandate digital ID.
This has united all political parties across the spectrum.
If Starmer doesn't back down now, this will end his premiership.
Please sign 🖊️
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
This has united all political parties across the spectrum.
If Starmer doesn't back down now, this will end his premiership.
Please sign 🖊️
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
petition.parliament.uk
September 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Over 1,000,000 have now signed a petition demanding we do not mandate digital ID.
This has united all political parties across the spectrum.
If Starmer doesn't back down now, this will end his premiership.
Please sign 🖊️
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
This has united all political parties across the spectrum.
If Starmer doesn't back down now, this will end his premiership.
Please sign 🖊️
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
So happy to have my article exploring austerity and the way forward for the Valleys included in this ebook.
There's heartbreaking real-life examples of austerity's impact, the cruel economics and its impact on Wales & hope for building a way forward. Well worth a read!
payhip.com/b/9eklJ?fbcl...
There's heartbreaking real-life examples of austerity's impact, the cruel economics and its impact on Wales & hope for building a way forward. Well worth a read!
payhip.com/b/9eklJ?fbcl...
Levelling Down | Austerity in Wales
This is nominally free but ‘pay what you can’. Paying to support something you believe in also supports those who can’t afford to. The book may open at the Foreword, but note that there are pages incl...
payhip.com
July 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
So happy to have my article exploring austerity and the way forward for the Valleys included in this ebook.
There's heartbreaking real-life examples of austerity's impact, the cruel economics and its impact on Wales & hope for building a way forward. Well worth a read!
payhip.com/b/9eklJ?fbcl...
There's heartbreaking real-life examples of austerity's impact, the cruel economics and its impact on Wales & hope for building a way forward. Well worth a read!
payhip.com/b/9eklJ?fbcl...
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🔥 The UK is in another heatwave — and the government is failing the people most at risk.
Tomorrow, MPs are voting over whether to push through devastating disability benefit cuts, which will mean future generations will receive less support than Disabled people today.
🧵below.
Tomorrow, MPs are voting over whether to push through devastating disability benefit cuts, which will mean future generations will receive less support than Disabled people today.
🧵below.
June 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
🔥 The UK is in another heatwave — and the government is failing the people most at risk.
Tomorrow, MPs are voting over whether to push through devastating disability benefit cuts, which will mean future generations will receive less support than Disabled people today.
🧵below.
Tomorrow, MPs are voting over whether to push through devastating disability benefit cuts, which will mean future generations will receive less support than Disabled people today.
🧵below.
Still devastated by this decision. My old uni department - and a brilliant one with exceptional staff in an exceptional city ruined by out of touch uni management with no concern for culture or student&staff wellbeing 💔
Please, click on that link & reflect on this astonishing number *48,657* to realise the monumentality of the act of cultural vandalism committed by the the University of Sheffield management. We must never forget. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social www.change.org/p/university...
Sign the Petition
Save Sheffield's Archaeology Department
www.change.org
May 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Still devastated by this decision. My old uni department - and a brilliant one with exceptional staff in an exceptional city ruined by out of touch uni management with no concern for culture or student&staff wellbeing 💔
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Please, click on that link & reflect on this astonishing number *48,657* to realise the monumentality of the act of cultural vandalism committed by the the University of Sheffield management. We must never forget. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social www.change.org/p/university...
Sign the Petition
Save Sheffield's Archaeology Department
www.change.org
May 15, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Please, click on that link & reflect on this astonishing number *48,657* to realise the monumentality of the act of cultural vandalism committed by the the University of Sheffield management. We must never forget. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social www.change.org/p/university...
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If you'd like to support the gallery - but you can't get to us - we have a shop on our website stocking a variety of unique art, cards, gifts and furniture.
This zine is from resident artist Gayle.
Browse at you leisure!
📚📸🎨
#gallery #buyart #zine
www.workersgallery.co.uk/product-page...
This zine is from resident artist Gayle.
Browse at you leisure!
📚📸🎨
#gallery #buyart #zine
www.workersgallery.co.uk/product-page...
Roy's Memory Zine | workersgallery
BACK IN STOCKRoy's MemoryThe Munich Air Disaster Through the Eyes of a 10 year old Salford Boyby Gayle Rogers with Roy Cavanagh This twenty page A5 zine explores the memory of Manchester United fan Ro...
www.workersgallery.co.uk
April 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
If you'd like to support the gallery - but you can't get to us - we have a shop on our website stocking a variety of unique art, cards, gifts and furniture.
This zine is from resident artist Gayle.
Browse at you leisure!
📚📸🎨
#gallery #buyart #zine
www.workersgallery.co.uk/product-page...
This zine is from resident artist Gayle.
Browse at you leisure!
📚📸🎨
#gallery #buyart #zine
www.workersgallery.co.uk/product-page...
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It has never been more true than today.
April 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
It has never been more true than today.
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Ahead of @scottishgreens.org conference, I was pleased to write for @thecommonweal.bsky.social newsletter today about the importance of members continuing to push our MSPs as they have in the last year.
There’s lots to be hopeful about. We must build on it.
www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...
There’s lots to be hopeful about. We must build on it.
www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...
Learning from “Greens in Government™” — Common Weal
As we move forward, we must ensure that we are at the centre of decisions, that there remains a left-wing voice in Holyrood, and that we are not tempted by the neoliberal forces of even Scotland’s est...
www.commonweal.scot
April 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Ahead of @scottishgreens.org conference, I was pleased to write for @thecommonweal.bsky.social newsletter today about the importance of members continuing to push our MSPs as they have in the last year.
There’s lots to be hopeful about. We must build on it.
www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...
There’s lots to be hopeful about. We must build on it.
www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...
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Thanks to everyone who has supported sculptor Chris Williams and his woodland residency 😁👍
He's at 75% of his target amount. Help to get him to the finish line would be really appreciated!
Checkout his short video here:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/woodland-s...
#woodland #artist #AiR
He's at 75% of his target amount. Help to get him to the finish line would be really appreciated!
Checkout his short video here:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/woodland-s...
#woodland #artist #AiR
March 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Thanks to everyone who has supported sculptor Chris Williams and his woodland residency 😁👍
He's at 75% of his target amount. Help to get him to the finish line would be really appreciated!
Checkout his short video here:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/woodland-s...
#woodland #artist #AiR
He's at 75% of his target amount. Help to get him to the finish line would be really appreciated!
Checkout his short video here:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/woodland-s...
#woodland #artist #AiR
'If Cymru truly wants to be a Nation of Sanctuary it needs a First Minister who isn’t silently complicit in the hostile environment created by her counterparts in Westminster. And we need to stand up and say to refugees and to all who want to come here: “Croeso!”'
bylines.cymru/voices-lleis...
bylines.cymru/voices-lleis...
A compassionate Cymru: croeso to refugees and migrants
What kind of Wales do we want? A place of high walls and locked doors? Or of warm welcomes and compassionate communities? We’ll make that choice soon enough
bylines.cymru
March 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
'If Cymru truly wants to be a Nation of Sanctuary it needs a First Minister who isn’t silently complicit in the hostile environment created by her counterparts in Westminster. And we need to stand up and say to refugees and to all who want to come here: “Croeso!”'
bylines.cymru/voices-lleis...
bylines.cymru/voices-lleis...
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A compassionate Cymru: croeso to refugees and migrants
What kind of Wales do we want? A place of high walls and locked doors? Or of warm welcomes and compassionate communities? We’ll be making that choice soon enough.
✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
bylines.cymru/voices-lleis...
What kind of Wales do we want? A place of high walls and locked doors? Or of warm welcomes and compassionate communities? We’ll be making that choice soon enough.
✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
bylines.cymru/voices-lleis...
A compassionate Cymru: croeso to refugees and migrants
What kind of Wales do we want? A place of high walls and locked doors? Or of warm welcomes and compassionate communities? We’ll make that choice soon enough
bylines.cymru
March 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A compassionate Cymru: croeso to refugees and migrants
What kind of Wales do we want? A place of high walls and locked doors? Or of warm welcomes and compassionate communities? We’ll be making that choice soon enough.
✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
bylines.cymru/voices-lleis...
What kind of Wales do we want? A place of high walls and locked doors? Or of warm welcomes and compassionate communities? We’ll be making that choice soon enough.
✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
bylines.cymru/voices-lleis...
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Doing the printing and labelling today for the Outsiders gallery in a box. The @workersgallery.bsky.social will be taking it out to care homes using a cargo bike so people who can’t attend in person can see and interact with the work. Great initiative which we are proud to support.
Delighted to say that the Outsiders exhibition will be shown at The Workers Gallery in Wales from June to August 2025. Really pleased to be working with such a well respected and responsible team.
March 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Doing the printing and labelling today for the Outsiders gallery in a box. The @workersgallery.bsky.social will be taking it out to care homes using a cargo bike so people who can’t attend in person can see and interact with the work. Great initiative which we are proud to support.
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We need #ScottishIndependence to escape the damage of decades of UK austerity - from the Tories to this Labour Government.
In yesterday's debate, I called for further support for all those struggling under cruel cuts sweeping Scotland.
In yesterday's debate, I called for further support for all those struggling under cruel cuts sweeping Scotland.
March 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We need #ScottishIndependence to escape the damage of decades of UK austerity - from the Tories to this Labour Government.
In yesterday's debate, I called for further support for all those struggling under cruel cuts sweeping Scotland.
In yesterday's debate, I called for further support for all those struggling under cruel cuts sweeping Scotland.
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Austerity and empowerment: a case study in Hay-on-Wye
Does every cloud really have a silver lining? Does a community coming together to defeat harmful outcomes of austerity count as a good thing about austerity?
✍️ Dr Huw Evans
#AusterityProject
bylines.cymru/politics-and...
Does every cloud really have a silver lining? Does a community coming together to defeat harmful outcomes of austerity count as a good thing about austerity?
✍️ Dr Huw Evans
#AusterityProject
bylines.cymru/politics-and...
Austerity and empowerment: a case study in Hay-on-Wye
Does every cloud really have a silver lining? Does a community coming together to defeat harmful outcomes of austerity count as a good thing about austerity?
bylines.cymru
March 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Austerity and empowerment: a case study in Hay-on-Wye
Does every cloud really have a silver lining? Does a community coming together to defeat harmful outcomes of austerity count as a good thing about austerity?
✍️ Dr Huw Evans
#AusterityProject
bylines.cymru/politics-and...
Does every cloud really have a silver lining? Does a community coming together to defeat harmful outcomes of austerity count as a good thing about austerity?
✍️ Dr Huw Evans
#AusterityProject
bylines.cymru/politics-and...
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Rhondda arts venue the Workers Gallery has reached the Green Growth Awards finals after impressing judges with innovative approaches to sustainability | Shaun Thomas
@bylines.cymru
@bylines.cymru
The Workers Gallery is driving Green innovation in the Valleys
Rhondda arts venue the Workers Gallery has reached the Green Growth Awards finals after impressing judges with innovative approaches to sustainability
bylines.cymru
March 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Rhondda arts venue the Workers Gallery has reached the Green Growth Awards finals after impressing judges with innovative approaches to sustainability | Shaun Thomas
@bylines.cymru
@bylines.cymru
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Pedal powered art!
Thanks to @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social for this lovely article.
We will be keeping our green fingers crossed!
#bike #art #gallery
Thanks to @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social for this lovely article.
We will be keeping our green fingers crossed!
#bike #art #gallery
The Workers Gallery is driving Green innovation in the Valleys
Rhondda arts venue the Workers Gallery has reached the Green Growth Awards finals after impressing judges with innovative approaches to sustainability.
✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
bylines.cymru/arts-and-cul...
Rhondda arts venue the Workers Gallery has reached the Green Growth Awards finals after impressing judges with innovative approaches to sustainability.
✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
bylines.cymru/arts-and-cul...
The Workers Gallery is driving Green innovation in the Valleys
Rhondda arts venue the Workers Gallery has reached the Green Growth Awards finals after impressing judges with innovative approaches to sustainability
bylines.cymru
March 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Pedal powered art!
Thanks to @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social for this lovely article.
We will be keeping our green fingers crossed!
#bike #art #gallery
Thanks to @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social for this lovely article.
We will be keeping our green fingers crossed!
#bike #art #gallery
Reposted by Shaun Thomas
The Workers Gallery is driving Green innovation in the Valleys
Rhondda arts venue the Workers Gallery has reached the Green Growth Awards finals after impressing judges with innovative approaches to sustainability.
✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
bylines.cymru/arts-and-cul...
Rhondda arts venue the Workers Gallery has reached the Green Growth Awards finals after impressing judges with innovative approaches to sustainability.
✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
bylines.cymru/arts-and-cul...
The Workers Gallery is driving Green innovation in the Valleys
Rhondda arts venue the Workers Gallery has reached the Green Growth Awards finals after impressing judges with innovative approaches to sustainability
bylines.cymru
March 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The Workers Gallery is driving Green innovation in the Valleys
Rhondda arts venue the Workers Gallery has reached the Green Growth Awards finals after impressing judges with innovative approaches to sustainability.
✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
bylines.cymru/arts-and-cul...
Rhondda arts venue the Workers Gallery has reached the Green Growth Awards finals after impressing judges with innovative approaches to sustainability.
✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
bylines.cymru/arts-and-cul...
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Me in @bylines.cymru on how devolution embeds austerity in Cymru. We will only have a fair and prosperous Cymru when we get out from under the dead hand of Westminster’s austerity and can take our own decisions on tax, spending and borrowing.
Budgets, block grants, & the Barnett Formula – Welsh devolution embeds austerity
If Cymru’s a ship then Westminster’s a tug boat, pulling the nation towards shoals and rough seas. Can we ever take the wheel and steer away from austerity?
✍️ @neilschofield.bsky.social
bylines.cymru/politics-and...
If Cymru’s a ship then Westminster’s a tug boat, pulling the nation towards shoals and rough seas. Can we ever take the wheel and steer away from austerity?
✍️ @neilschofield.bsky.social
bylines.cymru/politics-and...
Budgets, block grants, and the Barnett Formula – how Welsh devolution embeds austerity
If Cymru’s a ship then Westminster has been a tug boat, pulling the nation towards shoals and rough seas. Can we ever take the wheel and steer away from austerity?
bylines.cymru
February 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Me in @bylines.cymru on how devolution embeds austerity in Cymru. We will only have a fair and prosperous Cymru when we get out from under the dead hand of Westminster’s austerity and can take our own decisions on tax, spending and borrowing.
Reposted by Shaun Thomas
Deep state: the underlying objectives of austerity
The architects of austerity didn’t just want to reduce debt or asset-strip the welfare state and privatise anything that moved. The cuts go deep, into people’s very minds.
✍️ Nick Hubble
bylines.cymru/voices-lleis...
The architects of austerity didn’t just want to reduce debt or asset-strip the welfare state and privatise anything that moved. The cuts go deep, into people’s very minds.
✍️ Nick Hubble
bylines.cymru/voices-lleis...
Deep state: the underlying objectives of austerity
The architects of austerity didn’t just want to reduce debt or asset-strip the welfare state and privatise anything that moved. The cuts go into people’s very minds
bylines.cymru
February 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Deep state: the underlying objectives of austerity
The architects of austerity didn’t just want to reduce debt or asset-strip the welfare state and privatise anything that moved. The cuts go deep, into people’s very minds.
✍️ Nick Hubble
bylines.cymru/voices-lleis...
The architects of austerity didn’t just want to reduce debt or asset-strip the welfare state and privatise anything that moved. The cuts go deep, into people’s very minds.
✍️ Nick Hubble
bylines.cymru/voices-lleis...
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Reposted by Shaun Thomas
Brilliant article by Shaun👏
Labour has failed our communities it’s time for others to step up👇
“Parties and politicians on the left, such as the Greens, have an opportunity to deliver a breath of hope into the Valleys – if they choose to take it.”✊💚🏴
Labour has failed our communities it’s time for others to step up👇
“Parties and politicians on the left, such as the Greens, have an opportunity to deliver a breath of hope into the Valleys – if they choose to take it.”✊💚🏴
Austerity marks a fork in the road for the South Wales Valleys
In the 1st article of a month-long Austerity Project by the Bylines Cymru community there’s bleakness, but also hope and resilience. This is the Valleys
✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
📸 Martin Shakeshaft
bylines.cymru/community-cy...
In the 1st article of a month-long Austerity Project by the Bylines Cymru community there’s bleakness, but also hope and resilience. This is the Valleys
✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
📸 Martin Shakeshaft
bylines.cymru/community-cy...
Austerity marks a fork in the road for the South Wales Valleys
In the first article of the month-long Austerity Project by the Bylines Cymru community there’s bleakness, yes, but also hope and resilience. This is the Valleys
bylines.cymru
February 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Brilliant article by Shaun👏
Labour has failed our communities it’s time for others to step up👇
“Parties and politicians on the left, such as the Greens, have an opportunity to deliver a breath of hope into the Valleys – if they choose to take it.”✊💚🏴
Labour has failed our communities it’s time for others to step up👇
“Parties and politicians on the left, such as the Greens, have an opportunity to deliver a breath of hope into the Valleys – if they choose to take it.”✊💚🏴
Reposted by Shaun Thomas
Austerity marks a fork in the road for the South Wales Valleys
In the 1st article of a month-long Austerity Project by the Bylines Cymru community there’s bleakness, but also hope and resilience. This is the Valleys
✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
📸 Martin Shakeshaft
bylines.cymru/community-cy...
In the 1st article of a month-long Austerity Project by the Bylines Cymru community there’s bleakness, but also hope and resilience. This is the Valleys
✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
📸 Martin Shakeshaft
bylines.cymru/community-cy...
Austerity marks a fork in the road for the South Wales Valleys
In the first article of the month-long Austerity Project by the Bylines Cymru community there’s bleakness, yes, but also hope and resilience. This is the Valleys
bylines.cymru
February 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Austerity marks a fork in the road for the South Wales Valleys
In the 1st article of a month-long Austerity Project by the Bylines Cymru community there’s bleakness, but also hope and resilience. This is the Valleys
✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
📸 Martin Shakeshaft
bylines.cymru/community-cy...
In the 1st article of a month-long Austerity Project by the Bylines Cymru community there’s bleakness, but also hope and resilience. This is the Valleys
✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
📸 Martin Shakeshaft
bylines.cymru/community-cy...
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People tend not to associate the arts with the communities of the South Wales Valleys. But Art is community and art is for everyone. Or it certainly should be | Shaun Thomas
The Workers Gallery – 10 years of celebrating artists in the Rhondda
People tend not to associate the arts with the communities of the South Wales Valleys. But Art is community and art is for everyone. Or it certainly should be
bylines.cymru
December 22, 2024 at 6:21 PM
People tend not to associate the arts with the communities of the South Wales Valleys. But Art is community and art is for everyone. Or it certainly should be | Shaun Thomas