Simon Paul Hobson
@simonpaulhobson.bsky.social
🌍 Mine engineer | 🧠✨Neuro-spicy | ❤️Liberal | Co-founder of @newwales.bsky.social - exploring the future of Wales.
‘A home should be the starting point of a good life, not the first barrier to it’.
Build bold to transform Wales
Simon Hobson, Co-founder of New Wales Wales is facing a housing crisis that touches almost every community. Rents and mortgages keep rising faster than wages. Too many people are stuck in unsuitable, ...
nation.cymru
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
‘A home should be the starting point of a good life, not the first barrier to it’.
What is needed for Wales to achieve economic justice?
Kiera Marshall gives her personal views.
Kiera Marshall gives her personal views.
Economic justice for Wales | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
🚀 Help build Wales' future 👉 https://new.wales/🗳 Senedd 2026 👉 https://new.wales/senedd-2026/EPISODE INFOWhat will it take to bring economic justice to Wales? In this conversation Kiera Marshall outli...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:15 AM
What is needed for Wales to achieve economic justice?
Kiera Marshall gives her personal views.
Kiera Marshall gives her personal views.
Het kan wel !
Like Jetten, we must say: ‘the time for a new generation has come’.
Our moment of renewal is waiting.
It only asks that we finally believe.
Like Jetten, we must say: ‘the time for a new generation has come’.
Our moment of renewal is waiting.
It only asks that we finally believe.
What the Dutch just told us about Wales’ future
Simon Hobson, Co-founder of New Wales In the Netherlands, a young leader, Rob Jetten, has emerged as the fresh face of progressivism. His rise offers a simple but profound message: that politics built...
nation.cymru
November 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Het kan wel !
Like Jetten, we must say: ‘the time for a new generation has come’.
Our moment of renewal is waiting.
It only asks that we finally believe.
Like Jetten, we must say: ‘the time for a new generation has come’.
Our moment of renewal is waiting.
It only asks that we finally believe.
Is a fear of change holding Wales back ?
Paralympic gold medallist Mark Colbourne MBE believes so.
Paralympic gold medallist Mark Colbourne MBE believes so.
Is Wales ready for change ? | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
EPISODE INFO.Gold medallist Mark Colbourne shares his extraordinary journey from a near-fatal accident to the top of the Paralympic podium. Speaking with honesty and eloquence, he reflects on resilien...
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November 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Is a fear of change holding Wales back ?
Paralympic gold medallist Mark Colbourne MBE believes so.
Paralympic gold medallist Mark Colbourne MBE believes so.
Wales doesn’t need a king.
It needs courage and the confidence to stand as a modern republic.
It needs courage and the confidence to stand as a modern republic.
Another royal mess
Simon Hobson The latest scandal around Prince Andrew isn’t just one man’s shame. It’s a warning. The royal household is rotten, unaccountable, and out of touch with modern democracy. For Wales, a nati...
nation.cymru
October 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Wales doesn’t need a king.
It needs courage and the confidence to stand as a modern republic.
It needs courage and the confidence to stand as a modern republic.
👷♀️ Want to build Wales' future?
Listen and watch others who believe in Cymru. 🏴
Best bits mini series from @newwales.bsky.social season 1 of our podcast, Blueprint Cymru.
Listen and watch others who believe in Cymru. 🏴
Best bits mini series from @newwales.bsky.social season 1 of our podcast, Blueprint Cymru.
Tax Haven Wales | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
EPISODE INFOHow does Wales build wealth?Could Tax Haven Cymru be the answer?ABOUT BRAD WILLIAMSBrad Williams: is a corporate consultant and professional boxing judge based in Dubai. He grew up on a co...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
👷♀️ Want to build Wales' future?
Listen and watch others who believe in Cymru. 🏴
Best bits mini series from @newwales.bsky.social season 1 of our podcast, Blueprint Cymru.
Listen and watch others who believe in Cymru. 🏴
Best bits mini series from @newwales.bsky.social season 1 of our podcast, Blueprint Cymru.
📣 New Wales @newwales.bsky.social launches the definitive guide to Senedd 2026 elections
We’re thrilled to announce our brand new Senedd 2026 hub — your one-stop destination for all the essential information ahead of the next Senedd election.
🔗 Explore the Senedd 2026 hub 👉 new.wales/senedd-2026
We’re thrilled to announce our brand new Senedd 2026 hub — your one-stop destination for all the essential information ahead of the next Senedd election.
🔗 Explore the Senedd 2026 hub 👉 new.wales/senedd-2026
October 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
📣 New Wales @newwales.bsky.social launches the definitive guide to Senedd 2026 elections
We’re thrilled to announce our brand new Senedd 2026 hub — your one-stop destination for all the essential information ahead of the next Senedd election.
🔗 Explore the Senedd 2026 hub 👉 new.wales/senedd-2026
We’re thrilled to announce our brand new Senedd 2026 hub — your one-stop destination for all the essential information ahead of the next Senedd election.
🔗 Explore the Senedd 2026 hub 👉 new.wales/senedd-2026
Blueprint Cymru, listen 👉 new.wales/podcasts/
October 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Blueprint Cymru, listen 👉 new.wales/podcasts/
Politics isn't working.
It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system.
Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes
It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system.
Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes
First Past the Post means millions of our votes make no difference to parliament. Add your name now to demand a fairer voting system
It only takes 30 seconds
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October 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Politics isn't working.
It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system.
Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes
It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system.
Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes
Bigots and Brexit sold us the dark – we deserve the light.
Politics today is a battle between those who cling to shadows and those who reach for sunlight. The shadows whisper that migrants are to blame, that Europe is to blame, that difference is to blame. These are not new lies.
Politics today is a battle between those who cling to shadows and those who reach for sunlight. The shadows whisper that migrants are to blame, that Europe is to blame, that difference is to blame. These are not new lies.
Farage’s shadows are blinding Wales
Simon Hobson Bigots and Brexit sold us the dark – we deserve the light I am human. I have the right to make mistakes. I am human. I have the power to correct them. Nations, too, must claim that right....
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October 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Bigots and Brexit sold us the dark – we deserve the light.
Politics today is a battle between those who cling to shadows and those who reach for sunlight. The shadows whisper that migrants are to blame, that Europe is to blame, that difference is to blame. These are not new lies.
Politics today is a battle between those who cling to shadows and those who reach for sunlight. The shadows whisper that migrants are to blame, that Europe is to blame, that difference is to blame. These are not new lies.
Political parties in Wales have sown their own destruction
Lembit Öpik discuss why ReformUK are surging ahead across Wales - he puts it down to the fact they are populists. .
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Lembit Öpik discuss why ReformUK are surging ahead across Wales - he puts it down to the fact they are populists. .
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👤 Contact @newwales.bsky.social 👉 new.wales/contact-us/
Lembit Öpik talks about Reform in Wales and what nationalists can learn from Sinn Féin
YouTube video by New Wales / Cymru Newydd
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October 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Political parties in Wales have sown their own destruction
Lembit Öpik discuss why ReformUK are surging ahead across Wales - he puts it down to the fact they are populists. .
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👤 Contact @newwales.bsky.social 👉 new.wales/contact-us/
Lembit Öpik discuss why ReformUK are surging ahead across Wales - he puts it down to the fact they are populists. .
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👤 Contact @newwales.bsky.social 👉 new.wales/contact-us/
First they came for ...
And I did not speak ...
Because I was not an immigrant ...
To paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemöller.
And I did not speak ...
Because I was not an immigrant ...
To paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemöller.
How self-absorbed leaders and a broken United Nations threaten global peace
Simon Hobson In 1997, as a 17-year-old A-level politics student, I stood at a model United Nations general assembly and launched a clumsy attack on the German delegation. My speech, poorly researched ...
nation.cymru
September 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
First they came for ...
And I did not speak ...
Because I was not an immigrant ...
To paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemöller.
And I did not speak ...
Because I was not an immigrant ...
To paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemöller.
Wales' opportunities for coops
@newwales.bsky.social chat with Dan Roberts from @cwmpas.bsky.social
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@newwales.bsky.social chat with Dan Roberts from @cwmpas.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dvC...
Daniel Roberts: Cooperative Wales
YouTube video by New Wales / Cymru Newydd
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September 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Wales' opportunities for coops
@newwales.bsky.social chat with Dan Roberts from @cwmpas.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dvC...
@newwales.bsky.social chat with Dan Roberts from @cwmpas.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dvC...
What is going on in Bosnia?
September 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
What is going on in Bosnia?
Give them the same rights as humans
Using primates as research subjects is an emotive issue in science and the public domain.
Using primates as research subjects is an emotive issue in science and the public domain.
Primates should be granted legal rights
Wales should make the historic move of giving all non-human primates the right to life, liberty, and security
bylines.cymru
September 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Give them the same rights as humans
Using primates as research subjects is an emotive issue in science and the public domain.
Using primates as research subjects is an emotive issue in science and the public domain.
Senedd Reform
How do we improve democracy in Wales?
Jess Blair from the Electoral Reform Society Cymru, about her part in campaigning for a more democratic Wales.
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Blueprint Cymru is a podcast from @newwales.bsky.social
How do we improve democracy in Wales?
Jess Blair from the Electoral Reform Society Cymru, about her part in campaigning for a more democratic Wales.
Listen here: rss.com/podcasts/blu...
Blueprint Cymru is a podcast from @newwales.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Senedd Reform
How do we improve democracy in Wales?
Jess Blair from the Electoral Reform Society Cymru, about her part in campaigning for a more democratic Wales.
Listen here: rss.com/podcasts/blu...
Blueprint Cymru is a podcast from @newwales.bsky.social
How do we improve democracy in Wales?
Jess Blair from the Electoral Reform Society Cymru, about her part in campaigning for a more democratic Wales.
Listen here: rss.com/podcasts/blu...
Blueprint Cymru is a podcast from @newwales.bsky.social
We reap what we sow
As Desmond Tutu said, 'If you're neutral in the face of injustice, you've chosen the side of the oppressor'.
Welsh citizens must reject the neo-fascist rhetoric of Reform UK - An English nationalist group of thugs who would see Wales subjugated to the Jackboot of England.
As Desmond Tutu said, 'If you're neutral in the face of injustice, you've chosen the side of the oppressor'.
Welsh citizens must reject the neo-fascist rhetoric of Reform UK - An English nationalist group of thugs who would see Wales subjugated to the Jackboot of England.
Wales rising: defying the grip of extremism and unionism
Simon Hobson The spectre of disunity looms large. Those peddling extremist and authoritarian remedies find an ever-widening platform on our national airwaves, spreading their insidious ideologies acro...
nation.cymru
September 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
We reap what we sow
As Desmond Tutu said, 'If you're neutral in the face of injustice, you've chosen the side of the oppressor'.
Welsh citizens must reject the neo-fascist rhetoric of Reform UK - An English nationalist group of thugs who would see Wales subjugated to the Jackboot of England.
As Desmond Tutu said, 'If you're neutral in the face of injustice, you've chosen the side of the oppressor'.
Welsh citizens must reject the neo-fascist rhetoric of Reform UK - An English nationalist group of thugs who would see Wales subjugated to the Jackboot of England.
Wales leading the world
Legislation from: Future generations, Anti-smacking, HIAs and No lying in politics.
New Blueprint Cymru (Ep.11) from @newwales.bsky.social
#law #wales #worldleading
Legislation from: Future generations, Anti-smacking, HIAs and No lying in politics.
New Blueprint Cymru (Ep.11) from @newwales.bsky.social
#law #wales #worldleading
Brendan Roberts: Landmark laws in Wales | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Does growing up in the care system change how you see the world?, Why is Wales ahead of the rest of the UK in terms of progressive laws?, How do we build on this and continue to ensure that Wales is a...
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August 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Wales leading the world
Legislation from: Future generations, Anti-smacking, HIAs and No lying in politics.
New Blueprint Cymru (Ep.11) from @newwales.bsky.social
#law #wales #worldleading
Legislation from: Future generations, Anti-smacking, HIAs and No lying in politics.
New Blueprint Cymru (Ep.11) from @newwales.bsky.social
#law #wales #worldleading
Reposted by Simon Paul Hobson
💷 'Council Tax is probably the most regressive property tax in the world.'
@inetoxford.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social's Prof John Muellbauer proposes a two-part solution to the fairer taxation of property in the UK ⬇️
@inetoxford.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social's Prof John Muellbauer proposes a two-part solution to the fairer taxation of property in the UK ⬇️
Expert Comment: A property wealth tax is now politically feasible |
John Muellbauer, Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, and Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of
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August 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
💷 'Council Tax is probably the most regressive property tax in the world.'
@inetoxford.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social's Prof John Muellbauer proposes a two-part solution to the fairer taxation of property in the UK ⬇️
@inetoxford.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social's Prof John Muellbauer proposes a two-part solution to the fairer taxation of property in the UK ⬇️
Blueprint Cymru from @newwales.bsky.social
Neil Roberts: Financial literacy
Podcast Episode · Blueprint Cymru · 13/08/2025 · 59m
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August 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Blueprint Cymru from @newwales.bsky.social
Blowing winds of treachery
Over a decade ago, Putin began annexing parts of the Ukrainian nation. In Westminster, MPs have stood up to condemn that action.
Over 500 years have passed since England completed its annexation of Wales. Furthering English imperial ambitions ...
Read @nation.cymru
Over a decade ago, Putin began annexing parts of the Ukrainian nation. In Westminster, MPs have stood up to condemn that action.
Over 500 years have passed since England completed its annexation of Wales. Furthering English imperial ambitions ...
Read @nation.cymru
Annexed nation
Simon Hobson Asides from demonstrating the irresponsible and poor leadership qualities most people have expected of the incoming President of the United States of America, Donald Trump vocalising his ...
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August 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Blowing winds of treachery
Over a decade ago, Putin began annexing parts of the Ukrainian nation. In Westminster, MPs have stood up to condemn that action.
Over 500 years have passed since England completed its annexation of Wales. Furthering English imperial ambitions ...
Read @nation.cymru
Over a decade ago, Putin began annexing parts of the Ukrainian nation. In Westminster, MPs have stood up to condemn that action.
Over 500 years have passed since England completed its annexation of Wales. Furthering English imperial ambitions ...
Read @nation.cymru
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Would love to see modular rolled out. Slab to size. Heat pump, solar and batt and insulated for heat waves and cold, what’s not to like. Almost as if bricks rule the lobby.
August 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Would love to see modular rolled out. Slab to size. Heat pump, solar and batt and insulated for heat waves and cold, what’s not to like. Almost as if bricks rule the lobby.
Forced allegiance from Wales
Why we must ensure this king Charles is preceded by a Republic of Wales
#republic #wales #kingcharles
Why we must ensure this king Charles is preceded by a Republic of Wales
#republic #wales #kingcharles
Unfinished business
Simon Hobson The 27th of March 2025 marks the 400th anniversary of Charles I’s accession to the throne of Great Britain. Born in Dunfermline Palace in 1600, Charles Stuart was the second son of James ...
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August 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Forced allegiance from Wales
Why we must ensure this king Charles is preceded by a Republic of Wales
#republic #wales #kingcharles
Why we must ensure this king Charles is preceded by a Republic of Wales
#republic #wales #kingcharles
I love the idea of politics returning to the traditional 'town hall'. In which those who care, travel around Wales and speak with people about, as you say, what they need and want Wales to become. Then we could come together and write our own constitution or a Welsh bill of rights.
Agree as huge Risk of a mini-Brexit campaign as special interests hijack to set Welsh against one another. Better step forward would be a Citizens Assembly to help clarify what people’s priorities are and how to best meet collective interest. Any eventual “vote” would then be better informed.
A plebiscite is not the answer
When a representative democracy resorts to a referendum to resolve a question, it is abandoning the keystone of its own system.
A view on Welsh referendums @bylines.cymru
When a representative democracy resorts to a referendum to resolve a question, it is abandoning the keystone of its own system.
A view on Welsh referendums @bylines.cymru
August 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I love the idea of politics returning to the traditional 'town hall'. In which those who care, travel around Wales and speak with people about, as you say, what they need and want Wales to become. Then we could come together and write our own constitution or a Welsh bill of rights.
Care about Wales' future?
Then you should be listening to #BlueprintCymru
Building a better future for Wales @newwales.bsky.social
Here's where to listen, media.rss.com/blueprint-cy...
Then you should be listening to #BlueprintCymru
Building a better future for Wales @newwales.bsky.social
Here's where to listen, media.rss.com/blueprint-cy...
August 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Care about Wales' future?
Then you should be listening to #BlueprintCymru
Building a better future for Wales @newwales.bsky.social
Here's where to listen, media.rss.com/blueprint-cy...
Then you should be listening to #BlueprintCymru
Building a better future for Wales @newwales.bsky.social
Here's where to listen, media.rss.com/blueprint-cy...