Dan Lawrence
@dunadan9.bsky.social
Welsh. A bit Australian. Husband. Dad. Work in the third sector. Here mostly for the politics and Welsh football news. 🏴
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Really extraordinary to see so many Welsh MPs publicly undermine their own party’s electorally-successful electoral platform so nonchalantly and with such disregard.
Few things suggest major campaign issues like a political party talking out of both sides of its mouth at the same time.
Few things suggest major campaign issues like a political party talking out of both sides of its mouth at the same time.
Labour MPs tonight rejected Plaid Cymru's calls for control over the Crown Estate to be given to Wales. Scotland already has the powers.
Only Plaid Cymru stands up for Wales.
Only Plaid Cymru stands up for Wales.
Crown Estate: UK Government rejects calls for Welsh devolution
The Treasury minister tells MPs that devolving the estates would make
www.bbc.co.uk
February 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Really extraordinary to see so many Welsh MPs publicly undermine their own party’s electorally-successful electoral platform so nonchalantly and with such disregard.
Few things suggest major campaign issues like a political party talking out of both sides of its mouth at the same time.
Few things suggest major campaign issues like a political party talking out of both sides of its mouth at the same time.
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For those who are considering starting to learn Welsh, or who are already learning, I want to tell you about what a joyful experience it becomes - even the mundane feels exciting when it reaches you through a new language ✍️Aran Jones
What it feels like to become a Welsh speaker (yes, you can)
Aran Jones Author, SaySomethingIn Sometimes, I still feel very conscious of the fact that I’m a second language Welsh speaker. I’ve been living my life through the medium of Welsh for over 20 years no...
nation.cymru
February 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
For those who are considering starting to learn Welsh, or who are already learning, I want to tell you about what a joyful experience it becomes - even the mundane feels exciting when it reaches you through a new language ✍️Aran Jones
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February 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Former Welsh leader for both UKIP and Reform UK, Nathan Gill appeared in court via video link today, in a case where he is accused of taking money to make statements for the benefit of Russia www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex-Reform UK Wales leader accused of taking Russian bribes
The ex-MEP and former UKIP Wales leader made favourable statements about Russia for money, a court hears.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Former Welsh leader for both UKIP and Reform UK, Nathan Gill appeared in court via video link today, in a case where he is accused of taking money to make statements for the benefit of Russia www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Listening back to last week's episode of Gwleidydda on the potential impact of Reform on next year's Senedd election. Its worth looking at the where those 2019 Labour voters went last year
🟢 20% went to PC and the Greens
❌ 7% didn't vote
🟦 less than 7% went to Reform
🟢 20% went to PC and the Greens
❌ 7% didn't vote
🟦 less than 7% went to Reform
February 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Listening back to last week's episode of Gwleidydda on the potential impact of Reform on next year's Senedd election. Its worth looking at the where those 2019 Labour voters went last year
🟢 20% went to PC and the Greens
❌ 7% didn't vote
🟦 less than 7% went to Reform
🟢 20% went to PC and the Greens
❌ 7% didn't vote
🟦 less than 7% went to Reform
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Here's a picture of Russia Today regular with his colleague from Reform UK currently facing charges for accepting bribes from Russia.... 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
February 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Here's a picture of Russia Today regular with his colleague from Reform UK currently facing charges for accepting bribes from Russia.... 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
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They really need to get better at lying.
February 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
They really need to get better at lying.
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I've looked through some funding data and in seems that Wales is being shortchanged in more ways than we thought.
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/wales-is-s...
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/wales-is-s...
Wales is shortchanged again
Plus an interview with Iolo Williams and how Welsh Labour plan to take on Reform
willhaywardwales.substack.com
February 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I've looked through some funding data and in seems that Wales is being shortchanged in more ways than we thought.
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/wales-is-s...
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/wales-is-s...
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Fyi anyone in Wales thinking of supporting reform, they are led by people who really don't care about you, your problems, Wales, etc and lack the integrity to address the challenges we face honestly. They prefer to offer simple solutions they could never deliver. They just mfg outrage and division
Ex-Reform UK employees issue claims for alleged unpaid wages.
Employees claim they were summarily dismissed after the UK general election without payment for several months of work.
Reform MPs voted against Labour's modest Bill on workers' rights.
Be careful what you wish for.
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Employees claim they were summarily dismissed after the UK general election without payment for several months of work.
Reform MPs voted against Labour's modest Bill on workers' rights.
Be careful what you wish for.
archive.ph/4O17Y
Ex-Reform UK employees issue claims for alleged unpaid wages
Reform says claims brought by former workers — who say they were dismissed after the election — are ‘fraudulent’
www.ft.com
February 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Fyi anyone in Wales thinking of supporting reform, they are led by people who really don't care about you, your problems, Wales, etc and lack the integrity to address the challenges we face honestly. They prefer to offer simple solutions they could never deliver. They just mfg outrage and division
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In Welsh we have a saying "codi pais wedi piso" - raising your petticoat after pissing... We could have nationalised Port Talbot, retained raw steel making capability, secured thousands of jobs. Failed by Labour Governments in London and Cardiff apple.news/AshdYt40PRJO...
Starmer pledges up to £2.5bn to help UK steel industry after Trump’s tariffs threat — The Independent
US president announced a worldwide 25 per cent tariff on steel imports last week
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February 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
In Welsh we have a saying "codi pais wedi piso" - raising your petticoat after pissing... We could have nationalised Port Talbot, retained raw steel making capability, secured thousands of jobs. Failed by Labour Governments in London and Cardiff apple.news/AshdYt40PRJO...
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Excellent as ever from @willhaycardiff.bsky.social
And if you’re not reading his weekly newsletter, you really should be.
And if you’re not reading his weekly newsletter, you really should be.
Want to know the future of British politics? Look to Wales for a grim warning | Will Hayward
With a struggling Labour government, the Tories fading and Reform on the rise, next year’s Senedd elections may show what’s coming for the wider UK, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward
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January 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Excellent as ever from @willhaycardiff.bsky.social
And if you’re not reading his weekly newsletter, you really should be.
And if you’re not reading his weekly newsletter, you really should be.
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REQUEST FOR HELP THREAD.
Since I became a journalist I've been struck by how accepting people are with the issues/challenges Wales has (when they know about them at all).
That's why I am really excited to say I am currently working on a new book with Y Lolfa called: Who Cares About Wales?
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Since I became a journalist I've been struck by how accepting people are with the issues/challenges Wales has (when they know about them at all).
That's why I am really excited to say I am currently working on a new book with Y Lolfa called: Who Cares About Wales?
(1/6)
January 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
REQUEST FOR HELP THREAD.
Since I became a journalist I've been struck by how accepting people are with the issues/challenges Wales has (when they know about them at all).
That's why I am really excited to say I am currently working on a new book with Y Lolfa called: Who Cares About Wales?
(1/6)
Since I became a journalist I've been struck by how accepting people are with the issues/challenges Wales has (when they know about them at all).
That's why I am really excited to say I am currently working on a new book with Y Lolfa called: Who Cares About Wales?
(1/6)
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I did not have "THE UNION JACK IS WOKE" on my January bingo card.
Next @bankofengland.bsky.social should be renamed to get rid of the anachronism entirely, CBUK. It's not 'woke' to have a name that describes what the institution actually is.
January 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I did not have "THE UNION JACK IS WOKE" on my January bingo card.
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Still quite striking that George W Bush, whose presidency ended 16 years ago, and Bill Clinton, whose presidency ended 24 years ago, are both younger than Donald Trump, who's about to be sworn in for a second term.
January 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Still quite striking that George W Bush, whose presidency ended 16 years ago, and Bill Clinton, whose presidency ended 24 years ago, are both younger than Donald Trump, who's about to be sworn in for a second term.
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It's just one massive grift. Incredible.
January 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It's just one massive grift. Incredible.
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As a neuroscience doctor and author of bestselling science books who still experiences having my intellect dismissed up-front because of my accent, I can confirm that the "Welsh = disarmingly dumb" stereotype is alive and well.
Having it further boosted in the mainstream is just lovely, thanks.
Having it further boosted in the mainstream is just lovely, thanks.
WEEK 1: Why is Charlotte Traitors pretending to be Welsh? This is an insane thing to do.
NOW: Her perfectly ordinary real voice sounds like she’s read a book; she never says “yourself”. They would have turned on real Charlotte for displaying suspicious intelligence in two days. Woman’s a genius.
NOW: Her perfectly ordinary real voice sounds like she’s read a book; she never says “yourself”. They would have turned on real Charlotte for displaying suspicious intelligence in two days. Woman’s a genius.
January 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
As a neuroscience doctor and author of bestselling science books who still experiences having my intellect dismissed up-front because of my accent, I can confirm that the "Welsh = disarmingly dumb" stereotype is alive and well.
Having it further boosted in the mainstream is just lovely, thanks.
Having it further boosted in the mainstream is just lovely, thanks.
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Well that lasted long.
So much for Farage's 'principled' opposition to Tommy Robinson
So much for Farage's 'principled' opposition to Tommy Robinson
January 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Well that lasted long.
So much for Farage's 'principled' opposition to Tommy Robinson
So much for Farage's 'principled' opposition to Tommy Robinson
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Plenty of opportunities to do more like this in Cardiff...eg windsor place....and in front of city hall/ museum etc??
It's possible to bring the city back to people.
Look at Washington Square Park in New York City.
Look at Washington Square Park in New York City.
January 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Plenty of opportunities to do more like this in Cardiff...eg windsor place....and in front of city hall/ museum etc??
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Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.
Scoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism
forward.com/news/686797/...
forward.com/news/686797/...
Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.
forward.com
January 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.
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A characteristically interesting (and, for some, potentially highly provocative) piece by @waterslee.bsky.social on the challenges facing the Welsh Govt, its electoral/political strategy & approaches to further #devolution & IGR, ahead of 2026 and the current anti-incumbency electoral era #senedd
How to be Popular? A wicked Welsh issue indeed
How do you respond to populism? How can a Government of the left combine an ongoing sense of insurgency with the reality of making the compr...
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January 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A characteristically interesting (and, for some, potentially highly provocative) piece by @waterslee.bsky.social on the challenges facing the Welsh Govt, its electoral/political strategy & approaches to further #devolution & IGR, ahead of 2026 and the current anti-incumbency electoral era #senedd
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Thank God Starmer is prime minister. Imagine if we had someone in that position desperately doing whatever Musk wanted, as Badenoch evidently would. This moment would amount the complete subordination of Britain to a foreign tech billionaire.
January 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Thank God Starmer is prime minister. Imagine if we had someone in that position desperately doing whatever Musk wanted, as Badenoch evidently would. This moment would amount the complete subordination of Britain to a foreign tech billionaire.
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A lot of Welsh politics in 2025 will be concerned with the looming election in 2026.
Labour MS Lee Waters warns in his blog of his party facing a potential 'Scottish' moment, and suggests the UK government need to help the Welsh government out
amanwy.blogspot.com/2025/01/how-...
Labour MS Lee Waters warns in his blog of his party facing a potential 'Scottish' moment, and suggests the UK government need to help the Welsh government out
amanwy.blogspot.com/2025/01/how-...
How to be Popular? A wicked Welsh issue indeed
How do you respond to populism? How can a Government of the left combine an ongoing sense of insurgency with the reality of making the compr...
amanwy.blogspot.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A lot of Welsh politics in 2025 will be concerned with the looming election in 2026.
Labour MS Lee Waters warns in his blog of his party facing a potential 'Scottish' moment, and suggests the UK government need to help the Welsh government out
amanwy.blogspot.com/2025/01/how-...
Labour MS Lee Waters warns in his blog of his party facing a potential 'Scottish' moment, and suggests the UK government need to help the Welsh government out
amanwy.blogspot.com/2025/01/how-...
Post a photo of yourself from another era
January 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Post a photo of yourself from another era
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Mad that Welsh Govt would have to deal with all the consequences of worst case scenarios here but has no say in the decision itself.
Justice in Wales should be responsibility of Welsh Gov, as it is in Scotland, NI, & England/UK:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Justice in Wales should be responsibility of Welsh Gov, as it is in Scotland, NI, & England/UK:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Fears of unrest as PM considers open prisons for more offenders
Unions concerned about potential rise in violence, drug abuse and the threat of riots at low-security facilities in England and Wales
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Mad that Welsh Govt would have to deal with all the consequences of worst case scenarios here but has no say in the decision itself.
Justice in Wales should be responsibility of Welsh Gov, as it is in Scotland, NI, & England/UK:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Justice in Wales should be responsibility of Welsh Gov, as it is in Scotland, NI, & England/UK:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...