Hywel Da
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Hywel Da
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Former producer/reporter at BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera. Just shortlisted for the Emerging Author Dagger by the Crime Writers’ Association. Needs a literary agent. Interests: politics, writing, travel, London, rugby and cricket.
Great guest - real (if terrifying) insights I hadn’t heard before about the splintering of the far right in the US, and how that could lead to even more authoritarian excesses.
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Their lack of courage (and political nous) is just staggering - and counterproductive, I reckon.
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The way he kept referring (five times!) to the ethnic origins of the chap trying to help him seemed very odd...
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Surely a more accurate headline would be: "Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is that he’s wrong"
November 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Oh come on, I’m no fan of the current direction Labour is going but you’re being disingenuous here - in no sense is this “Labour’s ‘Growth Commission’ “. Time to take down the post, surely.
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Unlikely to mean more, one suspects.
October 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Meaning a Reform government would likely result in badly-trained squads of paramilitary thugs snatching people from outside schools, hospital grounds and your local high street, tear-gassing, Tazing and arresting anyone who tries to stop them.
October 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Reposted by Hywel Da
“This Idi Amin style migrant expulsion system signals to every migrant living here, every migrant thinking of living here and every foreign government that the British government’s commitments to permanent resident foreign citizens are not worth the paper they are written on. Is that good policy?”
October 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Is there a more cursed phrase than “Claire Fox’s Festival of Ideas”?
October 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM