Joe Cable
@joecable.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in PR, Media, and Communications. PhD from Cardiff Uni. Interested in protest, politics, and sport. Working at Swansea University.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jonathan-cable
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NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
Thank you Caerphilly. Hope not hate.
My latest newsletter with all the analysis from a historic Caerphilly byelection
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/plaid-smas...
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/plaid-smas...
Plaid smash Reform to win in Caerphilly
These are the key takeaways from a massive night in Welsh politics
willhaywardwales.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Thank you Caerphilly. Hope not hate.
It looks like an AI hallucination.
Casio’ new ring watch straps a durable G-Shock to your finger
Casio’ new ring watch straps a durable G-Shock to your finger
Casio shrinks an iconic G-Shock.
buff.ly
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It looks like an AI hallucination.
Make it worth your time (and money). This one's got Ed Campbell formerly of PoliticsJoe voxpops in it too. What more could you want?
Try as I might, I can't get Reform to answer a simple question about their candidate in the Caerphilly by-election Llyr Powell.
When did he last have contact with Nathan Gill, the party's former leader in Wales who has admitted taking Russian bribes?
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/why-cant-r...
When did he last have contact with Nathan Gill, the party's former leader in Wales who has admitted taking Russian bribes?
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/why-cant-r...
Why can't Reform answer this question?
Plus predictions for the Caerphilly by-election
willhaywardwales.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Make it worth your time (and money). This one's got Ed Campbell formerly of PoliticsJoe voxpops in it too. What more could you want?
Prepping lectures and listening to a couple of Michael Sheen lectures from 2017. If you want insight on Wales, how it sees itself, and the values needed to move forward, together: 1) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbVd..., and 2) youtu.be/Tj2-kMXenk8?....
Annual Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture 2017 | Michael Sheen
YouTube video by Learning and Work Institute Wales
youtu.be
September 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Prepping lectures and listening to a couple of Michael Sheen lectures from 2017. If you want insight on Wales, how it sees itself, and the values needed to move forward, together: 1) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbVd..., and 2) youtu.be/Tj2-kMXenk8?....
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Lessons from being online since 1995
1. Brandolini's law:
"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
2. Chill before serving. (Mine)
3. It's irony when the actor or observer is "confidently unaware."
4. On the Media's rules.
1. Brandolini's law:
"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
2. Chill before serving. (Mine)
3. It's irony when the actor or observer is "confidently unaware."
4. On the Media's rules.
September 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Lessons from being online since 1995
1. Brandolini's law:
"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
2. Chill before serving. (Mine)
3. It's irony when the actor or observer is "confidently unaware."
4. On the Media's rules.
1. Brandolini's law:
"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
2. Chill before serving. (Mine)
3. It's irony when the actor or observer is "confidently unaware."
4. On the Media's rules.
Feels a bit mean to enter a child into Crufts...
July 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Feels a bit mean to enter a child into Crufts...
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New polling Wales!
Headlines:
- The Tories could be totally wiped out.
- Reform/Plaid still battling for 1st
- Labour 3rd
- Still seemingly impossible for Reform to for a government with this maths.
Data from MoreInCommon/@skynewsrss.bsky.social
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Headlines:
- The Tories could be totally wiped out.
- Reform/Plaid still battling for 1st
- Labour 3rd
- Still seemingly impossible for Reform to for a government with this maths.
Data from MoreInCommon/@skynewsrss.bsky.social
[Thread]
July 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
New polling Wales!
Headlines:
- The Tories could be totally wiped out.
- Reform/Plaid still battling for 1st
- Labour 3rd
- Still seemingly impossible for Reform to for a government with this maths.
Data from MoreInCommon/@skynewsrss.bsky.social
[Thread]
Headlines:
- The Tories could be totally wiped out.
- Reform/Plaid still battling for 1st
- Labour 3rd
- Still seemingly impossible for Reform to for a government with this maths.
Data from MoreInCommon/@skynewsrss.bsky.social
[Thread]
New party, old Tories www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Conservative cabinet minister David Jones joins Reform UK
Ex-Welsh secretary David Jones becomes the third former Tory to join Nigel Farage's party in the last two weeks.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
New party, old Tories www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Paul Nuttall is back hopenothate.org.uk/2025/07/03/w... feels right to bring this back up www.youtube.com/watch?v=eusO...
Who is Paul Nuttall? Reform’s new vice chairman has a history of dodgy claims and dubious beliefs
Reform UK’s new vice chairman, Paul Nuttall, has an interesting and illustrious past.Not only did he serve as UKIP leader (from November 2016 to June 2017) and as a MEP (from July 2009 to July 2019), ...
hopenothate.org.uk
July 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Paul Nuttall is back hopenothate.org.uk/2025/07/03/w... feels right to bring this back up www.youtube.com/watch?v=eusO...
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@jaclarner.bsky.social from the Welsh Election Study: “Looking at the areas now voting Reform, they’re the same areas that always voted Labour, and it’s very easy to just make the logical mistake to assume it’s the same people doing it. That isn’t what we see” #Senedd26
www.ft.com/content/668f...
www.ft.com/content/668f...
Reform UK and Plaid Cymru vie for gains in Labour stronghold of Wales
Plummeting support for Keir Starmer’s party points to impact of some policies that have proven highly unpopular
www.ft.com
June 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
@jaclarner.bsky.social from the Welsh Election Study: “Looking at the areas now voting Reform, they’re the same areas that always voted Labour, and it’s very easy to just make the logical mistake to assume it’s the same people doing it. That isn’t what we see” #Senedd26
www.ft.com/content/668f...
www.ft.com/content/668f...
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The UK Treasury has screwed Wales again!
They've now classed a railway line running for Oxford to Cambridge as an "England and WALES" project.
This robs Wales over £300m+ whereas Scotland and NI get their cash.
It's a disgrace that this is still happening after the HS2 robbery.
They've now classed a railway line running for Oxford to Cambridge as an "England and WALES" project.
This robs Wales over £300m+ whereas Scotland and NI get their cash.
It's a disgrace that this is still happening after the HS2 robbery.
June 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The UK Treasury has screwed Wales again!
They've now classed a railway line running for Oxford to Cambridge as an "England and WALES" project.
This robs Wales over £300m+ whereas Scotland and NI get their cash.
It's a disgrace that this is still happening after the HS2 robbery.
They've now classed a railway line running for Oxford to Cambridge as an "England and WALES" project.
This robs Wales over £300m+ whereas Scotland and NI get their cash.
It's a disgrace that this is still happening after the HS2 robbery.
The Trump tariffs make much more sense if you've ever seen Steiner's math promo. youtu.be/msDuNZyYAIQ?...
Scott Steiner's Math Promo Sacrifice 2008 ACTUAL FOOTAGE
YouTube video by Abraham M.
youtu.be
April 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The Trump tariffs make much more sense if you've ever seen Steiner's math promo. youtu.be/msDuNZyYAIQ?...
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Columbia Journalism Dean Jelani Cobb on the recent arrest of a member of the university's community who was one of the organisers of the protests against the war in Gaza
Read his Reuters Memorial Lecture in full in this link
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/full-te...
Read his Reuters Memorial Lecture in full in this link
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/full-te...
March 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Columbia Journalism Dean Jelani Cobb on the recent arrest of a member of the university's community who was one of the organisers of the protests against the war in Gaza
Read his Reuters Memorial Lecture in full in this link
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/full-te...
Read his Reuters Memorial Lecture in full in this link
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/full-te...
JOB ALERT! - Specialists in any/all of sports journalism, sports commentary, podcasts, sports content creation and PR. Looking for someone experienced as practitioner or academic.
Permanent contract, deadline to apply is 23 March 2025.
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Permanent contract, deadline to apply is 23 March 2025.
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Lecturer in Sports Communication
We are recruiting a lecturer in Sports Communication, Sports PR and/or Sports Journalism
www.swansea.ac.uk
March 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
JOB ALERT! - Specialists in any/all of sports journalism, sports commentary, podcasts, sports content creation and PR. Looking for someone experienced as practitioner or academic.
Permanent contract, deadline to apply is 23 March 2025.
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Permanent contract, deadline to apply is 23 March 2025.
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
@distantpod.bsky.social with Shrovetide next week give Wild in the Streets a go for a sports doc. youtu.be/btySAHSMHbI?...
Wild In The Streets movie 2011 poem trailer
YouTube video by WildInTheStreetsFilm
youtu.be
February 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
@distantpod.bsky.social with Shrovetide next week give Wild in the Streets a go for a sports doc. youtu.be/btySAHSMHbI?...
Sometimes you see journal articles and think, that's classic Ramble @footballramble.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1466...
February 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Sometimes you see journal articles and think, that's classic Ramble @footballramble.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1466...
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Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
February 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
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If your instinct tends a bit towards catastrophising - not unreasonable right now - and asserting confidently an opinion along the lines of: "all is lost, US is done, nobody can do a thing, may as well calm down, go home, and wait for the end," stop and ask who benefits from people pushed to apathy.
February 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
If your instinct tends a bit towards catastrophising - not unreasonable right now - and asserting confidently an opinion along the lines of: "all is lost, US is done, nobody can do a thing, may as well calm down, go home, and wait for the end," stop and ask who benefits from people pushed to apathy.
Look at those Reform numbers.
The British public has a very positive opinion of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and very negative opinions of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin
Volodymyr Zelenskyy: +48
Donald Trump: -51
Vladimir Putin: -85
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy: +48
Donald Trump: -51
Vladimir Putin: -85
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
February 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Look at those Reform numbers.
In England. With elections in Scotland and Wales in 2026 these distinctions are crucial for voters to make informed decisions.
We can’t feed pupils for 60p, say schools in blow to Labour breakfast club pledge
We can’t feed pupils for 60p, say schools in blow to Labour breakfast club pledge
Critics warn of ‘political headlines over practical solutions’ as schools battle to cover cost of government’s flagship plan
The government’s flagship plan to set up free breakfast clubs in all primary schools is running into trouble as headteachers say…
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
In England. With elections in Scotland and Wales in 2026 these distinctions are crucial for voters to make informed decisions.
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Nothing says avoiding an existential crisis like bringing back a leader whose entire government resigned en masse rather than serve another day under him
February 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Nothing says avoiding an existential crisis like bringing back a leader whose entire government resigned en masse rather than serve another day under him
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Cuts to the arts in Wales are threatening what it is to be Welsh.
Yes Conservative cuts have forced difficult decisions but the Welsh Government have to also accept responsibility.
I wrote this piece for The Guardian exploring the issue:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes Conservative cuts have forced difficult decisions but the Welsh Government have to also accept responsibility.
I wrote this piece for The Guardian exploring the issue:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wales is the land of song. Now it’s being silenced by cuts that threaten our culture | Will Hayward
Language, history and arts are what make us a nation – and they’re at risk when funding is slashed to levels among the lowest in Europe, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Cuts to the arts in Wales are threatening what it is to be Welsh.
Yes Conservative cuts have forced difficult decisions but the Welsh Government have to also accept responsibility.
I wrote this piece for The Guardian exploring the issue:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes Conservative cuts have forced difficult decisions but the Welsh Government have to also accept responsibility.
I wrote this piece for The Guardian exploring the issue:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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New research backs up what gamers have thought for years: cozy video games can be an antidote to stress and anxiety. Don't believe it? We made an adorable world for you to explore (and yes, there is gardening)
www.reuters.com/graphics/VID...
www.reuters.com/graphics/VID...
Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety.
Explore a charming town, meet quirky villagers, and take in the cozy vibes!
www.reuters.com
January 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
New research backs up what gamers have thought for years: cozy video games can be an antidote to stress and anxiety. Don't believe it? We made an adorable world for you to explore (and yes, there is gardening)
www.reuters.com/graphics/VID...
www.reuters.com/graphics/VID...