Mark Mansfield
@markmansfield.bsky.social
Music geek, minor radio personality, very, very minor Cherry Red Records artiste. CEO Nation.Cymru. 🏴
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Andrew RT Davies reported to Standards Commissioner for using Nazi terminology to describe Plaid activists
Martin Shipton Former Welsh Conservative Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies has been reported to the Standards Commissioner after using Nazi-inspired terminology to describe Plaid Cymru activists. During ...
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March 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Aaron Wainwright accepts that Wales’ long run of Test match defeats has generated a low point in the nation’s proud rugby history
Aaron Wainwright says Wales at ‘low point’ but urges team to prove people wrong
Aaron Wainwright accepts that Wales’ long run of Test match defeats has generated “a pretty low point” in the nation’s proud rugby history. But the back-row forward is also on a mission to prove peopl...
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February 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Aaron Wainwright accepts that Wales’ long run of Test match defeats has generated a low point in the nation’s proud rugby history
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New improvement works are planned at a former quarry where residents fear buried chemicals are leaching into the wider area wp.me/p8Mk4U-Vuk
Safety works planned for quarry site where toxic waste was dumped
Nicholas Thomas, local democracy reporter New improvement works are expected at a former quarry where residents fear buried chemicals are leaching into the wider area. Toxic waste dumped decades ago a...
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February 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
New improvement works are planned at a former quarry where residents fear buried chemicals are leaching into the wider area wp.me/p8Mk4U-Vuk
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These are the five Welsh bookstores in the running to be named the Independent Bookshop of the Year
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February 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
These are the five Welsh bookstores in the running to be named the Independent Bookshop of the Year
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A teaching assistant’s claim that he was harassed and discriminated against by a high school because of his Christian beliefs has been rejected by an Employment Tribunal ✍️Martin Shipton https://buff.ly/3D8mATD
February 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A teaching assistant’s claim that he was harassed and discriminated against by a high school because of his Christian beliefs has been rejected by an Employment Tribunal ✍️Martin Shipton https://buff.ly/3D8mATD
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Cymru have revealed a new women's away shirt with a unique cultural inspiration - the Welsh lovespoon
Welsh lovespoon inspired Cymru women's shirt launched
Cymru have launched a new women’s away shirt ready for the Nations League and Euro 2025 – and it features a particularly unique inspiration. The new away shirt which the Cymru’s women’s side will wear...
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February 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Cymru have revealed a new women's away shirt with a unique cultural inspiration - the Welsh lovespoon
About 40% of Tory party members are around pension age. This is bold.
Sorry that's a typo. I meant batshit crazy!😆
Sorry that's a typo. I meant batshit crazy!😆
Kemi Badenoch has said the Tories will consider means-testing the triple-lock, in what would be a major policy shift for the party
Tories will consider means-testing triple-lock, Badenoch says
Kemi Badenoch has said the Tories will consider means-testing the triple-lock, in what would be a major policy shift for the party. The Conservative leader said that while in government the party had…
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January 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
About 40% of Tory party members are around pension age. This is bold.
Sorry that's a typo. I meant batshit crazy!😆
Sorry that's a typo. I meant batshit crazy!😆
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Bizarrely Lynchian
Today of all days
Today of all days
Footage of a promotional campaign for Cardiff Airport in the late '70s with dancers from the Urdd performing to a disco version of the Doctor Who theme has gone viral
Watch: The disco version of Doctor Who performed at Cardiff Airport
File under now here’s something you don’t see every day. Indeed today is the first time we have ever seen the following words typed in this particular order: ‘Footage of a promotional campaign for Car...
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January 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Bizarrely Lynchian
Today of all days
Today of all days
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The Welsh victim at the centre of a row in the Senedd over the grooming gangs scandal wants to launch a campaign for a Wales-wide inquiry ✍️@emilypricejourno.bsky.social
Welsh victim of grooming gangs to launch campaign for Wales-wide inquiry
Emily Price The Welsh victim at the centre of a row in the Senedd over the grooming gangs scandal wants to launch a campaign for a Wales-wide inquiry. Emily Vaughn – not her real name – was one of…
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January 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The Welsh victim at the centre of a row in the Senedd over the grooming gangs scandal wants to launch a campaign for a Wales-wide inquiry ✍️@emilypricejourno.bsky.social
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January 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Half the public think Elon Musk is having a negative impact on UK politics following his slew of attacks on Sir Keir Starmer and other Labour figures
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January 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Half the public think Elon Musk is having a negative impact on UK politics following his slew of attacks on Sir Keir Starmer and other Labour figures
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Musk’s problem with the UK government is not over ideology, it barely has one.
He has targeted it because it is built on sand, and its removal would be a lesson to governments the world over that a new order is at hand. ✍️Ben Wildsmith
He has targeted it because it is built on sand, and its removal would be a lesson to governments the world over that a new order is at hand. ✍️Ben Wildsmith
Wales for Sale
Ben Wildsmith A tiresome feature of the last few years has been Elon Musk fanboys assuming an air of patronising superiority as they regurgitate their hero’s utterances on life, the universe, and…
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January 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Musk’s problem with the UK government is not over ideology, it barely has one.
He has targeted it because it is built on sand, and its removal would be a lesson to governments the world over that a new order is at hand. ✍️Ben Wildsmith
He has targeted it because it is built on sand, and its removal would be a lesson to governments the world over that a new order is at hand. ✍️Ben Wildsmith
Now Facebook kowtows to Trump by downgrading news and upgrading lies.
These tech-bro fascists are a hoot aren't they? nation.cymru/news/meta-en...
These tech-bro fascists are a hoot aren't they? nation.cymru/news/meta-en...
January 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Now Facebook kowtows to Trump by downgrading news and upgrading lies.
These tech-bro fascists are a hoot aren't they? nation.cymru/news/meta-en...
These tech-bro fascists are a hoot aren't they? nation.cymru/news/meta-en...
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The Welsh-speaking Hollywood star was promoting his blockbuster Christmas action movie Carry-On when he recorded his handy introduction to the Welsh language
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December 24, 2024 at 8:02 PM
The Welsh-speaking Hollywood star was promoting his blockbuster Christmas action movie Carry-On when he recorded his handy introduction to the Welsh language
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Mari Lwyd, Horse of Frost, Star-horse, and White Horse of the Sea, is carried to us.
Sinner and saint, sinner and saint: A horse’s head in the frost. Midnight. Midnight. Midnight. Midnight. Hark at the hands of the clock’ - Vernon Watkins’ timeless Ballad of Mari Lwyd is presented here in its entirety
Christmas Poem: The Ballad of Mari Lwyd
Vernon Watkins (1906-67) Prologue (Spoken by the Announcer of the Ballad) Mari Lwyd, Horse of Frost, Star-horse, and White Horse of the Sea, is carried to us. The Dead return. Those Exiles carry her, ...
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December 24, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Mari Lwyd, Horse of Frost, Star-horse, and White Horse of the Sea, is carried to us.
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Almost 60% of people aged 25–64 in the EU know at least one language other than their first language at a “good” or “proficient” level ✍️ Una Cunningham, Stockholm University
How to prepare for your bilingual baby
Una Cunningham, Professor emerita, Department of Teaching and Learning, Stockholm University Expecting a baby, especially a first baby, is a lot for any new parent. There are so many unknowns and so m...
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December 24, 2024 at 8:07 AM
Almost 60% of people aged 25–64 in the EU know at least one language other than their first language at a “good” or “proficient” level ✍️ Una Cunningham, Stockholm University
Say what you want about Farage - but credit where it's due - this is a man that loves a bung!🤑 nation.cymru/news/reform-...
Reform UK lines up billionaires to fund ‘political disruption’
Reform UK’s treasurer Nick Candy has claimed the party has “a number of billionaires” ready to donate to Nigel Farage’s party in addition to American tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. Mr Candy said the par...
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December 22, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Say what you want about Farage - but credit where it's due - this is a man that loves a bung!🤑 nation.cymru/news/reform-...
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Pragmatically, but also on the basis of economic justice, we need to make common cause with the underfunded regions of England.
Working together, we could make a real difference. ✍️Martin Shipton https://buff.ly/4fuzdpl
Working together, we could make a real difference. ✍️Martin Shipton https://buff.ly/4fuzdpl
December 21, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Pragmatically, but also on the basis of economic justice, we need to make common cause with the underfunded regions of England.
Working together, we could make a real difference. ✍️Martin Shipton https://buff.ly/4fuzdpl
Working together, we could make a real difference. ✍️Martin Shipton https://buff.ly/4fuzdpl
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It’s Christmas, Del Hughes is back – and she’s brought egg nog! https://buff.ly/405kuwr
December 21, 2024 at 8:19 PM
It’s Christmas, Del Hughes is back – and she’s brought egg nog! https://buff.ly/405kuwr
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📰 Mainstream media ignores Wales.
Nation Cymru doesn’t.
If you believe in a stronger, prouder Wales, support us from just £5/month.
💪 Together, we can hold power to account.
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Nation Cymru doesn’t.
If you believe in a stronger, prouder Wales, support us from just £5/month.
💪 Together, we can hold power to account.
👉 www.nation.cymru/support-us
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December 21, 2024 at 5:01 PM
📰 Mainstream media ignores Wales.
Nation Cymru doesn’t.
If you believe in a stronger, prouder Wales, support us from just £5/month.
💪 Together, we can hold power to account.
👉 www.nation.cymru/support-us
Nation Cymru doesn’t.
If you believe in a stronger, prouder Wales, support us from just £5/month.
💪 Together, we can hold power to account.
👉 www.nation.cymru/support-us
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This brilliantly funny clip titled ‘Every Welsh person returning to Wales from England’ will be instantly recognisable for anybody who has lived away from home https://buff.ly/3ZOiQ0R
December 20, 2024 at 8:02 PM
This brilliantly funny clip titled ‘Every Welsh person returning to Wales from England’ will be instantly recognisable for anybody who has lived away from home https://buff.ly/3ZOiQ0R
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The recent discovery that one of Stonehenge’s stones originated in Scotland supports a theory that the stone circle was built as a monument to unite Britain’s early farmers nearly 5,000 years ago, according to a new study https://buff.ly/405qKV2
December 20, 2024 at 8:20 PM
The recent discovery that one of Stonehenge’s stones originated in Scotland supports a theory that the stone circle was built as a monument to unite Britain’s early farmers nearly 5,000 years ago, according to a new study https://buff.ly/405qKV2
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Irish and Welsh leaders have agreed to review progress around repairing Holyhead port in the new year https://buff.ly/4iOiK2g
December 20, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Irish and Welsh leaders have agreed to review progress around repairing Holyhead port in the new year https://buff.ly/4iOiK2g
