Richard Wyn Jones
@richardwynjones.bsky.social
Athro Gwleidyddiaeth Cymru
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
🚨 NEW in @bjpols.bsky.social : When Partygate hit Westminster, trust in Scottish politicians increased. Our experiments reveal a "contrast effect" - scandals at one level can make the other look better by comparison. Who lost most trust in Westminster? Scottish unionists. Read now #OpenAccess 👇
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🚨 NEW in @bjpols.bsky.social : When Partygate hit Westminster, trust in Scottish politicians increased. Our experiments reveal a "contrast effect" - scandals at one level can make the other look better by comparison. Who lost most trust in Westminster? Scottish unionists. Read now #OpenAccess 👇
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
📖 @cylchgrawn-barn.bsky.social
📰 Dathlu’r cant drwy draethu’r gwir
✍️Darllenwch yr erthygl gan Richard Wyn Jones o rifyn diweddaraf BARN am ddim ar Am nawr: www.ambobdim.cymru/profile-cont...
📰 Dathlu’r cant drwy draethu’r gwir
✍️Darllenwch yr erthygl gan Richard Wyn Jones o rifyn diweddaraf BARN am ddim ar Am nawr: www.ambobdim.cymru/profile-cont...
Dathlu’r cant drwy draethu’r gwir - Ambobdim
Nid arbenigo’n unig ar wleidyddiaeth y presennol y mae ein colofnydd. Ef hefyd yw’r arbenigwr pennaf ar hanes ideolegol y mudiad cenedlaethol Cymreig modern. A Phlaid Cymru yn dathlu’i chanmlwyddiant ...
www.ambobdim.cymru
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
📖 @cylchgrawn-barn.bsky.social
📰 Dathlu’r cant drwy draethu’r gwir
✍️Darllenwch yr erthygl gan Richard Wyn Jones o rifyn diweddaraf BARN am ddim ar Am nawr: www.ambobdim.cymru/profile-cont...
📰 Dathlu’r cant drwy draethu’r gwir
✍️Darllenwch yr erthygl gan Richard Wyn Jones o rifyn diweddaraf BARN am ddim ar Am nawr: www.ambobdim.cymru/profile-cont...
Pan mae cymaint o wleidyddiaeth yn hyll a chynhennus, roedd gweld rhain wedi casglu ynghŷd i ffarwelio â Arlywydd Iwerddon - â’i gi, wrth gwrs - yn donic ❤️
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Pan mae cymaint o wleidyddiaeth yn hyll a chynhennus, roedd gweld rhain wedi casglu ynghŷd i ffarwelio â Arlywydd Iwerddon - â’i gi, wrth gwrs - yn donic ❤️
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
"Change will only come if both the BBC board and the politicians that ultimately appoint that board realise that the corporation’s problems in News are fundamentally about money and competence" - think that's bang on from @stephenkb.bsky.social
To fix the BBC, focus on competence and cash
Corporation fails to learn from criticism, while politicians have consciously reduced its scope for quality journalism
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
"Change will only come if both the BBC board and the politicians that ultimately appoint that board realise that the corporation’s problems in News are fundamentally about money and competence" - think that's bang on from @stephenkb.bsky.social
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
Michael Prescott so-called “independent” adviser to BBC was appointed by Boris johnson as “independent” adviser to Ofcom when then PM trying to get Paul Dacre job of chair. Prescott BBC report classic example in stringing together unrelated incidents into conspiracy narrative’
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Michael Prescott so-called “independent” adviser to BBC was appointed by Boris johnson as “independent” adviser to Ofcom when then PM trying to get Paul Dacre job of chair. Prescott BBC report classic example in stringing together unrelated incidents into conspiracy narrative’
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
Yn rhifyn Tachwedd o BARN mae erthygl gan ein colofnydd gwleidyddol @richardwynjones.bsky.social am y cyfle, ond hefyd yr her, sy'n wynebu Plaid Cymru os mai hi fydd yn arwain Llywodraeth Cymru o fis Mai nesaf ymlaen. Mae'r erthygl ar gael i'w darllen ar ein gwefan 🔗barn.cymru yn rhad ac am ddim.
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Yn rhifyn Tachwedd o BARN mae erthygl gan ein colofnydd gwleidyddol @richardwynjones.bsky.social am y cyfle, ond hefyd yr her, sy'n wynebu Plaid Cymru os mai hi fydd yn arwain Llywodraeth Cymru o fis Mai nesaf ymlaen. Mae'r erthygl ar gael i'w darllen ar ein gwefan 🔗barn.cymru yn rhad ac am ddim.
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
Pennod 74 – Hiraeth am Fôn: Goronwy Owen @yrheniaith.bsky.social
Caiff Richard Wyn Jones ragor o hanes llenyddol ei fro enedigol yn y bennod hon wrth i'r ddau drafod Goronwy Owen, bardd enwocaf Ynys Môn.
Gwyliwch a gwrandewch nawr: www.ambobdim.cymru/profile-cont...
Caiff Richard Wyn Jones ragor o hanes llenyddol ei fro enedigol yn y bennod hon wrth i'r ddau drafod Goronwy Owen, bardd enwocaf Ynys Môn.
Gwyliwch a gwrandewch nawr: www.ambobdim.cymru/profile-cont...
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Pennod 74 – Hiraeth am Fôn: Goronwy Owen @yrheniaith.bsky.social
Caiff Richard Wyn Jones ragor o hanes llenyddol ei fro enedigol yn y bennod hon wrth i'r ddau drafod Goronwy Owen, bardd enwocaf Ynys Môn.
Gwyliwch a gwrandewch nawr: www.ambobdim.cymru/profile-cont...
Caiff Richard Wyn Jones ragor o hanes llenyddol ei fro enedigol yn y bennod hon wrth i'r ddau drafod Goronwy Owen, bardd enwocaf Ynys Môn.
Gwyliwch a gwrandewch nawr: www.ambobdim.cymru/profile-cont...
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
“…what this sort of reporting ultimately means is that if you have enough money to get somebody, anybody, to produce a white paper for you, which you can then put on some think-tank stationery? Then, my friend, you are ready to enter into the rushing current of elite reportage.”
Sublime.
Sublime.
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
“…what this sort of reporting ultimately means is that if you have enough money to get somebody, anybody, to produce a white paper for you, which you can then put on some think-tank stationery? Then, my friend, you are ready to enter into the rushing current of elite reportage.”
Sublime.
Sublime.
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
erthygl newydd gan @richardwynjones.bsky.social yn @cylchgrawn-barn.bsky.social mis Tachwedd barn.cymru/cy/dathlur-c...
Dathlu’r cant drwy draethu’r gwir – Barn
barn.cymru
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
erthygl newydd gan @richardwynjones.bsky.social yn @cylchgrawn-barn.bsky.social mis Tachwedd barn.cymru/cy/dathlur-c...
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
BBC really burying the lede there
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
BBC really burying the lede there
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
Y diwrnod mawr! Cyfarfod y pwyllgor ymgynghorol, y ddarlith gyda @richardwynjones.bsky.social ac arddangosfa.
--
The big day! The advisory committee meets, @richardwynjones.bsky.social lecture and we have a small exhibition. #PlaidCymru100 @plaidcymru.bsky.social @librarywales.bsky.social
--
The big day! The advisory committee meets, @richardwynjones.bsky.social lecture and we have a small exhibition. #PlaidCymru100 @plaidcymru.bsky.social @librarywales.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Y diwrnod mawr! Cyfarfod y pwyllgor ymgynghorol, y ddarlith gyda @richardwynjones.bsky.social ac arddangosfa.
--
The big day! The advisory committee meets, @richardwynjones.bsky.social lecture and we have a small exhibition. #PlaidCymru100 @plaidcymru.bsky.social @librarywales.bsky.social
--
The big day! The advisory committee meets, @richardwynjones.bsky.social lecture and we have a small exhibition. #PlaidCymru100 @plaidcymru.bsky.social @librarywales.bsky.social
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
📚Lansiad Llyfr!
Ymunwch â ni i ddathlu cyhoeddi cyfrol newydd Llion Wigley (@wigs24.bsky.social), 'Ynysoedd Gobaith: Mentrau a Syniadau Iwtopaidd yng Nghymru'r Ugeinfed Ganrif', nos Iau'r 27ain o Dachwedd!
🕢7:00yh
📅27 Tachwedd
📍 Kings Road Yard, Pontcanna, Caerdydd
Dewch yn llu!
Ymunwch â ni i ddathlu cyhoeddi cyfrol newydd Llion Wigley (@wigs24.bsky.social), 'Ynysoedd Gobaith: Mentrau a Syniadau Iwtopaidd yng Nghymru'r Ugeinfed Ganrif', nos Iau'r 27ain o Dachwedd!
🕢7:00yh
📅27 Tachwedd
📍 Kings Road Yard, Pontcanna, Caerdydd
Dewch yn llu!
November 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
📚Lansiad Llyfr!
Ymunwch â ni i ddathlu cyhoeddi cyfrol newydd Llion Wigley (@wigs24.bsky.social), 'Ynysoedd Gobaith: Mentrau a Syniadau Iwtopaidd yng Nghymru'r Ugeinfed Ganrif', nos Iau'r 27ain o Dachwedd!
🕢7:00yh
📅27 Tachwedd
📍 Kings Road Yard, Pontcanna, Caerdydd
Dewch yn llu!
Ymunwch â ni i ddathlu cyhoeddi cyfrol newydd Llion Wigley (@wigs24.bsky.social), 'Ynysoedd Gobaith: Mentrau a Syniadau Iwtopaidd yng Nghymru'r Ugeinfed Ganrif', nos Iau'r 27ain o Dachwedd!
🕢7:00yh
📅27 Tachwedd
📍 Kings Road Yard, Pontcanna, Caerdydd
Dewch yn llu!
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
"Gwyn Alf Williams wrote “Labour’s old majorities stand like Aneurin Bevan’s memorial stones”, looking like the “Stonehenge of Welsh politics.” In Caerphilly, one of those stones has cracked; shifting political weather now threatens more monuments to Welsh Labour’s historic majorities." #Senedd26
New blog
Cracks in the Stonehenge of Welsh Politics: Caerphilly and Labour’s Future
Read @nyedavies.bsky.social on why the result in Caerphilly should act as a wake-up call to Welsh Labour, despite many in the party having warned against reading too much into the defeat
Read more: edin.ac/4949g0m
Cracks in the Stonehenge of Welsh Politics: Caerphilly and Labour’s Future
Read @nyedavies.bsky.social on why the result in Caerphilly should act as a wake-up call to Welsh Labour, despite many in the party having warned against reading too much into the defeat
Read more: edin.ac/4949g0m
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"Gwyn Alf Williams wrote “Labour’s old majorities stand like Aneurin Bevan’s memorial stones”, looking like the “Stonehenge of Welsh politics.” In Caerphilly, one of those stones has cracked; shifting political weather now threatens more monuments to Welsh Labour’s historic majorities." #Senedd26
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
Braint cael cyhoeddi yn Fortnight. Llyfr Philip Stephens yn werth chweil hefyd.
Real pleasure/privilege to get the opportunity to contribute to Fortnight, one of the other island’s best publications. And ‘These Divided Isles’ is well worth your time.
Real pleasure/privilege to get the opportunity to contribute to Fortnight, one of the other island’s best publications. And ‘These Divided Isles’ is well worth your time.
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Braint cael cyhoeddi yn Fortnight. Llyfr Philip Stephens yn werth chweil hefyd.
Real pleasure/privilege to get the opportunity to contribute to Fortnight, one of the other island’s best publications. And ‘These Divided Isles’ is well worth your time.
Real pleasure/privilege to get the opportunity to contribute to Fortnight, one of the other island’s best publications. And ‘These Divided Isles’ is well worth your time.
Braint cael cyhoeddi yn Fortnight. Llyfr Philip Stephens yn werth chweil hefyd.
Real pleasure/privilege to get the opportunity to contribute to Fortnight, one of the other island’s best publications. And ‘These Divided Isles’ is well worth your time.
Real pleasure/privilege to get the opportunity to contribute to Fortnight, one of the other island’s best publications. And ‘These Divided Isles’ is well worth your time.
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Braint cael cyhoeddi yn Fortnight. Llyfr Philip Stephens yn werth chweil hefyd.
Real pleasure/privilege to get the opportunity to contribute to Fortnight, one of the other island’s best publications. And ‘These Divided Isles’ is well worth your time.
Real pleasure/privilege to get the opportunity to contribute to Fortnight, one of the other island’s best publications. And ‘These Divided Isles’ is well worth your time.
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
If parties want credit for telling hard truths, they need to tell them when they're genuinely hard.
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
She is telling an accurate story of recent history - the triple punch of austerity, Brexit and covid. It's spot on. But it is terribly strange to say it now in government when you were not prepared to say it in opposition.
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
If parties want credit for telling hard truths, they need to tell them when they're genuinely hard.
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
Sharkbait: Nigel Farage needs the threat of an election to keep Reform moving forwards. My SKETCH.
Sharkbait | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
“A relationship is like a shark,” Woody Allen tells Diane Keaton in Annie Hall. “It has to constantly move forward or it dies.” Watching Nigel Farage trying to keep his Reform Party interesting on…
thecritic.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Sharkbait: Nigel Farage needs the threat of an election to keep Reform moving forwards. My SKETCH.
Mick Antoniw: ‘Is Caerphilly a turning point for Welsh Labour?’ labourlist.org/2025/11/wels... – via LabourList
Mick Antoniw: 'Is Caerphilly a turning point for Welsh Labour?' - LabourList
Welsh Labour can win the Senedd elections. But it will be incredibly difficult if there is no radical change in politics and organisation argues Mick Antoniw.
labourlist.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Mick Antoniw: ‘Is Caerphilly a turning point for Welsh Labour?’ labourlist.org/2025/11/wels... – via LabourList
NEWYDD - @jaclarner.bsky.social a minnau ar Etholiad 2024 yng Nghymru
NEW - Jac Larner and myself on the 2024 UK GE in 🏴
2024 UK General Election in Wales url: academic.oup.com/pa/article-a...
NEW - Jac Larner and myself on the 2024 UK GE in 🏴
2024 UK General Election in Wales url: academic.oup.com/pa/article-a...
The 2024 UK General Election in Wales
That Labour emerged victorious from the 2024 UK General Election in Wales must count among the least surprising political outcomes imaginable. It has, afte
academic.oup.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:13 AM
NEWYDD - @jaclarner.bsky.social a minnau ar Etholiad 2024 yng Nghymru
NEW - Jac Larner and myself on the 2024 UK GE in 🏴
2024 UK General Election in Wales url: academic.oup.com/pa/article-a...
NEW - Jac Larner and myself on the 2024 UK GE in 🏴
2024 UK General Election in Wales url: academic.oup.com/pa/article-a...
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
Wele hanas fi a Billy.
Dal i gofio - bob diwedd Hydref a diwedd Ebrill.
Bu farw 28 Hydref 1952.
yrhenddeurodiwr.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/a...
Dal i gofio - bob diwedd Hydref a diwedd Ebrill.
Bu farw 28 Hydref 1952.
yrhenddeurodiwr.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/a...
Awr Dywyll
25 Ebrill 2025 : Rhaid deurodio i Landudno heddiw, er gwaetha’r llu ymwelwyr sydd yno a hithau’n ddydd Gwener diwadd gwyliau’r Pasg. Osgoi canol y dref a phrysurdeb ei siopau; osg…
yrhenddeurodiwr.wordpress.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Wele hanas fi a Billy.
Dal i gofio - bob diwedd Hydref a diwedd Ebrill.
Bu farw 28 Hydref 1952.
yrhenddeurodiwr.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/a...
Dal i gofio - bob diwedd Hydref a diwedd Ebrill.
Bu farw 28 Hydref 1952.
yrhenddeurodiwr.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/a...
Another Labour post mortem in which the by-election result only serves to confirm *all* of the author's priors.
Who knew Afon Denial ran through Caerphilly?
labourlist.org/2025/10/labo...
Who knew Afon Denial ran through Caerphilly?
labourlist.org/2025/10/labo...
'Don't Panic! Labour's response to Caerphilly should be more resilient' - LabourList
The only progressive alliance that can actually win a General Election already exists – it’s the Labour Party argues Luke Akehurst MP.
labourlist.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Another Labour post mortem in which the by-election result only serves to confirm *all* of the author's priors.
Who knew Afon Denial ran through Caerphilly?
labourlist.org/2025/10/labo...
Who knew Afon Denial ran through Caerphilly?
labourlist.org/2025/10/labo...
PENNOD NEWYDD
Gwleidyddiaeth y Gymru gyfoes a'r Bedyddwyr Albanaidd... Be' gewch chi well?
Wrth fy modd hefo'r holl lythyrau. Diolch! Mae'n rhaid mae fel hyn mae Rhys Meirion yn teimlo?!
bbc.com/audio/play/p...
Gwleidyddiaeth y Gymru gyfoes a'r Bedyddwyr Albanaidd... Be' gewch chi well?
Wrth fy modd hefo'r holl lythyrau. Diolch! Mae'n rhaid mae fel hyn mae Rhys Meirion yn teimlo?!
bbc.com/audio/play/p...
BBC Audio | Gwleidydda | Plaid a Reform - Rheoli Disgwyliadau
Mae Bethan Rhys Roberts yn ymuno i drafod canlyniad isetholiad Caerffili.
bbc.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
PENNOD NEWYDD
Gwleidyddiaeth y Gymru gyfoes a'r Bedyddwyr Albanaidd... Be' gewch chi well?
Wrth fy modd hefo'r holl lythyrau. Diolch! Mae'n rhaid mae fel hyn mae Rhys Meirion yn teimlo?!
bbc.com/audio/play/p...
Gwleidyddiaeth y Gymru gyfoes a'r Bedyddwyr Albanaidd... Be' gewch chi well?
Wrth fy modd hefo'r holl lythyrau. Diolch! Mae'n rhaid mae fel hyn mae Rhys Meirion yn teimlo?!
bbc.com/audio/play/p...
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
Superb piece by Ben Tonra in today’s Irish Tines, on Ireland’s strategic choices in a predatory world, with the necessity of a strategic pivot towards Europe increasingly apparent.
Everyone interested in foreign policy making should read this.
Everyone interested in foreign policy making should read this.
October 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Superb piece by Ben Tonra in today’s Irish Tines, on Ireland’s strategic choices in a predatory world, with the necessity of a strategic pivot towards Europe increasingly apparent.
Everyone interested in foreign policy making should read this.
Everyone interested in foreign policy making should read this.
Reposted by Richard Wyn Jones
"We'd have won if not for those pesky polls"
Claiming Lab > Plaid switching is just about Reform is really unhelpful to Labour. Unhappy Labour voters have switched to Plaid in elections long before Reform (or UKIP) were on the scene.
And the rubbish about YouGov 🤯
labourhub.org.uk/2025/10/28/c...
Claiming Lab > Plaid switching is just about Reform is really unhelpful to Labour. Unhappy Labour voters have switched to Plaid in elections long before Reform (or UKIP) were on the scene.
And the rubbish about YouGov 🤯
labourhub.org.uk/2025/10/28/c...
October 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"We'd have won if not for those pesky polls"
Claiming Lab > Plaid switching is just about Reform is really unhelpful to Labour. Unhappy Labour voters have switched to Plaid in elections long before Reform (or UKIP) were on the scene.
And the rubbish about YouGov 🤯
labourhub.org.uk/2025/10/28/c...
Claiming Lab > Plaid switching is just about Reform is really unhelpful to Labour. Unhappy Labour voters have switched to Plaid in elections long before Reform (or UKIP) were on the scene.
And the rubbish about YouGov 🤯
labourhub.org.uk/2025/10/28/c...