Love the way my phone has rendered this post. But surely what @thenewworldmag.bsky.social really meant was that Brexit made the country shit… 💩

I love the way that, once in a while, late capitalism accidentally writes its own obituary…

At #hayfestival on a hot afternoon, looking forward to a session on the upheaval in Welsh politics with @willhaycardiff.bsky.social, James Evans MS and Nick Thomas-Symonds MP and Bethan Rhys Roberts. Apparently every time anyone uses the word “separatists” the temperature rises by one degree…

When a party has engineered an unnecessary by-election in pursuit of that party’s internal psychodramas at Westminster, the word “us” posts some important questions…

As our Senedd meets to elect our new First Minister, and as Labour Together’s grubby neoliberal project unravels in London, a message from our friends in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Isn’t offering performative soundbites in response to populist framings, while delivering a neoliberal donor-driven agenda, precisely what got the UK into such deep shit in the first place?

I live far too close to the Vale of Glamorgan to support any idea of Andrew RT Davies “scraping himself”.

Wedi pleidleisio! Just cast my vote for @walesgreenparty.bsky.social - for a sustainable, fair and independent Cymru in a secure Europe.

I think this is absolutely the wrong approach. Starmer has a huge majority and slinking back to Europe confirms Brexiters’ paranoid narratives. Brexit has been an economic disaster; even this limited, partial return should be loud and proud.

Somehow the bar scene from Star Wars came powerfully to mind.

Apropos of nothing in particular, I just thought I’d leave this here…

Not all over-65s… Why do we, the generation that had it so much easier, persist in politics that will make life so much harder for the generations that come after us?

Meanwhile the search continues for the notorious gang behind the Welsh Railway Funding Robbery…

“Young disciple, the day will come when you will have power and become the master of the Palantir” But neither wanted to confront the truth that the Palantir was not their servant, but their master.

As the English-born son of an English father and Scots-Italian mother, whose home is Cymru and identifies as Welsh and European, I invite Starmer to define “British values”.

Labour are scared absolutely shitless of @zackpolanski.bsky.social, aren’t they.

You just can’t beat a bit of rational discourse to start the weekend.

For the benefit of those who are seeing Labour loyalists clutching their pearls about how a Green vote in Gorton and Denton will let in Reform, I’ll just leave this here. Aged like mayonnaise in a heatwave…

On this of all days, I hope my MP will find time to reflect on the difference between opposing antisemitism and trivialising it by weaponising it for party-political factional gain.

This is the constituency in which I live, in which the long-serving local Labour MP who stepped down at the last minute was replaced by a Starmerite parachutist at the 2024 election. As you can see, it’s going well for Labour.

One of the fascinating things about Starmer trying to do his “man of the people” act is that there’s always a Union Flag. Even the King has less. Does one of his staff carry around a wee Asda bag full of Butcher’s Apron bunting to blu-tack on the wall, just in case?

Probably not. Please don’t patronise Welsh voters.

Meanwhile Cymru has been robbed of billions in Barnett funding by Westminster classifying English projects as “England and Wales”. And this is why Labour barely scrapes 10% in the polls in a nation which it has dominated - and taken for granted - for a century. We’ve had enough of this shit.

Nadolig Llawen i chi gyd o Gymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Well. A quarter of a century in the Civil Service and to think I never noticed.

Arriving at the Senedd for a day conference on the future of Cymru’s democratic institutions, on a day when the decisions that will shape Welsh living standards - and possibly next year’s election - are being announced, without consultation, in another parliament.

Meanwhile, on a rare trip East of Offa’s Dyke, trying to work out whether it’s really a mark of patriotism and respect to festoon the public conveniences in flags?

Anyone else remember when we were told that Brexit was about sovereignty and “taking back control”? And I simply do not expect a weak failing Westminster government led by a weak natural appeaser of a Prime Minister to stand up against Trump and Vance.

“Will the enlarged Senedd bring better outcomes for the people of Wales?” Paul Silk at @newwales.bsky.social launch