Simon Fisher: What's your favourite album? Alan Partridge: The Best of the Beatles

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Cymru am byth🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⛪🏳️‍🌈♥️

The founding fathers called America a friend first, a boss second and probably an entertainer third

Joanne Freeman@jbf1755.bsky.social · last mo.

In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.

Welsh Labour backstory: speak a bit of Welsh, respect the legislation PC backstory: sent my kids to Welsh school Welsh Tory : learning more Welsh is not a priority Welsh greens: I value Welsh, but worry climate breakdown is more urgent Welsh Reform: I speak Russian

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My Labour PPC backstory: I grew up in a single parent family on a council estate in East London My Tory PPC backstory: my grandparents were small businessmen My Reform PPC backstory: my grandparents came to this country legally My Restore PPC backstory: I am descended from white Rhodesians

Hello! I'm on the lookout for Welsh arts journalists. Yes, I know a few well, and a few not so well, but who am I missing? People interested in classical music are a plus. Thanks!

Reposting again to say: this is absolute insanity. I wrote a lot of my PhD in there and it’s great but it’s not the world’s biggest library to begin with. It’s crammed at exam time. It’s housing the texts for a huge number of disciplines. They can’t take away a whole floor of it!

Dan Tappin@oitappin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Timid librarian in plea to save my workplace from making a huge mistake. A whole floor of Cardiff University's main library is under threat of being repurposed to teaching facilities with the removal of 7km of shelving holding valuable books. Pls share x you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Guardian's '100 Best Novels' list offering an unexpected way to interest teens in the works of Tolstoy

VERY IMPORTANT NON-VRA RELATED NEWS: Bob Caro says "I have written 983 pages" of the final LBJ book. www.c-span.org/program/qa/a...

So pleased What Just Happened is back. Nation building through comedy, diolch am galon @robinjmorgan.bsky.social a @bbcwales.bsky.social #Wales #bbcwales www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

What Just Happened? - Series 4 - Esyllt Sears, Tadiwa Mahlunge, Anna Thomas and Kiri Pritchard-McLean - BBC Sounds

Comedy panel show hosted by Robin Morgan.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿“I want to wake up & not have to worry & go to sleep without having to worry” Spent the weekend in focus groups across south Wales from Cardiff to Merthyr, to Port Talbot & Pembroke Dock, above all else we heard deep pessimism about the state of Wales, the UK & the wider world

We are offering a unique opportunity for #PublicHealth registrars to contribute to the @lhgp.bsky.social research consortium. Full details here: www.phiuk.org/news/lhgp-na... Deadline for applications: 9 am, Tuesday 28 April.

LHGP placement opportunity for public health speciality registrars

LHGP placement opportunity for public health speciality registrars

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We’re back! What Just Happened? is LIVE on BBC Radio Wales right this second - and you can listen again on BBC Sounds.

Another Reform candidate for the Senedd has stepped down. The 3rd in a week since the lists were announced. Candidate Owain Clatworthy said: "As a Christian, my faith guides my principles: honesty, accountability... I cannot continue to support a party that has moved away from those standards."

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Die hard is actually inspired by the Roman film 'Saturalia Hard'

Jason, ex Inferis@benedictsred.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans

For sale. Tiny Tim. Never died.

This is thought to be the earliest photograph of a snowman in the world ⛄ ❄ It was taken at Penllergare by Mary Dillwyn in c.1853 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mary is thought to be one of the earliest female photographers in the world 📷 museum.wales/articles/972... #Wales #History

Hello 🌞 I seem to have a few new followers! 👋 I am a social historian specialising in death and working-class histories in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 I hope you'll enjoy my ramblings ✨️ • linktr.ee/louvainrees • hellohistoria.substack.com • instagram.com/louvainrees #Wales #History

Key addition to our understanding of dynamics of nicotine product use in UK here - really helps to define policies and services that will support and protect our citizens - and as always, great to see #Wales specific figures reported as well! 👏 👏 👏 👏

Harry Tattan-Birch@tattanbirch.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In our new paper in The Lancet Public Health, we find that nicotine pouch use is rising in Britain, driven largely by increases among young adults, particularly young men. 🔗 Press release: ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/de... 📄 Paper: thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We have written a special report looking at the people behind Reform in Wales. This was a bizarre piece to write. willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...

Special report: Who are Reform in Wales?

We dived into the wild world of Reform UK in Cymru

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"Timeo techbros et dona ferentes"

Daniel Westreich@epidbydesign.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Submitted for your consideration, for use re: the AI/LLM boom and tech utopianism in general… “Beware geeks bearing grifts.”

One of the government's plans for the NHS is "left shift", taking services from hospitals and placing them in the community. Closer to the residents, more responsive to their needs, cheaper, and faster services. What's not to like? This is not as easy as some think. A short thread: 1/

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

Wales has such a tradition of great writing

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

We are appalled that public service broadcaster the BBC continues to provide a platform for tobacco industry giant, British American Tobacco, to lobby against the Tobacco & Vapes Bill. So we fixed the headline for them...

PMI paid the Spectator for this on 'cancel culture' in science. Big Tobacco has spent 50+ years funding 'science' that downplays health impact of smoking purely for commercial interests. That kind of track record should get you cancelled www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/defe...

Defending science from ‘cancel culture’

Freedom of speech is one of the fundamental tenets of a liberal democracy, and yet threats to freedom of speech today don’t so much come from authoritarians abroad as they do from within. The idea of ...

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Action on Smoking Health (UK)@ashorguk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are appalled that public service broadcaster the BBC continues to provide a platform for tobacco industry giant, British American Tobacco, to lobby against the Tobacco & Vapes Bill. So we fixed the headline for them...

Public health: the structural causes and salience challenge

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Nice chart from @ourworldindata.org showing the contrast between what Americans die of (heart disease and cancer) v what the US media reports on (homicide and terrorism). This naturally leads to it being trickier to build a fact based world view ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

11pm train out of Waterloo after a great evening out, conductor congratulated us on being on a train on the 200th anniversary of the first passenger rail service You love to see it, you love to be it

New briefing taking a deeper look behind the free school meal data in Wales. The number of e-FSM children in Wales has fallen since Welsh Govt began to phase out transitional protection. We estimate 25,000 secondary learners in poverty can't get a free school dinner due to the £7,400 means test.

Free school meals in Wales: secondary learners in poverty overlooked

Latest Welsh government free school meal (FSM) statistics show a fall of 6,000 in the number of children registered for means-tested FSMs in Wales. The fall in the number of children registered means ...

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