@cymruwanderer.bsky.social

Like to get out and about in nature as much as my health allows (long term ME/CFS) so expect a mix of landscape/wildlife photos and venting about politics/current affairs

Team Cymru finished in the top 10 of the Commonwealth Games medal table after winning 31 medals in Glasgow. Iwan Williams asks why Welsh athletes must now wait another four years for the chance to represent their country wp.me/p8Mk4U-1qnw

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1/4 If Labour is serious about stopping the authoritarian right, it must rebuild trust by breaking with the very culture that feeds public cynicism. If we fail to change course, the winners will not be the public, but the billionaires.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

This is an important step for devolution in England, bringing power closer to people. But Andy Burnham’s plans shouldn’t stop at Offa’s Dyke. Wales needs more powers over rail, the Crown Estate and justice and policing so that our communities have the means to thrive.

Andy Burnham to give regional mayors share of income tax

The prime minister says the move will give power to "every postcode" but critics say the plans lack detail.

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So far Burnham's big announcements have been on education, social care and now local government ..... all devolved matters, so of no direct relevance to the devolved nations ..... this is never made clear by either Burnham himself .... or most news(?) Outlets like #newsnight

Another "Big Burnham Announcement" which apparently has huge implications for "the country".....but that country is only England .... fine by me if he wants to be PM of England, but let's make it official #newsnight

Why do oil markets still react to the orange gibbons blatherings when it's been clear for some time that what he says neither has any basis in reality nor any reliable indication on what he will do? I guess the traders are playing 4d chess too 🤔 #newsnight

A Restore Britain councillor has faced accusations of homophobia after claiming that a rainbow-coloured picnic table at a shopping centre represented 'mandatory ideology' and a 'political view' that was ‘impossible to escape’ ✍️Emily Price wp.me/p8Mk4U-1q03

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One shouldn’t be shocked or surprised any more at Labour politicians getting off on this kind of dishonest performative cruelty, or continue to nurture any belief that they ought to be better than this. They’ve been telling us who they are loud and clear for quite a while now.

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · last wk.

Andy Burnham to make it harder for people to claim benefits, vows to ‘get serious’ about cutting welfare bill. Silence on corporate welfare. 37.8% of Universal Credit claimants are in work. Due to hikes in retirement age, many seniors can't work, claim benefits. Women will be hardest hit.