Huw Marshall 🏴
@huwmarshall.substack.com
Founder/Sylfaenydd The National Wales now leading www.talking.wales and doing an MA looking at relationship between news & democracy. Cymro digidol, business and digital development, Evertonian. Hanesydd amatur 😉💙👍🏼 Cwm Garw www.substack.com/@huwmarshall
You know that upper peninsula has to have some fucking WILD politics. Like you’ll just wander into a Welsh village up there.
Decision Desk HQ@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 19h agoDDHQ Race Update (est. 64% in): Michigan US Senate Democratic Primary Abdul El-Sayed (D): 499,463 (50.0%) Haley Stevens (D): 460,366 (46.1%) Mallory McMorrow (D): 38,316 (3.8%) Follow more results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/283906
Great company, great lads, love them having their grubby hands in everything and giving nothing back to society via tax, let’s give them more contracts!
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss
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The Cerdd Dant Mountain Rescue Team on their way up Moel Famau to save Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir who were stuck without an accompanist in June 1979.
And the BBC, LBC et al were happy to oblige and assist
Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat chaos? Farage tries to distract with immigration plans
Next on Today a comedy segment on the huge cost Nigel Farage’s actions in calling a pointless by-election….
They gave it wall to wall coverage under the pretence that they were challenging Reform on their dodgy finances
Nicolas Chinardet@zefrog.eu · 3d agoAnd why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?
The farmers who were conned into backing REFORM UK and their climate denials… where are they now ? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
England and Wales suffer driest July on record
Some areas of England saw the driest month ever amid ‘truly remarkable month’ in UK’s climate record
independent.co.uk
People in the USA are literally shitting themselves to death thanks to Trump. He’s off his head.
Media broadcasting Farage discussing the unfairness of asylum seekers being given priority for social housing, which is a lie. Our news providers have to do better; they need to correct these falsehoods www.cih.org/blogs/dispel...
Dispelling myths about migrants and housing to the UK
CIH dispels common myths about what it really means for asylum seekers coming to the UK, particularly where it comes to housing rights and public services.
cih.org
Good God, the BBC giving a platform for Reform UK to peddle their usual small boat shite, without mentioning the massive reduction in small boat crossings
fair play to Everton, serving up an inferior version of the turgid shite they treated us to end of last season...
Kanye West's Unimpressed Reaction
ALT: Kanye West's Unimpressed Reaction
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Imagine if Broadcasting Scotland had a fraction of the money that the BBC take from Scotland. We have fitted out one studio and our news room. We have raised half of our £30k target but we still need funding to finish the fit out of our new Stirling studio. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/donate/
Google have added AI to their satellite imagery. Scientists are unable to confirm if this is a genuine image of Powys or not...
Kevin will be missed by his family and friends. A generational talent, one of Wales's finest.
Good on him. Plaid Cymru have been proposing this for ages. Hopefully they'll get the funding required to deliver a Welsh model. We have an older population and higher health inequalities.
Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · last wk.Burnham announces: 1. Casey will bring forward her review by a year to summer 2027. He wants it to focus on creating a National Care Service that is ‘highly integrated’ with the NHS. 2. He will look at improving pay and progression of social care workforce. 3. Cross party talks to begin today.
Been watching The Blacklist, I'm now convinced that everyone I see is either watching me or wants to kill me.... Thanks Red
Progress... Broadband fixed, no running water until Thursday...
Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth, And spotted the perils beneath All the toffees I chewed, And the sweet sticky food, Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth.
this is a problem with journalism across BBC TV and Radio.
Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · last wk.Just watched the Burnham interview on Panorama. He handles it well, as you'd expect, & is good on welfare. But the problem is that Kuenssberg just isn't a very good interviewer. The questions are designed to trap, not to inform, so you don't really learn anything (except that he's better at this)
For those of you who are still over there because of "the reach" or "the discourse" or whatever.
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · last wk.Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions
A table that came in after us, ordered after us and ordered the same starter just got their starter before us.
I’m currently without a car, internet and water at the house. Might as well be living in a cave. What connectivity I have via my phone I might as well be on dialup…
Michael Scott FML The Office
ALT: Michael Scott FML The Office
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I’ve been banging on about this for last few years. They’re quite literally doomed as are the majority of commercial news organisations…
Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 2w agoReach is “moving away from volume” in its editorial output to focus on original content as results for the first half of 2026 showed traffic and revenue down Reach has set its “near-term focus” on digital subscriptions, “quality video” and AI licensing deals pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-m...
Visiting the Royal Welsh this week? The Little Chef in Builth was built on the exact centre spot of Wales. Many historic meetings took place there, it’s where Richard Burton met Elizabeth Taylor and where Shakin Stevens penned Merry Christmas Everyone. Owain Glyndŵr is buried in its car park...
Stephen Kinnock? Only him and Bryant could be seen as a downgrade on Stevens.
