Tories select former neo-Nazi activist for Somerset council election

It appears that it isn't just Reform UK who have a problem with vetting candidates. The Guardian reports that a former neo-Nazi activist w...

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Public urged to help complete landmark survey of Welsh chapels

A rare mid-week local history related post today, as Nation Cymru reports that the organisers of a major national survey of Welsh chapels a...

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The funding fog surrounding Nigel Farage and Reform UK

The Times reports that Nigel Farage struck a secret deal to return as leader of Reform UK months before the general election. The paper s...

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Westminister needs to tackle its drinking culture

The Guardian reports on a report by the Institute of Alcohol Studies that argues that Parliament is “Britain’s last alcohol-soaked workplac...

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Historic toll house up for sale

The BBC reports that a 19th Century toll house with links to a series of historic riots in Wales during the 1800s is set to go under the ha...

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Is this progress on social care or a false dawn?

The Independent reports on Andy Burnham's challenge to the other political parties to help him fix social care, a plea that the Liberal Dem...

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Is there a magic money tree?

The Independent reports that an analysis by one of the UK’s leading economic think tanks has concluded that Andy Burnham has been warned th...

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Burnham disses the Blair vision of a nation of graduates

The Independent reports that Andy Burnham is set to unveil the biggest overhaul in education in England in 15 years with an end to a system...

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Jodrell Bank funding crisis is an important test for Burnham

Jodrell Bank is a national institution. The observatory was established in 1945 by Bernard Lovell, a radio astronomer at the university, to ...

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Reality hits the Burnham agenda

The Independent reports that Andy Burnham's newly appointed housing minister, Angela Rayner, has indicated she does not expect Labour to me...

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How Oswald Mosley met his match in Swansea

A lot of well-known politicians have found themselves in Swansea at one time or another, but none of them had the sort of reception that awa...

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The problem with balancing budgets

The Independent reports that green groups and opposition politicians have criticised the government over its decision to fund its new £500m...

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Trump offended by key Burnham appointment

The Independent reports that the White House is “deeply concerned” about Ed Miliband’s appointment as foreign secretary, with a warning tha...

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Can Burnham win the endorsement of Number Ten's most important occupant?

Andy Burnham may have hit the ground running with a revamped cabinet and an announcement that he will be getting rid of VAT on electricity b...

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Reform MP starts digging her own Standards hole

The Guardian reports that a Reform UK MP has complained that the standards system investigating Nigel Farage over undeclared gifts is a “ka...

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Burnham starts with the low-hanging fruit

In many ways, Andy Burnham's decision not to proceed with his predecessors digital ID scheme is a welcome evisceration of low-hangimg fruit....

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Is Farage set to lose Clacton?

With 34 candidates lined up to fight the Clacton by-election next month and with Nigel Farage the only one representing a party currently to...

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The cinema in a church that became a curry house

A lot of churches fall into disuse or are repurposed, but the many lives of St Paul's Church on St Helen's Road in Swansea must be unique. A...

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Reform hypocrisy on 'hurty words'

An article in the Times by Hugo Rifkind hits the nail on the head about some of the language being utilised by Reform spokespeople followin...

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Has the Chancellor set the tone for a Burnham administration?

The Independent reports that Rachel Reeves has said that the UK holds "no alliance" more important than its relationship with the EU in wha...

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Reform adopt the Trump agenda on elections

Donald Trump has famously made it his business to interfere in the electoral process in the USA, seeking ro stop mail-in ballots, restrictin...

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Are Plaid Cymru serious about government?

The BBC reports that doubts remain over whether the Plaid Cymru Welsh government will be able to get its supplementary budget through the S...

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Binface: the back story

The Independent reports on the man who everybody is hoping will take out Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election, as far-fetched as that ma...

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Convicted fraudster was introduced as Farage’s chief of staff

The Guardian reports that convicted fraudster George Cottrell was routinely introduced as Nigel Farage’s chief of staff before the 2024 ele...

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The largest abbey in Wales

As Wikipedia records , Neath Abbey was a Cistercian monastery, located near the present-day town of Neath. It was once the largest abbey in ...

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Ex-Labour MP tells of being sidelined to enable Starmer parachutist

Swansea Bay News reports that former Swansea West MP Geraint Davies has gone public with an account of how his 22-year parliamentary career...

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National Crime Agency asked to look at Reform UK funding

The Guardian reports that a host of transactions involving Reform UK’s most senior figures and donations to the party caused bankers to rep...

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Other parties shouldn't play Farage's game

The Guardian reports that Nigel Farage has announced he is to resign as the MP for Clacton to fight a byelection, after revealing he is und...

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