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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 01/10/2026

This was a peculiar political moment, in which the PM punted an election manifesto to see whether it went down well enough that he could call an early poll ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1uiD

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 27/09/2026

Those who are attached to the status quo should reflect upon the damage being done to their cause by the inadequate posturing of their representatives, whether in turquoise ties or orange sashes ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1u1C

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 24/09/2026

My teeth itch every time I hear Tony Blair piping up on world affairs and it’s extraordinary how widespread that sentiment is amongst people of all political persuasions ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1tQg

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 20/09/2026

It is English politics that is riven by emotional division with a worrying tendency towards ethno-nationalism. For three ostensibly nationalist parties to have exposed that irrationality and emerged as the adults in the room is smart politics ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1twG

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 17/09/2026

Now Thomas has resigned, the party is entering a ‘process’ to select its next leader. That process, of course, will likely consist of picking up the telephone and writing down whichever name Farage barks down the line. It’s the Reform way✍️ Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1tma

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 13/09/2026

As if on cue, a new saviour for ‘our women and girls’ rose to prominence last weekend on a float of American cash and newspaper connivance ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1t2H

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 10/09/2026

Politics is a scrap for resources that rarely takes a breather to indulge principles, and even then, only if the consequences are accounted for. Such a chink in the darkness was forced open this week by Ed Miliband ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1sRG

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 06/09/2026

Decades after Maggie sneered that there was no such thing as society, the fruits of that idea lie rotting on lamp posts – flaccid, Temu emblems of a culture that sold itself too cheap✍️ Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1szC

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 03/09/2026

Burnham’s fine intentions on Israel and privatisation will lead him, eventually, to a definitive choice. Keir Starmer’s likely ascent to gilded dishonour is one path, the other would be much harder ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1so5

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 27/08/2026

The Anglo-Welsh political relationship is at an uncertain juncture, and how the Plaid-led government plays its hand could have far-reaching consequences ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1rZ8

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 23/08/2026

Never mind the implications of an infantry that can march without rest, or the proven ability of AI to escape its servers and run amok, all you need to worry about is whether this technology makes money✍️ Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1rHA

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 20/08/2026

Housing First schemes exist across the UK, including here in Wales, but none have been funded as generously as that in Manchester ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1ry1

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 16/08/2026

A society that can offer no empathy or opportunity for amends to those who transgress is on the bones of its civic arse. Are we really so impoverished now that we don’t have the bandwidth to accept frailties in others at all? ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1rfL

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 13/08/2026

Driven by unadulterated superstition and an aggressive desire to honour my ancestors, we headed up Penrhys yesterday evening to read the portents of an angry god who was threatening to turn off the sun if Andy Burnham doesn’t Stop the Boats✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1r2W

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 09/08/2026

If we are denied agency over an issue that threatens our natural landscape, health, and tourist revenue whilst plausibly painting a target on our nation at a time of global crisis, then devolution as it applies in Wales is meaningless ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1qKH

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 02/08/2026

Shyster politicians and complicit journalists are enthusiastically poisoning the consensus required to operate democracies, atomising electorates to the point where stable governance is becoming impossible ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1qhd

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 30/07/2026

Even people who don’t read know, if they are honest, that they should. Literacy is the soil from which humanity has refined itself into the governing species of our planet ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1q7A

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 26/07/2026

Enjoy the sunshine, my lovelies. You were born to feel it on your face as you contemplate the exquisite irony of a short life in an infinite universe ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1pOy

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 23/07/2026

It is no good being the awkward squad amidst a programme of wealth taxes and increased spending on public services. Most people here will welcome that direction, so it is crucial that Plaid do not allow themselves to be cast as obstructive✍️ Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1pFn

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 19/07/2026

Last week’s row, during which Labour’s two-short-of-a-football-team cohort in the Senedd fabricated an obligation for Welsh spending to mirror that in England, could become a major issue if it is consistently replicated✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1pnP

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 16/07/2026

At the heart of Labour’s conundrum is a conflict between regionalism, which it understands in an English context, and national self-determination in Wales and Scotland, which it does not ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1pdX

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 12/07/2026

As much as the unpleasant arguments about Ann Widdecombe reflect the dire state of our politics, they fit a more established pattern of dysfunctional evasion. Anything, even abhorrent disrespect, is easier to cope with than mortality itself✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1oWL

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 09/07/2026

Farage’s rash decision to resign his seat in Parliament reflects an ongoing decline in his once formidable political instincts. Existing within a tightly controlled cabal of sycophantic fellow travellers, he has entered his Fat Elvis period✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1oIQ

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 05/07/2026

The tension inherent to the USA’s constitutional makeup has been the energy behind some of humanity’s greatest achievements as well as some of its most egregious atrocities✍️ Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1oqI

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 02/07/2026

When considering yesterday’s vote, and those in recent by-elections, Reformites should wonder whether their approach has run its course; whether partisan posturing has simply passed out of style as an exhausted electorate craves unity ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1ohf

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 28/06/2026

Our boldness is the shiny reward for all those queasy moments wondering if we know what we’re doing or even belong here at all. There, in the uneasy flux of trying to improve, lies our greatness ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1nZ4

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 25/06/2026

In response to recent criticism in the Senedd from Reform UK, NationCymru has broadened our editorial line to reflect the views of ordinary folk you find on their Facebook pages. We hope you enjoy our new direction ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1nMq

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 21/06/2026

Britain's economic model is failing. So why are politicians still too scared to change it? ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1nwA

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 14/06/2026

If Starmer cannot reverse this momentum, the spectacle of hundreds of pensioners being carried into courtrooms to face extraordinary penalties for confected offences will cling to his legacy forever ✍️ Ben Wildsmith

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What is Terrorism?

Ben Wildsmith This week’s sentencing of four Palestine Action activists sets the scene for a wider scenario, in which the definition of ‘terrorism’ will come under sustained scrutiny. The ‘Filton Four...

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 11/06/2026

The exploitation of human suffering is a contemptible tactic that serves only to dehumanise victims and perpetrators alike. It makes tools of living people and grotesques of those we have lost. Don’t stand for it ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1mTe

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 07/06/2026

How nuance can be reintroduced to politics is beyond me, but the binary nature of debate is consistently producing see-saw outcomes in our governance that are becoming absurd ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1mCu

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 04/06/2026

Nigel Farage’s cynical evocation of ‘cold rage’ in response to Henry Nowak’s murder was as politically cute as it was morally reprehensible ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1mtF

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 24/05/2026

Plaid is not continuity Labour. Nor, as Wes Streeting suggests, is its politics comparable to the insular jingoism of Reform. As far as Welsh issues are concerned, it is Labour and Reform who have emerged as bedfellows ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1lNk

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 21/05/2026

Immigration is Elvis and Nigel Farage its Colonel Tom Parker – re-releasing Blue Christmas every year, long after the King’s lips had quivered their last ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1lF7

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 17/05/2026

it’s wise to sniff the air for countryside aromas whenever politicians are politicking, and even more so when they are clearly driven by an internal need for advancement ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1lob

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 14/05/2026

Shiny Wes approaches personal advancement like a crack addict with a broken lighter, so to imagine him sweatily lunging for the keys to Number 10 was all too easy ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1lde

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 10/05/2026

This could be the dawn of a new era for Cymru. The simple fact of a ruling party that is only beholden to us is a giant leap in political confidence and accountability ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1kV6

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 07/05/2026

There is much to laugh at in Reform UK’s antics. Personally, I’d sink into despair if I relinquished the facility to find the funny in their vulgarity, dishonesty, and transparent opportunism ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1kD8

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 03/05/2026

Reform’s messaging has increasingly foregrounded the voting system as evidence that Welsh democracy is beyond saving. The existence of an ostensibly left of centre majority is explained away as an ‘establishment stitch-up’ ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1kuq

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 30/04/2026

Having a constitutionally constrained monarch as head of state mutes the United Kingdom at the highest tier of diplomacy. Trump, characteristically, has zeroed in on the fatal weakness of the UK’s constitution ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1kjK

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 26/04/2026

Hatey Katie arrived from the dark imagination of England’s furthest flung ideological wastelands with a message that was predictable in its contemptuous tone, but startling in its assumptions ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1k1n

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 23/04/2026

The past cannot be relitigated, and the future is not promised but if Plaid are, at last, to be granted an opportunity to lead the nation, its first responsibility must be to shape this moment in its history ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1jSn

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 19/04/2026

From the moment Keir Starmer’s government assumed office it seemed to take perverse pleasure in making the Labour Senedd cohort look like fools ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1jB1

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 16/04/2026

The role of politicians has changed from explaining the complexities of governance to pandering to the pre-existing obsessions that Facebook or X has cynically nurtured in our increasingly isolated social spheres✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1jrR

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 12/04/2026

To turn an election that cannot change immigration policy at all into an imaginary referendum on it, is as barking as it is disrespectful to the process✍️ Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1jaZ

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Calon @calonbooks.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Llandeilo Lit Fest is just a few weeks away! We are so excited for events with Calon authors @benwildsmith.bsky.social and @carwyngraves.bsky.social 📚️

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 09/04/2026

Trump’s readiness to wear the black hat in the cowboy flick, to characterise American influence as deriving from nothing more than military technology and economic advantage, has changed how the world perceives it ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1j0q

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Calon @calonbooks.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Join @benwildsmith.bsky.social in conversation with author Niall Griffiths, discussing his debut memoir 'Whose Song to Sing' 📚️ 📆 26 April 🕞️ 3:30pm-4:30pm 📍 Hengwrt, Carmarthen Street 🎟️ www.llandeilolitfest.org/programme/be...

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Ben Wildsmith - Whose Song to Sing: A memoir — Gŵyl Lên Llandeilo Lit Fest

Whose Song to Sing: A Memoir Ben Wildsmith discusses his candid, darkly comic memoir with Niall Griffiths. Exploring adoption, identity and belonging, the book ranges from 1970s Birmingham to South…

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Calon @calonbooks.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Bydd @benwildsmith.bsky.social mewn sgwrs gyda Niall Griffths am ei hunangofiant cyntaf, 'Whose Song to Sing' 📚️ 📆 26 Ebrill 🕑️ 15:30yp-16:30yp 📍 Hengwrt, Stryd Caerfyrddin 🎟️ www.llandeilolitfest.org/programme/be... Digwyddiad Saesneg.

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