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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Plaid, Reform and Conservative seat totals seem most sensitive to small margins in these sixth seats.

Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Senedd voting intention MRP from @moreincommonuk.bsky.social shows ultratight margins for the ‘sixth seat’ in the new six seat constituencies.

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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Share a photograph of a mountain you’ve taken

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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Quite right on the Westminster reporters caravan. But the underlying article is painfully miscuing its readers. As well as ignoring the Senedd election, drawing the conclusion that the next UK election will be a Labour-Reform contest is to turn your back to the future.

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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Remarkable victory for Plaid Cymru. Expect lots of attention (rightly) on Labour’s collapse to 11% of the vote. How much attention will the Conservatives get for their 2%?

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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Re-reading this lecture over 5 years on (so, obs, with hindsight it seems bizarre that it might ever have been taken seriously:

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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Cardiff University, our future, together. www.cardiff.ac.uk/about/our-pr...

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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The ‘Union Connectivity Review’ (which ‘ended’ Boris Johnson’s mad scheme for a bridge between Scotland and NI) sought to extend this link to Norwich, Swindon and Peterborough. Despite direct trains between Wales and Swindon, it did nothing to bring this line within its Union-strengthening remit.

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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Here is my wee bit on the Union Connectivity Review www.centreonconstitutionalchange.ac.uk/news-and-opi...

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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I wrote a bit on the ‘Union Connectivity Review’: its analytical report had a more ambitious version of the Oxford-Cambridge idea, connecting Norwich to Swindon (plus Peterborough). ‘Fast growth’ towns - nothing to do with Union Connectivity. No link to Cardiff, given its a direct link to Swindon.

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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Welsh Government “very disappointed” that nursing course on list of cuts ‘WalesOnline asked Cardiff University and Cardiff and Vale University Health Board whether they had discussed the proposed axing of the Cardiff University school of nursing ... So far neither has responded to those questions.’

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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Niche or unique? Looking forward to the 2nd episode of Lee Waters new podcast. There’s nothing like it, according to Spotify!

Spotify ‘more like this’ function finds nothing like Lee Waters’ Y Pumed Llawr podcast

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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Not sure what the UK gov practice is on language and emergency phone alerts. I’ve had several this evening. Some start with text in Cymraeg. But some don’t.

Emergency alert about storm risks from the U.K. government

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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Equally, tho Barnier’s ‘staircase’ was a political tool, it did give the impression that the UK had options ruled out by its own post-referendum negotiating choices. pbs.twimg.com/media/DS4bge...

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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

Still bewildered the Observer printed this picture by an article that only mentioned Belfast in passing-with no attempt to interrogate it. Tempting to say Belfast refs allowed the media to avoid naming England as the location of the riots. Suspect they wd have been ‘U.K.’ or ‘British’ riots anyway.

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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

also mentioning Belfast. In relation to Belfast, perplexing images were sometimes used, without any attempt to explain them. Here’s a pic from the 4/8 Observer by an article that has little to say about Belfast and nothing about the pic’s juxtaposition of flags. 2/n

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Daniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

Hardly the worst of Musk’s recent posting. Does suggest that he’s (also) using the response to violence/disorder in England in service of his political agenda in the US.

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