Reposted by Huw GrahamMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Never quite feel safe till they get off the train, especially when they’re standing side on to you. There‘s that moment of maximum danger when you can feel them eyeing you up and down as you look ahead. Then it passes, and they walk on. 514621 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamZecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026War breaks out in Ethiopia. Tigrayan forces attack federal government positions on two fronts & capture the region's airports. Tragically, shuttle diplomacy efforts by the international community have failed. Ethiopia is on the brink of being plunged back into all out civil war. It's a disaster.aljazeera.comTigray forces launch offensive against Ethiopian governmentTigray People’s Liberation Front seizes control of airports, targets government positions in Afar and Amhara regions. 17351 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers. 1052352687 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamPeople's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026All other things aside sorry to kick the same horse but it just won't die: English is not the only autochthonous language of the territory known as the United Kingdom, and therefore it is fundamentally against the principles of basic justice to demand all election literature be in it. 14210 0
Reposted by Huw Grahammilk bottle champion @stepheniscowboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026nimbys remained unmatched 36859172 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamAlona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Haaretz reporting that France and Canada are set to ban trade with Israeli settlements alongside the UK, amid failed attempts at an EU ban: “The U.K. reportedly seeks to limit the measures' impact on its ties with Israel and manage a backlash from Washington” www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...haaretz.comFrance and Canada set to join U.K. in sanctioning Israeli settlementsThe move comes amid a stalemate in a French-Swedish initiative to impose EU sanctions on products from the settlements. The U.K. reportedly seeks to limit the measures' impact on its ties with Israel ... 6287100 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamManya Koetse @manyapan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Chinese viral AI videos are turning foreigners into villains, flooding Chinese social media. They depict foreigners as threats to China’s social, moral, and national order. Strong, confident Chinese people confront, violently beat, and humiliate them in defense of their country. See more below🧵 2024085 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamWildDartmoor @tonydartmoor.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Fake news is putting Dartmoor’s ponies at risk. New deep dive by me into the current furore around Dartmoor's ponies. www.dartmoornature.org.uk/post/ponies-...dartmoornature.org.ukPonies, Dartmoor and fake newsThere’s been a deluge of misinformation recently about ponies on Dartmoor. Dartmoor Nature Alliance’s Tony Whitehead looks at the origins and potential impacts of the current “pony campaigning". He st... 511041 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamSinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social · 23/05/2026The following period after the court decision to oust the CHP leadership will take place at three levels. At the tactical level, busy with itself more than ever, Ozgur Ozel's focus is now regressed to a new party congress, instead of pressuring Ankara for an early election. 2122 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamJames David Griffiths @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social · 13/05/2026🏴 New Blog 🏴 A short piece on how the new Senedd voting system worked! How many votes did it take to win a seat? Was it proportional? Who benefitted? Where did parties win support? And what would it take to win one more seat? If you're interested: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal... 🧵👇blogs.cardiff.ac.ukAll change! The 2026 Senedd ElectionShowcasing current research, comments and analysis on the law, politics, history, culture, government and political economy of Wales from the Wales Governance Centre. 26345 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamThomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I have just come back Myanmar 🇲🇲 where I spent two weeks traveling around the resistance-held territories of the Sagaing region. Its a remote region which no other foreign press has managed to visit since the start of the war five years ago. I'll share some impressions below 🧵 226082 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamThe Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 27/04/2026We've been reporting on the impacts of intensive farming in the Herefordshire region, and beyond, for years This week chicken giant Avara Foods (part owned by Cargill) faces legal action in the high court over its alleged links to pollution of the rivers Wye, Lugg and Usk 12110 0
Huw Graham @huwgraham.bsky.social · 27/04/2026If you're interested in this sort of thing, Flying Moose is probably the best youtuber on urbanism and public transport. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzam...youtube.comHow Copenhagen built a metro for freeYouTube video by The Flying Moose 000 0
Huw Graham @huwgraham.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Starmer is the Ghost in the Machine [of UK government] 001 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamLuke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 13/04/2026🏴“I want to wake up & not have to worry & go to sleep without having to worry” Spent the weekend in focus groups across south Wales from Cardiff to Merthyr, to Port Talbot & Pembroke Dock, above all else we heard deep pessimism about the state of Wales, the UK & the wider world 713536 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamHelene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The Strategic Defence Review, which Robertson spearheaded, came out in September 2025, as I was writing the last chapter of my book, which is focused on foreign policy and strategy. I read that entire document and interviewed a number of experts about it. A few thoughts. 🧵 10286123 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 13/04/2026I know this is me still mourning a long dead world but it does feel remarkable that, not that long ago, British papers on the right would have run editorials and columns arguing that Hungary showed that only a solid, reliable centre-right party could defeat dangerous populists, but now? [crickets] 31899222 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamZecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 09/04/2026My latest for Middle East Eye: satellite imagery analysis reveals that an Ethiopian army base in western Ethiopia is being used as a weapons & logistics hub by Sudan's UAE backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF), to launch cross border attacks on Sudanese army positions from Ethiopia.middleeasteye.netExclusive: The Ethiopian army base covertly supporting Sudan’s RSFSatellite imagery collected since December reveals a base at Asosa, connected to UAE supply lines, facilitating the Rapid Support Forces 110581 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Indentured labourers typically had shorter periods of indenture than this in the 19-th century British empire. 2284120 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamRené Hà @reneshaf.bsky.social · 04/04/2026despite knowing the disproportionate violence that the State can enact on its inhabitants, geopolitics remains in this Good Regime vs Bad Regime frameworks due to the dire alternative that is internationalism from below. 1186 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamNationCymru @nation.cymru · 01/04/2026The ties between Wales and Islam can be found stretching back hundreds of years, a new study from Cardiff University finds wp.me/p8Mk4U-1iA4 085 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamLuke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Risk aversion/threat perception is a powerful force in politics. Matters less (the seesaw) if the status quo feels just as risky or unfair (what vote leave tried to do on Brexit) But at some point the risks of rolling the dice may deter enough swing voters if Reform dont distance from v online right 131 0
Huw Graham @huwgraham.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Currently at the "learning in-depth from an expert about a unfamiliar subject" stage of global crisis. Unfortunately the next stage is "listening to everyone rehearsing the same (likely wrong) arguments about said subject over and over". 000 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamRobert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 24/03/2026Low Energy: my SKETCH of MPs trying to save us from the impact of war. thecritic.co.uk/low-... 5539 0
Huw Graham @huwgraham.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Like a colonial explorer running out of imagination, with no connection to the land, obligingly reaching for the names of their eclectic patrons. 021 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026This type of identity politics is such an arid dead end, albeit a well-meaning one, that if people actually *follow it* makes it much harder for everyone else, because it means that everyone who is not seen as 'middle-aged white' has to make so much of their life and work talking about this stuff. 1123319 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamCardiff Civic Society @cardiffcivicsoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2026CCS member Lyn Eynon has written an article about the UK Govt's announcement of new Welsh rail stations nation.cymru/opinion/unpi...nation.cymruUnpicking the UK Government's announcement of new Welsh rail stationsLyn Eynon On February 17th, the UK Government announced seven new Welsh rail stations and claimed to be making a major rail funding commitment. In reality, there was little truly new in this announcem... 111 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamManu @julesjimmlt.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I’ve lived in Berlin close to ten years. Left ten years ago, but visit very regularly for work. Feels like the country is sleepwalking into it. Used to be that AFD was the devil, now it seems that no one cares. Somehow I associate it with Gaza. It broke people brains over there. 2768 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamQuakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 06/03/2026Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists. STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve... 29547354 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamNetpol @netpol.org · 05/03/2026The Metropolitan Police has raided the Westminster Quaker Meeting house – again, this time targeting Take Back Power's direct action training. There were 15 arrests 12216 0
Huw Graham @huwgraham.bsky.social · 05/03/2026For anyone looking for short and informative insights into the natural world, I can't recommend "Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts" highly enough. Erudite, succinct, varied and full of local expertise. Everything you wish Youtube could have been. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaGD...youtube.comSeed banks or seedling banks?YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts 031 0
Huw Graham @huwgraham.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Revolutionary Iran - more like a "Revolutionary Country" near you soon. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.com‘A big burden for farmers’: Gulf shipping crisis threatens food price shockIranian blockade of the strategic strait of Hormuz is hitting global fertiliser supply chain 000 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamDavid Emmett @motomatters.com · 04/03/2026This perfectly illustrates my point that the British tabloids are aiming at a US audience. There like 5 people in the UK who think about this. But it is huge among US evangelicals. British politicians need to ignore UK tabloids, as UK tabloids are talking to an audience in the US for clicks. 37845320 0
Huw Graham @huwgraham.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Genuinely fearful Musk's mind will fully snap if he ever plays Mewgenics. 020 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/02/2026When assessing threats from fascism, the most important thing is not to assess how ridiculous those threats seem, but to assess the scale of the resources - both military and financial - that the fascists can use to carry out those threats. What seems ridiculous today can be executed tomorrow. 114437 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamRené Hà @reneshaf.bsky.social · 21/02/2026hi, ex-international student here, and my english is *really* good so i hope you'd believe me when i say that my world class education experience was most likely Racism Premium.abc.net.auLandmark report finds racism 'deeply embedded' in universitiesFederal Education Minister Jason Clare unveiled the report with Australia's Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman in Brisbane on Tuesday. 3175 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamZoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I know the govt is in meltdown again… but meanwhile I wrote about how their immigration policies create a subclass of migrant workers exposed to abuse in an increasingly “Dubai-style” rightless immigration model & I explain what to do about it 11391156 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamZecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed answered questions in parliament today. Loosely addressing recent clashes & his gov's fallout with neighbouring Eritrea. When asked what was behind the feud with Eritrea, he stated that things began to unravel when Eritrean soldiers massacred civilians during the Tigray war. 1147 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Businesses have noticed this is a leftwing government. Farmers have noticed. The globally mobile rich have noticed. Basically the only people who don’t think this is a leftwing government are the people who want one. 611628 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamThomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Sahel 🇲🇱🇧🇫🇳🇪 MAP: The situation in the Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Benin as of September 2025. This map is a joint production by @warmapper.org and myself 29026 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamRhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 08/06/2025The short answer is "Rome is a proxy for power". The history of how Rome has become both a recognised and malleable proxy for power is v interesting (again, please read the book!) but the important bit, I think, is this. 151 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamJohn Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 24/04/2025II wrote about the Lib Dems' idea of stopping unwanted noise/music/speakerphones on public transport. No-one's said it yet, but this is a neurodivergence/autism issue maybeimamazed.substack.com/p/why-speake...maybeimamazed.substack.comWhy speakerphones and blaring music on public transport is a neurodivergence issueThe UK Liberal Democrats want to ban loud music, videos and phone calls on buses and trains. Respect to them 1912349 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamSinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Every leap authoritarianism took in Turkey in the last decade significantly changed the political landscape in favour of the ruling elites. This time, things might not be moving in the same direction, and Ankara appears rather paralysed. 27612 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamThomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social · 15/04/2025The situation in #Sudan 🇸🇩 after two years of war: Today marks the 2nd anniversary of the war, and after two years of fighting the front is anything but frozen: -SAF captured Khartoum, Bahri -RSF launched a new offensive in Darfur -RSF and SPLM-N launched joint attacks in Kordofan & Blue Nile 24810 0
Reposted by Huw GrahamQuakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 28/03/2025🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...quaker.org.ukQuakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting HousePolice broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza. 13620511471 0