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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

S'mae pawb. Care about rurality? Devolution? Some of the world’s most precious rivers? Towns full of great beer? Please complete the short questionnaire for my project on the Welsh Marches / Y Gororau 🙏. Links to blog & Q below forms.cloud.microsoft/e/6vm6AAiVjf blog.bham.ac.uk/lpip/2026/06/2

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Can’t quite place the sense of “wrongness”, but I think this front pager for the Western Telegraph sums up how the fall of local journalism has left a void for populism to fill.. maybe a front page ad is the perfect QED. Question headed your way @willhaycardiff.bsky.social

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

On the 18th July 2015 at 12.22pm EDT it was mooted that Trump might have finally crossed the line.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

"I prophesy that this man will plunge our state into the abyss and will inflict immeasurable woe on our nation." Mark Milley, 2024 "He is now the most dangerous person to this country [..] No one has ever been as dangerous." Erich Ludendorff, 1933 I may have confused the two top generals' quotes.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/04/2026

Also Macron, speaking for many, has this explanation: "When you want to be serious, you don’t go around saying the opposite every day of what you just said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn’t talk every day.”

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Worth noting that roughly 1 in 10 Americans think that COVID vaccinations contain tracking microchips. 1 in 4 believe the Sun revolves around the Earth. And in case you think enlightenment is coming, among younger US citizens 10% to 16% believe the Earth is flat, or are “not sure”. US votes matter.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Hegseth on crisis in the Strait of Hormuz — “something we’re dealing with, we have been dealing with it. Don’t need to worry about it” Now we are even more worried about it. #amateurhour

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The U.S. administration did not send a single representative to the official commemoration events marking the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, nor did it issue a single word through its embassy in Kyiv -- not even a standard diplomatic boilerplate.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

“The qualities most conspicuously absent from this presidency are honesty, coherence, dignity, compassion, manners and respect for others. [..] Trump is not conducting a foreign policy to make his country rich and great, but instead one that is making the Trump family rich and great.” Max Hastings.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I reckon it’s time for Wag The Dog to have a second major cinema release. #wagthedog #greenland

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

What a great article. The unseen effect of the mostly US tech driven businesses becoming gatekeepers to what we all used to enjoy (live music, experiences, stays etc) is that 15% or more of our money is leaving Wales and the UK along with all our data …whereas it used to recirculate.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I think that, thanks not least to his recent Rob Reiner post, this man’s legal team will struggle to prove any harm was done to his reputation. I have no plans to travel to the US. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Trump sues BBC for defamation over Panorama speech edit

The US president has requested $5bn (£3.7bn) in damages, according to court documents filed in Florida.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

This is such good news. Not just the news itself but the seismic shift it points to and the rejection of soul destroying negative energy of Reform it highlights. Wales is looking up, not down this morning. (Great summary report too)

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Institute of Welsh Affairs @iwa-wales.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

'Rural Wales is in bad shape. Low incomes and a lack of economic opportunity endure.' @calvjones.bsky.social reflects on the current state of rural Wales and calls for action that may help envision a better rural future ⤵️ lnkd.in/em6PGwJr #thewelshagenda

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Those of us involved at the bottom end of renewing housing stock in Wales know that more could be done if “local” SME house builders were supported rather than thwarted by local authorities and lenders. Still, this is valuable and important reporting.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

And if Harvard can’t raise any decent lawyers to win this, then you know there’s a problem.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Poor judgement. Just because there is controversy in any issue doesn’t mean it can’t be dealt with evenly. Even if @evanhd.bsky.social were evangelizing, BBC presenter bias in other issues (such as farming) seems to be fine. Trust the audience, maybe.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Very happy to hear #pembrokeshire is NOT introducing a #visitorlevy tourist tax this year. A very good bit of news for a vital industry in dire straits.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Great time to explore with these hyper low tides #cleddau #pembrokeshire

Trawler Wreck lying on the shore of the river Cleddau with the water almost empty in the estuary due to spring low tide

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Welsh Labour gets this right. The Tories get it wrong. We don’t need any more proof that intervention is the only way to force change. It may be a small step but I bet it’s created a twinge of concern among the big boys. And that’s got to be welcomed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Junk food ban: The 'unhealthy' foods restricted in Welsh shops

Plans to restrict a list of foods classed as unhealthy in shops are approved by 25 votes to 24.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Good god. Can we imagine the US stooping so low as to use FINANCIAL GAIN over the deaths of innocent people, as a bargaining chip and threat? Self awareness is a wonderful thing. The lack of it in the president of the US is devastating.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I don’t think they’d lose this case if it went up the line. Several potential checkpoints along the way. However we have a great way of punching ourselves in the face with our planning systems in modern democracies.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Russia demonstrates its economic and expansionist policy with the most dumb symbolism, sometimes.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This is fantastic. It restores faith at the least, but most importantly it means experts are stepping into a minefield of second rate installs that are signed off but run so badly they break customers banks and break the public faith in the most important heat source of the future. Several wins in 1

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The Fourth Estate plays host to the Fifth Column. It’s all a numbers game to the Daily Mail

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

America has a short collective memory… I’m surprised we aren’t seeing a re-imagined Reds under the Bed campaign, this time perhaps aimed at certain Republicans… Interesting how “Russia” and “USSR” were interchangeable as concepts even then. youtu.be/oDd1JPmCooM?...

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The US showing how good it is at laughing itself to death.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The mindset that thinks good government is close to no government seems to thrive among those that either bully their way to the top, or are born to advantages that the rest of society does not enjoy. This is the same group that benefits, of course. Imagine this horror story unfolding in Europe.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Why does AI just hit the spot sometimes?

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I wish this happened.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I can’t really think of a country which is less likely to be able to exercise self restraint, reject self interest or deprive itself for a greater good right now than the US… at least half of it anyway. I don’t think the UK is far behind, mind.

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Stockholm syndrome shows itself in many ways… It’s time to stop thinking we have to include supermarkets in the conversation about local food.

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Welsh farmers face 'bullying behaviour' by supermarkets, MPs told

An MP says farmers face

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

@betatalk.bsky.social hello. I’d be interested to hear any views of ECO4 installation standards, since the scheme is not only a major kickstart to take up (and supply chain) but also supposed to be helping households on lower income… anyone reporting back? Thanks!

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Adrian Lort Phillips @lawrenny.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Spot on. It not only counts but it is the most rewarding form of growth of all. It’s essential. The game is fixed however as growth needs funding, permitting or planning and requires huge effort, patience, lobbying and resource that the small guys don’t have.

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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 08/02/2025

Are you concerned about the decline in local news in Wales? huwmarshall.substack.com/p/are-you-co...

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