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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
plot twist: Zelenskyy’s office told the FT on Thursday that Starlink’s functionality had been restored and speed limits lifted, confirming a report by Bloomberg
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
🚨🚨A logical but despicable extension of the #Putin-Trump deal energy to further pressure #Ukraine to give up their fight for #independence and protect their #sovereignty against the #Russian illegitimate invasion: www.ft.com/content/5435...
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US floats unfreezing some Russian assets to restart Ukraine peace talks
European officials balked at proposal made by Donald Trump’s negotiators during meeting in Miami
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It's legitimate for the EU, the UK, Canada and others to support their Ukrainian ally. If Musk is going to (in effect) assist Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's allies should sanction Starlink, X and Tesla. At the very least, governments (and people) should stop using his fucking site already.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Look, Zelensky signalling that the US has cut off all warning of Russian missile attacks on Ukraine.
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Wales Governance Centre | Canolfan Llywodraethiant Cymru @walesgovernance.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
🚨NEWYDD🚨Y dadansoddiad diweddaraf gan Ddadansoddi Cyllid Cymru ar y cytundeb heddiw ynghylch Cyllideb Atodol Llywodraeth Cymru 🚨NEW🚨The latest analysis from the Wales Fiscal Analysis team on today's agreement on the Welsh Govt's Supplementary Budget blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Apart from once again proving himself a dead eyed socipath, Jenrick is forcing Reform down a cul-de-sac. "How about war crimes" is not winning 35% of the vote.
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Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Thomas Gerald Hunter on John Morris-Jones... An English language summary of Episode 97 of our podcast on Welsh language literature @yrheniaith.bsky.social nation.cymru/feature/yr-h...
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Yr Hen Iaith part 97: Poet and Scholar: John Morris-Jones
Jerry Hunter The politics of the Cymru Fydd movement and Welsh-language literature were intimately connected during the late 19th century. One of the leaders of the movement, O. M. Edwards, edited the...
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Another on the list of "things that are obvious from the evidence yet ignored" is "current immigration policy will deliver a great big hole in future budgets". The OBR currently assumes net migration bottoms out at 200k then rises. That isn't going to happen
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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Norway’s former Chief of Defence, General Sverre Diesen: “Under the current Trump administration, we cannot consider the United States our ally. Trump’s America is a hostile actor that, in the event of a conflict in Europe, would side with Russia rather than with us and other European countries.”
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Meanwhile in the UK. Was. "Let's make our universities financially dependent on overseas students." Then. "Let's make overseas students feel increasingly unwelcome." Now. "Screw that, let's just withdraw our offers so they don't come in the first place." Next. "Who needs universities anyway?"
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UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban
Pullback comes in response to doubling in number of study visas being refused by the Home Office in the first six months of 2026
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Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yn yr un ffordd ag ydw’i yn barod i ennill y Goron yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2027? Dwi’n fardd Yn yr ardd - â sawl gafr Hefo barf! 👑🎉 mol.im/a/16199355
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Kemi Badenoch: Conservatives ready for a Christmas general election
The Opposition leader - who galvanised the party faithful with her conference speech in Birmingham - said: 'I've instructed the Conservative Party to be ready for an election at any point.'
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I would laugh but it‘s actually not that funny
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
1/ Russian sources expect that as well as purchasing Russian oil and diesel, Donald Trump will provide Russia with spare parts to repair the refineries damaged by Ukrainian drone strikes. They anticipate that Trump's fuel deal will lead to a Russian victory. ⬇️
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 10/10/2026
The Kyiv Independent paints a stark picture of how the past few days unfolded. Ukrainian officials say they went to Miami to discuss a reciprocal energy ceasefire, only to be blindsided by Trump’s decision to ease sanctions on Russian diesel exports #Ukraine
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.
Map of tanker’s route
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Of all the mystifying decisions Andy Burnham has made “the skillset and biography of Chris Bryant” and “the Northern Ireland brief” is the wildest.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We'll have a full analysis of the Conservatives' proposed inheritance tax cuts tomorrow. But, for now, three charts. 1. Who would benefit from the cuts?
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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The fundamental issue with 99% of AI in education use cases is that they don’t seem to understand the very, very key point that learning things does in fact require a human being to process the information they’re trying to learn
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🚨 NEW: Poorer students have the most to gain from university, but they’re the least likely to go. Our brand-new best practice guide argues universities should redouble efforts to support disadvantaged students 🧵
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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Gwleidydda - Y Pedwar Llew Tew - BBC Sounds
Mae triawd y buarth yn ôl! Vaughan, Bethan a Richard sy'n holi Ieuan Wyn Jones.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.' A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.
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Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected
Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “The thorough cleansing that we are carrying out now in southern Lebanon is unprecedented. “They have nowhere to return to. Look at how it looks. “And by the way, the world isn’t stopping us.”
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This whole thread is absolutely mental.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/10/2026
Welcome to Toryland, where victory is inevitable. My SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/welc...
The Tory leader has opened her party’s conference with so many sketchable interventions that it might be a deliberate bid simply to overwhelm satirists. There’s the 30,000-word tract on her beliefs whose 16 pages on the economy contain no mention of trade and a single allusion to Brexit — “I call it Kemistry,” she told the Sunday Times. There’s the 87-foot “Birmingham Tapestry”, which celebrates Badenoch’s endless triumphs of the past two years. There’s the amazing levels of confidence: in her opening address on Sunday, Badenoch confidently predicted election victory with David Steel-like brio.

Was any of this a touch previous? Well, in a party that was performing less well it might be, but these are the Conservatives, the party currently enjoying a 19% lead in the polls, predicted to win a majority of 130 at the next election. It’s no wonder that… hang on, I’m hearing that, apologies, those numbers should be “currently polling at 19% and predicted to win 130 seats.”
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Remarkable mental athletics.
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Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Over 1,400 people have been killed (in Gaza) in the year since the ceasefire.” - The Economist. I wonder how many have to be killed for it not to be called a ceasefire?
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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yep and this has the strange blend of being extremely obvious but very under-regarded.
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Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dyfarniad papur newydd mwyaf poblogaidd Norwy ar y gem neithiwr: 'Hardt arbeid slår talent når talent ikke arbeider hardt.' Mae gwaith caled yn drech na thalent os nad yw'r talent yn gweithio'n ddigon caled.... www.vg.no/sport/i/8Gln...
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Verste på to år – og en spesiell vri av Solbakken
Et klønete rødt kort. En ny keeperfeil. En sliten superstjerne. En brutal nedtur.
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Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Heno, heno, hen blant bach!! Tonight’s the night!!
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A satellite image of southern Gaza shows an apocalyptic scene—not a single building appears to be left standing.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.'
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Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Araith Ken Stakes yn Lerpwl i'r sawl sydd â diddordeb... labourlist.org/2026/09/wels...
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Welsh Labour leader Ken Skates sets out vision to rebuild party - his speech in full - LabourList
Welsh Labour leader sets out plans to rebuild the party and deliver greater progress for people across Wales.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Danny Tommo, Amodei, Man City fair play Piddington, Macklemore, Dolly ain’t alive no more Netanyahu’s iron dome, Meg and Harry coming home New cat, Clavicular COVID CONSCIOUS LESBIAN BAR 🎶 we didn’t start the fire 🎶
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The story of Natalie Abudayyeh (21) a journalism student and member of the Palestine Women's Football Team. She played in Dublin against @bfcdublin.bsky.social in 2024. Today, she's in an Israeli jail. Her family and teammates say she was taken at gunpoint from university without charge.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) twice bombed in Gaza 🇵🇸, 4 murdered Locations shared with 🇮🇱 Vehicles clearly marked Targeted Bombed Murdered Israel 🇮🇱 refuse to even investigate MSF: ‘This is not justice’ ‘We will not let your deaths be filed away’ Expel 🇮🇱 from the UN now.
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Cardiff Transformed @cardifftransformed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Join us for our plenary session as we ask IS THIS THE END OF THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM #CardiffTransformed2026 @richardwynjones.bsky.social@tssa.bsky.social @bfawu.bsky.social @cardiffunison.bsky.social @rmtunion.bsky.social 📅 26 September, 3:45pm, Chapter Arts Centre 🎟️ bit.ly/45vUHQ3
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Am @ambobdim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pennod 96 - @yrheniaith.bsky.social Mae Richard Wyn Jones a Jerry Hunter yn cael hwyl yn y bennod hon wrth edrych ar ysgrif gan ‘Elphin’ (Robert Arthur Griffith, 1860-1936) a gyhoeddwyd yn Y Geninen yn 1895. Gwyliwch/gwrandewch nawr: www.ambobdim.cymru/profile-cont...
Two men on a video call with Welsh text overlay.
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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Gwleidydda - Ysgol David Hughes: Eton Cymru? - BBC Sounds
Owain Clarke, Bethan Rhys Roberts a Richard Wyn Jones yn trafod rhestrau aros Cymru.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If Scotland & Wales achieve independence and the island of Ireland is united then what nationality would Suella Braverman, who insists she is British but somehow could never be English, be?
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh, we're still on the "significantly reformed EU" nonsense are we? Like the UK has the power to dictate terms as a returning hero or some such? Same EU as per the last 40 years at least. Be part of it or not. Full stop. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Paging @richardwynjones.bsky.social and @ailsahenderson.bsky.social - the time to get some extra sales of 'Englishness' is upon us! 👇 www.amazon.co.uk/Englishness-...
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Englishness: The Political Force Transforming Britain: Amazon.co.uk: Henderson, Ailsa, Wyn Jones, Richard: 9780198870784: Books
Buy Englishness: The Political Force Transforming Britain by Henderson, Ailsa, Wyn Jones, Richard (ISBN: 9780198870784) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orde...
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Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So, all the party leaders in the Senedd are now gogs, then?
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Reform has a new leader in Wales, but it was far from a unanimous choice. I understand that there was a vote for either Helen Jenner or Jason O'Connell among Reform Senedd Members. In the end Ms Jenner won with 17 votes to Mr O'Connell's 15.
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