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John Davies

@stsikel.bsky.social
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Interested in building bridges.

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draiglerpwl.bsky.social @draiglerpwl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As one of the fourteen, I think that Jonathan Freedland has pretty much summed up everything I believe about ...Up. A thoughtful and perceptive piece. Thank you.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lord give me the arrogance of a tax exile who feels the right to comment on the tax policies and general running of a country who you have deprived of billions by registering yourself in Monaco
bbc.co.uk
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Yep.
Tweet from RNIB
We're the RNIB - a UK based organisation that helps blind and partially sighted people. You seem to have confused us with the RNLI - a brilliant charity that saves lives at sea. If you need any support with your vision, we're always here for you.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Data centers
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 26/08/2026
Wikipedia is probably the greatest flowering of the internet age. It took a person to steer it but it's the collective work of almost uncountable people.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If you go to dailyexpress.uk.com directly, and not through a link to that particular article, you get this 👇 The bogus headline is the main item, and then every other article links you to the real article on the real website. 6/
Screenshot of the faked dailyexpress.uk.com home page
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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Idea for government: stop calling it “net zero” and just call it “energy policy”, put cost of living at the centre of it and decarbonise anyway.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Farage surrogate on BBC 5 live saying that ‘Nigel wasn’t in politics’ when he accepted £5m from Christopher Harborne He *owned* Reform at the time and became a MP candidate shortly afterwards. This line doesn’t wash and isn’t going to go away
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James Stafford @jpstafford.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Excellent. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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Gianni Infantino: Wales first nation to withdraw support for Fifa president
Wales become the first nation to publicly withdraw backing for Gianni Infantino's bid to continue his leadership of Fifa.
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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Speaking as someone born in Wales who never got to learn the language as a child for reasons beyond my control, fuck the New Yorker very much.
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 28/07/2026
For 75 years, the Refugee Convention has kept the promise of protection alive, offering a safe haven to millions of people forced to flee war, violence and persecution.
More than a legal document. A safe haven.
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Sioned Williams AS/MS @sionedplaid.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
LGBTQ+ people across Wales are feeling shaken by the horrific attack in Berlin. My thoughts are with the family and friends of the person tragically killed, and with those injured. The @plaidcymru.bsky.social Welsh Government will always stand up for LGBTQ+ rights and against hatred 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Community support: While I was speaking to the crews, a lady from Blaenavon pulled up to drop off meals for the firefighters. She didn't want to be named, but she and the local community had been bringing the crews meals three times a day, every day, for the last five days.
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John Davies @stsikel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office...
swansea.ac.uk
“I didn’t even know there was a Welsh language” — Refugee graduates with master’s in Welsh
A former asylum seeker who arrived in Wales without knowing the country had its own language is celebrating his graduation from Swansea University with a master’s in Welsh.
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1
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Granite Man @granitedhuine.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Good morning, another week of whatever the fuck this shit is.
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The Church in Wales | Yr Eglwys Yng Nghymru @churchinwales.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The Bench of Bishops of the Church in Wales has today released a statement about the EHRC Draft Code of Practice. Mae Mainc Esgobion yr Eglwys yng Nghymru wedi cyhoeddi datganiad heddiw ynglyn â Chôd Ymarfer Drafft yr EHRC. www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-... #ChurchInWales
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
H/t @gazhay.com for the precedent…
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Legendary Tone @legendarytone.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Our village is gathering to remember the Rebecca Riots — when West Wales communities stood against unfair tolls and injustice. Details: gwyltyisha.cymru
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Gŵyl Tyisha | Cerddwch gyda Rebecca | Y Tymbl, 11 Gorffennaf 2026
Gŵyl Tyisha, Y Tymbl, Dydd Sadwrn 11 Gorffennaf 2026. Gorymdaith gymunedol yn anrhydeddu Jac Ty'isha a Therfysgoedd Rebecca, parti yn y parc, a noson o gerddoriaeth fyw.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 01/07/2026
Members of the Senedd rejected a Reform UK motion that would have ended funding for the Welsh Government’s Nation of Sanctuary programme ✍️Martin Shipton
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Senedd rejects Reform UK bid to scrap the Nation of Sanctuary programme
Martin Shipton Members of the Senedd rejected a Reform UK motion that would have ended funding for the Welsh Government’s Nation of Sanctuary programme. By voting against the proposal, MSs ensured…
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Dan Tappin @oitappin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Just saved these from deletion, anybody know a good archive that would want them?
A selection of BBC books from the 40s and 50s about early stages of learning Welsh.
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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 27/06/2026
To me anyone willing to put his life on the line again and again to deploy on the riskiest ops alongside our special forces, in his own country of origin, knowing what will happen if the enemy finds him or his family is not a foreigner.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I especially love this diagram.
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The Jewish Chronicle @jewishchron.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Welsh Jewish Cultural Centre on track to open after £4 million National Lottery funding www.thejc.com/community/we...
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Welsh Jewish Cultural Centre on track to open after £4 million National Lottery funding - The Jewish Chronicle
Merthyr Tydfil Synagogue was first opened in the 1870s to serve a growing Jewish community
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Belated #WorldRefugeeDay 🫶🏻 A reminder of how the people of Bridgend and Porthcawl welcomed Belgian refugees with open arms during the First World War 🇧🇪 The Glamorgan Gazette had a column written in Dutch for the refugees to be able to read news from their home country. #Wales #History
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The point where the courts cease to have control over decisions on asylum claims is the point where the country ceases in any meaningful sense to be a democracy governed by the rule of law. States where the govt can do what it wants with no legal constraints are, without exaggeration, fascist states
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Refugee groups condemn Tory plan to remove judges from asylum appeals
Conservatives accused of attack on ‘crucial safeguards’ and of fostering ‘climate of hostility’ towards judiciary
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
PERSON OF THE DAY. 16 June 2016. Labour MP Helen Joanne (“Jo”) Cox (aged 41), was murdered by a far right extremist in Birstall, West Yorkshire. She was 1st sitting UK MP to be assassinated since the Conservative Party’s Ian Gow, who was killed by an IRA car bomb on 30 July 1990.
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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
New: Free Movement Toolkit now available for immigration law research — by Colin Yeo
freemovement.org.uk
Free Movement Toolkit now available for immigration law research - Free Movement
The Free Movement research toolkit will be available for everyone until Friday 19 June, at which point it will become available only to members.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Men who commit this kind of violence with this kind of rhetoric are not protecting women and girls; they are trying to legislate which men have the right to harm women and girls (and of course it's men like them and not those other men).
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
That poor man. His family are begging us to see what really happened to him. Even Starmer is ignoring them. Vile people have too much sway in our national conversations. I'm sick of it.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Utterly the wrong call. Weak. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK loosens Russian oil sanctions as fuel prices rise
The waiver reflects increasing supply concerns over certain fuels due to the effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Senedd Wales @senedd.wales · 12/05/2026
Rhun ap Iorwerth MS has been nominated by the Senedd to become the First Minister of Wales.
Rhun ap Iorwerth MS nominated to become First Minister of Wales.
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Senedd Wales @senedd.wales · 12/05/2026
Members of the Senedd have elected Huw Irranca-Davies MS as Presiding Officer of the Senedd (Llywydd).
Senedd elects Huw Irranca-Davies MS as Presiding
Officer.
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Simunch @simunch1.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Don't forget Ben Delo too. Harborne and Farage have history BBC Panorama reported on him donating to the Brexit Party around a decade ago. Farage avoided answering questions on it. short clip from the show.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
10 May 1939 | A French Jewish girl, Monique Cofman, was born in Mont-Saint-Aignan. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 8 November 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 773 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.
The face of a baby girl. She has semi-long hair. She is looking straight into the camera.
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Elaine Wyatt @elainewyatt.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Dear people of Wales. If you haven't voted yet, please vote if possible. I don't want to know who you vote for, just vote. One small X can make a big difference in making our voices heard. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 07/05/2026
Except for viewers in Wales and Scotland, who can just turn up, so please do (polling card makes things quicker mind) #ItsDevolved
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Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
nation.cymru/feature/your...
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Your vote, your choice: tactical voting in Wales’s new electoral system
Dr Jac Larner & Professor Laura McAllister, Wales Governance Centre, Cardiff University There has been a lot of discussion in this Senedd election about tactical voting: which party to back, which to ...
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Europe is getting crushed on the social media battleground right now. Our democracies are wide open to attack because we rely on foreign tech. We cannot survive this unless we push through serious regulation and finally start building our own European platforms
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
landlords, and airbnb hosts most of all, operate under the incredible delusion that they are entitled to infinite, guaranteed profit. all reward, no risk.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:
A graph from Our World In Data showing a precipitous drop in child mortality starting in the late 1800s going from an average of 48% to global rate of 27% in 1950 to the 2020 infant mortality rate of 4%, with some countries having a rate as low as 0.3%
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Do you know how much of a devil you have to be to threaten Parkrun, one of the most socially progressive, inclusive, beneficial and fucking good vibes organisations we have, with legal action? Demonic! Utterly satanic.
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
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Welsh election 2026: Who should I vote for? Compare party policies
Explore the policies of the main parties in Wales and compare where they stand on key issues with this interactive guide.
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💀Texas Chainsaw MADSacre👻 @mads.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Ok fine I’ll do it myself. I’m fucking wheezing
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