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Wini Davies

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Emerita professor of German Aberystwyth Uni, Remainer, siarad Cymraeg, support #indyWales #annibyniaeth

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Jeff Domingues @jeffdomingues.bsky.social · 8h
Sometimes the articles of impeachment write themselves.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Trump gets out of Marine One extremely gingerly and walks across the tarmac (note that you can see what appears to be some sort of brace on his right leg)
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 9h
President Trump, "There's never been anybody in the history of the Nobel Prize that deserves it more" "I stopped maybe the total obliteration of the world"
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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 8h
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Badenoch’s inheritance tax gambit makes no economic sense | Heather Stewart
The Tory leader’s proposal to slash the tax would shovel £6bn of taxpayer money to the already-wealthy
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Golwg360 @golwg.360.cymru · 11h
‘Dydyn nhw ddim yn becso am Gymru’: cyn Ddirprwy Arweinydd y Gwyrddion yn galw am dorri cysylltiad â’r blaid yn Lloegr Mae Phil Davies yn dweud wrth golwg360 fod diffyg cefnogaeth i’r blaid yng Nghymru wedi’i argyhoeddi bod angen iddi ddod yn annibynnol ar Blaid Werdd #gwleidyddiaeth ✍️ Rhys Owen
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‘Dydyn nhw ddim yn becso am Gymru’: cyn Ddirprwy Arweinydd y Gwyrddion yn galw am dorri cysylltiad â’r blaid yn Lloegr
Mae Phil Davies yn dweud wrth golwg360 fod diffyg cefnogaeth i’r blaid yng Nghymru wedi’i argyhoeddi bod angen iddi ddod yn annibynnol ar Blaid Werdd
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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 11h
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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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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 03/10/2026
This is an official from the Austrian People's Party talking to a young man of colour at the Oktoberfest in Munich. He tells the young man: "How about you just go home and wait there until we come there for vacation?" And then proceeds by saying: "You are not at home here".
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14h
From the new Private Eye
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 13h
"One of the reasons I did so badly at school was that I didn't get to mark my own homework. We all saw the Channel Four report." Reform has cleared itself of all wrongdoing over its donations, but is the real trouble for Farage just around the corner? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/refo...
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Reform investigation into Reform finds Reform did nothing wrong. Is it any surprise? | The News Agents
Reform UK has investigated itself, and found it broke no rules and no laws when it accepted overseas donations in a Channel 4 sting. Was there going to be any other outcome?
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Golwg360 @golwg.360.cymru · 18h
Rhun ap Iorwerth eisiau mwy o fyfyrwyr yn aros yng Nghymru – ond mae 10% o Aelodau Plaid wedi astudio yn Oxbridge Mae’r Prif Weinidog yn dweud bod “argyfwng” mewn addysg uwch, ond bod y cwestiwn am Seren yn rhan o broblem ehangach #gwleidyddiaeth ✍️ Rhys Owen
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Rhun ap Iorwerth eisiau mwy o fyfyrwyr yn aros yng Nghymru – ond mae 10% o Aelodau Plaid wedi astudio yn Oxbridge
Mae’r Prif Weinidog yn dweud bod “argyfwng” mewn addysg uwch, ond bod y cwestiwn am Seren yn rhan o broblem ehangach
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Paul Foot on Archer from 1995 wp.me/p15p2Q-hN8
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Paul Foot on Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer who has died aged 86 was not a lovable rogue but a serial liar who ended up being sentenced to 4 years in prison for perjury. Even The Times lengthy obituary gives full details. Befo…
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Precious Petal @preciouspetal.bsky.social · 18h
Europeans’ great sense of humour 👏 👏 🇪🇺 @clareraynor.bsky.social @frankiemillie10.bsky.social @bookscraiccake.bsky.social @annmb48.bsky.social @raykwong.lol I know your next video…. 🤭 @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @bluthrunthru.bsky.social @freddierose.bsky.social @joycomes.bsky.social
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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Israeli settlers beat press photographer as soldiers watch in West Bank www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Israeli settlers beat press photographer as soldiers watch in West Bank
Jaafar Ashtiyeh was covering violence against olive farmers when settlers set upon him with the butts of their rifles
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Famous Welsh Minds @famouswelshminds.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
On this day in 1940, Welsh poet Niclas y Glais spent his 61st birthday in Brixton prison, receiving over 1,000 cards and telegrams. He wrote 150 sonnets during his imprisonment, some on toilet paper. How should wartime societies protect political freedom? #WelshHistory #FamousWelshMinds
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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hell yeah let’s fucking go
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@AlanWalter @alanwalter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m an RNLI volunteer crew member and I invite her to get on a plane from her hideout in Dubai and say that to my face here in the UK
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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Biti bod prifysgolion Cymru yn brysur yn torri y nifer o ieithoedd Ewropeaidd a gynigir ynddynt. Dangos agwedd ynysig tu hwnt
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Senedd has backed the Plaid Cymru Government’s motion calling for a review of the Barnett formula 🚨
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Welsh parliament backs calls for Barnett formula review
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Konrad Litschko @litschko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Russlandfreunde, Ex-Pornodarsteller, Abiturfälscher, völkische Ideologen, Vetternwirtschafter, Sellner-Fangirl, Ex-Stasioffizier, rechter Kampfsportler, gerade von Ermittlern Durchsuchte. Das ist die AfD-Fraktion in Sachsen-Anhalt - die jetzt Regierungsfraktion sein will. taz.de/Sachsen-Anha...
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Sachsen-Anhalt: Übersicht zu allen Personen der AfD- und BSW-Fraktion
In Sachsen-Anhalt konstituiert sich am Dienstag der Landtag, es droht eine AfD-Regierung. Das sind die Köpfe hinter der AfD- und BSW-Fraktion.
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Dinah Riese @dnah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Spiegel-Eilmeldung: "Rechtsextremer AfD-Politiker Tobias Rausch ist Landtagspräsident von Sachsen-Anhalt"
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is a gorgeous song, and one of the last my old hero Alan Hull ever wrote. Here he is, leading Lindisfarne at Newcastle City Hall for the last time. Just over four months later he was dead. I'll remember him for his socialist principles and wonderful, underrated songs youtu.be/Nnu0TLMVlwY?...
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Lindisfarne - This Heart of Mine (live - 1995)
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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just as a counterpoint to some of the obituaries this morning, here's the start of the Archer chapter in my history of political lying, The Lies of the Land:
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just leaving this here... bylinetimes.com/2026/09/25/r...
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Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🔴 NEW ‘Even Nazi Psychologists Acknowledged Jewish Intelligence’: The Posts of the Academic Who Targeted Jason Arday @pauleholden.bsky.social Nathan Cofnas made a series of posts about “Jewish IQ”, “Mischlings”, and the “emptying” of Gaza bylinetimes.com/2026/10/06/e...
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'Even Nazi Psychologists Acknowledged Jewish Intelligence': The Posts of the Academic Who Targeted Jason Arday
Nathan Cofnas, whose Substack set off the media firestorm over Jason Arday, made a series of posts about “Jewish IQ”, “Mischlings”, and the “emptying” of Gaza
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 06/10/2026
“We are ready to talk.” UCU members at Nottingham are taking sustained strike action against devastating job and course cuts. The action is having an impact. It’s in management’s interest to get around the table and resolve this dispute. Support the strike: educationitsours.org
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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I never saw point of them as independence for Wales clearly wasn't a priority when it came to election time. Kept voting for a unionist party
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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer, liar, jailbird, Tory and ‘nearly man’ of British politics (apparently) once took a long and very much unwanted look at my wife’s chest and followed that with a “nice rack” comment. Stick that in your obituaries x
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just the dumbest collection of halfwit confetti emerging out of that conference. Tax cuts everywhere, paid for with imaginary spending cuts. Huge spending projects with precisely zero utility, except to anchor their 'defence day' narrative. Clowns.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'The move is likely to reignite fears of a languages “cold spot” in the East Midlands, with the announcement meaning that no university in the region will offer language degrees. Music will also be axed, but...music-related research will continue within its School of Computer science'.
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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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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
President Trump, "They (Iran) could take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego" "That, this is a very small price to pay" My view: What an astonishing thing to hear from a US president. How is this patriotism?
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Andrew Whiteley @andrewwhiteley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Another example of how the racist thugs who claim to be 'protecting our women and children' are actually the biggest physical threat to our women and children. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer, former Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
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Jeffrey Archer, former Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Lord Archer died peacefully at home between writing sessions, his publisher said The author and former politician Jeffrey Archer has died aged 86. Archer, who was a Conservative MP for five years before serving as the party’s deputy chairman, died peacefully at his home between writing sessions on Monday, his publisher Harper Collins said. Continue reading...
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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But I do still remember the lecturer who was surprised my English was so good in my essays! But all my education at Ysgol Ardudwy had been in English apart from the subjects Cymraeg and Ysgrythur!
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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have to say I never felt looked down on at Manchester Uni in late 1970s for having come from state school, and a comprehensive at that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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To state school alumni starting university, I say this: be proud of your background | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Accusations of classism chime with my experience 20 years ago. So all hail the Bristol graduate awarding state schools red plaques, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ynde?!
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 05/10/2026
A Reform UK MS has failed to explain why he hasn’t declared to the Senedd a wedding photography business run by him and his wife ✍️Martin Shipton
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Reform MS won’t explain why he hasn’t declared a wedding photography business to the Senedd
Martin Shipton A Reform UK MS has failed to explain why he hasn’t declared to the Senedd a wedding photography business run by him and his wife. Nigel Williams, who represents Fflint Wrecsam, has…
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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Took ages for drs to find meds that worked for my migraines. One of the suggestions I was given early on was to get a boyfriend! www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Women suffer more pain than men across the whole body, major global study finds
Researchers looked at pain around the world and across the human lifespan, finding steepest rise happens before age 55
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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Hamburg I remember being told bodies were hauled down from tall narrow urban houses using pulleys, but from windows, not chimneys. For practical reasons.
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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That makes sense but the post talked of moving the body up and down - that's what I couldn't understand
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How is it not news when the president nods off in public meetings and press conferences dozens of times? If you follow independent media, you see it and know about it. But why hasn’t CBS, NBC or ABC showed a montage of it on their evening news? They simply refuse to ever show it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Everything that Trump Touches Dies
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He literally set off a bomb in a UK street. If this had been the IRA Pierce would calling for them to be hung, drawn and quartered. This is domestic terrorism pure and simple. A bomb set off to terrorise with the aim of getting a government to change its policy. Literally a textbook definition.
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A retired engineer who destroyed @SadiqKhan ULEZ camera jailed for 15 years. A ridiculous sentence. No wonder our orisons are overcrowded

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Kevin Rees was sentenced to 15 years for causing an explosion likely to endanger life after using a homemade bomb to destroy a ULEZ camera in a Sidcup residential street, damaging cars and property up to 100m away with shrapnel near a child's bedroom.

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Lady Macbeth @notinstructed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Destroyed a ULEZ camera” is an interesting way to describe detonating a homemade bomb in a residential street, sending shrapnel into homes and cars, and being convicted of causing an explosion likely to endanger life. Still, “camera” does make the fifteen years sound terribly unreasonable.
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Swansea Bay News @swanseabaynews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cllr Hannah Williams' husband joined the Mumbles lifeboat at 17 and saved 92 lives. On Thursday she told Swansea Council how families dread the pager at 2am, and why she finds the abuse of RNLI crews "truly…
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MUMBLES: Councillor’s husband saved 92 lives on the lifeboat. She calls the abuse of RNLI crews ‘truly appalling’
Swansea councillors from all sides of the chamber lined up behind the lifeboat volunteers on Thursday night. One of them knows exactly what the pager means at 2am.
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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The question that springs to mind is Pam??/Why???
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mae Plaid Cymru yn mynnu Bargen Newydd i Gymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Y pwerau a'r adnoddau arnom i wella bywydau ledled Cymru, gan gynnwys plismona a chyfiawnder, seilwaith rheilffyrdd, Ystad y Goron, ariannu teg a mwy o hyblygrwydd ariannol. Mae Cymru wedi aros yn ddigon hir. Mae’n bryd i San Steffan wrando. ✊
The Plaid Cymru First Minister delivering his speech at Conference, split into three parts. "Today, I have written to the Prime Minister with a formal ask - A New Deal for Wales.", "A New Deal to secure powers for a purpose.", "Not as an end in themselves but as a means of growing our economy and improving outcomes for everyone."
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Source of the eponymous 'Hastert Rule' still relied upon by the House GOP
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