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Devolution anorak, parliamentary history nerd & recovering academic. Any views expressed are not those of my employer (yada yada etc passim) Academic work: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam-Evans-11
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“When the report he set in motion finally appeared before councillors, its conclusion that Orkney had no realistic prospect of changing its relationship with the UK was accepted without comment…” #devolution #holyrood

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First standards of dress and now standards of debate - another... robust intervention from the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly #stormont #devolution

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New @findoutnow.bsky.social poll of Welsh voting intentions for the next Senedd election: Reform 29% Plaid 27% Labour 18% Conservatives 11% Lib Dem 7% Green 7% Write-up and full data tables here: #senedd #devolution findoutnow.co.uk/blog/senedd-...

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MPs have just voted by 379 to 137 to add NC1 (disapplying the criminal law re abortion for a woman acting in relation to her own pregnancy). The competing amendment NC20 was debated but cannot be voted upon now that NC1 has passed.

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*Adds ‘Ioris twins’ to ‘list of plausible names for American congressmen’*

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A dramatic exit from an international gathering, you say?

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Well, I can’t see how this could possibly end badly

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The Crime & Policing Bill has its first day of Report Stage in @houseofcommons.parliament.uk today. If the programme motion is agreed then the debate on abortion amendments - incl 2 competing liberalisation new clauses (NC1 & NC20) & a more conservative new clause (NC106) - should start around 4pm

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I'd be amazed if there were any spoilers for Threads left given that it was first broadcast in the 1980s

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At least it should come loaded with snakes

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You mean to say they’re…‘Mullah Corner(ed)’?

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Very sad!

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Wow - first TACO Tuesdays and now Orange Wednesdays?

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You mean to say they’re attempting an atomic split?

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EXCLUSIVE | DUP councillors are at loggerheads with the leadership whom they accuse of “disrespecting them” and denying them their “democratic voice” in the party.

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A key document not just in the Reformation’s democratisation of faith - by bringing the Bible into the vernacular, but also in the preservation of the Welsh language (notwithstanding some of the Laws in Wales Acts provisions about the official legal language) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Call me a nostalgic, old romantic, but I can’t help but think that we really have lost something as a society from the older, more communal ways of exam cheating

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I know it’s not the point of this piece, but this lectern sign has sent my parliamentary procedural pedantry senses into hyperdrive

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Lucky sod

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You’re incredibly lost?

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£5 to the first tabloid to run this under the headline ‘Seagullped!’

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Hmm, reserving judgement until I listen to some podcasts

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Hasn’t the world suffered enough?

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Worst day for the Ayatollah since Sam Hammam left Cardiff City

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And to think some cynics would have you believe that the British print media is full of crap these days

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“Sue Cook’s pulled out”

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A depressing read on the blend of distinctive Northern Irish societal factors and more general technological trends and anti-immigration dynamics which have come together during last week’s thuggery in N Ireland

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More selection news ahead of the 2026 #Senedd election: in Labour’s most tightly contested battle so far - Afan Ogwr Rhondda - the Deputy FM has been placed at the head of the Labour list, with the current Deputy Presiding Officer ranked 3rd (behind Buffy Williams) #devolution

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For those still waiting near their fax machine or electric telegraph in case of a last minute MBE, I’m sorry to report that the King’s Birthday Honours List has been published online www.gov.uk/government/c...

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