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Pre game ....when hope still insists...to bewitch the disciples

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Big news for residents of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Quite the policy shift!

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“We DO have a problem at the border. It’s the U.S. that’s the problem. They’re a net exporter of drugs, guns, crime and migrants northward.” We DO have an interest in hardening the Canadian border, but it’s to keep those things from coming FROM the United States, not going TO the United States.

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“Zelensky survived a dozen Russian assassination attempts including a special forces assault on his presidential complex.He stood up to Trump. I’m sure he’ll be deeply impressed to learn our Congressional Republicans live as terrified hostages of their own party leader.” ~ @michaeldweiss.bsky.social

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European Parliament member 👇🏽

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Client journos hate this 👇

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I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

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Just crafting some thoughts on the GBR Consultation. This is unacceptable for Wales: “The Secretary of State will have a duty to consult Welsh ministers on the long-term strategy.” whereas in Scotland “Scottish Ministers will continue to set the strategy for the railway in Scotland". #rail #gbr

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So Russia invaded Ukraine....but Ukraine are the bad guys who wouldn't do a deal...?!?! Looks to me like Europe needs to up it's game...including the UK.

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@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

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Motonormativity

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Re A Road User Charge (RUC) "Lets reduce basic rate income tax or increase the personal allowance to accommodate the introduction of RUC? We need to shift our tax burden from income to damaging externalities to help encourage more sustainable mobility choices." cardiffmetro.wales/10-the-clima...

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A system that prices that level of destruction so cheaply is indefensible, and urgently in need of change.

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Trump the "dealmaker". #Ukraine #PutinsPuppet.

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A very clear response from London Fire Commissioner, Andy Rowe to a question at Fire Plenary last week from Emma Best AM about the impact of LTNs on fire brigade attendance times. "We genuinely couldn't find any evidence of LTNs doing anything to our overall attendance times".

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This brillaint piece on urban sprawl is a great insight into what I would call capitalist planning - how collaboration between powerful public and private interests helps to create irrational and crisis-prone systems that are still, in some sense, 'planned'. www.currentaffairs.org/news/in-spra...

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Morning...

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Brexit has obliterated a large chunk of trade between Ireland and Great Britain. And - no real surprise, surely - it has hurt the UK significantly more than it has hurt Ireland. The greatest act of self-harm in our history just keeps on giving. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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This is madness. We won’t get a good deal with the US, but will burn our bridges with the EU in the futile pursuit of one. In some ways, Starmer should be grateful to Trump for making the UK’s geopolitical choices clearer.

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time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

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Elon Musk is an idiot on an almost inconceivable scale. He had his high-school toadies pull a random list from a database he doesn’t understand, and on that basis alone decided that 60 MILLION SOCIAL SECURITY ENROLLEES, out of 72 million total, are fraudulent. 83% fraudulent!

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Here’s the thing. Every one of these people in tears heard Trump on the stump before Nov. They knew he was cruel. But they were fine with it, thinking he’d only hurt the people they didn’t like. The problem with cruelty—It spreads. You don’t get to control it. Sooner or later, it comes for you too.

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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My blog re a Swansea Bay / West Wales Parkway from 2019 still seems relevant (spoiler no its not at Felindre...its Carmarthen!) swalesmetroprof.blog/2019/02/05/a...

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Why are so many who oppose "15 min cities" because they erroneously think it's about restricting freedom of movement, also support much more draconian immigration policies and Brexit, which do restrict freedom of movement. ???

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I get this. I feel no association with the Union Jack. It does not include Wales. I even bought a Welsh flag sticker to cover up the UJ on my driving license!. And I say this as someone who is "British/Welsh/European"... swalesmetroprof.blog/2021/07/14/w...

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Cardiff Crossrail Phase 2.....A lot of benefit for relatively little capital investment swalesmetroprof.blog/2025/01/03/c...

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Fyi anyone in Wales thinking of supporting reform, they are led by people who really don't care about you, your problems, Wales, etc and lack the integrity to address the challenges we face honestly. They prefer to offer simple solutions they could never deliver. They just mfg outrage and division

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In the emerging new world order Britain is a small fading 19thC imperial power..... The mendacious charlatans who lied to sell you #brexit on the promise of undeliverable riches, gave you instead perhaps the biggest economic and political own goal in Britain's history??

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In the emerging new world order Britain is a small fading 19thC imperial power..... The mendacious charlatans who lied to sell you #brexit on the promise of undeliverable riches, gave you instead perhaps the biggest economic and political own goal in Britain's history??

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But Hillary's unsecured servers were a far greater threat.

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Fyi anyone in Wales thinking of supporting reform, they are led by people who really don't care about you, your problems, Wales, etc and lack the integrity to address the challenges we face honestly. They prefer to offer simple solutions they could never deliver. They just mfg outrage and division

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Richard Tice, you are a fu*king idiot Simple as that

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Most common surnames from the 1881 census. Proper wales border here!! Anyone explain Devon!!!

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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]