Michael Sheen backs Plaid Cymru - the only party in the running with "the best interests of Wales at heart" 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

The choice this election is clear: hope and ambition with Plaid Cymru, or Reform dragging Wales backwards.

🗳 Vote Plaid Cymru on 7 May

“They were careless people… - they smashed up things… then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
Yes Mandelson. But don’t ignore what Farage et al did (and still do) to help them.

Greenland's future must be decided by its people, says Lisa Nandy The culture secretary says Trump's plan to place tariffs on the UK and other allies over the issue is

Wales? Scotland?

Hope you're able to keep safe.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."
~ Aldous Huxley

The Tow Path at Argenteuil
🎨 Claude Monet (1875)

Sleep, rave, eat snails, repeat.

Sunlight struggling with mist and low cloud; blackbirds posturing in the goat willow.

I recognise those thoughts. Haven't managed to write them so well though.

Upon Reflection My oldest's wit is a razor wielded with neutral pronouns and shock dyed hair. My son' s smile is a light, shining from kind eyes and a staggering empathy. I have juggled morals, and trauma, and hard choices in hard places To make it to them. I would do it all again. They have their own roads ahead And I cringe at the climate for their journeys I can't save them from it all I can't take their heartaches I can't make the world safe for them As I would hope to All I can do is try, fight for them, teach them to fight for themselves And Make sure the burning world stops at my front door.

#vss365 #reflection #poetry

Thinking a lot about this, these days. There is never enough time, and days go by so fast.

Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik ‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

"In her telling, racism and xenophobia seem not themselves objectively bad things that must be combatted, but a natural outcome that occurs when too many rights are given to immigrants and asylum seekers." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

YouTube video by Supertanskiii Farage’s Mate Took Russian Cash: Reform’s Nathan Gill Faces Jail TODAY!

"Farage’s Mate Took Russian Cash: Reform’s Nathan Gill Faces Jail TODAY!"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDUm...

We wake to mornings of cold magic. Exhale dragon-breath, crunch frost-frozen leaves as we walk. The year is dying. We feel it as rush of ghosts, a shivering that foretells the blade of ice upon its neck. No wonder this is the season where folklore burns bright. – #DAKilroy, 1982 #Folklore

Spineless, hateful, and morally repugnant.

“All this ethereal summer visitor asks is help in finding a spot. Labour however cares nothing for this miracle. …. This is wrong. Swifties everywhere must fly to the aid of this marvel of the air.” - The Times

The contemptible logic of resisting doing what's right because it will lead to the expectation that you do other things which are also right.

Call for paper for a special issue on the Brontës and poetry - on their work as poets - on poetry in the novels - on poetic influences and legacies - hoping for creative responses too!

Abstracts due April 26
Articles due December 26

#Romanticism #Victorian #Gothic

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Aside from the cruelty of this, I’d just like to know why it’s ok to ignore and disappoint liberal/progressive voters.
Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?

Definitely. I was being a bit disingenuous. But it does seem silly. Didn't the church appropriate Pan imagery as a template for its depictions of Satan?

‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers

Westminster Abbey declares war on Pagans?
"I was talking about the Green Man, but he wasn’t having it. He said: ‘Well, it’s got horns & it’s demonic.’ My husband had to actually step in and say: ‘Look, we’re not Satan worshippers or anything!’” #Christianity #Pan
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Churches are rammed with demonic imagery. Why are they picking on the fella with the pipes?

JUST FANCY THAT! 3 Oct 2025: Nigel Farage updates his register of financial interests. Since becoming MP for Clacton in July last year he has earned £1.2m from his second jobs, more than any other MP. 30 Oct 2025: The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government's index of multiple deprivation reveals that Jaywick, in Farage's Clacton constituency, is the most deprived area in England. Farage says it is "obviously sad that things aren't improving more quickly" but that having him as their MP has "definitely helped".

Farage earns more than any other MP for NOT being an MP. He says it’s “obviously sad” that part of his constituency is the most deprived area in England.
But everything he’s ever done, said and wanted has made sure of it.
This is the whole country if he gets into power.
(Private Eye)

New exhibition celebrates 30 years of joy and love with Kevin Sinnott Molly Stubbs Kevin Sinnott’s newest exhibition of 40 paintings spanning 30 years, ‘Dieithryn Cyfeillgar / Familiar Stranger’, is now showing at Llandudno’s Ffyn y Parc in what will be his final presen...

Kevin Sinnott's newest exhibition, Familiar Stranger, is now showing at Llandudno's Ffyn y Parc in what will be his final presentation of works at the gallery

Gwli

Aberystwyth named Wales' first Unesco City of Literature The town and Ceredigion county was chosen due to its "rich literary scene".

Brilliant news! So pleased for Aber, and for everyone who helped make this happen.

Dazzled again.

And then, he's suggesting that spouting racist stuff is acceptable as long as you're too dim to know the implications of what you're saying.

I'd like to know what he means by deliberately or intentionally racist. Is it that she said something that shows she's racist, but is too stupid to realise it?

Blackbirds advance and retreat from branch to dripping branch, waging turf war in the goat willow.