Nye Davies

Siaradodd @nyedavies.bsky.social â Nick Servini ar BBC Radio Wales y bore 'ma i drafod cystadleuaeth Dirprwy Arweinydd y Blaid Llafur:

Dr Nye Davies on Radio Wales this morning, discussing the competition for the role of UK Labour's Deputy Leader and its connection with a famous Welsh MP:

Spending Review 2025 – the implications for Wales Showcasing current research, comments and analysis on the law, politics, history, culture, government and political economy of Wales from the Wales Governance Centre.

🚨 NEWYDD: Dadansoddiad llawn o beth fydd Adolygiad Gwariant ddoe yn ei olygu i Gymru. 💷

🚨 NEW: Full analysis of what yesterday's Spending Review will mean for Wales. 💷

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Reform UK and Plaid Cymru vie for gains in Labour stronghold of Wales Plummeting support for Keir Starmer’s party points to impact of some policies that have proven highly unpopular

@jaclarner.bsky.social from the Welsh Election Study: “Looking at the areas now voting Reform, they’re the same areas that always voted Labour, and it’s very easy to just make the logical mistake to assume it’s the same people doing it. That isn’t what we see” #Senedd26
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Diolch comrade!!

Autonomy and Party Dominance: Explaining Labour’s Century of Supremacy in Wales In 1922, the Labour Party emerged as the principal party in Wales. Over a century later, Welsh Labour remains dominant, winning all general and devolved elections. Remarkable for a democratic natio...

ERTHYGL NEWYDD gan Nye Davies a Shane Barter ar canrif dominyddiaeth etholiadol Llafur Cymru:

NEW: @nyedavies.bsky.social & @profshane.bsky.social explore how Welsh Labour established and maintained over a century of dominance

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics:
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Blog post from me and Sebastián Ronderos about our latest article on affect and discourse theory

Quarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfalls Up to 10,000 redundancies or job losses feared as institutes undergo restructuring

Please sign the petitions below in support of those Schools at Cardiff University threatened with severe cuts and closure.

Critical nursing shortages leave patients unsafe|Royal College of Nursing | Royal College of Nursing Due to severe workforce shortages in hospitals and community services, patients are experiencing pain and, in many cases, being cared for in corridors. Today, the Royal College of Nursing in Wales (RC...

There's a critical nursing shortage. The Welsh NHS is, frankly, a byword for poor results. And now Cardiff University is to close its nursing courses. Well done everyone, genius-level stuff! 👏👏👏👏👏
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Delighted to be (a small) part of the big @ukandeu.bsky.social big Brexit Files report. media.ukandeu.ac.uk/wp-content/u... My 1000 words (at p 123) considers how UK political leaders - and decisions taken by the U.K. Supreme Court - have weakened devolution since the Brexit referendum. A wee 🧵 1/n

‘Inevitably the package will be dismissed […] as inadequate and grudging’: regionalism, ambivalence and the road to the North East of England referendum defeat in 2004 The New Labour Government of 1997 to 2010 oversaw considerable constitutional reforms, particularly in relation to the United Kingdom’s territorial constitution. While devolution to Scotland and Wa...

Remember the (Geordie) Alamo.

My new article, published open access in early view today, explores New Labour’s (mostly) reluctant & begrudging proposals for English regional #devolution, and the battles within govt that preceded the 2004 N East referendum defeat www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I was honoured to be asked to write this year's Aneurin Bevan Society Annual Lecture!

I chose to write about what we can learn from Bevan's political thought and his vision of democratic socialism

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What better way to spend Christmas day than debating the merits of Plaid's decentralist socialism versus Bevan's parliamentary socialism?! 🎄🎅🎁

Making sense of the Welsh Government’s Draft Budget for 2025-26 Following Rachel Reeves’ decisions on taxation, spending and borrowing, this was always going to be a “big” budget. The Welsh Government had significantly more funding to allocate than was expected…

🚨 NEWYDD: Dadansoddiad cyntaf o Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2025-26 gan Guto Ifan o Ddadansoddi Cyllid Cymru 🧮

🚨 NEWLY PUBLISHED: Guto Ifan of Wales Fiscal Analysis makes sense of the detail in the Welsh Government's 2025-26 Draft Budget 🧮 blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal...

Many UWP books on a red background. Text reads 'Christmas gifts from Calon.'

Christmas is the perfect time for curling up with a good book.

Follow the link below for the best gifts for book-lovers 📚

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You'll love it Dai.

✅ Gramsci
✅ Nairn
✅ Gwyn Alf
✅ Noëlle and DJ Davies
✅ Socialism for the Welsh people

Just missing a bit of Bevan, but you can't have everything!

Putting Wales First

Really enjoyable @walesgovernance.bsky.social event tonight celebrating the launch of @richardwynjones.bsky.social brilliant book on Plaid Cymru. Demonstrating the importance of Welsh political thought!

Buy from @uniwalespress.bsky.social

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If you're in Cardiff on Wednesday night then do please join (the legend that is!) Vaughan Roderick and myself for a discussion of my new book on the political thought of Plaid Cymru.

Croeso cynnes / A warm welcome!

Register below>>>

Rydym yn dathlu 125 o ddysgu Gwleidyddiaeth ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd. Dyma bapur arholiad cynnar o 1904…

Mae cwestiwn 9 yn *anfarwol*!

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We’re celebrating 125 years of teaching Politics at Cardiff Uni. Here’s an early exam paper from 1904…

You’re going to absolutely *love* question 9!

Diolch Alison!

One week to go! Join BBC Wales's Vaughan Roderick and @richardwynjones.bsky.social to discuss the political evolution of @plaidcymru.bsky.social 👇

Explore our #Wales Studies books!

We are proud to have published some ground-breaking books on Welsh #politics, #history, and #culture this autumn 📚

Read on below for the latest from UWP ⤵️

‘When canvassers knock on your door, the key question to ask is not “What will you do?” but “What do you believe?” That’s what this book is all about. The creator of the NHS is well known, and the author of The Political Thought of Aneurin Bevan explores the beliefs and values on which Bevan’s work was founded. The one cannot be understood without the other; read this book, and you'll never be without the right question again.’ Mark Drakeford, First Minister of Wales, 2018–24

‘The Political Thought of Aneurin Bevan’ by @nyedavies.bsky.social presents a new way of studying the British Labour politician Aneurin Bevan.

Approaching him as a political thinker, it explores the core ideas that underpin his political thought.

In bookshops now 📚

When a political party wins 84% of the seats in any given election, it's impossible to interpret that result as anything other than a *stunning* success for that party. Which is what Labour achieved in Wales in July

And yet, under the surface...

Analysis from the Welsh Election Study team here>

YouTube video by Cardiff University The 2024 UK General Election and Wales - Etholiad Cyffredinol y DU 2024 a Chymru

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿UK ELECTION 2024 BRIEFING VIDEO 📼
The video of the Wales Election Study briefing on the 2024 UK General Election is now available on the @cardiffuni.bsky.social YouTube Channel!

@jaclarner.bsky.social and @richardwynjones.bsky.social present new data and analysis from Wales 👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Time For Change There is no disgrace for these players. They have been let down by those who should be looking out for them

Time for change.

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A great current read - fascinating Welsh rugby history with a good dose of Bevan thrown in. A great combo!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿WGC Annual Lecture 2024🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Jane Runeckles (former head of First Minister Mark Drakeford's Team of Special Advisors, and SpAD to both FMs Carwyn Jones and Rhodri Morgan) will discuss '25 Years of Welsh Government). #Wales #Cymru

Register with the link below 👇
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Happy birthday to Aneurin Bevan! Born on this day in 1897.

What better way to celebrate than reading these two books published by the brilliant @uniwalespress.bsky.social!

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Putting Wales First - The Political Thought of Plaid Cymru Join journalist Vaughan Roderick and Professor Richard Wyn Jones as they discuss 'Putting Wales First - The Political Thought of Plaid Cymru

🎙️EVENT!📷📖
Join Vaughan Roderick and @richardwynjones.bsky.social to discuss the political thought of @plaidcymru.bsky.social, as explored in Richard's recent book 'Putting Wales First'. #Wales

27th of November in the Glamorgan Building, Cardiff, 17.30 onwards:
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Putting Wales First - The Political Thought of Plaid Cymru Join journalist Vaughan Roderick and Professor Richard Wyn Jones as they discuss 'Putting Wales First - The Political Thought of Plaid Cymru

Croeso i bawb! / Welcome to all!

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