Gareth Leaman

Notes on ‘The Many’, and the uses of Your Party Reading ‘The Many’ CEC slate’s vision for Your Party, published in Tribune recently, a fundamental question comes to mind. If they want a party that ‘appeals broadly enough to c…

Some notes on 'The Many', Your Party, the Grassroots Left, DSYP, etc

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Plaid Cymru’s Caerphilly Victory Matters Everywhere | Novara Media The Caerphilly Senedd by-election win for Plaid Cymru is indicative of dissatisfaction that reaches far beyond the town’s boundaries. We should remember that Reform can still capitalise on this anger ...

My report for Novara on Labour's collapse in Caerphilly:

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Plaid Cymru’s Caerphilly Victory Matters Everywhere | Novara Media The Caerphilly Senedd by-election win for Plaid Cymru is indicative of dissatisfaction that reaches far beyond the town’s boundaries. We should remember that Reform can still capitalise on this anger ...

My report for Novara on Labour's collapse in Caerphilly:

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They’re going to come for the left We know, obviously, that the new British right defines itself not by what it stands for, but by what it opposes. Reform UK, along with the incipiently fascist street movements they’ve provided poli…

They're going to come for the left:

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Opinion: Nomination maneuvering means that UNISON establishment is worried Reflections on the National Executive Council's nomination meeting, Regional Officer overreach and the mystery candidates.

A useful read for fellow UNISON members ahead of the General Secretary election:

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An important listen for anyone interested in the future of professional sport in Newport, and what it means for the local economy and culture in general

Cymunedoli: The glue that binds - Red Pepper Economic power in the community – cymunedoli – is the antidote to the far right’s growing appeal in Cymru, write Beth Winter and Leanne Wood

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Welsh rugby’s great sell-off International rugby may soon disappear from free-to-air television. This has obviously created a degree of collective consternation about the implication for Welsh mass culture, and rugby’s apparen…

The only way to save Welsh rugby as a cultural force is to go back in time to the start, tweak the rules so it's incompatible with the rest of the sport, and it becomes (South) Wales' answer to GAA. It was always going to fade out

Old but still relevant:
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The new left party If the British⁠ left is to organise itself electorally, then clearly a new political party is needed. After the failures of 2015–19, it was always going to come to this.

Notes on the 'new left party':

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Adam Curtis, ‘Shifty’ Shifty is, perhaps, the ultimate Adam Curtis film. Eschewing the expansive globetrotting that defines much of his work, it instead dives deep into all he’s ever tried to say about the British state…

A review of Adam Curtis' Shifty:

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On Twitter and Bluesky The liberal exodus from Twitter/X, which has seen millions of people ditching the platform and migrating to Bluesky, has been met with various forms of derision from those who remain behind. Conser…

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The red Welsh way This isn't a full essay, but the phrase 'the red Welsh way', introduced by Eluned Morgan earlier this month, is too annoying to ignore.

Some brief notes on 'the red Welsh way':

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Thanks Ed!

The red Welsh way This isn't a full essay, but the phrase 'the red Welsh way', introduced by Eluned Morgan earlier this month, is too annoying to ignore.

Some brief notes on 'the red Welsh way':

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For all mankind? On celebrity space tourism

Some notes on celebrity spaceflight:

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Vibe is sentient capital Notes on everything that moves

I tried to talk about what I think 'vibe' is, and used it to scratch the surface of a pet project:

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Couldn't make it today, but if you're short on 'beefs' for the next pod I'd like to write in a nomination for whoever does the BBC goal notifications, for mistakenly alerting that Barrow had scored in the 91st minute and needlessly taking several years off my life.

...but I don't have a dog in the fight anymore, so sentiment might be completely different now. And it got me over the County in the long term, so it all worked out for the best ;)

It just seems like a classic case of trying to please everyone, and pleasing nobody as a result. The hard decision probably should have been made that, realistically, only Newport, Cardiff, Swansea, Llanelli could ever hope to sustain a professional team, rather than trying to 'merge' fanbases.

"As the right’s ascendency inadvertently demonstrates, the main psychic need of capitalist culture, its central desire, is for an anti-capitalism. The right has individuated this feeling – the task is to (re-)collectivise it before it’s extinguished."

This by @garethleaman.bsky.social is brilliantly clarifying on how a successful hyper-capitalist like Trump presents (and even embodies) a kind of anti-capitalist affect

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Liberals have nothing left Notes on the US election, the collapse of liberalism, and the rise of the anti-establishment right

Some notes on the US election, the collapse of liberalism, and the rise of the 'anti-establishment' right

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‘These troubled hills’: Idris Davies, poet of Gwent What makes our idea of a place? Gareth Leaman considers the work of the poet Idris Davies from Gwent in the imagining of our corner kingdom

Only just come across this article by @garethleaman Its fantastic. Idris Davies in one of my favourite poets somewhat unsurprisingly being both from Gwent and a Socialist.

Highly recommend giving this a read.

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‘These troubled hills’: Idris Davies, poet of Gwent What makes our idea of a place? Gareth Leaman considers the work of the poet Idris Davies from Gwent in the imagining of our corner kingdom

Just as I'm contemplating getting properly stuck into Idris Davies, I find this great piece by @garethleaman.bsky.social

’Thus the land is set, its name embedded into history, its etymology a portent of its future meanings: Gwent is a market.'

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‘These troubled hills’: Idris Davies, poet of Gwent What makes our idea of a place? Gareth Leaman considers the work of the poet Idris Davies from Gwent in the imagining of our corner kingdom

A new essay, for Cwlwm, about Idris Davies and Gwent: cwlwm.substack.com/p/these-trou...