Carys Mair Thomas

Veteran far-left lawmaker Catherine Connolly wins Irish presidency in landslide.
https://cnn.it/4hpeTrW

Some graffiti has appeared on the Reform UK office in Caerphilly.

Following a by election last week which Reform lost someone has written “now you can fuck off home”.
Reform had made immigration a key issue in by election.

These pictures are the copyright of Matthew Horwood.

I saw that. Click bait over substance has a lot to answer for.

Almost all of the hacks in the Caerphilly counting hall appear to be crowded around the (losing) Reform UK candidate. By-election victor Lindsay Whittle has just been interviewed alone by BBC Wales' Teleri Glyn Jones.

Not even close.

Scale of Plaid win in Caerphilly is significant, not least because of what it says about the potential for progressive tactical voting in (relatively) high turnout elections to block Reform. Voters in this race knew it was a Plaid-Reform contest and voted accordingly.

Nigel Farage was everywhere in Caerphilly today.

He now appears to have vanished.

Dreadful interview and not worthy of @delythjewell.bsky.social

I couldn’t agree more

Truly extraordinary whispers coming out of the #Caerffili / #Caerphilly count tonight in the Senedd by-election.

Early suggestions that @plaidcymru.bsky.social have absorbed Labour votes & had big youth turnout to defeat Reform UK, despite the chasm of resources in the latter’s favour. #Wales

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Gaza flotilla: Israel intercepts 39 aid boats, organisers say One boat continues towards Gaza, say organisers

Gaza flotilla: Israel intercepts 39 aid boats, organisers say

Politics is not like selling biscuits, where the task is to find out what people like & flog it to them.

It's a moral activity. It's about arguing for the things you believe in. It's about *shaping* the "median voter".

Farage has moved the centre-ground of politics. His opponents can move it back.

Nel heno ‘ma

I couldn’t agree more.

Whatever happened to the fourth estate? Honestly.

I’m so disappointed by the package on ITV news just now. There seems to be a real problem with journalists simply stoking the racism poisoning society by Reform. I’m genuinely horrified that there is a lack of critical thinking around the very perception of immigration. Please contextualise.

We need a wealth tax to stop them devouring us whole.

Says the company which has more wealth than most countries in the world. And it’s still not enough! Money is truly the root of all evil.

Scarborough beach getting some banksy inspired sand art.
By Fred Brown.

Wrong wrong wrong. X's algorithm and pay-for-play was already shrinking audiences and collapsed click-through to links. It hasn't been a level playing field for a long time. If you want to play poker when the deck is stacked against you, it's your right, but don't lecture others for choosing not to.

I don’t know if it would be their thing tbh but it’s a label for sure - sainwales.com

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Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage Nigel Farage’s party featured in considerably more News at Ten bulletins than Lib Dems over six months, study finds

The oxygen of publicity is a very real concept.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

NO 10 are *obsessed* with prefacing every policy announcement with "working people" and "as part of the Plan for Change". The former is a particularly curious PR-politics reflex.

Reform Caerphilly candidate posts image online with incorrect spelling for town Emily Price  Reform UK’s candidate for the upcoming by-election in Caerphilly has posted a campaign graphic online with the incorrect spelling for the town he hopes to represent in the Senedd. On Frid...

Reform UK's candidate for the upcoming by-election in Caerphilly has posted a campaign graphic online with the incorrect spelling for the town he hopes to represent in the Senedd ✍️ Emily Price

Do you know if anyone has tracked media coverage via a vis polling?

What’s Plaid Cymru and SNP?

Galwad frys ar i Gyngor Wrecsam fynd i'r afael â methiannau sylweddol Mae Cyngor Wrecsam wedi cael ei feirniadu'n hallt gan Archwilydd Cyffredinol Cymru, sy'n nodi methiannau yn y modd y mae'r awdurdod yn llywodraethu

Mae Cyngor Wrecsam wedi cael ei feirniadu'n hallt gan Archwilydd Cyffredinol Cymru, sy'n nodi methiannau yn y modd y mae'r awdurdod yn llywodraethu