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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@huwmarshall.substack.com

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Founder/Sylfaenydd The National Wales now leading www.talking.wales and doing an MA looking at relationship between news & democracy. Cymro digidol, business and digital development, Evertonian. Hanesydd amatur 😉💙👍🏼 Cwm Garw www.substack.com/@huwmarshall

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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · Feb 2

Interested in public interest news, media and technology? Want to follow/support my work? I've launched a substack.
open.substack.com/pub/huwmarsh...

Challenging the norms

Why I've launched a Substack.

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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 6h

Or Plaid Cymru

Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 7h

I loved Diane Keaton, Sleeper and Love and Death are 2 of my favourite films. What's for dessert? Sleet, your favourite...

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 7h

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 7h

Na'th hynna neud i fi chwerthin go iawn

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

Imagine that

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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 9h

On racism or haribos?

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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 9h

Racism...

Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 10h

Be oedd yn wych i fi oedd y cynlluniau graenus ar gyfer addysg, iechyd a gofal, yr economi. Y cynnig o gobaith i'n cymunedau ar draws Cymru 🩷

Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 10h

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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 11h

How big was Steve?

Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 11h

There's a version in Cymraeg

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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 15h

The majority of the public now realise leaving was a huge error, people made decisions based on lies. Those lied have been exposed and Brexit is now demonstrably a disaster. We need to stop pissing about and get on with it. Something Labour is incapable of doing.

Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 16h

Therefore reversing Brexit would boost the economy. So why doesn't Reeves propose this?

Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO @dailyherald.bsky.social · 16h

🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves is set to blame Nigel Farage for tax rises in the Budget, saying he delivered Brexit with “easy sloganeering” and then walked away

Reeves will say that without Brexit, the economy would be stronger and taxes lower - and that Farage is to blame

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19h

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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Broadcasting Scotland @broadcastscot.bsky.social · 17h

We are now live from the #SNP25 Conference in Aberdeen.

Broadcasting Scotland @broadcastscot.bsky.social · 1d

Join us live from Aberdeen for opening day of the SNP’s 91st Annual National Conference 2025. #SNP25

www.broadcastingscotland.scot/snp-conferen...

SNP Conference 2025 Day 1 - 11/10/2025 - Broadcasting Scotland

Join us live at the SNP Conference 2025 from Aberdeen for opening day of the SNP's 91st Annual National Conference 2025.

www.broadcastingscotland.scot

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 16h

Byline Times has been told by various sources that Farage has maintained a close interest in Ukraine’s conflict with Russia…
But Farage’s ignorance of this particular set of pro-Russian influencers around Nathan Gill is even more questionable….

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 18h

I thought the Celtic druids were slaughtered on Ynys Môn by the Vikings which led to the Celtic tribes to join forces to kill all the Vikings on their next visit. Hence why the Vikings never bothered with Wales

Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 18h

So me getting up at 5 every morning having and ice bath and drinking a pint of my own piss has been pointless?

Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 18h

Welsh media aren't doing a very good job of exposing the links either.

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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 18h

Labour's failure to get the basics right in literacy and numeracy is letting our children down.

A Plaid Cymru government will invest in our children's future, with a new plan to help pupils thrive.

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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 19h

And Gills relationship with Reforms candidate at the Senedd by-election. Powell worked for and with Gill in the then Assembly and the now defunct right wing think tank Centre for Welsh Studies.

Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 19h

Dim cyfeiriad o gwbl o safbwynt perthynas Gill ag ymgeisydd Reform Llŷr Powell sef y pwynt pwysicaf yn hyn i gyd newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/30762

Achos Nathan Gill: Un ‘afal drwg’ medd Nigel Farage

Mae arweinydd plaid Reform UK, Nigel Farage wedi dweud mai un “afal drwg” oedd cyn arweinydd y blaid yng Nghymru, Nathan Gill.

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 19h

Tybed faint o actorion a chriw sa'r miliwn o bunnoedd (a mwy) a wariwyd ar adroddiad Capital Law a setliad Siân Doyle wedi cyflogi?

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Plaid Cymru Caerffili @plaid-cymru-bgcr.bsky.social · 1d

The Nation of Sanctuary means children getting the support and guidance they need to recover from what they have witnessed and thrive in their new homes.

#NationOfSanctuary #Immigration #PlaidCymru

Sanctuary for Children

YouTube video by Plaid Cymru Caerffili

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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 1d

I was fortunate to be present in the packed hall when Rhun ap Iorwerth set out the positive vision for Wales under a Welsh Government under his leadership. It was so refreshing to hear ambition for the future of Wales, filled with hope and a desire to improve the lives of ALL Welsh citizens.

Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 1d

It's time for new leadership in Wales.

A Plaid Cymru government would get to grips with the everyday issues facing our communities with our practical solutions.

Vote Plaid Cymru on 7 May 2026 for a positive change from Labour, and to stop Reform's divison. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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