CerithG🏴
@cerithg.bsky.social
Crwt o Gymru🏴Welsh lad🏴Cyn-ddiffoddwr tân nawr yn diwtor TUC Cymru🏴Former firefighter turned TUC Cymru tutor🏴Rhedeg, seiclo, heicio🏴Running, cycling, hiking🏴
‘O Arglwydd dyma gamwedd’ - Dic Penderyn - 13 Awst 1831
‘O Arglwydd dyma gamwedd’ - Dic Penderyn - 13 Awst 1831
Remembering Firefighters Michael Miller & Jeff Wornham tragically taken in the line of duty on this day 2005 at Harrow Court, Stevenage. The fire, in which a woman also died, was believed to have been started accidentally by a candle.
Forever in our thoughts💔x
Forever in our thoughts💔x
February 2, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Remembering Firefighters Michael Miller & Jeff Wornham tragically taken in the line of duty on this day 2005 at Harrow Court, Stevenage. The fire, in which a woman also died, was believed to have been started accidentally by a candle.
Forever in our thoughts💔x
Forever in our thoughts💔x
Remembering firefighters Kevin Lane and Stephen Griffin tragically taken in the line of duty on this day in 1996. Also remembering young Daniel Harford who lost his life in that fateful fire. Forever in our thoughts💔x
www.fbu.org.uk/blog/blaina-...
www.fbu.org.uk/blog/blaina-...
February 1, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Remembering firefighters Kevin Lane and Stephen Griffin tragically taken in the line of duty on this day in 1996. Also remembering young Daniel Harford who lost his life in that fateful fire. Forever in our thoughts💔x
www.fbu.org.uk/blog/blaina-...
www.fbu.org.uk/blog/blaina-...
‘O Arglwydd dyma gamwedd!’
‘Dic Penderyn, though born and buried in Port Talbot, is most closely associated with Merthyr Tydfil. On 13th August 1831, the 23-year old miner was hung outside Cardiff Gaol as an example after the Merthyr Rising workers’ revolt.’
‘Dic Penderyn, though born and buried in Port Talbot, is most closely associated with Merthyr Tydfil. On 13th August 1831, the 23-year old miner was hung outside Cardiff Gaol as an example after the Merthyr Rising workers’ revolt.’
Michael Sheen has lent his voice to a poem, 'The Execution of Richard Lewis', honouring the iconic Welsh martyr
Michael Sheen gives voice to powerful poem on Dic Penderyn
Michael Sheen has lent his voice to a poem, ‘The Execution of Richard Lewis’, by author and historian Sally Roberts Jones. After forty years of research, Sally, who also acts as Vice President of the ...
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February 1, 2026 at 10:34 AM
‘O Arglwydd dyma gamwedd!’
‘Dic Penderyn, though born and buried in Port Talbot, is most closely associated with Merthyr Tydfil. On 13th August 1831, the 23-year old miner was hung outside Cardiff Gaol as an example after the Merthyr Rising workers’ revolt.’
‘Dic Penderyn, though born and buried in Port Talbot, is most closely associated with Merthyr Tydfil. On 13th August 1831, the 23-year old miner was hung outside Cardiff Gaol as an example after the Merthyr Rising workers’ revolt.’
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Immigration and Asylum are decided by UK Government.
“Nation of Sanctuary” is how Welsh Government follows the law once people are placed here.
Similar schemes exist in Scotland and Northern Ireland
Simple facts. No spin. Please share. 🏴
“Nation of Sanctuary” is how Welsh Government follows the law once people are placed here.
Similar schemes exist in Scotland and Northern Ireland
Simple facts. No spin. Please share. 🏴
January 30, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Immigration and Asylum are decided by UK Government.
“Nation of Sanctuary” is how Welsh Government follows the law once people are placed here.
Similar schemes exist in Scotland and Northern Ireland
Simple facts. No spin. Please share. 🏴
“Nation of Sanctuary” is how Welsh Government follows the law once people are placed here.
Similar schemes exist in Scotland and Northern Ireland
Simple facts. No spin. Please share. 🏴
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Here's a sublime, beautifully-written review from @thenerve.news on the @welshnattheatre.bsky.social production of Our Town. Thank you @juderogers.bsky.social
Review of the Week: Our Town
The Welsh National Theatre’s first large-scale production, starring its artistic director Michael Sheen, brings a shimmering Celtic quality to Thornton Wilder’s tale of smalltown America, writes Jude ...
www.thenerve.news
January 30, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Here's a sublime, beautifully-written review from @thenerve.news on the @welshnattheatre.bsky.social production of Our Town. Thank you @juderogers.bsky.social
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Born #OnThisDay 29 Jan 1919 Marina Ginestà in Toulouse to politicised working class exiled Catalan parents. Family returned to Barcelona 1928, prewar communist youth and war. 1939 escaped Franco's Spain, exile in LatAm, later France, 1970s won Cat literary award for one of her novels. Died Paris2014
January 29, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Born #OnThisDay 29 Jan 1919 Marina Ginestà in Toulouse to politicised working class exiled Catalan parents. Family returned to Barcelona 1928, prewar communist youth and war. 1939 escaped Franco's Spain, exile in LatAm, later France, 1970s won Cat literary award for one of her novels. Died Paris2014
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“Resisting the annexation of our hearts & minds by [tech] requires us not just to set boundaries on our engagement […], but to cherish the alternatives. Joy in ordinary things, in each other, in embodied life, & the language with which to value it, is essential to this resistance.”
Bravo 👏✊
Bravo 👏✊
Really good piece:
“in education, the ultimate product is not your term paper or essay or grade point average; it’s your self. You are supposed to emerge more informed, more capable of critical thinking, more competent.”
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
“in education, the ultimate product is not your term paper or essay or grade point average; it’s your self. You are supposed to emerge more informed, more capable of critical thinking, more competent.”
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:04 AM
“Resisting the annexation of our hearts & minds by [tech] requires us not just to set boundaries on our engagement […], but to cherish the alternatives. Joy in ordinary things, in each other, in embodied life, & the language with which to value it, is essential to this resistance.”
Bravo 👏✊
Bravo 👏✊
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
‘Couldn’t happen here? The hard right in Britain is fast consolidating around Reform…’
‘…Braverman and Jenrick have thus between them incrementally outlined a programme of aggressive reaction, to be targeted at ethnic minorities and the left...’
‘…Braverman and Jenrick have thus between them incrementally outlined a programme of aggressive reaction, to be targeted at ethnic minorities and the left...’
Minnesota reveals Britain’s future under Reform
THERE is little need to imagine life under a Reform UK government — that dystopian future is being played out in full view in Minnesota.Armed agents of the Trump administration, recruited from among w...
www.morningstaronline.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 2:21 PM
‘Couldn’t happen here? The hard right in Britain is fast consolidating around Reform…’
‘…Braverman and Jenrick have thus between them incrementally outlined a programme of aggressive reaction, to be targeted at ethnic minorities and the left...’
‘…Braverman and Jenrick have thus between them incrementally outlined a programme of aggressive reaction, to be targeted at ethnic minorities and the left...’
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This video is now banned for US users on Tik Tok.
The platform has fallen to the regime.
And this is EXACTLY the kind of footage they DON’T want US citizens to see.
The platform has fallen to the regime.
And this is EXACTLY the kind of footage they DON’T want US citizens to see.
January 26, 2026 at 9:59 PM
This video is now banned for US users on Tik Tok.
The platform has fallen to the regime.
And this is EXACTLY the kind of footage they DON’T want US citizens to see.
The platform has fallen to the regime.
And this is EXACTLY the kind of footage they DON’T want US citizens to see.
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I had a chat with two political co-conspirators from Wrecsam.
With @carrieplaid.bsky.social & @marcvjones.bsky.social
youtu.be/8RxMsObwqU8
With @carrieplaid.bsky.social & @marcvjones.bsky.social
youtu.be/8RxMsObwqU8
Leanne Wood | Episode 30
YouTube video by Wrecsam News
youtu.be
January 25, 2026 at 8:05 AM
I had a chat with two political co-conspirators from Wrecsam.
With @carrieplaid.bsky.social & @marcvjones.bsky.social
youtu.be/8RxMsObwqU8
With @carrieplaid.bsky.social & @marcvjones.bsky.social
youtu.be/8RxMsObwqU8
‘We know the playbook of what comes next because we’ve already seen it. We know that the news cycle will erupt in shock and fury. And we know that the Trump administration and its allies will lie. They will tell us not to believe the evidence of our eyes…’
NEW: this is how the US press would report on this if it was happening in a ‘shithole country’. It’s an execution. But it also reveals how weak Trump really is
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Death Squads Execute Second Dissident
Or what the US press would say if this was happening on the streets of a "shithole" country overseas
open.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:41 AM
‘We know the playbook of what comes next because we’ve already seen it. We know that the news cycle will erupt in shock and fury. And we know that the Trump administration and its allies will lie. They will tell us not to believe the evidence of our eyes…’
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Cadwalladr 🎯 👇
"What is happening on the streets of Minneapolis is a test. The city is a petri dish where administration is testing the limits of its power & the strength of the resistance it encounters. This is intended to provoke a reaction & it’s the form that reaction takes that’s so critical."
"What is happening on the streets of Minneapolis is a test. The city is a petri dish where administration is testing the limits of its power & the strength of the resistance it encounters. This is intended to provoke a reaction & it’s the form that reaction takes that’s so critical."
January 25, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Cadwalladr 🎯 👇
"What is happening on the streets of Minneapolis is a test. The city is a petri dish where administration is testing the limits of its power & the strength of the resistance it encounters. This is intended to provoke a reaction & it’s the form that reaction takes that’s so critical."
"What is happening on the streets of Minneapolis is a test. The city is a petri dish where administration is testing the limits of its power & the strength of the resistance it encounters. This is intended to provoke a reaction & it’s the form that reaction takes that’s so critical."
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ICE isn't law enforcement without training; ICE is white nationalism with guns.
January 24, 2026 at 6:25 PM
ICE isn't law enforcement without training; ICE is white nationalism with guns.
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Fourteen years after floodwater tore through a Welsh village, residents are building their own defences — planting 40,000 trees to fight the floods themselves ✍️Debbie Luxon
Welsh flood victims don wellies planting 40,000 trees to slow the flow
Debbie Luxon It was the early hours when Mick Fothergill woke his wife Jenny to climb out of their cottage window, as floodwater from the River Leri surged through their home. Watching their house…
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January 21, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Fourteen years after floodwater tore through a Welsh village, residents are building their own defences — planting 40,000 trees to fight the floods themselves ✍️Debbie Luxon
The only reason I’m still watching this utterly senseless ramble is in the vain hope that those that are in the room decide not to applaud and remain totally silent as if they’re not there…
Anything… just anything to send it a message. He may then begin to understand. I live in hope…
Anything… just anything to send it a message. He may then begin to understand. I live in hope…
Every single person in that room in #Davos listening to that orange man-baby’s arrogance and his disparaging comments about anyone and everyone the world over should walk out and leave him to it…
He’s utterly unsuitable to hold any office never mind be Commander in Chief!
He’s utterly unsuitable to hold any office never mind be Commander in Chief!
January 21, 2026 at 2:31 PM
The only reason I’m still watching this utterly senseless ramble is in the vain hope that those that are in the room decide not to applaud and remain totally silent as if they’re not there…
Anything… just anything to send it a message. He may then begin to understand. I live in hope…
Anything… just anything to send it a message. He may then begin to understand. I live in hope…
Every single person in that room in #Davos listening to that orange man-baby’s arrogance and his disparaging comments about anyone and everyone the world over should walk out and leave him to it…
He’s utterly unsuitable to hold any office never mind be Commander in Chief!
He’s utterly unsuitable to hold any office never mind be Commander in Chief!
January 21, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Every single person in that room in #Davos listening to that orange man-baby’s arrogance and his disparaging comments about anyone and everyone the world over should walk out and leave him to it…
He’s utterly unsuitable to hold any office never mind be Commander in Chief!
He’s utterly unsuitable to hold any office never mind be Commander in Chief!
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#OtD 21 Jan 1950 George Orwell, celebrated British author and socialist who fought against the fascists in the Spanish civil war, died. More on the Spanish Civil War in our podcast here: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...
January 21, 2026 at 7:11 AM
#OtD 21 Jan 1950 George Orwell, celebrated British author and socialist who fought against the fascists in the Spanish civil war, died. More on the Spanish Civil War in our podcast here: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...
‘And Britain stays well within global trends of wealth concentration and inequality, as the richest 56 Britons own more than the combined wealth of 27 million people.’
‘Tax billionaires out of existence,’ campaigners say after Oxfam exposes scale of inequality
BILLIONAIRES must be “taxed out of existence,” campaigners have demanded as new data found that their wealth grew to the highest peak ever in 2025.In a report published by Oxfam today at the start of ...
www.morningstaronline.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 10:01 AM
‘And Britain stays well within global trends of wealth concentration and inequality, as the richest 56 Britons own more than the combined wealth of 27 million people.’
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Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.
There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
1/
There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
1/
January 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.
There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
1/
There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
1/
‘I came back from Ukraine and had planned to write about my trip – about resilience, about people living through war with quiet dignity.
Instead, I am writing about Wales, and about how harmful narratives about refugees and asylum seekers turn into real harm…
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Instead, I am writing about Wales, and about how harmful narratives about refugees and asylum seekers turn into real harm…
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Recently, two Ukrainian women left Caerphilly County Borough with their children after months of being targeted. They returned to Ukraine - to winter, shelling, and power cuts - because at least there their children were not bullied✍️ Yuliia Bond wp.me/p8Mk4U-1cSP
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January 19, 2026 at 8:58 PM
‘I came back from Ukraine and had planned to write about my trip – about resilience, about people living through war with quiet dignity.
Instead, I am writing about Wales, and about how harmful narratives about refugees and asylum seekers turn into real harm…
1/2
Instead, I am writing about Wales, and about how harmful narratives about refugees and asylum seekers turn into real harm…
1/2
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Recently, two Ukrainian women left Caerphilly County Borough with their children after months of being targeted. They returned to Ukraine - to winter, shelling, and power cuts - because at least there their children were not bullied✍️ Yuliia Bond wp.me/p8Mk4U-1cSP
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January 19, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Recently, two Ukrainian women left Caerphilly County Borough with their children after months of being targeted. They returned to Ukraine - to winter, shelling, and power cuts - because at least there their children were not bullied✍️ Yuliia Bond wp.me/p8Mk4U-1cSP
‘Groups like White Vanguard thrive on racism and division. They serve one agenda and one agenda only—the agenda of those who exploit and oppress the working class, regardless of race and background…’
White Vanguard, a neo-Nazi group who recently joined far right protests in Wales, has split, losing around half its members and forcing out its leadership ✍️ Adam Johannes
Neo-Nazi group White Vanguard splits
Adam Johannes White Vanguard (WV), a neo-Nazi group who recently joined far right protests in Wales, has split, losing around half its members and forcing out its leadership. It appears internal disp...
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January 17, 2026 at 12:16 PM
‘Groups like White Vanguard thrive on racism and division. They serve one agenda and one agenda only—the agenda of those who exploit and oppress the working class, regardless of race and background…’
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Robert Jenrick says the Tories "broke Britain," so he's joined a party that includes:
Nadhim Zahawi,
Nadine Dorries,
Jonathan Gullis,
Ben Bradley,
Danny Kruger,
Jake Berry,
Marco Longhi,
Aiden Burley,
Anne Marie Morris,
Lee Anderson
and Andrea Jenkyns.
Nadhim Zahawi,
Nadine Dorries,
Jonathan Gullis,
Ben Bradley,
Danny Kruger,
Jake Berry,
Marco Longhi,
Aiden Burley,
Anne Marie Morris,
Lee Anderson
and Andrea Jenkyns.
January 15, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Robert Jenrick says the Tories "broke Britain," so he's joined a party that includes:
Nadhim Zahawi,
Nadine Dorries,
Jonathan Gullis,
Ben Bradley,
Danny Kruger,
Jake Berry,
Marco Longhi,
Aiden Burley,
Anne Marie Morris,
Lee Anderson
and Andrea Jenkyns.
Nadhim Zahawi,
Nadine Dorries,
Jonathan Gullis,
Ben Bradley,
Danny Kruger,
Jake Berry,
Marco Longhi,
Aiden Burley,
Anne Marie Morris,
Lee Anderson
and Andrea Jenkyns.
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In case you were wondering why the American Gestapo is currently targeting Minnesota, here are the results of the last general election:
January 15, 2026 at 4:34 PM
In case you were wondering why the American Gestapo is currently targeting Minnesota, here are the results of the last general election: