Gwern Gwynfil
@gwerngwynfil.bsky.social
Gwleidyddiaeth, Cymru, y traddodiad Celtaidd byw, pendroni am Rhyddfrydiaeth yn yr 21eg Ganrif / politics, 🏴, our living Celtic tradition, musing on Liberalism in the 21st Century (also occasional 📸 from 🏴)
‘’Policy without reliable data is little more than guesswork dressed up as management’’
Anglocentric data framing is just one sign of the systemic way in which devolution was ‘set up to fail’ but more could have been done, and can be done, domestically to address this
Anglocentric data framing is just one sign of the systemic way in which devolution was ‘set up to fail’ but more could have been done, and can be done, domestically to address this
How can Wales level up when the numbers don’t even add up?
Wales is repeatedly held back by the lack of reliable, Wales-specific data. Until Wales has the tools to properly measure its own performance, it can’t meaningfully shape its future.
Wales is repeatedly held back by the lack of reliable, Wales-specific data. Until Wales has the tools to properly measure its own performance, it can’t meaningfully shape its future.
The missing numbers which hold back Wales
Simon Hobson Time-and-again in the Senedd, members struggle to place reliable numbers on subjects being debated. A case in point was a recent debate between Labour’s Eluned Morgan and Conservative…
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
‘’Policy without reliable data is little more than guesswork dressed up as management’’
Anglocentric data framing is just one sign of the systemic way in which devolution was ‘set up to fail’ but more could have been done, and can be done, domestically to address this
Anglocentric data framing is just one sign of the systemic way in which devolution was ‘set up to fail’ but more could have been done, and can be done, domestically to address this
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How can Wales level up when the numbers don’t even add up?
Wales is repeatedly held back by the lack of reliable, Wales-specific data. Until Wales has the tools to properly measure its own performance, it can’t meaningfully shape its future.
Wales is repeatedly held back by the lack of reliable, Wales-specific data. Until Wales has the tools to properly measure its own performance, it can’t meaningfully shape its future.
The missing numbers which hold back Wales
Simon Hobson Time-and-again in the Senedd, members struggle to place reliable numbers on subjects being debated. A case in point was a recent debate between Labour’s Eluned Morgan and Conservative…
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
How can Wales level up when the numbers don’t even add up?
Wales is repeatedly held back by the lack of reliable, Wales-specific data. Until Wales has the tools to properly measure its own performance, it can’t meaningfully shape its future.
Wales is repeatedly held back by the lack of reliable, Wales-specific data. Until Wales has the tools to properly measure its own performance, it can’t meaningfully shape its future.
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Zack living rent free in Labour heads.
Labour governments at both ends of the M4 are clearly rattled.
It's time for Greens to replace them.
#BoldPolitics
Labour governments at both ends of the M4 are clearly rattled.
It's time for Greens to replace them.
#BoldPolitics
Watch as Rachel Reeves brands Greens leader Zack Polanski a 'keen hypnotherapist'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Zack living rent free in Labour heads.
Labour governments at both ends of the M4 are clearly rattled.
It's time for Greens to replace them.
#BoldPolitics
Labour governments at both ends of the M4 are clearly rattled.
It's time for Greens to replace them.
#BoldPolitics
Well now
That’s an interesting thing to be saying in a TUC Cymru conference
That’s an interesting thing to be saying in a TUC Cymru conference
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Well now
That’s an interesting thing to be saying in a TUC Cymru conference
That’s an interesting thing to be saying in a TUC Cymru conference
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‘It’s hard to be stuck with flags loaded with negativity – especially when one of your immediate neighbours has a super cool world leading flag with a dragon on it’ - 😎 indeed 🏴
nation.cymru/opinion/let-...
nation.cymru/opinion/let-...
Let Y Ddraig Goch roar
Gwern Gwynfil It is a joy to be Welsh. When we see Y Ddraig Goch flying, hanging on an M4 bridge or a lamp post, or even graffitied on other street furniture, our heart soars. Our flag transcends the ...
nation.cymru
September 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
‘It’s hard to be stuck with flags loaded with negativity – especially when one of your immediate neighbours has a super cool world leading flag with a dragon on it’ - 😎 indeed 🏴
nation.cymru/opinion/let-...
nation.cymru/opinion/let-...
‘It’s hard to be stuck with flags loaded with negativity – especially when one of your immediate neighbours has a super cool world leading flag with a dragon on it’ - 😎 indeed 🏴
nation.cymru/opinion/let-...
nation.cymru/opinion/let-...
Let Y Ddraig Goch roar
Gwern Gwynfil It is a joy to be Welsh. When we see Y Ddraig Goch flying, hanging on an M4 bridge or a lamp post, or even graffitied on other street furniture, our heart soars. Our flag transcends the ...
nation.cymru
September 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
‘It’s hard to be stuck with flags loaded with negativity – especially when one of your immediate neighbours has a super cool world leading flag with a dragon on it’ - 😎 indeed 🏴
nation.cymru/opinion/let-...
nation.cymru/opinion/let-...
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Unlike the swastika, the Cross of St George can still be reclaimed. England has the chance to take its flag back permanently from the right wingers and racists — to be as proud of it as the Welsh are of our dragon ✍️ Gwern Gwynfil
Swastikas, flags, and other symbols
Gwern Gwynfil In the early 20th Century, the swastika became popular across the Western world as an ornamental symbol of hope, good fortune and, in the aftermath of the First World War, of peace. Now ...
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August 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Unlike the swastika, the Cross of St George can still be reclaimed. England has the chance to take its flag back permanently from the right wingers and racists — to be as proud of it as the Welsh are of our dragon ✍️ Gwern Gwynfil
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I was at this - the reading of names of children killed in Gaza was very powerful
They will be reading from 9am until midnight
With more than 12500 children killed and more than 50000 killed or injured, they will not be running out of names 😔
We should not be willing to accept this in silence
They will be reading from 9am until midnight
With more than 12500 children killed and more than 50000 killed or injured, they will not be running out of names 😔
We should not be willing to accept this in silence
Oxfam Cymru launch Red Line Cymru campaign - show your support for peace in Gaza by placing a Red Line in your window
In the audio on this video, the names of children killed in Gaza are being read out on the Senedd steps - a poignant reminder of why we must speak up and speak out
#redlinecymru
In the audio on this video, the names of children killed in Gaza are being read out on the Senedd steps - a poignant reminder of why we must speak up and speak out
#redlinecymru
July 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I was at this - the reading of names of children killed in Gaza was very powerful
They will be reading from 9am until midnight
With more than 12500 children killed and more than 50000 killed or injured, they will not be running out of names 😔
We should not be willing to accept this in silence
They will be reading from 9am until midnight
With more than 12500 children killed and more than 50000 killed or injured, they will not be running out of names 😔
We should not be willing to accept this in silence
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In any conflict, there are red lines that must never be crossed. In Gaza, those lines are not just being crossed - they are being obliterated✍️ Sarah Rees, Oxfam Cymru wp.me/p8Mk4U-12PQ
July 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
In any conflict, there are red lines that must never be crossed. In Gaza, those lines are not just being crossed - they are being obliterated✍️ Sarah Rees, Oxfam Cymru wp.me/p8Mk4U-12PQ
I was at this - the reading of names of children killed in Gaza was very powerful
They will be reading from 9am until midnight
With more than 12500 children killed and more than 50000 killed or injured, they will not be running out of names 😔
We should not be willing to accept this in silence
They will be reading from 9am until midnight
With more than 12500 children killed and more than 50000 killed or injured, they will not be running out of names 😔
We should not be willing to accept this in silence
Oxfam Cymru launch Red Line Cymru campaign - show your support for peace in Gaza by placing a Red Line in your window
In the audio on this video, the names of children killed in Gaza are being read out on the Senedd steps - a poignant reminder of why we must speak up and speak out
#redlinecymru
In the audio on this video, the names of children killed in Gaza are being read out on the Senedd steps - a poignant reminder of why we must speak up and speak out
#redlinecymru
July 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I was at this - the reading of names of children killed in Gaza was very powerful
They will be reading from 9am until midnight
With more than 12500 children killed and more than 50000 killed or injured, they will not be running out of names 😔
We should not be willing to accept this in silence
They will be reading from 9am until midnight
With more than 12500 children killed and more than 50000 killed or injured, they will not be running out of names 😔
We should not be willing to accept this in silence
Reposted by Gwern Gwynfil
Oxfam Cymru launch Red Line Cymru campaign - show your support for peace in Gaza by placing a Red Line in your window
In the audio on this video, the names of children killed in Gaza are being read out on the Senedd steps - a poignant reminder of why we must speak up and speak out
#redlinecymru
In the audio on this video, the names of children killed in Gaza are being read out on the Senedd steps - a poignant reminder of why we must speak up and speak out
#redlinecymru
July 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Oxfam Cymru launch Red Line Cymru campaign - show your support for peace in Gaza by placing a Red Line in your window
In the audio on this video, the names of children killed in Gaza are being read out on the Senedd steps - a poignant reminder of why we must speak up and speak out
#redlinecymru
In the audio on this video, the names of children killed in Gaza are being read out on the Senedd steps - a poignant reminder of why we must speak up and speak out
#redlinecymru
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#IndependenceDay 🇺🇲
Rev Dr Richard Price • An influential Welsh moral philosopher and theologian 🏴
He is best known for his influence on both the French and American Revolutions 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
hellohistoria.substack.com/p/a-friend-o...
#Wales #History
Rev Dr Richard Price • An influential Welsh moral philosopher and theologian 🏴
He is best known for his influence on both the French and American Revolutions 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
hellohistoria.substack.com/p/a-friend-o...
#Wales #History
July 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
#IndependenceDay 🇺🇲
Rev Dr Richard Price • An influential Welsh moral philosopher and theologian 🏴
He is best known for his influence on both the French and American Revolutions 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
hellohistoria.substack.com/p/a-friend-o...
#Wales #History
Rev Dr Richard Price • An influential Welsh moral philosopher and theologian 🏴
He is best known for his influence on both the French and American Revolutions 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
hellohistoria.substack.com/p/a-friend-o...
#Wales #History
Thoughtful piece by James - important conversation for 🏴 to have
More voices needed for an open discussion
‘We go cap-in-hand to Westminster to ask for less than we are owed, as though it is more than we deserve. All the while, inequalities and unmet needs only deepen’
nation.cymru/opinion/what...
More voices needed for an open discussion
‘We go cap-in-hand to Westminster to ask for less than we are owed, as though it is more than we deserve. All the while, inequalities and unmet needs only deepen’
nation.cymru/opinion/what...
What is 'England and Wales'?
James Downs, Mental Health Campaigner Legally, ‘England and Wales’ refers to a shared jurisdiction, that, unlike Scotland or Northern Ireland, remains constitutionally tethered in areas such as justic...
nation.cymru
June 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Thoughtful piece by James - important conversation for 🏴 to have
More voices needed for an open discussion
‘We go cap-in-hand to Westminster to ask for less than we are owed, as though it is more than we deserve. All the while, inequalities and unmet needs only deepen’
nation.cymru/opinion/what...
More voices needed for an open discussion
‘We go cap-in-hand to Westminster to ask for less than we are owed, as though it is more than we deserve. All the while, inequalities and unmet needs only deepen’
nation.cymru/opinion/what...
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Congrats to @gwerngwynfil.bsky.social and @newwales.bsky.social on the launch of their podcast series. And proud dad kudos to Dylan Yeomans for being the producer of the podcasts.
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Freeports, offshore banking and visas for sale | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
How does Wales build wealth for itself? What are the paths to attracting and keeping talent in Wales? Are places like Dubai models to be emulated? And, how do you get to play rugby for Wales and becom...
rss.com
June 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Congrats to @gwerngwynfil.bsky.social and @newwales.bsky.social on the launch of their podcast series. And proud dad kudos to Dylan Yeomans for being the producer of the podcasts.
rss.com/podcasts/blu...
rss.com/podcasts/blu...
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‘we end up managing problems we didn’t create, with money we don’t control, through policies shaped by priorities that aren’t ours’
Indeed. Well put, another good piece here from Owen Williams 🙌
nation.cymru/opinion/what...
Indeed. Well put, another good piece here from Owen Williams 🙌
nation.cymru/opinion/what...
What If the UK is just a chapter, not the whole story?
Owen Williams They’ve said it for decades. That Wales is too small. Too poor. That we’d never survive alone. But who gets to decide that? And why do we still believe them? Let’s break this down. Becau...
nation.cymru
May 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
‘we end up managing problems we didn’t create, with money we don’t control, through policies shaped by priorities that aren’t ours’
Indeed. Well put, another good piece here from Owen Williams 🙌
nation.cymru/opinion/what...
Indeed. Well put, another good piece here from Owen Williams 🙌
nation.cymru/opinion/what...
‘we end up managing problems we didn’t create, with money we don’t control, through policies shaped by priorities that aren’t ours’
Indeed. Well put, another good piece here from Owen Williams 🙌
nation.cymru/opinion/what...
Indeed. Well put, another good piece here from Owen Williams 🙌
nation.cymru/opinion/what...
What If the UK is just a chapter, not the whole story?
Owen Williams They’ve said it for decades. That Wales is too small. Too poor. That we’d never survive alone. But who gets to decide that? And why do we still believe them? Let’s break this down. Becau...
nation.cymru
May 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
‘we end up managing problems we didn’t create, with money we don’t control, through policies shaped by priorities that aren’t ours’
Indeed. Well put, another good piece here from Owen Williams 🙌
nation.cymru/opinion/what...
Indeed. Well put, another good piece here from Owen Williams 🙌
nation.cymru/opinion/what...
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Time to applaud lives saved, disruption eased, and a policy that has paid for itself in its first year
Or will the enraged speedsters still insist that we should go back to more injuries and deaths?
Crashes on 20mph and 30mph roads at 'record low' www.bbc.com/news/article...
Or will the enraged speedsters still insist that we should go back to more injuries and deaths?
Crashes on 20mph and 30mph roads at 'record low' www.bbc.com/news/article...
Serious collisions on 20mph and 30mph roads at record low
New data reveals casualties were at a record low in 2024, despite plans to change some speed limits.
www.bbc.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Time to applaud lives saved, disruption eased, and a policy that has paid for itself in its first year
Or will the enraged speedsters still insist that we should go back to more injuries and deaths?
Crashes on 20mph and 30mph roads at 'record low' www.bbc.com/news/article...
Or will the enraged speedsters still insist that we should go back to more injuries and deaths?
Crashes on 20mph and 30mph roads at 'record low' www.bbc.com/news/article...
Time to applaud lives saved, disruption eased, and a policy that has paid for itself in its first year
Or will the enraged speedsters still insist that we should go back to more injuries and deaths?
Crashes on 20mph and 30mph roads at 'record low' www.bbc.com/news/article...
Or will the enraged speedsters still insist that we should go back to more injuries and deaths?
Crashes on 20mph and 30mph roads at 'record low' www.bbc.com/news/article...
Serious collisions on 20mph and 30mph roads at record low
New data reveals casualties were at a record low in 2024, despite plans to change some speed limits.
www.bbc.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Time to applaud lives saved, disruption eased, and a policy that has paid for itself in its first year
Or will the enraged speedsters still insist that we should go back to more injuries and deaths?
Crashes on 20mph and 30mph roads at 'record low' www.bbc.com/news/article...
Or will the enraged speedsters still insist that we should go back to more injuries and deaths?
Crashes on 20mph and 30mph roads at 'record low' www.bbc.com/news/article...
‘It’s an Anglocentric framing in which the UK Parliament is default, and all else is deviation’
Good explainer/analysis piece this by Ows Wills - well worth a read
nation.cymru/opinion/this...
Good explainer/analysis piece this by Ows Wills - well worth a read
nation.cymru/opinion/this...
This isn’t a Union. It’s a monologue
Owen Williams On a recent episode of The News Agents, Lewis Goodall dismissed the idea that Westminster politics is too adversarial. “The essence of politics is division,” he said. “Especially in our ...
nation.cymru
May 22, 2025 at 6:52 AM
‘It’s an Anglocentric framing in which the UK Parliament is default, and all else is deviation’
Good explainer/analysis piece this by Ows Wills - well worth a read
nation.cymru/opinion/this...
Good explainer/analysis piece this by Ows Wills - well worth a read
nation.cymru/opinion/this...
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You can do something for Gaza today, read this… then ask our @welshgovernment.bsky.social why they won’t speak up
Our Oxfam colleagues and partners are witnessing scenes that defy belief, children too weak to cry, dizzy with hunger, hair falling out, suffering with sickness as they are malnourished✍️ Sarah Rees, Oxfam Cymru buff.ly/SEMOKzW
May 17, 2025 at 6:29 AM
You can do something for Gaza today, read this… then ask our @welshgovernment.bsky.social why they won’t speak up
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First of our questing heroes this week is @mateoy.bsky.social.
The Welsh coast prompts questions about how the sea has shaped us through history, mythology, literature and culture - and climate change. With Jon Gower
Pirates possible. montylitfest.com/?page_id=7644
The Welsh coast prompts questions about how the sea has shaped us through history, mythology, literature and culture - and climate change. With Jon Gower
Pirates possible. montylitfest.com/?page_id=7644
2025 Sunday - 3.30pm Matthew Yeomans
How the sea has shaped Welsh history, culture and mythology and what we need to do secure a healthy future for our coast and coastal communities.
montylitfest.com
May 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
First of our questing heroes this week is @mateoy.bsky.social.
The Welsh coast prompts questions about how the sea has shaped us through history, mythology, literature and culture - and climate change. With Jon Gower
Pirates possible. montylitfest.com/?page_id=7644
The Welsh coast prompts questions about how the sea has shaped us through history, mythology, literature and culture - and climate change. With Jon Gower
Pirates possible. montylitfest.com/?page_id=7644
Wrote a reflection on VE Day - hopefully readers will be inspired to give more thought to some aspects of discourse today…
nation.cymru/opinion/have...
nation.cymru/opinion/have...
Have we forgotten?
Gwern Gwynfil Subjectively, 80 years is a long time. My Mamgu was born at a time when cars and electricity were still novel (she remembered seeing her first car when she was a little girl, it was a bi...
nation.cymru
May 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Wrote a reflection on VE Day - hopefully readers will be inspired to give more thought to some aspects of discourse today…
nation.cymru/opinion/have...
nation.cymru/opinion/have...
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In this personal, thought provoking piece, one of our team reflects on how and what we choose to remember on occasions such as VE Day - what lessons have we learnt from the past?
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buff.ly/LJS7rbd
Have we forgotten?
Gwern Gwynfil Subjectively, 80 years is a long time. My Mamgu was born at a time when cars and electricity were still novel (she remembered seeing her first car when she was a little girl, it was a…
nation.cymru
May 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
In this personal, thought provoking piece, one of our team reflects on how and what we choose to remember on occasions such as VE Day - what lessons have we learnt from the past?
buff.ly/LJS7rbd
buff.ly/LJS7rbd
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I do love the way civil servants so savagely maul politicians with such diffidence and aplomb - quite delightful
Bravo Desmond 👏😁
Bravo Desmond 👏😁
At no point in this diary does Simon Hart convey any sense of defending Wales, pushing its interests or fighting its corner in Whitehall. Outside his job title, the word ‘Wales’ hardly features at all✍️ Desmond Clifford
buff.ly
May 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I do love the way civil servants so savagely maul politicians with such diffidence and aplomb - quite delightful
Bravo Desmond 👏😁
Bravo Desmond 👏😁