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Rishi Sunak held a green card while living in Downing St, declaring him a permanent resident of the US.
His wife Akhshata Murty has non-dom tax status. What does this mean for THEIR tax status and entitlement to vote (let alone hold public office)? 1/10
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354-7 MPs back report finding
#ParliamentaryPrivilegesCommittee
report finding
@BorisJohnson
deliberately misled the Commons over lockdown parties at Downing Street.
@CommonsSpeaker
why did you never, ever stop him lying, but censured two of those who called him a liar?
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Been waiting for something like this. There will be more. I missed four funerals due to Covid regulations, including that of one of my parents (who both died). You?
General election NOW.
Rachel
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Small boats have been an issue for quite some time.
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There should be consequences for idealogues who cost a country and its citizens so very much. Matthew Elliott has done more than most to destroy the UK yet is now rewarded, not with prison but a peerage. The Trojan Horse of IEA rule of the UK is complete.
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Brace yourself, Llangollen: unwelcome troublemaking migrant in a small boat headed your way.
My Weekend.
I won't be travelling to foreign shores.
Tomorrow I will start a weekend break with my 2 boys on a canal boat in North Wales.
I cannot wait & anyone who thinks that this is wrong needs to have a reality check. Love your country. It's not that difficult.
Happy Easter
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The ‘UK’s favourite park 2022’, on Anglesey, is to be made into a chalet town, its nature reserve moved to a toxic waste dump. Your help is needed to save Penrhos.
@PenrhosSave
@twittyhilster
@Lisabla82973016
@YesCymru
@Cymdeithas
@carolvorders
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“You, boy! Did you know I have a hospital in my bedroom?”
In January we announced plans to deliver 10,000 virtual ward beds so people get the care they need more quickly.
Today we’ve reached that goal.
We’re harnessing the power of tech and innovation to cut waiting lists in the NHS.
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Beginning to think Wales could just quietly take the Crown Estates back, steal back HS2 billions, kick out foreign extraction companies, declare independence, become a sovereign nation, and join the EU, and no one would really notice.
Everyone’s all “Why give so much attention to Reform and not to Greens who got the same number of seats?!” while not mentioning Plaid Cymru at all *side-eyes Welshly*
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EXCLUSIVE 🏴🌟🏴
Thatcher closed the mines, Brexit closed the steelworks
As Tata Steel announced significant job losses in Port Talbot,
@CaolanRob
@BylineTV
asked
@AMCarwyn
: Why? The answer: Brexit, and an uncaring UK govt
@mikegalsworthy
@BylineTimes
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When Sunak’s green card status was revealed, he also said he’d filed taxes in the US as required, but as a ‘non-resident’. But green cards both bestow and require permanent residency. So arguably he should be under investigation by both the IRS and US Immigration. 4/10
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Questions remain about the ‘Yorkshire’ couple’s arrangements. They assert those are private, while tossing words like ‘accountability’ about like confetti. Most MSM accept it when their ‘people’ say “they did nowt wrong”.
But ooooo that Rayner, right? /
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Green cards allow travel outside the US, “one of the many benefits of being a permanent resident”. However “your trip must be temporary and you can’t remain outside the US for more than 1 year”.
Sunak not only lived in the UK: he was MP/Chancellor. 3/10
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The
#CovidInquiryUK
is confirming so much we already knew. Not least that we are trapped in an abusive relationship with ‘our government’. Domestic abuse writ large. A true horror show.
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The twll tin in the braces is Ben Mallet. Johnson just gave him an OBE. And King Carlo approved it - you know, him whose Mum had to sit alone at his Dad’s funeral while No. 10 staffers slept off hangovers and did the Walk of Shame (allegedly).
Will never understand this country.
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Great response to Guto Harri’s rancid claim on
#BBCQT
that the Privileges Committee were trying to deprive Boris Johnson of his living. Note his smirk. This is what makes him so AWFUL: he knows the truth and exactly what he’s doing! So cynical and sick.
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@AdamBienkov
@BylineTimes
Sunak breached the code himself, by failing to declare his family’s finances.
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Murty was reported as also having a green card; it’s not clear to us whether that one too was surrendered. She did business in the UK, without paying adequate tax, while somehow also retaining Indian citizenship AND a green card. 6/10
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The pre-underfunded NHS was the best healthcare model in any advanced economy. If we allow it to fail, our economy will fail with it. The evidence for this is solid.
Audience member “We know the Conservative Party has privatised the NHS & stolen money from it."
“You can’t blindside us with this anymore!”
"You’ve obliterated the country!”
#bbcqt
#SaveOurNHS
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Those “who hold green cards but leave the US to live abroad indefinitely or permanently will generally continue to be classified & taxed as resident aliens until the green card is relinquished.” You’re either a green card holder OR non-resident alien
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According to the IRS a green card holder is a ‘lawful permanent resident’ and ‘US tax resident for US income tax purposes’. Sunak gave up his green card in October 2021 after its existence was made public (not by HIM, obvs). He claimed he only kept it for ‘travel’ purposes. 2/10
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’Alas, poor country!’: performers suffering from long Covid to distribute masks at David Tennant’s Macbeth tonight
Performing artists, staff, and patrons are impacted by long Covid. Venues need mitigations including masks. Covid is airborne and not over.
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Many called for
#LeeAnderson
to lose the whip for his hate speech. But other MPs get away with it. And no one is calling for arrests. Why not? We have anti-hate laws and the rule of law in the UK. Don’t we?
Art by
@coldwarsteve
used with kind permission.
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So Murty CAN’T be a UK citizen: not while keeping Indian citizenship. Our Prime Minister, who rails against immigrants, is married to someone who’s not a UK citizen. Presumably she’s entitled to vote as a qualifying resident Commonwealth citizen. 8/10
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Her spokesperson said “she’s a citizen of India” which “doesn’t allow its citizens to hold the citizenship of another country simultaneously. So, according to British law, Ms Murty is treated as non-domiciled for UK tax”
A lie: 2 things unconnected. 7/10
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Shouldn’t we just … KNOW these things? From the start? By the way, did you know that Sunak’s mother-in-law was appointed to the Indian parliament last month?
Should Murthy be a California college trustee when not a US citizen nor resident? 9/10
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Let’s double down with the winding up and give every single wind turbine a Welsh name.
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Wales could become first country to criminalise lying politicians
Lack of trust in politics is a crisis point for democracy and a UK-wide issue. Can Wales lead the way in repairing this by taking on lying?
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@stephenclear
@ConversationUK
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Croeso to
#BylinesCymru
! We‘re seeking citizen journalists – including cartoonists, editors, illustrators, proofreaders, social media aces, tech/IT gurus, translators, and writers – to help raise Welsh voices to the rafters. Email editor
@bylines
.cymru if you’re up for it. Diolch!
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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! This is Rachel at
#BylinesCymru
, delighted and excited to say we are now live at !
Go and fill your boots with delicious voices of Wales. Get in touch at editor
@bylines
.cymru if you have something to say yourself. Croeso a diolch! 🏴
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A petition calling for an immediate general election was debated in the UK parliament on Monday. Almost no one turned up, and almost no one noticed. But in moving the motion,
@ToniaAntoniazzi
, MP for Gower🏴, spoke powerfully on behalf of a great many.
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ACTUAL Fire Service stance: “We support Welsh Government’s legislative changes to reduce speed limits on restricted roads from 30mph to 20mph as a means of reducing road traffic fatalities and serious injuries in our communities.”
And can of course exceed limits when responding.
Senior fire and rescue officers have said response times will be affected by the default 20mph speed limit in Wales.
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Wales is a crime scene. We should sling police tape around its borders. Via HS2 and other rail disinvestment, Westminster has robbed it of billions.
@ImFarrellPerks
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Red dress Dancing Woman: Malin Baker Bogue, an American. She was working as a lobbyist for Liberty Steel owner Sanjeev Gupta – one of the key figures in the Greensill Capital collapse – in 2019 when she volunteered to be Boris Johnson’s campaign Director of Special Projects.
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Your great-grandparents may have been first in your family to invest in healthcare. Your grandparents invested, your parents did, now you do for the next generations. The NHS is yours: your inheritance, probably your most valuable. Privatisation is theft.
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Some say Wales can’t afford independence. Some say that the Welsh Government couldn’t handle it. Some call for the Senedd’s abolition. They’re all wrong, says
@swalesmetroprof
. What Wales needs is a marriage of romantic vision and classical practicality.
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Everyone’s all “Why give so much attention to Reform and not to Greens who got the same number of seats?!” while not mentioning Plaid Cymru at all *side-eyes Welshly*
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Latest poll finds 59% of those aged 16–24 support independence for Wales, and 53% of those aged 25–34.
It shows that the United in the United Kingdom is on very thin ice. But must we wait for more people to grow up to achieve independence?
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@Ethan4Indy
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“It’s common for unionists to try to frighten the Welsh people with dark warnings about the dire consequences of inherited debt for the Welsh economy after independence. In fact, the only country which would face problems is England”
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“A record high of 59% of people aged 16–24 support independence. That’s a stunning figure and, when combined with 53% of those aged 25–34, shows that the United in the United Kingdom is on very thin ice.”
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@Ethan4Indy
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Here we go again.
There are two freeports in Wales.
But apparently no detailed maps of them anywhere.
Given that the same people behind Brexit are behind freeports, well …
@WelshGovernment
?
@PrifWeinidog
?
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The physicist and inventor Leo Szilard had a commandment: “Do not destroy what you cannot create.” This has been trampled by the UK government in its Brexit-inflicted vandalism of our creative industries, says
@NikGammon
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Liz Truss’ honours list nomination of Tufton Street king Matthew Elliot could be rejected because of past financial issues. But arguably all of her choices should be binned.
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How many police and protection officers were aware? This isn’t touched on as far as we can see. But there should 💯 be an inquiry into that too. The bouncers for the parties were people whose jobs are to uphold the law.
#PartyGate
#PrivilegesCommittee
Meme by
@FiveByFiveTimes
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The baby of the
@BylinesNetwork
family, Bylines Cymru turns one tomorrow! We’re just about to hit publish on article number 365: one for every day we’ve been live. These articles are on an incredible range of topics but all have things in common. They were contributed by …
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Empowering Wales: time to take the reins of The Crown Estate
The time is ripe for Wales to take control of its portion of The Crown Estate. Wales wants this. Give to Wales what belongs to Wales.
@YesCymru
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“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
Plato, The Republic bk. 1, 347c.
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@theAliceRoberts
It’s OUR NHS. Our investment, our inheritance. It was the best in the world not long ago. We must treasure it, and restore it, and never let it be taken for short-term profiteering.
A project by
@99Organisation
@keepnhspublic
and others found NHS detractors’ arguments to be factually unfounded, illogical, and hugely damaging to our health and economy. The pre-underfunded NHS was world-beating. The solution’s clear.
✍️
@MrMarkEThomas
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That’s 8 times as many people who chose Truss as leader.
@marie_mirrat
600,000 people signed a petition calling for an immediate general election. The motion was debated in Parliament in a Committee room, but not one member of the government turned up.
This government treats people with contempt.
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Here’s the absolute hammer.
“The contempt was all the more serious because it was committed by the Prime Minister, the most senior member of the government. There is no precedent for a Prime Minister having been found to have deliberately misled the House. …
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Regardless of whether or not politicians actually have personality disorders, some use the dynamics of dysfunction to drive the nation like cattle through a chute. We are trapped in an abusive relationship with the UK ‘government’.
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Hen Galan: one small Welsh community still welcomes the new year on 14 January
If you don’t feel like you started the new year right, you have a second chance to begin anew if you travel to north Pembrokeshire this weekend.
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Welsh history is so rich, yet students in Wales learn disturbingly little of it. That curriculum is still very British, even English. The online community Welsh Histories is on a mission to fix that, while itself providing education.
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@WelshHistories
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@implausibleblog
The latest public health advice in Wales is to ‘wash your hands’. Like it’s early 2020. It’s like they want us to die.
@TheBMA
and
#Covid
Airborne Protection Alliance wrote to
@NHSEngland
re urgent need for infection control guidance to be updated as per new
@WHO
recommendations.
@cymru_inquiry
wrote to Wales health minister
@Eluned_Morgan
.
Silence.
Image by
@nedsoldman
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You know it’s New Year in Wales when a horse skull on a stick dressed all fancy turns up and wants to win a rap battle so it can nick your beer.
The
#MariLwyd
tradition is so old, its genesis is lost in time, but it’s going global.
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!
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All reporting by the Papua New Guinea Courier’s London correspondent is banned by the Home Secretary in England. But we’re in Wales, see, as is the one man in the UK with mysterious access to their missives …
@secrettory12
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#LongCovid
awareness ribbons to be handed out at
#BAFTAs
this weekend
Performers, crew, staff, and audiences are highly vulnerable to the spread of airborne diseases including Covid and norovirus. An event at the BAFTAs will raise awareness
@waltz_tales
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🛑 SCANDAL 🛑
EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens in the EU weren’t allowed a vote in the 2016 referendum. But since 2018, the Conservative Party has sold memberships to anyone abroad, giving them a vote to choose our PMs and access to MPs & ministers.
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OMG someone mentioned Brexit out loud SOMEONE CHECK ON FIONA BRUCE
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A pint of wine: challenging a post-Brexit fantasia
South Wales-based wine importer
@DanielLambert29
challenged
@kevinhollinrake
MP to a debate on
@mrjamesob
’s show on the
#Brexit
benefits claimed for “pints of wine”. Will he do it, or just keep stalling?
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The rancid weaponisation of Wales to gaslight the UK. Prepare for much more of this.
Don’t fall for what Labour say, look at what they do. It’s a good job the nativity didn’t take place in Labour-run Wales.
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If you need a primer on
#freeports
, look no further than the special free
@BylinesNetwork
Gazette on them, including
@EuropeanPowell
on their dangers, and a piece on how ‘Brexiteer’s Brain’ Shanker Singham is involved in them, most recently on Ynys Môn!
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The famous “40 hospitals” for England are not only on track to fail: most never really existed. Though health is a devolved matter in Wales, this still matters here.
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“Too small and too poor”: can Wales afford to paddle its own canoe as Québec can?
An independent Wales could be one of Europe’s wealthiest nations. No one would let a neighbour manage their budget. Why does Wales?
✍️ Simon Hobson
@WelshLibDems
@YesCymru
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“sick and tired of out-of-touch politicians starting sentences with phrases like, “What the people of this country want”, “the will of the people” … Then saying something that can’t possibly be the will of the people”
@Daf4Cymru
@DafyddGofEC3
@YesCymru
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Emerald unity: the power of a Celtic Alliance
A Celtic Alliance founded on shared values and a commitment to self-determination in Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland would amplify collective political influence at Westminster.
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@ImFarrellPerks
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“Out of 1,000 people surveyed, 83% said pavement parking was a problem, and 83% of respondents supported a ban on parking on pavements … banning pavement parking would help 70% of all residents to walk or wheel more.”
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Llongyfarchiadau to
@PenrhosSave
campaigners who successfully applied for full judicial review of the decisions that could destroy an important nature reserve on Ynys Môn. Here’s the background, and images by Brian Kitt of some of its beloved inhabitants.
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The Welsh Government is appeasing populism over 20mph limits
When you submit to populist arguments, especially when driving 20mph in the opposite direction of the evidence, you’re handing them the keys.
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@SZeitblom
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Zero self-awareness on Malin Bogue’s part, complaining shrilly that Obama had criticised Brexit and should stay out of the UK’s affairs, while spending 8 years here getting all up in our business while flouting our Covid laws.
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Energy independence for Wales
To control energy is to control inflation, and so the economy. But to control energy you need to control a country.
✍️
@GutoOwenH2
for
@YesCymru
#TalkingPoints
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To be GB News or not to be news, that is the question: culture wars and the Senedd ban
The banning of GB News from the Senedd’s internal TV systems caused a considerable backlash. But is it even news? asks
@burtonlisa
✍️
Cartoons by
@Plebo26374320
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Tonight Fiona Bruce’s Happy Tory Hour no sorry we mean
#BBCQT
will be coming to us from DEESIDE which is in Welsh Wales! Just. A Labour area of North Wales. Though you’d never know that from the line up. No one from Labour, no one from North Wales. An SNP MP but no
@Plaid_Cymru
?
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“An independent Wales would nationalise its water reserves and cancel contracts … our surplus water might be sold at international auction … England could still buy our water, but would have to beat offers coming in from Spain, Greece, or Morocco.”
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Why do we allow people did Malin Baker Bogue like Kate Andrews to bring their GOP views and style over here and proclaim how we should live and behave? Andrews has spent years on dark money funding, trying to get us to privatise the NHS. Because US healthcare is so TERRIFIC.
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Yet all those with their pandemic profiteering billions remain at large.
This woman from Wales was recently prosecuted for not paying her TV licence.
She made clear she'd been in an abusive relationship and relying on foodbanks, but was now able to pay in full.
The case went ahead and she got a £146 court bill and criminal record.
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The most widely read article on
#BylinesCymru
since our 1 March launch. Because Penrhos was voted the UK’s favourite park in 2022. And moving a nature reserve to a toxic waste dump to make room for a small town-worth of chalets says it all about our age.
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#Freeports
at best breach public law in lack of clarity, and at worst threaten democracy at every level. This week on World Press Freedom Day, all Bylines Network platforms reported on them: now you can read it all in 1 place in this special gift Gazette.
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Advocates sound alarm on long Covid in Wales at Michael Sheen’s ‘Nye’
The Care Society is a manifesto and Senedd petition calling for a return to Bevan’s vision – a Wales where
#longCovid
is taken seriously.
@HeartOfThe_Arts
@waltz_tales
@LongCovidWales
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Covid barely gets a mention these days – here’s why that’s dangerous
Covid still causes illness and death globally, including
#longCovid
. We can “live with it” while still respecting, and reducing, the harm it can do.
✍️
@drsimonwilliams
@SwanseaUni
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The Groans of the Welsh: nobody is coming to help us
From early history to our present deindustrialisation, Wales keeps calling for aid and getting none, or even no answer at all. We need to stand for ourselves, united.
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@emlyn_yunfei
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Privatisation. He means stealth privatisation, from which he’ll profit in some way. Which is theft. The NHS is the investment and inheritance of the people.
Rishi Sunak tells an IKEA worker, whose family is struggling to get treatment on the NHS, that he has a "really, really good plan" to solve the problem, which involves "being a bit clever about how we do things."
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BBC Question Time: newly-published analysis suggests overuse of right wing voices
Is the national broadcaster’s flagship political programme Question Time sacrificing standards in favour of pursuing provocation?
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@Matt_Walsh
@ConversationUK
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Braverman and Sunak’s “British values”: what actually are they?
Conservative politicians have increasingly used the rhetoric of
#BritishValues
in the last decade or so, but are they listening to themselves?
✍️
@CaerdyddPaul
🎨
@Plebo26374320
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