Ben Wildsmith
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Columnist @NationCymru , musician, support worker. 🏴 New book here
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Footballers not wearing plastic flowers- "Outrageous" Actual soldier dies from benefit sanctions- not so much
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@morelandclose
@AyoCaesar
Travelling from *London to Sheffield* is not the sort of life defining odyssey one should have to plan for.
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@jasebyjason
I agree, and what gets me particularly is that Diane Abbott makes a point of hardly ever mentioning the abuse she receives and yet her tormentors still portray her as complaining. It's sickening.
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The Labour establishment in Wales is as entrenched and interdependent as the public school mafia in England.
Todays vote was a desperate gimmick to distract from the Tories & Plaid Cymru’s faltering election campaigns
With two Senedd members on the sick, this was always a cheap political trick
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@y_alibhai
I'm a staunch republican but what you are doing here is a shitty an emotional take as theirs.
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@lokiscottishrap
Very true. Worse still, disadvantaged people are often required to keep telling their story as a kind of currency for accessing services- particularly housing and mental health.
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@NationCymru
Robert Buckland makes the case for independence- never thought I'd see that. We ALREADY vote for different parties yet there he is...
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@johnmcternan
Next week on 'McTernan Does Statistics' John ponders the difference between a pound of feathers and a pound of lead.
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@KittySnac
Maybe a kind thought for the staff as well, though. Mid Wales will be devastated by this.
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@ShappiKhorsandi
Every time the reactions of people to an event hits a new low I am shocked. I can't adapt to what this country is becoming.
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@JuliaHB1
In the summer, when we're all in the pub, and you're in Antigua this guy won't be. Have a think about how free speech interacts with a crisis over a mojito.
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@DPJHodges
There is a world of difference between holding the government to account and baselessly claiming it would happen more often if the opposition won an election.
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@JuliaHB1
You see, when you tweet things like this that show you haven't done the slightest research, it calls into question your credentials as an epidemiologist and climate scientist.
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@KiszelyPhilip
That you cite 'Brexit-voting' as your sole cultural characteristic might point towards why creators aren't rushing to incorporate you into their vision.
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@reginalddhunter
Your Fritzl bit was great because it took something awful and made it absurd. That's why people laughed. This takes something awful and endorses it. Many people laughed simply because they dislike the people it happened to. It's lazy and deeply unpleasant.
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@AngelaRayner
I'd never troll you, greatly admire your work. Genuinely puzzled at this sudden admiration for Blair, though. He is irredeemably tainted by Iraq
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@OnePatrioticJew
@BellaWallerstei
The IDF is under legal orders to allow aid without ANY interference.
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@realtomjames198
@iain4europe
I probably fit your description. I'd like a small Labour majority so that Starmer needs the votes of all the party. That would prevent him straying too far to the right.
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Hi all, for any of you who enjoy my
@NationCymru
columns,
@cambriabooks
are releasing a book of them and we're launching it in Cardiff on 23rd November with live music and a discussion with Jon Gower. Tickets are free and available here.
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Exciting news! Cambria Publishing are issuing a book of my
@NationCymru
columns in time for Christmas. Consider purchasing MANY copies as Christmas presents for your cynical, nihilistic friends. It's available here for pre-order.
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@darrengrimes_
There's nothing I enjoy on Twitter more than watching you learn and use a new word. It's heart warming.
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@sophielouisecc
I dunno, you're still shilling for the Tories despite them hounding you out of the party. What's the diff?
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This election is awful. It is the opposite of democracy. The electorate is just watching power transfer in front of it without any opportunity to affect the outcome. What we should be doing is being done to us and anybody who objects is shamed as a traitor.
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I've seen a fair bit of the world and love travelling. For me, though, Cymru has more natural beauty to offer in every direction than anywhere on earth. It takes my breath away every time I travel across it.
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@jessphillips
@MichaelRosenYes
A day never goes by without my seeing a non-Jewish Labour MP lecturing a Jew about antisemitism.
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@Laura_K_Hughes
Say it ain't so. Surely we can't be on the brink of losing a stateswoman of this calibre?
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@hurryupharry
@UKLabour
Oh, a human being has died, I'd better trawl through his Twitter account to see whether people are allowed to mourn him or not...
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You're woke, I'm woke, the cat is woke....
'In recent weeks, the Wokefinders General of British politics have turned their attention to Wales and, unsurprisingly, a positive result has been returned'
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@WildsmithBen
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Everybody should read
@ShiptonMartin
's piece here.
Unelected Welsh Labour officials are threatening to impose a new leader on the party’s Senedd group if Vaughan Gething is ousted, according to senior Labour sources. ✍️
@ShiptonMartin
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@Williamos6
@jessphillips
It's all she's got having nailed her colours to the mast of a sinking ship.
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@lukeakehurst
@KiMcGuinness
Remember when the left was going to purge the party but didn't? Your contemptuous triumphalism will be your undoing.
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@NationCymru
The telling phrase is 'the whole labour movement'. There is no movement, it is a narrow collective of donor-funded careerists who cosplay as class representatives. Even Unite wouldn't endorse their manifesto.
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@KittySnac
It was a weird place to work for. If you left for any reason- even pregnancy- you were banned from ever working there again. Standard Malaysian 'loyalty clause' apparently.
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@80_mcswan
@markrowantree
You have to hand it to MI5. Recasting Scottish independence as a fight between Sturgeon v Salmond as opposed to Johnson v either of them is a masterstroke.
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@hurryupharry
@UKLabour
'Front bench one after the other tweeted pleasantries about a man who was very much part of Labour's racism problem, in doing so Labour is now exposed.'
Spin that however you like, you've used his death to attack those remembering him. Your right to do so, my right to object.
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@LeanneWood
I'm with you for sure. Alongside that we need to remind people that tepid centrism is not the only alternative to fascism.
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@hurryupharry
@UKLabour
I'm not trying to be, simply pointing out how unpleasant your posting is. It rather undermines your purported distaste for trolls when you attack the dead and those memorialising them in this way.
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Labour MS's need to address this personally.
@NationCymru
@WildsmithBen
Thank you
@ShiptonMartin
@NationCymru
for your continued support.
Our group has been calling out for 3 years the many catastrophic decisions
@vaughangething
made as health minister for Wales. This is based on hard facts- not our opinion, not his identity. We’ve sat metres away
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@sophielouisecc
You sort of have to stand by it now, don't you? Having been enabled by vested interests to turn your adolescent contrarianism into a media presence you are rather stuck with it.
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@LordIanAustin
@LizJRRich
You'll be delighted to hear then, Lord Austin, that the 'football lads' are assembling to 'defend' the Cenotaph on Saturday, despite the march going nowhere near it.
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@hurryupharry
@UKLabour
Projection: I haven't defended anything; I merely condemned you as the nasty piece of work you clearly are.
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@lukeakehurst
If only Corbyn hadn't lost us the 2010 and 2015 elections with the power of his mind we'd still be in power.
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I've been proper gutted this week. Shane and the Pogues were my whole world as a teenager when life was very hard for me otherwise. I followed them to any show I could, sleeping in railway stations and dodging ticket inspectors to get home.
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Greco-Welsh offering this week.
'I’m reading of a legal challenge to the promotion of Bannau Brycheiniog as the name of our national park near Brecon, and my spidey senses don’t have to be at their peak to discern bullying when I see it'
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@TylerMahanCoe
Nothing is the same after you have seen the music video for 'Here, Kitty, kitty.' The centre will not hold.
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Hi, I'm looking to do more shows. Based in Wales but happy travelling. If you know any venues who might like this sort of thing be great if you could suggest me. Shares much appreciated too. Thanks folks 🙏
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@Lowkey0nline
Here in Wales we have built upon what was done in March and accommodation has been expanded and improved.
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My piece on the bewildering Twitter output from
@AndrewRTDavies
'It would seem that the common-sense yeoman of the land has been replaced by a hot-take scourge of the wokerati'
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@DanielJHannan
If we are signing free trade deals with countries which don't meet EU standards how can there NOT be a customs border?
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After x-raying the teeth of refugees perhaps we should extract the gold ones to offset the cost of our largesse?
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@JonnyValleyBoy
I don't speak Cymraeg but was planning to learn so I could start speaking it when KC first came into a pub. Gutted.
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@NationCymru
@EPriceJourno
You'd never guess he was a Tory to look at him. Master of disguise.
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A handsome and discerning Australian reader ensuring that his friends don't miss out this Christmas. Available worldwide from
@cambriabooks
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@PhilipProudfoot
I hope it's because he's smart enough to know he's extracted maximum value from the medium. If he keeps going back his impact will be lost and he's already won the argument- why give them endless chances to catch him on a bad day?
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@Satiresocialist
@DanCardenMP
@BBCNews
@Ofcom
I've resisted talk of a biased BBC, largely, I suspect because I didn't want it to be true. This election coverage is just shocking though. How is Ken Clarke not voting Tory not all over the bulletins?
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This is brave, brilliant writing. I'm in awe.
‘In today's age of ‘raising awareness’ and the unearned badge-wearing victim, whoever wishes to use the term queer can crack on, but I’m personally out’ ✍️Stephen Price
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@afneil
Sarcastically claiming to be confused, whilst actually being confused. Top internetting.
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@hurryupharry
@UKLabour
No, it's not necessary, it's a choice you made and a revealing one as regards your general character.
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Everybody should read
@EPriceJourno
's piece here.
'Sickening' and 'hateful' messages obtained by Nation Cymru have revealed the toxic working atmosphere within the Conservative Senedd group ✍️
@EPriceJourno
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@Kenny_Ken85
@frankwarren_tv
@Tyson_Fury
@EddieHearn
I won't buy a PPV unless it has Johnny Fisher saying 'Bosh' on it.
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@lukeakehurst
Can't possibly have Labour members cheerleading for foreign countries with dodgy human rights records can we Luke? Oh...
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Coronation Eve in Rhondda Fach
When I was little, my grandfather would speak of royalty with a searing contempt that made it memorable.
It wasn’t the affectionate pisstaking of my Brummie relatives, but serious, controlled rage that such a thing could exist
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@toryboypierce
@mailplus
Rule one of posting mendacious tripe to bamboozle the masses- don't put it behind a paywall.
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@leekern13
Oh, that's odd. Last week you were opining that Israel was upholding western values. Now, it seems, our values are invalid. Carry on.
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@jlewis32
@BBCNewsnight
@simon_schama
@margarethodge
The decision was made by a panel acting on independent legal advice and the senior decision maker was Keith Vaz. You are suggesting that
@jeremycorbyn
should autocratically make these decisions himself? Have you had a glance at the rule book in your 38 years membership?
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Iesu mawr...
Vaughan Gething’s team of advisers has suggested keeping him in office by offering a special Senedd role to an Independent MS who was suspended from the Senedd for groping a woman in a taxi, we have been told✍️
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We are at the end of an age...
Truss arrived at the very point when the cruel absurdity of Tory economics had finally allowed space for people like the RMT’s Mick Lynch to receive a fair hearing from the public
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@brumsongsben
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@JuliaHB1
@piersmorgan
The woman on the Antigua omnibus has the pulse of the nation as usual.
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@paulmasonnews
A bit of employment advice. Using the term 'tankie' betrays your hopelessly outdated view of politics thus rendering you unattractive to any current faction, including Starmer's.
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