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Starmer and Mandelson: flying the flag
Kier Starmer is wriggling like a worm on a hook as he desperately tries to distance himself from his own appalling decision last year to appoint as the UK’s ambassador …
Stevens the anti-Welsh Secretary
Jo Stevens is an ignorant, fanatical British unionist – in other words, a typical member of Kier Starmer’s cabinet. Starmer picked her for the job of Welsh Secretary precisely because …
Starmer the harmer
In October’s Caerffili by-election Labour lost the previously safe seat and its share of the vote collapsed from 46% to 11%. Should something similar happen in the 2026 Senedd election, …
Nasty Nigel
Last year, in return for abstaining in a key Senedd vote, Plaid Cymru extracted a promise from Labour to introduce a law before the 2026 election that would disqualify any …
International criminals on the loose
I was going to write about the 110,000 dead, including 30,000 children. I was going to write about the 140,000 wounded. I was going to write about the highest civilian …
Labour Welsh Secretaries
Labour has been back in power in Westminster for a year – enough time to assess the performance of Jo Stevens, Kier Starmer’s selection as Secretary of State for Wales. …
The special relationship
Starmer: Let me pick up your papers Mister President – and while I’m down there would you like your boots licked? Trump: What was your name again?
Lines on the death of Dafydd Elis-Thomas
With apologies to E. J. Thribb (aged 17½) So.FarewellThenLordElis-Thomas (don’t forget the hyphen)Of Nant Conwy. Across 50Years of public serviceYou went from an idealistic Welsh radical To a rightwing,British,Royalist. Keith’s …
Starmer, psychoanalysed
In six short months Keir Starmer has managed to achieve the impossible. Incredibly, he has outdone even Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak, the five corrupt, criminal Tories who preceded …
Lifeless in Gaza
The horrendous mass-murder (over 40,000 dead so far) being inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza by the brutal far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu has brought to mind my very small but …