Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

#ChrisRiddell: #Infamy! Infamy! #CarryOnBoris – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/jun/25/infamy-infamy-carry-on-boris-cartoon

#UK#Politics #Satire #BorisJohnson #Tories

Call to boost Welsh in Newport - 'a lot of ethnic minority people want their children to speak it' https://nation.cymru/news/ethnic-minority-welsh-language/

Six years on, Britain counts the cost of Brexit. The temptation to say "I told you so" is irresistible.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/25/what-have-we-done-six-years-on-uk-counts-the-cost-of-brexit?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Is Wales a principality? No – and it never was https://nation.cymru/opinion/is-wales-a-principality-country/

What I don’t get about the #US is that you have elections for posts like police commissioners (we don’t in the UK) but at the top of it all you have an unelected and therefore unaccountable cabal of only nine individuals who never have to report to any authority and are there until they die. I thought that only happened in totalitarian states like the Soviet Union or China.

#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #RoeVsWade

The authority of the #President of the #US can rightfully be challenged as can that of other branches of #government but the authority of the #SupremeCourt cannot. Why?

#SCOTUS #RoeVsWade

You should always flock to federated social media, but you should do it especially on July 8 at 16:00 EDT, when we'll be hosting a Q&A session over Mastodon! https://u.fsf.org/3mb #UserFreedom

Diwedd y tywydd poeth?
End of the hot weather?

Archaeologists Uncover Early Anglo-Saxon Cemetery (Buckinghamshire, UK)

The team found 138 graves and a large assortment of artifacts and personal objects

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-uncover-early-medieval-cemetery-england-180980278/

#LochArkaig #OspreyCam: Live #Webcam - #WoodlandTrust

Wow, those two surviving #osprey #chicks are getting big. They’ve probably got a decent chance of reaching maturity, I reckon.

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/osprey-cam/

#UK #Scotland

I know it's a matter of respect to call everyone by their chosen name, but I"ll never respect Facebook enough to call them "Meta". That just covers up their evil history. They'll forever be Facebook, just like Google isn't "Alphabet".

Teachers to be given more resources to teach Welsh history 'in all its diversity and complexity' https://nation.cymru/news/wales-welsh-new-curriculum-bame-history-black-asian-minority-ethnic/

Steve Wilson from Dwr Cymru says “green infrastructure” is key to managing surface water as removing the network of storm overflow pipes in Wales is not economically feasible https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-water-director-says-reducing-surface-flooding-is-its-biggest-challenge/

Question, please boost: I am looking for accounts to follow which focus on African affairs from an African perspective, whether personal accounts by journalist, activists etc., or news portals, independent news outlets as well as sciency ones, political science ones, think tanks etc.

RT @GeraintDaviesMP@twitter.com

Govt plans to make certain human rights abuses in Europe permissible in UK giving legitimacy to countries like Russia to do so too.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GeraintDaviesMP/status/1539642969086693376

'Putinesque' Johnson using Northern Ireland to start fight with EU says former Welsh Secretary https://nation.cymru/news/putinesque-johnson-using-northern-ireland-to-start-fight-with-eu-says-former-welsh-secretary/