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Important Welsh Artefacts in the British Museum. A very long thread. All images by the British Museum.
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Siôn Pennant Tomos
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Siôn Pennant Tomos
@SPTomos
Welsh history, archaeology and artefact repatriation. Views my own. Hanes Cymru, archaeoleg a dychwelyd creiriau. Fy marn fy hun.
Gwynedd Katılım Haziran 2009
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@stevenctilley @JacotheNorth @Mgwaith There is already right to roam over the whole piece of land undre CROW.
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@JacotheNorth @Mgwaith Will they have right to roam across the rewilded land?
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Earlier I put out a piece about Tir Natur's 'rewilding' project in the Elenydd.
bit.ly/4amoeip
I've been sent an exchange between two of Tir Natur's supporters.
"These guys" (circled) are the locals, the farmers, those who'll be affected.
Such fucking arrogance!
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@Nigger8814 @bizlet7 No we don’t. We reached Ireland from North West Spain. One name for us is literally ‘the Milesians’ (from King Milus of Galicia in Spain). The 1529 Treaty of Dingle conferred Spanish citizenship on any indigenous Irish person (or Gaelic Scot) as a result.
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Non Germanics should never have been allowed to come here.
Aidan@aidannonx
Frankly, letting in the Irish and Italians was the moment things started going downhill
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YouGov an A rated pollster has Plaid Cymru 14 points ahead of Reform the English nationalist party packed full of washed up Conservatives that gave #Wales 14 years of austerity.
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@ClwydEnComu @Jayfuz And would any money be saved anyway, Wales would still need administering.
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@Jayfuz Do they think any money saved would actually be spent here? If UK Government spending in Wales on reserved matters is anything to go by, devolution is the only way we actually GET investment
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“We’re going to lose the election so we support the abolition of Welsh democracy.”
I don’t even understand the end to which they’re working. What purpose do they actually have, these abolitionists? What do they want?
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@manic278394370 @YoungmanMj @ceritheviking Probably not the last two points, but there's nothing to stop them voting with the other party.
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@YoungmanMj @SPTomos @ceritheviking So in reality you can join a new party after election in all but name? Can sit as an "independent" but vote with the other party on every issue, join their meetings and even be offered a job as an independent rep?
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By election incoming ??? Thought not.
One thing about the incoming awful senedd system is that it stops this nonsense dead.
BBC Politics@BBCPolitics
Reform councillor defects to Conservatives bbc.in/4reDeEY
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@DJP695 At the current rate of increase it would take thousands of years for any language to catch up to Welsh let alone English, Welsh is the second most spoken language in every single part of Wales and no other language comes close.
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Absolutely. Welsh, believe it or not, isn't the most common language here in Wales ( & no it's not before the W⚓'s start ) but English is fast becoming a 2nd language with Welsh 3rd or 4th behind African / Somalian .....
HJB News@HJB_News__
Over 2m people that live in England don’t speak English. Rupert Lowe “if you live in England you should speak English”.
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@HistoryVareck @AviWoolf Those numbers aren't correct unfortunately, the 2021 census saw a further decline to 17.8%, the figure on the right is from the Annual Population Survey which uses different criteria.
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@AviWoolf I'm not sure how they did it but the Irish probably should talk to the Welsh about the revival of their language because it's honestly very impressive
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Plenty of European countries maintained their national language as the first language but the distance (in all ways) helped ensure this.
Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺@AviWoolf
Real talk? Not be so close to Britain. An enormous number of Irish either immigrated to Britain or went there for work and the cultural exchange was decisive.
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@ceritheviking @YoungmanMj You can stay on as an independent, just no switching to another party.
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@SeneddWaste @Joe___Allen @Moreincommon_ There's no such thing as a losers coalition, the winners are whoever is able to form a stable government. If your policies are so objectionable that no one will work with you then you haven't won squat.
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@Joe___Allen @Moreincommon_ A Plaid led administration is more or less a foregone conclusion now. The only way to prevent it is a miraculous Labour recovery. Reform can and should come first but even in that scenario the voting system will ensure a “losers coalition” is formed.
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Friday's @Moreincommon_ Senedd poll tightened up the odds between Plaid and Reform a bit. But Plaid remain favourite.
Implied chance - Plaid 62% / Reform 37% / Lab 1%
Josh Housden@JoshHousden
🏴 Wales | Senedd projection based on @Moreincommon_ polling ➡️ RFM: 31% | 36 🔲 PLC: 24% | 26 🟥 LAB: 20% | 21 🟦 CON: 13% | 11 🟧 LDM: 6% | 1 🟩 GRN: 5% | 1 🗓️ Fieldwork: Jan 30 - Feb 10, 2026 🗳️ Next election = May 7, 2026
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@NationCymru That show is a woke mess.
I wish the whole thing was in a different language.
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The Welsh language has made an unlikely appearance in the spin-off of a long-running TV franchise wp.me/p8Mk4U-1f1V
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@DiscePuer @NSNO1878UTFT @BasilTheGreat Not a single accident has ever been attributed to the bilingual signage and there is no additional risk associated with them, they are common all over the world even up to quadrilingual signs.
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@NSNO1878UTFT @BasilTheGreat It isn't. It breaches the Department for Transport manual of road sign design rules in that it sacrifices clarity but 'cos nationalist nutters, Scotland and Wales get dispensation.
This is a very unfunny joke when you encounter it at 50 mph in torrential rain at night.👇🏻
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More evidence that Jim Ratcliffe was 100% correct.
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@lynnema01154666 @Heccles94 That simply isn't true, the differences between dialects of Welsh are no more pronounced than the differences between dialects of English, Welsh speakers from one part of the country have no real difficulties understanding Welsh speakers from another part of the country.
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@Heccles94 I am Welsh born and bred and no one in my family or orbit speaks or understands the Welsh language and the Welsh language is different in different parts of Wales, so a Welsh speaker from North Wales would not recognise the Welsh language from the South
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828,500 people in Britain speak Welsh...
Nigel Farage MP@Nigel_Farage
1m people living in Britain don’t speak English. Areas of our towns and cities have been completely changed. Jim Ratcliffe is right.
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@fionasins_ @The_Clermontian The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is one state comprised of four nations one of which is transterritorial.
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English nationalism is entirely aligned to British Unionism.
Fiona Sinclair 🔶@fionasins_
I do wish we lived in a time where British Unionism as a position was one that was agreed upon by all sides of the political spectrum. Where our socialist politicians were not Scottish nationalists, where our conservatives were not English nationalists.
Glencaple, Scotland 🇬🇧 English
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@SPTomos @dafydd_rees @AndrewRTDavies I also note you swerved on my question about your provenance. Funny that.
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This vandalism is unacceptable. Over 80% of people in Wales do not speak Welsh. They must be respected. It’s disgraceful that separatist activists travel hundreds of miles to places like Monmouthshire to deface English road signs. They must face the consequences of their actions.
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@SBadkerville @dafydd_rees @AndrewRTDavies Those are census figures why would you discount any fluent speakers, those learning Welsh are highly unlikely to count themselves as Welsh speakers.
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@SPTomos @dafydd_rees @AndrewRTDavies Cardiff LA figures have to discount those who moved from W and NW Wales to gobble up S4C and BBC Wales. (Mainly Pontcanna but includes Canton, Llandaff etc. Throwing blanket figures which include kids in WM, adults doing WFA courses etc etc is utterly misleading and disingenuous.
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@SBadkerville @dafydd_rees @AndrewRTDavies There are 42,757 Welsh speakers in Cardiff and 13,124 Welsh speakers in Newport, meanwhile there are only 2,239 Urdu speakers, 638 Hindi speakers and 751 Gujerati speakers in the whole of Wales, as I said its not even close.
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@ewangibbs @steamedhamms It's probably well past 50% in Wales now as well going off past trends.
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@steamedhamms And in Scotland no religion was recorded as an absolute majority in the 2022 census
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no religion growth in absolute numbers: 8.1 million
islam growth in absolute numbers: 1.2 million
relative growth:
no religion: 47.6%
islam: 32.7%
given magnitude, pretty clear the story between the censuses has been one of secularisation and not islamification
Ewan Gibbs@ewangibbs
Its irreligiousness, not ‘Islamification’, which has made it increasingly dubious to describe Britain as a Christian country. Britain stopped being a Christian country because people like me and Charlotte stopped going to church or even believing in god.
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@8270098r @Heccles94 Whether or not fluent speakers are L1 or L2 doesn't really matter, they are the same for all practical purposes.
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@SPTomos @Heccles94 not actual speakers as a first language then - and less than a fifth of the population of Wales.
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@ForagingForever @Judeemma @CharlotteCGill The fact that significantly fewer than 50% of the population is Christian.
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I don’t want Ramadan lights in Piccadilly Circus
We are a Christian country
I’m an atheist but Christianity is the UK’s tradition
We must reject the Islamification of the UK
We are letting it happen
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@MayorofLondon
A pleasure to switch on the Ramadan lights in Piccadilly Circus this evening ✨
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@SBadkerville @dafydd_rees @AndrewRTDavies Welsh is the second most spoken language in every single part of Wales, no other language comes close anywhere.
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@SPTomos @dafydd_rees @AndrewRTDavies Only in Carmarthen, Ammanford, Ynys Mon, Caernarvon and Pontcanna. (Last one due to invasion and annexation by the Taffia, hoovering up S4C and BBC Wales jobs. Locals priced out and still v bitter)
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