Carl Morris

Diolch i'r ymgeiswyr Senedd sydd wedi ymateb i'r llythyr am gefnogi ysgolion Cymraeg yng Nghaerdydd gyfan. Edrychwn ymlaen at weld ymatebion yr ymgeiswyr eraill cyn hir! 👋 PLÎS bawb e-bostiwch eich ymgeiswyr - am ganllaw a thempled ewch i'r ddolen yn y postiad nesaf...

.@SeneddDiwyllCRh Sylw i'r pleidiau a'u polisiau cyfryngol + ymateb y BBC i bapur gwyrdd San Steffan + @carlmorris a'r dyfodol digidol. #cyfoes #amserol #senedd rhaglencymru.podbean.com/e/gwleidyddiae…

@Joe___Allen @Plaid_Cymru Seems more likely to be this guy - I think hanesplaidcymru.org/wp-content/gal…

@Plaid_Cymru I recognise Webb and Emrys Roberts here. Is 'Alf Williams' Gwyn Alf?

Someone at work was giving away old books & this superb @Plaid_Cymru election booklet was among them. Edited by Harri Webb, it's a mix of practical tips (down to a minute level) & a great deal of wisdom/ encouragement for activists. Doesn't have a date but I'd guess late '60s?

'Ni’n creu problemau i’r Gymraeg gan bod ni’n lleihau capasiti' Mae angen i lywodraeth nesaf Cymru greu polisi newydd ar gyfer diogelu ysgolion bach a gwledig Cymru, yn ôl Cymdeithas yr Iaith. newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/32256

Tony Blair pressured officials to ensure British soldiers accused of war crimes in Iraq would be tried in UK military courts, rather than by juries or at the Hague, newly declassified documents show. The then-prime minister wrote in 2005 that it was “essential” the International Criminal Court (ICC) did not investigate the UK’s actions in Iraq. “We have, in effect, to be in a position where the ICC is not involved and neither is CPS,” he said, referring to the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service. “That is essential.” Blair was replying to Antony Phillipson, his private secretary for foreign affairs, who wrote that two former UK military chiefs had “claimed that armed forces personnel could be prosecuted before the ICC”. Just months before Britain joined the US in invading Iraq, a move widely regarded as a war crime in itself, Blair told Australia’s then-prime minister John Howard that western countries had no need to worry about the ICC. “We envisage the ICC acting only in the case of failed states or where judicial processes have broken down,” he wrote. Files released in 2022 showed Blair’s government only signed the Rome Statute in 1998 after receiving assurances that UK soldiers would not be prosecuted by the ICC. The newer files, released to the National Archives, also show that Blair said British soldiers accused of killing an Iraqi civilian named Baha Mousa “must not” be tried in a civilian court. Mousa was detained in Basra in September in 2003 before being hooded, forced into stress positions and severely beaten. An inquiry later heard his mistreatment was in breach of the Geneva Convention, but the judge said many of the soldiers involved would escape justice because of a “more or less obvious closing of ranks”. The only person to be convicted over the incident was corporal Donald Payne, who was jailed for a year and dismissed from the army. Payne, the first British soldier ever to be convicted of a war crime, beat Mousa and other civilians while they were hooded and handcuffed. He kicked and punched the captives in sequence and joked that their cries of pain were “music” forming what he called a “choir”.

By restricting jury trials, removing protest rights and expanding surveillance, Labour is entrenching an authoritarian legal infrastructure that a far-right government will not hesitate to exploit. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/labour…

A tragic inevitability.

@Victoria_Spratt St Fagans National Museum of History near Cardiff has a 1940s prefab bungalow which is well worth a look

We (rightly) lament the state of housing in Britain today, but this text from my (nearly) 92 year-old Nan is a reminder of how far we’ve come in less than (!) 100 years. The post-war housebuilding boom was a game changer for so many families, including my own…

Cardiff Council loves to talk about "Caerdydd Ddwyieithog / Bilingual Cardiff" which, in terms of access to the Welsh language, is more ambition than reality. There are still too many obstacles. 🧵

Edefyn 🧵

@bbcalba @sianceol Gàidhlig an toiseach.

Album of the Year: araon by Sian Clàr na Bliadhna - Araon le @sianceol 💿 💗

Mae o wir yn drychinebus pan wyt ti’n meddwl am y peth… Ysgrifennydd Gwladol CYMRU mwy neu lai yn gwrthod printio ffurflenni yn y Gymraeg ar sail fod bron pawb yn siarad Saesneg golwg.360.cymru/newyddion/gwle…

📰"We don’t have to save the language, the language is what will save us.” Manex Mantxola Urrate @kontseilua 📰@Guardian coverage on the #ELEN2025 General Assembly and how our languages are facing a digital future. @stephenburgen @rogerserra @VilaFx theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

"Mae arbenigwr addysg yn dweud y gallai ysgol bob oed gynnig ateb i alwadau ar gyfer ysgol Gymraeg yn ne Caerdydd." golwg.360.cymru/newyddion/2185…

Mae llawer o deuluoedd yn Grangetown, Tre-biwt, ac ardaloedd cyfagos yn ne Caerdydd yn cael eu hamddifadu o addysg uwchradd Cymraeg oherwydd bod ysgolion uwchradd Cymraeg Caerdydd wedi'u lleoli i'r gogledd yn y ddinas. Gweithredwch @cyngorcaerdydd @huwthomas_Wales

Bore da. Heddiw bydd trafodaeth am addysg Gymraeg yng Nghaerdydd ar BBC Radio Cymru tua 7:30yb, tiwniwch mewn!

Er cof am Gwilym Roberts I Gwilym, cân y galon oedd yr iaith haeddai'r holl waith cyson a rhannodd, dysgodd y dôn i eraill â'i wên dirion.

@Joe___Allen Absolutely, an awesome piece of work. Let's take it out of storage and have it on permanent display (I have no idea what's needed to make that happen)

Best thing Artes Mundi has ever shown is Bedwyr Williams' 'Tyrrau Mawr'. 20 minute film about an imagined mega-city built on the slopes of Cadair Idris. Both funny and an exciting, rare bit of cambrofuturism.

@mimosacymru I mangled the grammar there but hopefully the point comes across

@mimosacymru It's possible I suppose. Given his accomplishments in history, writing, television etc he deserves something on a national scale. At the same time I do realise that he's not an industry in the way that (say) Dylan Thomas, who had a huge centenary, has