Luke James
@lukeejames2.bsky.social
Cymro-Belgo. Dad. Newyddiadurwr. Syndicaliste
'Betrayed' voters, 'desperate' messaging and the 'sidelining' of Welsh Labour by Starmer - Mick Antoniw has well and truly broken with our tradition as the land of the pulled punch in his analysis of Labour's campaign in Caerffili
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Mick Antoniw: 'Is Caerphilly a turning point for Welsh Labour?' - LabourList
Welsh Labour can win the Senedd elections. But it will be incredibly difficult if there is no radical change in politics and organisation argues Mick Antoniw.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
'Betrayed' voters, 'desperate' messaging and the 'sidelining' of Welsh Labour by Starmer - Mick Antoniw has well and truly broken with our tradition as the land of the pulled punch in his analysis of Labour's campaign in Caerffili
labourlist.org/2025/11/wels...
labourlist.org/2025/11/wels...
Bolton oddi gatref heddiw ond dwi’n hedfan i gêm Caerdydd am y tro cynta felly mae’n teimlo’n bach mwy egsotig
Flying to a City game for the first time which is making Bolton away feel quite exotic #AdarGleisonRhyngwladol 🐦🌍
Flying to a City game for the first time which is making Bolton away feel quite exotic #AdarGleisonRhyngwladol 🐦🌍
October 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Bolton oddi gatref heddiw ond dwi’n hedfan i gêm Caerdydd am y tro cynta felly mae’n teimlo’n bach mwy egsotig
Flying to a City game for the first time which is making Bolton away feel quite exotic #AdarGleisonRhyngwladol 🐦🌍
Flying to a City game for the first time which is making Bolton away feel quite exotic #AdarGleisonRhyngwladol 🐦🌍
Bolton away tomorrow and thankfully they’ve now got Josh Sheehan running their midfield instead Jay-Jay Okacha with Youri Djorkaeff to come off the bench (although we actually won this one 2-1) #Bluebirds
October 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Bolton away tomorrow and thankfully they’ve now got Josh Sheehan running their midfield instead Jay-Jay Okacha with Youri Djorkaeff to come off the bench (although we actually won this one 2-1) #Bluebirds
Reposted by Luke James
Caerphilly, Senedd constituency by-election result:
PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
October 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Caerphilly, Senedd constituency by-election result:
PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
Normalising the Vote Leave playbook on statistics is surely storing up trouble if you’re in a fight with Farage
A row has broken out over claims the Secretary of State for Wales made about the cost of Welsh independence during a Labour Party conference speech last month ✍️ @emilypricejourno.bsky.social
Row breaks out over Welsh Secretary's cost of independence claims
Emily Price A row has broken out over claims the Secretary of State for Wales made about the cost of Welsh independence during a Labour Party conference speech last month. Jo Stevens claimed that Pla...
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October 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Normalising the Vote Leave playbook on statistics is surely storing up trouble if you’re in a fight with Farage
Give friendly selection back to the blazers. The blazers gave us the Basque Country away, Croatia away in August, and the Kirin Cup in Japan. This ahead of the Belgium game is insane #ENGWAL
October 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Give friendly selection back to the blazers. The blazers gave us the Basque Country away, Croatia away in August, and the Kirin Cup in Japan. This ahead of the Belgium game is insane #ENGWAL
Cardiff have got a lad known as ‘Tankie’ playing on the left wing tonight and there’s a Trott on the bench. We might have to go back to playing in red
October 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Cardiff have got a lad known as ‘Tankie’ playing on the left wing tonight and there’s a Trott on the bench. We might have to go back to playing in red
Mixed memories of our last couple of cup matches against County. Lost the semi final of the Premier Cup in 2003 on pens despite putting out a strong team (bar Andrew Jordan who missed a penalty, obviously) to face a County team including City legends Jason Perry and Jeff Eckhart
October 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Mixed memories of our last couple of cup matches against County. Lost the semi final of the Premier Cup in 2003 on pens despite putting out a strong team (bar Andrew Jordan who missed a penalty, obviously) to face a County team including City legends Jason Perry and Jeff Eckhart
“Jo Stevens puts on her metaphorical feathered hat and, like a colonial governor speaking to a legislative council back in Victorian times, she just says no”
Vaughan Roderick’s striking assessment of the attitude of the Secretary of State for Wales towards the Welsh Government
Vaughan Roderick’s striking assessment of the attitude of the Secretary of State for Wales towards the Welsh Government
September 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
“Jo Stevens puts on her metaphorical feathered hat and, like a colonial governor speaking to a legislative council back in Victorian times, she just says no”
Vaughan Roderick’s striking assessment of the attitude of the Secretary of State for Wales towards the Welsh Government
Vaughan Roderick’s striking assessment of the attitude of the Secretary of State for Wales towards the Welsh Government
In his first speech as Prime Minister, Keir Starmer promised the government would “tread more lightly on your lives”. Hard to believe that was only a year ago
September 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
In his first speech as Prime Minister, Keir Starmer promised the government would “tread more lightly on your lives”. Hard to believe that was only a year ago
Following Nathan Gill’s guilty plea today, a reminder that @nation.cymru reported his links to Oleh Voloshyn back in March 2023
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Welsh politician linked to men accused of being Kremlin agents
Luke James A Welsh politician met pro-Russian leaders in Ukraine and Moldova on multiple trips organised by men now accused of being Kremlin agents, Nation.Cymru can reveal. Nathan Gill was a member o...
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September 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Following Nathan Gill’s guilty plea today, a reminder that @nation.cymru reported his links to Oleh Voloshyn back in March 2023
nation.cymru/news/welsh-p...
nation.cymru/news/welsh-p...
Reposted by Luke James
Breaking: Irish broadcaster RTE says that Ireland will not participate in Eurovision next year if Israel does.
"RTÉ feels that Ireland’s participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza."
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"RTÉ feels that Ireland’s participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza."
about.rte.ie/2025/09/11/r...
RTÉ Statement: 2026 Eurovision Song Contest – About RTÉ
RTÉ Statement: 2026 Eurovision Song Contest “At the General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in July, a number of EBU members raised concerns about the participation of Israel in the ...
about.rte.ie
September 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Breaking: Irish broadcaster RTE says that Ireland will not participate in Eurovision next year if Israel does.
"RTÉ feels that Ireland’s participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza."
about.rte.ie/2025/09/11/r...
"RTÉ feels that Ireland’s participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza."
about.rte.ie/2025/09/11/r...
On a visit to Barcelona in 1978, Gwynfor Evans praised the “tenacity with which Catalunya has clung to her national traditions and language” and said countries like Wales and Catalonia “can become islands of hope in a world where the very existence of humanity is threatened” #Diada2025
Bona Diada nacional a tots els meus amics Catalans
Aquí tens la bandera a la costa de Gal·les. Visca Catalunya! #Diada2025
Aquí tens la bandera a la costa de Gal·les. Visca Catalunya! #Diada2025
September 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
On a visit to Barcelona in 1978, Gwynfor Evans praised the “tenacity with which Catalunya has clung to her national traditions and language” and said countries like Wales and Catalonia “can become islands of hope in a world where the very existence of humanity is threatened” #Diada2025
Bona Diada nacional a tots els meus amics Catalans
Aquí tens la bandera a la costa de Gal·les. Visca Catalunya! #Diada2025
Aquí tens la bandera a la costa de Gal·les. Visca Catalunya! #Diada2025
September 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Bona Diada nacional a tots els meus amics Catalans
Aquí tens la bandera a la costa de Gal·les. Visca Catalunya! #Diada2025
Aquí tens la bandera a la costa de Gal·les. Visca Catalunya! #Diada2025
Newydd mynd i gefnogi ein tîm lleol newydd, KFC Wambeek-Ternat, am y tro cynta
Fantastic set up and my kid can say his first football match was a 0-0 in fifth tier of Belgian football. A born football hipster
Fantastic set up and my kid can say his first football match was a 0-0 in fifth tier of Belgian football. A born football hipster
September 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Newydd mynd i gefnogi ein tîm lleol newydd, KFC Wambeek-Ternat, am y tro cynta
Fantastic set up and my kid can say his first football match was a 0-0 in fifth tier of Belgian football. A born football hipster
Fantastic set up and my kid can say his first football match was a 0-0 in fifth tier of Belgian football. A born football hipster
The aesthetics of games in this part of the world aren’t what they used to be. Liked it back in the day when BBC Wales used the grainy local TV feed with exotic graphics and adverts against a background of emergency service vehicles round a disused running track #KAZWAL
September 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The aesthetics of games in this part of the world aren’t what they used to be. Liked it back in the day when BBC Wales used the grainy local TV feed with exotic graphics and adverts against a background of emergency service vehicles round a disused running track #KAZWAL
Hyfryd i weld Dylan Lawlor yn canu'r anthem llawn balchder♥️So good to see Cardiff doing our bit for the national team again
September 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hyfryd i weld Dylan Lawlor yn canu'r anthem llawn balchder♥️So good to see Cardiff doing our bit for the national team again
I'm always very envious on Wales match days of countries with good newspapers. There's an 11 page preview of Belgium Liechtenstein in the paper here today. Wales' more important game in Kazakhstan gets one page of Press Association copy in the Western Mail
September 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I'm always very envious on Wales match days of countries with good newspapers. There's an 11 page preview of Belgium Liechtenstein in the paper here today. Wales' more important game in Kazakhstan gets one page of Press Association copy in the Western Mail
Reposted by Luke James
Brussels’ famous Manneken Pis has more than a thousand costumes from countries around the world, but few have as much historical significance as his outfit from Wales ✍️Luke James
Mannekin Pis given new uniform in tribute to Welsh soldiers who liberated Brussels
Luke James, Brussels Brussels’ famous Manneken Pis has more than a thousand costumes from countries around the world, but few have as much historical significance as his outfit from Wales. On this day...
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September 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Brussels’ famous Manneken Pis has more than a thousand costumes from countries around the world, but few have as much historical significance as his outfit from Wales ✍️Luke James
On this day in 1945, the Manneken Pis was dressed in Welsh Guards uniform to celebrate the liberation of Brussels by Welsh troops exactly a year earlier
Today Brussels’ first citizen received a new uniform to renew the “bond of friendship between Wales and Belgium”
Today Brussels’ first citizen received a new uniform to renew the “bond of friendship between Wales and Belgium”
September 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
On this day in 1945, the Manneken Pis was dressed in Welsh Guards uniform to celebrate the liberation of Brussels by Welsh troops exactly a year earlier
Today Brussels’ first citizen received a new uniform to renew the “bond of friendship between Wales and Belgium”
Today Brussels’ first citizen received a new uniform to renew the “bond of friendship between Wales and Belgium”
Mae’r enwog trên melyn drwy’r mynyddoedd Pyrenees
September 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Mae’r enwog trên melyn drwy’r mynyddoedd Pyrenees
Catalunya del Nord 🤩
August 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Catalunya del Nord 🤩
You know the summer holidays are almost over when you have to leave “the sunniest village in France” because it’s started raining
August 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
You know the summer holidays are almost over when you have to leave “the sunniest village in France” because it’s started raining
Aberystwyth yn edrych yn hardd heno
August 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Aberystwyth yn edrych yn hardd heno