Dr Sue Clayton
@topofthefield.bsky.social
Here for Higher Ed; art, music, politics, interesting ideas and the planet. #dysgwyrcymraeg
Honorary Research Associate Bangor University.
🏴#PenLlŷn 🇪🇺
Honorary Research Associate Bangor University.
🏴#PenLlŷn 🇪🇺
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Please add your names. Guides was a fantastic experience for me, and we can't let trans kids be excluded because of frothing bigots.
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Sign the Petition
Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK
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December 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Please add your names. Guides was a fantastic experience for me, and we can't let trans kids be excluded because of frothing bigots.
c.org/7xSDfYw7Cm
c.org/7xSDfYw7Cm
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Coverage of migration last week repeatedly referenced people emigrating – implying either white flight, that young people were heading overseas, or the rich were in mass exodus.
The reality: emigration of British citizens is flat. Non-EU citizens are leaving.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
The reality: emigration of British citizens is flat. Non-EU citizens are leaving.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
December 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Coverage of migration last week repeatedly referenced people emigrating – implying either white flight, that young people were heading overseas, or the rich were in mass exodus.
The reality: emigration of British citizens is flat. Non-EU citizens are leaving.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
The reality: emigration of British citizens is flat. Non-EU citizens are leaving.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
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I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.
December 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.
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This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
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Girlguiding, (‘GG’) the U.K. Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights.
Several folk have asked me for comment on today’s announcement that U.K. Girlguiding have announced that trans girls are no longer welcome.
(1) This seems to be wrong in law but has been forced on GG by …
Several folk have asked me for comment on today’s announcement that U.K. Girlguiding have announced that trans girls are no longer welcome.
(1) This seems to be wrong in law but has been forced on GG by …
December 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Girlguiding, (‘GG’) the U.K. Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights.
Several folk have asked me for comment on today’s announcement that U.K. Girlguiding have announced that trans girls are no longer welcome.
(1) This seems to be wrong in law but has been forced on GG by …
Several folk have asked me for comment on today’s announcement that U.K. Girlguiding have announced that trans girls are no longer welcome.
(1) This seems to be wrong in law but has been forced on GG by …
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From @yrheniaith.bsky.social podcast
Early Welsh language literature from the Americas includes a poem from 1596 imagining a dolphin carrying a message from a ship in the Caribbean home to Wales
Benjamin Franklin (yes, that one) printed a Welsh language book in 1730!
nation.cymru/feature/yr-h...
Early Welsh language literature from the Americas includes a poem from 1596 imagining a dolphin carrying a message from a ship in the Caribbean home to Wales
Benjamin Franklin (yes, that one) printed a Welsh language book in 1730!
nation.cymru/feature/yr-h...
Yr Hen Iaith part 75 – The earliest Welsh-American literature
Jerry Hunter The first Welsh-language American book was published more than half a century before the birth of the United States. Its author, Ellis Pugh, was one of a number of Welsh Quakers who immig...
nation.cymru
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
From @yrheniaith.bsky.social podcast
Early Welsh language literature from the Americas includes a poem from 1596 imagining a dolphin carrying a message from a ship in the Caribbean home to Wales
Benjamin Franklin (yes, that one) printed a Welsh language book in 1730!
nation.cymru/feature/yr-h...
Early Welsh language literature from the Americas includes a poem from 1596 imagining a dolphin carrying a message from a ship in the Caribbean home to Wales
Benjamin Franklin (yes, that one) printed a Welsh language book in 1730!
nation.cymru/feature/yr-h...
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If they are releasing ppl from prisons by accident, are they keeping people inside by accident too? This is not a stupid question!
December 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
If they are releasing ppl from prisons by accident, are they keeping people inside by accident too? This is not a stupid question!
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So much for all that bleating about being misled by the Treasury from the BBC's political editor Chris Mason .....
www.ft.com/content/48c2...
www.ft.com/content/48c2...
UK Politics: OBR says Reeves did not mislead public over Budget forecasts
Fiscal watchdog faces Treasury committee after accidental publication of key report prompted chair to resign
www.ft.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
So much for all that bleating about being misled by the Treasury from the BBC's political editor Chris Mason .....
www.ft.com/content/48c2...
www.ft.com/content/48c2...
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I'm launching two online academic writing workshops and retreats to help researchers, students, teachers and professionals to kick their 2026 new year writing habits into gear.
I've run hundreds of popular writing retreats at the University of Sheffield, starting back in 2015.
bit.ly/3K6OdjJ
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I've run hundreds of popular writing retreats at the University of Sheffield, starting back in 2015.
bit.ly/3K6OdjJ
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December 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I'm launching two online academic writing workshops and retreats to help researchers, students, teachers and professionals to kick their 2026 new year writing habits into gear.
I've run hundreds of popular writing retreats at the University of Sheffield, starting back in 2015.
bit.ly/3K6OdjJ
1/4
I've run hundreds of popular writing retreats at the University of Sheffield, starting back in 2015.
bit.ly/3K6OdjJ
1/4
Just to say, just finished series 1 of Slow Horses ( I know, I know, where have I even been!) and enjoying it very much. Ditto Down Cemetery Road! 👌
December 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Just to say, just finished series 1 of Slow Horses ( I know, I know, where have I even been!) and enjoying it very much. Ditto Down Cemetery Road! 👌
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the only thing Rachel Reeves needs to do for more favourable coverage on BBC News is threaten to sue them for £1 billion
December 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
the only thing Rachel Reeves needs to do for more favourable coverage on BBC News is threaten to sue them for £1 billion
Stop talking and start getting Brexit undone whilst you have the fine chance!
👏 Keir Starmer PM: "How Brexit was sold and delivered was wrong. Wild promises were made to the British people and not fulfilled."
"The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong."
"The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong."
December 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Stop talking and start getting Brexit undone whilst you have the fine chance!
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What a wonderful story - and a beautiful illustration of the power of the arts.
Great writing expands our imagination. It helps us to see the world in new ways.
And that has consequences that can never be measured by "average starting salaries" or "contribution to GDP".
Great writing expands our imagination. It helps us to see the world in new ways.
And that has consequences that can never be measured by "average starting salaries" or "contribution to GDP".
December 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
What a wonderful story - and a beautiful illustration of the power of the arts.
Great writing expands our imagination. It helps us to see the world in new ways.
And that has consequences that can never be measured by "average starting salaries" or "contribution to GDP".
Great writing expands our imagination. It helps us to see the world in new ways.
And that has consequences that can never be measured by "average starting salaries" or "contribution to GDP".
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2 Dec: In #Norse lore, Frigg watches over marriage, fertility & motherhood. When her son Baldr fell to a mistletoe arrow, she knelt beside him in grief. Her tears touched the bare sprig that struck him, and each drop turned into a white berry—a reminder to cherish those we love.
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
2 Dec: In #Norse lore, Frigg watches over marriage, fertility & motherhood. When her son Baldr fell to a mistletoe arrow, she knelt beside him in grief. Her tears touched the bare sprig that struck him, and each drop turned into a white berry—a reminder to cherish those we love.
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In Welsh it's mis Rhagfyr, which means 'the month of foreshortening'. Does what it says on the tin, I guess.
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
In Welsh it's mis Rhagfyr, which means 'the month of foreshortening'. Does what it says on the tin, I guess.
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The absolute state of the BBC news just now - which seems determined to drag the government down over the budget.
Where was all this attention to minute detail and concern for absolute accuracy when the Tories were lying their way through their chaotic reign for 14 years? It's frankly absurd.
Where was all this attention to minute detail and concern for absolute accuracy when the Tories were lying their way through their chaotic reign for 14 years? It's frankly absurd.
For all the focus on its supposed “left wing bias”, the BBC’s heavy coverage of Rachel Reeves Budget "lies" shows how its political coverage is still largely led by the right-wing press
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/r...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/r...
Rachel Reeves and the Daily Mailification of the BBC
For all the focus on its supposed "left wing bias", the BBC's heavy coverage of Conservative allegations of dishonesty against Rachel Reeves shows how its political coverage is still largely led by th...
bylinetimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The absolute state of the BBC news just now - which seems determined to drag the government down over the budget.
Where was all this attention to minute detail and concern for absolute accuracy when the Tories were lying their way through their chaotic reign for 14 years? It's frankly absurd.
Where was all this attention to minute detail and concern for absolute accuracy when the Tories were lying their way through their chaotic reign for 14 years? It's frankly absurd.
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We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
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Excellent piece!
Do you need your toes to think?
YESS!
Happy to see this one out 😎!
From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem :
How to stay alive 😎😅
YESS!
Happy to see this one out 😎!
From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem :
How to stay alive 😎😅
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Excellent piece!
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Keep out: what flags mean to community NHS workers
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes | Mark Cunliffe
@markcunliffe.bsky.social
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes | Mark Cunliffe
@markcunliffe.bsky.social
Keep out: what flags mean to community NHS workers
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes
centralbylines.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Keep out: what flags mean to community NHS workers
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes | Mark Cunliffe
@markcunliffe.bsky.social
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes | Mark Cunliffe
@markcunliffe.bsky.social
Quite the thread!
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
November 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Quite the thread!
Loving all the tributes to Tom Stoppard. Our English teacher took our class of bemused A Level students of Hamlet to see Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in Sheffield circa 1970. Firm
fan of his work ever since. 🌟❤️
fan of his work ever since. 🌟❤️
RIP Tom Stoppard. He left a fantastic body of work - playful with language, and serious about ideas of democracy, liberalism and freedom.
November 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Loving all the tributes to Tom Stoppard. Our English teacher took our class of bemused A Level students of Hamlet to see Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in Sheffield circa 1970. Firm
fan of his work ever since. 🌟❤️
fan of his work ever since. 🌟❤️
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I've done a deep dive into the Trump family's global moneymaking campaign. The White House says there's no conflict of interest. But from Serbia to Vietnam to crypto it's being called "pay to play" on a vast scale. If you have info, get in touch @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches
From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I've done a deep dive into the Trump family's global moneymaking campaign. The White House says there's no conflict of interest. But from Serbia to Vietnam to crypto it's being called "pay to play" on a vast scale. If you have info, get in touch @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
1: Barvinder
2: Lewis
3:Amber
4:Karen
5: George
6: Alex
For me!
2: Lewis
3:Amber
4:Karen
5: George
6: Alex
For me!
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
1: Barvinder
2: Lewis
3:Amber
4:Karen
5: George
6: Alex
For me!
2: Lewis
3:Amber
4:Karen
5: George
6: Alex
For me!