Daniel Wincott

Welsh Devolution: latest (grim) ‘jagged edge’ news on criminal (in)justice in Wales from my excellent colleague @robdjones.bsky.social

"That quest for power was really what drove the Query Club, what really drove Bevan and inspired him for the rest of his career." - Dr @nyedavies.bsky.social The debating club that helped shape NHS architect Aneurin Bevan's drive for power www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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These are all still officially Welsh Labour policies. Not that you’d know it.

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Delighted to see this paper out in the wild. Diolch yn fawr to the editors @bjpols.bsky.social to our anonymous referees and, especially, to my fantastic co-authors @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social and @jaclarner.bsky.social

Nerdy observation from the various UK legislatures: they each call the period between one election and another something different. Westminster = a Parliament. Scotland = a Session. Wales = an Assembly. NI = a Mandate.

I’ve had some other things on and also wanted to let this stew a bit. I’m baffled that Burnham can say Universities are one of 3 key strands of his approach to economic development, without announcing a big change from Starmer’s neglect. wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

Why does devolution to Wales face a different test to distributing powers to other parts of the UK? amanwy.blogspot.com/2026/09/ther...

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“the novel’s fizzing exuberance derives from the fun of watching Gray’s keen authorial intelligence finding layer upon layer of unexpected possibility in his one ingenious narrative conceit” @jonathancoe.bsky.social reviews Alasdair Gray’s POOR THINGS in the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v1...

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I think also, intelligence is neither here nor there. Some intelligent people believe in horoscopes, and there is about as much accidental truth in that as there is in race science.

Quick lunchtime look at www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i... I wonder whether this is so gender-specific. Women may also have poorly-recognised unprocessed grief over failed cultural promises - with more social pressure to find compensators via children & caring

Being randomly allocated to a 2nd year undergraduate comparative European politics seminar group Peter taught changed the course of my life.

Let’s not forget about the failure of universities. Ever since I was targeted by the Daily Express in 2017 as a result of doing my job I have been asking my university how they are going to protect me and almost a decade later the response is still woefully inadequate. They have no answer.

Two(!) permanent lectureships coming up at Cardiff: One in political behaviour/opinion cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/52... One in British politics (very loosely defined) cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/53... Feel free to get in touch and I'll be happy to answer any questions I can

In his 60s my late father moved to South Northamptonshire near Banbury. He was hospitalised under the Oxfordshire Mental Health Trust in his mid-60s. When he turned 65 he was transferred to hospital in Northampton. The reason? Adult & geriatric services seemed to have different geographic footings.

Essential reading from @jaclarner.bsky.social on the clear rejoin majority now in Wales. Turns out that English identifiers in Wales contain a distictively large number of folk who are still for leave. blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal...

Sign o’ the times 😬

@willhaycardiff.bsky.social reflecting on what Wales need to make devolution work properly. And drawing lessons for the (quite different) regional/city region ‘devolution deals’ on which Burnham is hanging the UK Labour govt’s hopes. Essential reading! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just leaving this here. May be of interest to @gsoh31.bsky.social nation.cymru/news/cardiff...

The break up of the UK is not ‘unthinkable’ for all three First Ministers currently in office across the state. Mark Drakeford has been deeply committed to the Union, but his vision is of a voluntary union of nations. Only parochially metropolitan folk can still call break up ‘unthinkable’.

ICYMI Rhun ap Iorwerth, First Minister, Wales www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Sarah Pochin MP has highlighted something which is unfortunately very true - football tournaments are always associated with a big increase in domestic violence. Absolutely nothing to do with the team - but very much to do with the culture that surrounds supporting the national team.

The planned meeting between Rhun ap Iorwerth and Keir Starmer will not take place in June as originally planned. The pair had been planning to meet to discuss potential constitutional changes for Wales. I understand that the Welsh Gov put forward several dates but the PM was unable to make them.

One of the secrets about the FT is that if you buy the paper they sometimes tell you what they really really think before some subeditor spots it. Compare the print and digital copy about SpaceX www.ft.com/content/1638...

As well as folk interested in Cymru, everyone interested in UK politics, Labour and Social Democratic parties or bloc politics needs to make sense of the Senedd election. A weekend watch of @jaclarner.bsky.social , your indispensable guide, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bcH...

Carry on Campaigning? Or Brexit as Not-So-Jolly Gents' Japes, plus Wives and Sisters making dinner. I have just done a rough and ready analysis of the 'talking head' contributions to the BBC's 'Brexit: a Very British Civil War'. A short 🧵about this Blokey Affair: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Dear England. @realbaddiel.bsky.social on R4 dissecting Sixty Years of Hurt. English National Identity and football is in the zeitgeist. But empirical analysis suggests Euro 24 activated already existing identities, rather than making a deeper changes. Ever brilliant @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social

Lovely to see work on NI environmental governance recognised...even if colour choice looks like a poster for an action movie in the 2010s #orangeandteal

Fantastic news from NILQ - a very important generalist law journal and an invaluable resource in particular for folk concerned with territorial governance across Britain and Ireland. Well done @markflear.bsky.social and team who have steered the journal to new heights.

Potentially a very big deal. Changing the Westminster electoral system would fundamentally change our politics. Lesson from other countries is also that once FPP has been ditched it is unlikely to be brought back.

👇👇Essential short Senedd election thread. Follow @jaclarner.bsky.social for Welsh politics analysis and data. 👇👇 A nugget in the thread shows that the absence/presence of British identity differentiates left/right blocs in Wales. Its a challenge to Wes Streeting’s ‘patriotic’ pitch to UK Labour.

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My take on the UKSC's Dillon judgment - it is a combination of regressive and dubious reasoning. It radically reduces the range of cases in which Art 2 is applicable, in reasoning which flies in the face of the UK Government's promises over the provision: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/05/14/c...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 New Blog 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 A short piece on how the new Senedd voting system worked! How many votes did it take to win a seat? Was it proportional? Who benefitted? Where did parties win support? And what would it take to win one more seat? If you're interested: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal... 🧵👇

Interested in electoral systems and proportional voting? Essential reading from @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social on the new (D’Hondt) voting system in Wales worked out.

Llongyfarchiadau mawr i griw @yougov.co.uk ac i griw @itvcymruwales.bsky.social a @walesgovernance.bsky.social sy'n gweithio hefo nhw. Big up the whole YouGov team and the associated ITV/Wales Governance Centre teams! yougov.com/en-gb/articl...