Barbara Evans

Kemi Badenoch said Scunthorpe steel plant was “in peril” due to Labour’s “wrong choices" adding “We need steel production in this country. It is important for national resilience” Short memory! Tory choices f***ed up #UKSteel nation.cymru/news/labour-ac…

I've watched a young, married dad of 4 young kids, a person that I loved dearly, die from Bowel cancer...just like this dad This bill absolutely needs to get passed by the Lord's It's a critical final element of control for the patient Source: ITVX search.app/zwMkK

"You will never find justice in a world where criminals make the law." — Bob Marley

@RobertJenrick Reform promising all these cuts with no idea how to fund them. Another stunt that breaks the law.

In a healthy democracy we would have journalists doing this kind of thing. But in the days of “Give Nigel a free pass” media MPs have to do it instead. Ps the open financial greed and grift is very much part of the “Trump’s man in London” Farage strategy

Steel isn’t just industry — it’s strategic: ▶️ Infrastructure ▶️ Defence ▶️ Clean energy (incl. offshore wind) ▶️ Government wants UK steel at the heart of all of it (8/9)

"They told us the paint was safe enough to eat. So we put the brushes in our mouths hundreds of times a day. And now our bones are still radioactive a century after we died.' They were called the Radium Girls. Teenagers who painted watch dials with glowing paint, who danced in the dark covered in their own light, who were told they had nothing to fear. Their employer knew better. They just never told the girls." Orange, New Jersey, 1917. Grace Fryer was eighteen when she walked through the doors of the U.S. Radium Corporation. The job seemed almost too good to be true: painting watch dials with luminous paint so soldiers could read their watches in the trenches of World War I. The pay was better than any factory work available to young women. The paint actually glowed. The girls painted their nails with it, their teeth, their faces—showing up to dances shimmering like something out of a fairy tale. They called themselves the Ghost Girls. Their supervisors told them the paint was perfectly safe. "You could eat it," one said with complete confidence. So they did. Every day. The technique was called "lip-pointing"—put the brush between your lips to make a fine point, dip it in radium paint, paint the number, repeat. Hundreds of times a day. Thousands of times a week. Gram after gram of radium-laced paint passed through their lips, settled permanently in their bones. The male scientists and supervisors working with the exact same paint wore full protective gear behind lead shields. They already knew what radium could do. They simply never told the women. By 1922, the sickness began. Teeth fell out. Jaws dissolved. Bones snapped from the smallest movements. And something else—something no one could explain. They glowed in the dark. At night, standing before their mirrors, their own bodies gave off pale greenish light. The radiation had buried itself so deep it was literally shining through their flesh. When Grace Fryer's symptoms appeared in 1923, she went to the company for help. U.S. Radium denied everything. Their hired doctors blamed syphilis—a deliberate, cruel strategy to label dying women as prostitutes. Grace found a lawyer in 1927. By then she could barely walk, her spine collapsing, weighing under 90 pounds. Four other dying women joined her. The company's legal strategy was simple: delay until they died. But when the women appeared in court in 1928, the public saw with their own eyes what the company had done. Grace had to be carried in. Quinta McDonald's face had sunk where her jaw was eaten away. The outrage was unstoppable. U.S. Radium settled. Each woman got about $175,000 in today's money. Grace died in 1933 at 34. By 1937, all five were gone. What they did can never be undone. Before the Radium Girls, companies faced almost no consequences for injuring workers. Their case changed everything—workers gained the right to sue for negligence, companies became legally required to warn about hazards, employers were held responsible for occupational injuries. Every warning label on a chemical container. Every required piece of protective equipment. Every workplace safety law. Five dying women built that. In 2014, researchers held a Geiger counter to Grace Fryer's grave. Ninety-one years after her death, her bones still registered radiation. They will glow for 1,600 years. "She could barely stand when she brought her lawsuit. Her spine was giving way. She knew she wouldn't survive. She sued anyway—not to save herself, but to save people she would never meet. Her bones still glow beneath New Jersey soil. Her name is written into every workplace safety law in the country. The company that poisoned her is remembered only for what it did. Grace Fryer will never be forgotten." © Tales Of Past #archaeohistories

I wish self-defense techniques like this were taught in school PE classes or something.

Medellín, Colombia dropped its city's warming temps by a whopping 4 degrees Fahrenheit. How? They created "green corridors" of trees and plants throughout the built city. It cost $6.50 per resident, and will save the city millions of dollars each year. We need more of this!

Don't trust Farage....

9-year-old lad walking home from football sees something not right. Three blokes trying to drag a girl into a van. Most people would freeze… he didn’t. Started shouting, ran straight at them, caused a scene. They panicked and ran off. She got away. Nine years old. Fair play to the kid that’s proper courage.

The same technology...one died, one survived Seriously doubt Port Talbot, Newport or Llanelli will ever forgive and forget the betrayal of the South Wales Steel Industry £377m spent saving blast furnaces months after Port Talbot closure share.google/qGxUOxKvgdjQxW…

“This distrust is fuelled by years of broken promises and permit violations,” the report said Economists tell Dutch not to provide €2b subsidy to Tata Steel - DutchNews.nl share.google/vZD18SDyz52pVe…

Tata Steel's push for safeguarding future of Welsh steel | South Wales Argus share.google/NfjO24sNmgAyLU…

When will the convoluted business dealings of this charlatan finally be untangled? Been like a one man wrecking ball through countless industrial sites worldwide! Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation search.app/KXunZ

Things Keith has eaten that are classified as invasive or problematic scrub species in managed Devon pasture: - Bramble ✓ - Thistle ✓ - Dock ✓ - Nettles ✓ - Coarse rank grass ✓ - Woody shrub encroachment on the eastern border ✓ - A section of blackthorn that had no business being in the middle of the field ✓ Things Keith has eaten that were not invasive or problematic: - The farmer's hat (twice) - A corner of the farm accounts ledger (once, in what may have been a comment on farm profitability) - The neighbour's prize rose - A high-visibility jacket hanging on the gate post - The gate post itself, partially Keith's conservation record: excellent. Keith's record on other matters: under review.

In loving memory of Eric Dane. ❤️

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"We've seen a trick shot" 😵‍💫🥌 Norway's curlers didn't win a medal but they ended the bronze medal match in style against Switzerland 🙌

Norwegian green steel group in running to buy major UK producer | Money News | Sky News share.google/dr20UhDweKZnQO…

Robin Williams warned us about Donald Trump. We didn’t listen.