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Lots on my feed about the wales bill. Need to realise to make wales better it's not laws or power, but how we live, learn and act. Up to us

Hey @JeremyClarkson as a small agricultural business that depends on trading at small local events, it’d be great if you could stop trying to pressgang your Hawkstone cider into every event we do. You don’t grow apples or make the cider yourself. Butt out - you’re bankrupting us

The boss of Tesco pays himself nearly eleven million quid a year while up to half his staff are so badly paid that they have to claim in-work benefits. Then politicians wonder why people are so pissed off these days.

China now has flexible solar panels that can be installed on factory roofs. Drones deliver the panels. China is miles ahead in clean energy!

NHS SPENT £5,000 OF PUBLIC MONEY A DAY ON LAWYERS TO SILENCE A WHISTLEBLOWER Dr Kevin Beatt (@drbeatt) was one of the most respected cardiologists in the country. He pioneered heart attack treatment at Croydon University Hospital (@croydonhealth). And then a senior nurse was suspended mid-procedure, without his knowledge, and a 63-year-old patient named Gerald Storey died on the table. Dr Beatt was left for 20 minutes with a nurse who had no basic familiarity with the procedure. He called the decision to suspend the nurse "the most overtly reckless act" he had witnessed in his career. A coroner later agreed the suspension contributed to the patient's death. So Dr Beatt did what any responsible clinician would do. He raised concerns. Staffing shortages. Appalling equipment. Bullying of junior staff. Ageing radiation machinery putting patients and staff at risk. He kept raising them. For years. In September 2012 he was sacked for gross misconduct. The tribunal in 2014 was not impressed. It found there was "no evidence" Dr Beatt had an ulterior motive, that "extremely damaging and entirely false" allegations had been directed at him, and that a misleading press statement about his dismissal had been "calculated and was likely to cause damage to his reputation." Not only did Dr Beatt win, but the tribunal determined he had not contributed in any way to the dispute. That is unusual. Employers almost always manufacture some conflict to argue contributory fault. The trust's response? Appeal. Then appeal again. Then try the Supreme Court. The whole thing only ended when the Supreme Court refused the trust leave to appeal a Court of Appeal decision in Dr Beatt's favour. He was eventually awarded £857,110.25 in compensation, including £25,000 for injury to feelings and £7,500 in aggravated damages. During all of this, the GMC continued to investigate him even after he was exonerated by the tribunal. He struggled to find work. His career, his reputation, his finances: all ground down by the very institutions that were supposed to protect patients. In 2015 Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) was criticised for refusing to intervene, saying it was a matter for the local NHS Trust, which at the time was spending £5,000 a day on legal fees to fight the man who tried to save a patient's life. The trust later said it was "pleased" to have the matter concluded. They also said they "strive to ensure staff feel supported to raise concerns." Genuinely extraordinary stuff. Dr Beatt described what happened to him in his own words: "What they do is, if things have gone badly wrong, instead of saying things have gone badly wrong, they try to cover it up." A landmark case. A destroyed career. A dead patient. And an NHS trust that kept fighting right up until the highest court in the land told it to stop. Sources: The Guardian @guardian Croydon Guardian @croydonguardian ITV @ITV Dr Minh Alexander @minhalexander East London Lines @EastLondonLines Inside Croydon @insidecroydon

Look at the state of it… “The IDF states that every airstrike is based on verified intelligence and precision-guided munitions” The most unchallenged, obvious lie ever told.

Farage, in business: Metal Trader : Sacked for losing client money and repeated drunkenness. Farage Limited: Commodities Firm liquidated leaving £80,00 unpaid tax. Baxter Laois Ltd / Farage Gin: In massive debt, shutting down. .. and he wants to run the UK Economy, does he? .

@pangadelica He was a Williams with the family from north Cardiff but it wasn’t an ap surname.

Cromwell’s real name really was Oliver ap Williams. I wasn’t joking. He came from a Welsh family that changed their name for a marriage. That leaves us with: The army of Strongbow Cromwell Travellyen & Lloyd George all being Brythons.

HE WARNED THE BANK. THE BANK COLLAPSED. YOU PAID THE BILL. Paul Moore (@Paul_R_Moore) was Head of Group Regulatory Risk at Halifax Bank of Scotland. His literal job was to spot danger. In 2004, he spotted it. He told the board that HBOS was lending recklessly, growing too fast, and building a financial time bomb. They thanked him by sacking him. KPMG was brought in to investigate his concerns. KPMG concluded everything was fine. The Financial Services Authority @TheFCA whose deputy chair was HBOS chief executive James Crosby, agreed. Nothing to see here. Four years later, HBOS collapsed. Lloyds (@LloydsBank / @LBGplc) was pushed into a shotgun merger to absorb the wreckage, then needed a £20.5 billion taxpayer bailout to survive it. James Crosby eventually handed back his knighthood and forfeited part of his £25 million pension. He was not prosecuted. Nobody was. Paul Moore went to the Treasury Select Committee in 2009 and laid out exactly what had happened. It caused, as one journalist put it, shockwaves through the British establishment. It also caused addiction, depression, and suicidal episodes for Moore himself. He spent years warning anyone who would listen that the system was broken. He wrote a book called Crash Bank Wallop. He died in September 2020. The men who built the disaster got pensions. The man who tried to stop it got destroyed. If you think whistleblowers are protected in this country, Paul Moore's life is your answer. Sources: @BBC, @guardian, @Channel4News | @Wikipedia | @TransparencyTF

🇨🇳 China just switched on the world's largest offshore solar farm 2.3 million solar panels. 2,934 steel platforms. 11,736 piles driven into the ocean floor. Built to survive force-11 gales and sea ice. It sits 5 miles off the coast and powers 2.67 million people. Oh, and they're also farming fish underneath it 😳

In the 1960s, Llantrisant Old Church on Anglesey was a roofless shell. This medieval structure had fallen into a state of disrepair after decades of effective abandonment, however, it was eventually saved. 1/10

FA Cup Final day. A day of what could've been for us. Just the tiny issue of going out in the Extra Preliminary Round stopped us. Fine margins at the top level...

One of the great tragedies of modern football the way the FA cup has been devalued. 1) Always after last league game 2) Saturday 3pm 3) Semis at neutral venue (not Wembley) 4) Replays in earlier rounds 5) On both BBC & ITV

@cromwell2025 @NationCymru @MarkMansfield10 @markjhooper 😂

@ceritheviking @NationCymru @MarkMansfield10 @markjhooper This was already planned pre-election FFS

Passengers travelling in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan will soon see 20 new buses introduced across key routes in the region wp.me/p8Mk4U-1lgF

@jamesldowns Safer and secure are must haves

@ceritheviking Yep. Encouraging to see more options for parking but still feels an exclusionary landscape for cyclists. Especially coming back from Cambridge. Not sure of the solutions besides a culture shift to cycling as the norm?

Spent most of my Saturday so far sorting out a stolen bike wheel. Reporting a pain, paying for a new one upsetting. Just all so frustrating. Bike crime in Cardiff is just awful sadly. 😟

Analysis suggests relatively few Labour voters switched directly to Reform. Instead, Labour haemorrhaged support to the left, helping Plaid Cymru secure more votes than Labour has ever won in a devolved Welsh election✍️ @ShiptonMartin wp.me/p8Mk4U-1lls

Hearts have obtained an emergency interdict at the High Court in Edinburgh this evening ensuring that the Scotch football authorities preserve and disclose the timestamped audio of events at the end of the game. If no final whistle is heard then likely outcome will be a 3-0 win awarded to Hearts of Midlothian.

Should easily beat a marketing agency tbh 😉

@JackoRugby Should have put more on a marketing agency tbh

An embarrassment not only for the unbearable Bears but for a league professing to be the most competitive in the sport. Nowhere does the try take a more fearful bashing than in the cosy no-relegation English Prem: Sale 19 Saracens 85, Newcastle 17 Quins 76, now this...

Fair play, he’s had the job for four days. 😂 Big catch 22 here for doing a job too. Will need some thinking how to get a job too do a job if you have never done that job 😂

@LlesYsgolGlant1 ysgol glantaf on the public vote of Britains got talent. You know what to do itv.com/vote/bgt