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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

@finstumpf See it’s the g20. Hard not to invite him !

@ceritheviking Perhaps he’s planning to arrest him

This is not a good start for me. Don’t want him back in the Uk ever again.

@chris_cymru I’m giving far more time to say anything like that. But comms was Keir’s downfall and think this will be a regular stick to raise

@ceritheviking It really sums up his leadership, unachievable policies

I’m not sure ending your first speech as prime minister by saying his first direction is to “end rough sleeping” That’s some immediate target others will focus on and probably un achievable.

@thepaulwilliams Rafts of subs helps nations with that depth Time to get the subs farce sorted and get the boys puffing for. 80 mins

Just been doing a trawl on Springbok depth chart for a column. In some positions they have legit test level quality, four+ deep. I repeat, 4+ deep. Those include LH, TH, 6,7,8,9,10. That's all you need really.

Hydrogen is still facing mixed reviews in the west. Will it won’t it kick on. Good to see India investing and seeing how it goes. Think rail and ships key India launches first hydrogen-powered train built in the country to expand clean energy on railwa ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/artic…

@_peterhopkins Do we ?

@ceritheviking An unusual end note, reminded me of Luz Truss’ “Britain imports more than half its cheese 🧀 “ statement. All rather bewildering.

@trefjon That was part of my thinking also.

@ceritheviking Also, rough sleeping is often a response in getting away from the drugs in the hostels?

Tredegar Square at Mile End was laid out on farmland in the 1820s and named after landowner Viscount Tredegar's ancestral home near Newport in Wales. At the northwest corner of the square is a marvellous Penfold pillar box, although alas it's only a replica rather than the original Victorian one. In the late 1980s, about 100 reproduction of Penfold boxes were released by the Royal Mail, which is when the Tredegar Square replica was added to blend in to the classic Victorian aesthetic.

I had no idea that Brazil has its own central bank-created payments system, used by over 80% of the population, where merchants pay 0.33% per transaction, compared to 1%-4% for Visa / Mastercard / Amex. If a government can save its businesses a few percent per transaction, and keep the fees in-country, why wouldn't they do it?

“Hola, no me conocéis, soy Unai Simón, el portero de la selección española”

He told his students to go to the windows. Get out. Jump if you have to. Then Liviu Librescu walked to the classroom door and pressed his body against it. He was 76 years old. He weighed 140 lbs The gunman was in the hallway. It was April 16, 2007. A Monday morning. Solid mechanics class at Virginia Tech, Room 204. Twenty-two students, most of them 19 or 20 years old. At 9:45 AM, gunshots echoed through Norris Hall. Room by room, the shooter was working his way down the corridor. Liviu heard it. He understood immediately. He had survived the Holocaust. He had survived a labor camp. He had spent decades living under Communist oppression. He knew exactly what evil sounded like. He told his students to escape through the windows. Second floor — it was a drop, but they'd survive. Then he walked to the door and held it shut with his body. The shooter tried to force it open. It wouldn't move. He fired through the door. Wood splintered. Bullets came through. Liviu stayed. Behind him, students were climbing out the windows. Dropping to the ground. Running. One by one, all twenty-two of them got out. The shooter kept firing through the door. Liviu held it shut until every student was safe. Then the bullets killed him. When police arrived, they found his body at the door. All 22 of his students survived. Not one was injured. Liviu Librescu was born on August 18, 1930, in Ploiești, Romania. He was Jewish. In 1941, when he was eleven years old, Romanian authorities sent him and his family to a labor camp. His father died there. Liviu survived. When the war ended, he was fifteen. He went back to school. Studied engineering. Earned a doctorate from the University of Bucharest. But Communist Romania had no interest in allowing a Jewish intellectual to succeed. He was blocked from academic positions. Passed over for jobs he deserved. He applied to emigrate. The government kept refusing. Finally, in 1978 when Liviu was 48 years old — Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally intervened. Romania let him go. He had spent most of his adult life trapped in a country that didn't want him. In Israel, he taught at Tel Aviv University. Published over 300 papers. Became an international expert in aeroelasticity — the science of how air flows over aircraft wings. In 1985, Virginia Tech offered him a position. He moved to Blacksburg, Virginia. He taught there for 22 years. His students loved him — demanding but kind, high standards, genuine care. He was still teaching full-time at 76. Still publishing research. Still showing up every Monday morning for solid mechanics. April 16 was the first day of Passover — the Jewish holiday celebrating liberation from slavery and oppression. Liviu Librescu died on the day his tradition sets aside to celebrate freedom. He spent his entire life escaping death and oppression by luck, by persistence, by the intervention of others. And on his last morning, he chose to stand at a door so that twenty-two young people could have the future he had fought so hard to reach. He could have run. He could have hidden. He could have climbed out a window with his students. He chose to stay. The Virginia Tech shooting killed 32 people that day — the deadliest school shooting in American history at the time. Room 204 had zero casualties. Because a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor held a door with his body until every student behind him was gone. His funeral was held in Israel. Students from Virginia Tech flew across the ocean to honor him. The Israeli government awarded him the Star of David Medal posthumously. Virginia Tech named a scholarship in his memory. His son said his father died the way he lived — protecting others. A man who survived everything evil threw at him for 76 years. On his last day, he made sure 22 kids survived too. Professor Liviu Librescu. August 18, 1930 — April 16, 2007. Holocaust survivor. Labor camp survivor. 302 published papers. 22 years at Virginia Tech. 22 students out the window. He held the door.

What frightens me about the climate crisis is we don’t know how bad things really are | Roger Harrabin How bad will it get? "What we do know is that so far, the effects of heating the #climate are sooner and worse than many scientists projected (in public at least)" #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ActNow theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Keir Starmer is right- in many ways the country has improved compared to two years ago. He deserves to say that and for it to be heard. It’s also true to recognise the tragedy of his government: given the majority Labour achieved, it has neither improved enough nor shown enough signs that it will under him. Nor can he communicate to the country that which he has done. And that’s why he’s gone.

@cadwwales @cestyll Dylan knows 😉

#MysteryMonday 🧐 Founded in 1116, it was part of a chain of Norman coastal castles from Chepstow in the east to Pembroke in the west. But it was never safe from attack by Welsh chieftains. Do you know this Cadw site?

@miriam_cates @Roadwarrior29 Hardly supporting the GB economy this. Holidaying abroad. Poor form.

Just returned to England after two wonderful weeks in France. Despite visiting dozens of cafés, restaurants, bars, boulangeries and crêperies, we were never once asked if we had any food allergies or intolerances. Incredibly, we all survived.

A reporter asked Lamine Yamal how he handles the pressure of carrying Spain at 18. His answer: my mother had me when she was 16, that's real pressure. My father picked things off the street to bring food home, that's pressure. All I have to do is play football. That's the whole story of who he is, and most fans only know the surface of it. Before he was born, his teenage parents fell behind on rent. Two neighbors named Lamine and Yamal covered them, and his father vowed his son would carry both names forever. His legal name is a permanent record of a debt his family couldn't repay in money. In Arabic, the names mean "the trustworthy" and "beauty." His parents split when he was around 5. His mother raised him in Granollers on a fast food wage. And here's the detail almost nobody knows: that job is the reason he became a footballer. Through work she met the daughter of the youth coordinator at CF La Torreta, his first club. When she worried she couldn't cover the fees, he told her that if the boy wants to play, money will never be the reason he can't. As a kid, Lamine told his parents: if you're counting on me getting a normal job, we're in trouble. But if I become a footballer, you'll never have to worry again. He signed with Barcelona at 7. He was right by 15. Every goal, he flashes 304 with his fingers. The end of 08304, the postal code of Rocafonda, the neighborhood where strangers paid his family's rent before he existed. It gets credited on every goal since. Today, at 19, he plays for the World Cup. And if he scores tonight, somewhere in the biggest broadcast on Earth, two neighbors will hear their names, and a postal code will flash on 2 billion screens.

A real guess the castle. Fascinating stuff. Search begins for remains of lost 'castle' near Brecon | Brecon & Radnor Express brecon-radnor.co.uk/news/search-be…

@Kiwiinoz2 Really?

@ceritheviking People who wear contacts can't play today's game

Rugby with rafts of changes isn’t rugby. The game is totally different if you have players who can’t run for 80 mins. Major issue for nations with smaller player numbers. Die on this hill (Wales stuffed either way but still) #rsavwal

@chrisg0000 It’s what’s cheering me up

Fancy paying $1 million to watch this... #Spain 0 #Argentina 0