《👋Splottdad🦻》 🏴🇵🇸✊☕🎈
@Splottdad
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Deaf, diabetic, grumpy, & now retired. Tweeting in a personal capacity, so take both blame AND any credit. Bite me.
Republic of Splott, Cardiff.
Joined November 2009
"The Romans occupied England in the 5th century, so anyone of Roman descent has a historical claim to the land." It's one of the best sketches I've ever seen, it is so accurate and highlights the situation in Palestine.
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The much-loved 'Turner in January' exhibition is returning to @NatGalleriesSco next month, featuring the annual display of Turner's watercolours. Free to visit, the exhibition opens on Thursday 1st January - a fantastic activity to bring life and vibrancy to dark January days. 🎨
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Musician Kirsty MacColl died #onthisday in 2000. It's difficult to believe it's been 25 years. We were proud to conduct her humanist funeral, in accordance with her wishes. This Christmas marks the third year without Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl, but still, their voices live
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Read all about #Uzbekistan in Silk Mirage - order your copy from Bloomsbury website, using the code SILK20 to get a 20% discount. @BloomsburyPol @BloomsburyAcad
https://t.co/UmSvVnlbDh
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The Scottish and UK governments are both failing to uphold the rights of disabled people in key areas, according to an annual report by Scotland’s human rights watchdog. https://t.co/YY6szZf2rk
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The Scottish and UK governments are both failing to uphold the rights of disabled people in key areas, according to an annual report by Scotland’s human rights watchdog. Two of the 10 areas of “urg…
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The disability minister has refused to apologise after misleading MPs about concerns over nearly £2 billion in new cuts to disability benefits. https://t.co/bb6KKTaZz2
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The disability minister has refused to apologise after misleading MPs about concerns over nearly £2 billion in new cuts to disability benefits. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has added …
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The work and pensions secretary has bragged about cutting disabled people’s support, 3 days after launching a child poverty strategy which warned more than a million children in families where someone was disabled were living in “deep material poverty”. https://t.co/Z3g5QgwtkA
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The work and pensions secretary has bragged about cutting disabled people’s support, three days after launching a child poverty strategy which warned that more than a million children in families w…
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Read all about #Uzbekistan in Silk Mirage - order your copy from Bloomsbury website, using the code SILK20 to get a 20% discount. @BloomsburyAcad @BloomsburyPol
https://t.co/UmSvVnlJsP
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Mark Kelly: “In 1991, when Donald Trump was driving the Taj Mahal casino into backruptcy, I was getting shot at over Iraq and Kuwait. In 2001, after Donald Trump said the collapse of the Twin Towers meant he now owned the tallest skyscraper in Manhattan, I was carrying flags
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Nice to see Robert Jenrick out on the Piccadilly line doing fare-dodger patrol again. Pity he wasn't as committed to catching COVID fraudsters.
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This Government does not care about working people. Millions of workers and their unions - especially in hospitality - were promised this basic change and they’ve just abandoned it to the delight of unscrupulous employers everywhere. What a disgrace.
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John Cleese, Marty Feldman, Graham Chapman & Tim Brooke Taylor with the brilliant FOUR YORKSHIREMEN (1967)
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Silk Mirage is out tomorrow with @BloomsburyAcad @BloomsburyPol! Come and join the launch events, starting Saturday at @CliftonLiterary w @Peter__Leonard, more later with @ibrat_safo @Pushkin_House @GB_Russia @uzamb ++ Details in thread - sign up here https://t.co/x8V9BOX2Ik
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