Julie Nicholas

Busy woman. ♡ feminism, housing, theatre, community & orangutans. Views don't represent my employer, all women or the Welsh. But they might.

[Julie Nicholas @JulieNicholas_]

@djmataveli Then we are 2nd cousins! Clip from a Transporter Bridge film that used to be on YouTube, but think deleted now. https://t.co/wPQX6ZUcTP

[Julie Nicholas @JulieNicholas_]

Newport #TransporterBridge film with story of my G.grandfather Ernest Waggett Fell ill working on construction & died. Mum's Aunty Iris explains The Corporation collected £200 saving his widow & 10 kids from the Workhouse (youngest my Bampi Albert)
Newportonians saved my family!

[Julie Nicholas @JulieNicholas_]

My mum's grandfather Ernest Waggett moved to Newport from Somerset to help build the transporter bridge, the largest of the remaining transporter bridges in the world. Ernest stayed on after it opened in 1906, as one of the maintenance men. 15yrs later he fell ill on the... 1/5

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We want peace. That’s why I came to the United States, and visited President Trump. The deal on minerals is just a first step toward security guarantees and getting closer to peace. Our situation is tough, but we can’t just stop fighting and not having guarantees that Putin will not return tomorrow.

[louis appleby @ProfLAppleby]

Safeguards are not bureaucracy, an impediment to effective working. They are key to safety.

You can’t make grand claims - most robust anywhere - and then remove them without losing credibility.

#AssistedDying
https://t.co/uODKUYJIA5

[Julie Nicholas @JulieNicholas_]

Kim Leadbeater's winging it, chopping safeguarding rules for very vulnerable people. Glad my MP @RuthJonesLabour voted against. Are MPs that voted for now ready to listen to warnings of health experts & disability rights advocates?
#AssistedDyingBill
https://t.co/9Ooak1RuSK

[Prof Katherine Sleeman @kesleeman]

Where were we?

🤔 Assisted dying is suicide prevention
🤔 Suicide prevention is coercion
🤔 Coercion never happens but is always identified
🤔 The current law protects no one
And as of tonight…
🤔 Removing something adds it

Through the looking glass is where we are

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

“Don’t worry” they said

“A Judge will safeguard the vulnerable” they said

“It’s not a slippery slope” they said

[Julie Nicholas @JulieNicholas_]

@EllieCumbo Yep.

[Vintage Books @vintagebooks]

We are extremely sad to hear of the death of our revered long-time author David Lodge. Our thoughts are with his children and family. His influential place in the history of British letters will endure through the wonderful body of work he leaves behind.

Read the full statement: https://t.co/WcwjnK8QAS

Photography © Joel Kaplan

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

The country urgently needs to talk about the 91% drop off in the number of affordable homes started in London in the last financial year. Catastrophic and unprecedented:

[Tonia Antoniazzi @ToniaAntoniazzi]

Absolutely horrifying that women in Afghanistan are being totally banished from medical training.

Apart from it being incomprehensible for women like me, I’m equally appalled by Afghan women and girls not having access to female medics when needed.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Two weeks have passed since Ahoo Dariyaei’s forced detention and transfer to a psychiatric hospital. Her family continues to face immense pressure. This injustice is not only a violation of human rights but also a clear example of the brutality of a regime that thrives on suppression and fear.
A friend of her sent me photos of Ahoo and told me that her life is in danger.

[Julie Nicholas @JulieNicholas_]

Should have gone a long time ago. #Safeguarding first.
Protecting children, not perpetrators, seems like a very basic thing for an institution to do. Sadly still not the case in 2024, despite feminists banging on about it for decades.
#archbishopofcanterbury

[Archbishop of Canterbury @ArchbishopSarah]

Statement from the Archbishop of Canterbury.

https://t.co/aNnuLBMapo

[Julie Nicholas @JulieNicholas_]

#Remembrance
Lives wasted in war- Newport relatives killed in service:
•Emma Pring, 1942, Aux. Territorial, age 21
•William Nicholas, 1943, 6th Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fus. age 32.
•Albert Frederick Nicholas, 1918, 5th Bn. SWales Borderers, age 30 https://t.co/d2sMFeirgL

[@statue4LadyRhondda @statue4LR]

A change in the weather.
Our blog about the Lady Rhondda statue unveiling is up on Time & Tide website. Cheer yourself up on a gloomy day. https://t.co/8DyShhTnEr

[Julie Nicholas @JulieNicholas_]

Didnt Trump campaign pay a UK party leader (Farage) to be a warm up for his crowds? Isn't that much, much worse?
BBC News - https://t.co/mosApfA02V
Trump campaign accuses Labour of election interference as Starmer tries to play down row - BBC News

[@statue4LadyRhondda @statue4LR]

The symbolism of the statue.
Have you visited Lady Rhondda yet?
@JaneRobbinsArt talks about her amazing sculpture, just before the unveiling of #LadyRhondda.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

The Daily Mail just won the right to say Douglas Barrowman has "cocktail-sausage fingers".

And it won the right to say his actions ruined thousands of lives, led to two suicides, and that he lied about his ties to a likely fraudulent tax scheme. Thread.

[Julie Nicholas @JulieNicholas_]

@GlasllwchP Loved my poem- thank you!

[Julie Nicholas @JulieNicholas_]

Thank you Evelyn at @GlasllwchP for the surprise poem 'Kind hearts are the garden', posted through my letter box today. I enjoyed reading the lovely poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for
#NationalPoetryDay

[Julie Nicholas @JulieNicholas_]

@sospan @jessicamordenmp @statue4LR @women_welsh It represents a ship; a nod to newports steel & docks industry Lady Rhonddas businesses, her survival on the Lusitania & the monument's 'figurehead' theme- she is leading the way. The statue tells the story of her life as well as a figurative representation of a great woman.