To the valley communities of South Wales, do you remember how Thatcher pitted families against each other during the eighties miners strike?
Farage is an admirer of Thatcher. Donโt forget that on Thursday!
Put Wales first on Thursday and reject ReformUK.
#OTD in 2003... a Great Escape from the Swans! ๐ฆข
James Thomas scored a priceless hat-trick as Swansea defeated Hull to preserve their EFL status ๐
Were you there that day? ๐๏ธ
#BBCFootball#Swans
@jakkeron97103@NeathJack1 It was right in front of me and I disagree. There was little if any contact and he wasn't brought down, he threw himself down.
Anyone on a pension needs to worry about the Welfare bashingโฆ the fake narrativesโฆ it is included in the Welfare numbers being bandied around and I am pretty sure you consider it your right having paid in all those years..
Imagine if every stadium shared messages like this at half-time!! ๐
Swansea City used their scoreboard to remind fans to check in on a friend, or speak to the person next to them - words on a space usually reserved for tactical updates and substitution numbers.
It's simple, but in a sport that so often overcomplicates everything, that's exactly the point.
Football grounds hold a strange kind of powerโฆ those stands can make you feel ten feet tall or completely alone depending on the day.
The dressing room is the same. You can be surrounded by teammates and still be fighting something privately that nobody knows about ๐คทโโ๏ธ
I urge clubs to seriously think about the reach they have. Those screens, those stadiums - there is no better place to put a message that matters, especially one that people wouldn't think to seek out themselves.
Full credit to Swansea and the Jac Lewis Foundation for this ๐
(๐ธ: jac lewis foundation/theawayfans)
Despite the fact Reform were too scared to let me come to their conference, I have been through their manifesto so you don't have to.
Spoiler alert, they don't really have a plan...
Read the full breakdown in my pinned tweet.
BREAKING: A letter from Alex Prettiโs Final Nursing Student:
โI was Alex Prettiโs final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis VA Hospital. There he trained me to care for the sickest of the sick as an ICU nurse. He taught me how to care for arterial and central lines, the intricacies of managing multiple IVs filled with lifesaving solutions, and how to watch over every heartbeat, every breath, and every flicker of life, ready to act the moment they wavered. Techniques intended to heal.
Alex carried patience, compassion and calm as a steady light within him. Even at the very end, that light was there. I recognized his familiar stillness and signature calm composure shining through during those unbearable final moments captured on camera.
It does not surprise me that his final words were, โAre you okay?โ Caring for people was at the core of who he was. He was incapable of causing harm. He lived a life of healing, and he lived it well.
Alex believed strongly in the Second Amendment and in the rights rooted in our Constitution and its amendments. He spoke out for justice and peace whenever he could, not only out of obligation, but out of a belief that we are more connected than divided, and that communication would bring us together.
I want his family to know his legacy lives on. I am a better nurse because of the wisdom and skills he instilled in me. I carry his light with me into every room, letting it guide and steady my hands as I heal and care for those in need.
Please honor my friend by standing up for peace, preferably with a cup of black coffee in hand and a couple of pieces of candy in your pocket, just as he would. He would remind you that caring for others is hard work, and we must do whatever it takes to get through the long shifts. Step outside with your dog, breathe in the world, hike or bike as he loved to do, and let yourself find peace in the quiet moments within nature. Stand up for justice and speak with those whose views differ from your own. Hold your beliefs with strength, but always extend love outward, even in the face of adversity.
Take one step, no matter how small, to help heal our world. Through these acts, carry his light forward in his name. Let his legacy continue to heal.โ