Darren G-L 🇺🇦

Valleys boy exiled to Wiltshire. History geek. Rugby fan. Toddler Wrangler. Dog butler. Barrister. Views tweeted are my own obviously. RT not an endorsement

[Darren G-L 🇺🇦 @ValleyExile]

This is how I was taught my values. Stories of heroes whilst being cwtched by my Mamgu.

School holiday exploring with my 4 yo & his Mamgu.

[Darren G-L 🇺🇦 @ValleyExile]

Cults of Personality are so un-British that I’m reassured that most people’s response to this nonsense is to laugh at it

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

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What do we call these people?

[Darren G-L 🇺🇦 @ValleyExile]

I love & miss living in Wales.

[Andy Davies @adavies4]

Lovely unscripted moment this morning in the Welsh Parliament as a brilliant young choir from Ysgol Treganna in Cardiff - singing Safwn yn y Bwlch in rehearsal - bump into the Prime Minister (watch their reaction at the end 🎶)

[Darren G-L 🇺🇦 @ValleyExile]

On Hols in the Roman Forum

Darren: This is the Temple of Julius Caesar.

My 4 yo: Who is Julius Seagull?!

*we emerge in the sun to find a seagull literally straight opposite*

4 yo *sharp in-take of breath* there he is!

😂 🇮🇹 ��️

[Darren G-L 🇺🇦 @ValleyExile]

Never mind @TheCrownNetflix my 4 yo & I are currently listening to @imeldaMPBS singing The Highway Rat song & it’s an epic performance.

[Darren G-L 🇺🇦 @ValleyExile]

@SaxiAlpines @SmamfaMk3 @nicolelampert Unfortunately women’s rugby only just professionalised. Those that are paid are paid a tiny fraction of the men.

There are fewer strong agents & media managers too.

Sad. It’s not the message I’d like to see pushed to the girls in our Rugbytots class.

[Darren G-L 🇺🇦 @ValleyExile]

@nicolelampert It’s a shame because the Home Unions have done hard work in placing women’s Rugby as about strength, skill, controlled aggression & just as entertaining.
This looks like titillation.
Surprised they went for this but it’s an area with fewer media managers & strong agents.

[Darren G-L 🇺🇦 @ValleyExile]

@PoppyCocktails Your cat doesn’t want their Serfs (you) to get rights.

[Poppy @PoppyCocktails]

And just when you think you’ve seen all Paisley has to offer BAM the actual site of #DonoghueVStevenson

*gasps in tort geek*

[Darren G-L 🇺🇦 @ValleyExile]

Hi @uniofwarwick I’m a Warwick Alumnus. Periodically you ask me to give you money.
What are you specifically doing about these students singing Nazi songs? It’s revolting.

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

EXCL 🚨 Tory student group held black-tie dinner two weeks ago where members sang German marching song used by the Nazis in WW2

Warwick Uni Conservative Association sorry after dancing to “Erika” — used by SS and Wermacht and today white supremacists https://t.co/ZdQvhgFvBd

[stellacreasy @stellacreasy]

Walthamstow this person who attacked my office with a hammer and sprayed graffiti on orford road. If you know who this is please stand up for democracy and come forward. Police report and another photo here.

[Darren G-L 🇺🇦 @ValleyExile]

@Familoo I can assure you that until there’s a poster in your window & a stake poster in your garden, the job is not finished.

[Penny Batchelor - Author @penny_author]

1. I’m in tears. #DissbilityTwitter pls help me call out @ThistleHotels & @agoda. I booked a wheelchair accessible room in March for my London trip to speak at @WomensPrize tomorrow. arrived in taxi to find there’s 8 steps to get in & there’s no wheelchair accessible room free.

[Darren G-L 🇺🇦 @ValleyExile]

By day I’m pouring over medical records.

But in the long Summer evenings I’m working PRO BONO for the Welsh Rugby Union!

[Darren G-L 🇺🇦 @ValleyExile]

I wouldn’t trust incompetent @JamesCleverly & @RishiSunak with a draft excluder.

You think I’d give you my two Sons?

[Sky News @SkyNews]

"No one's going to jail over this."

Home Secretary @JamesCleverly says the Tories' mandatory National Service plans are "about building a network across society" and also confirms volunteering won't be paid.

#TrevorPhillips https://t.co/fhIHlpTGAF

📺 Sky 501 / YouTube

[Darren G-L 🇺🇦 @ValleyExile]

National Service is to the Right what Revolutionary Politics is to the Left.

Both are proposed by older or weedy men who don’t intend to do any of the fighting themselves… it’s for others to get their hands dirty.

It’s pathetic. They’re pathetic.

[Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK]

"That's the shot"

#GeneralElection

[Darren G-L 🇺🇦 @ValleyExile]

Tory Wet

[The New World: New ideas. New magazine @TheNewWorldmag]

Things Can Only Get Better drowning out a soggy Sunak

[Darren G-L 🇺🇦 @ValleyExile]

@efrogwraig Someone give Edward Hopper a cwtch.