Jennet Evans

Writer for wellbeing, sharing with Alzheimer’s Society colleagues whenever I can, Passionate believer in a voice for all. Views decidedly mine, all mine!

[Nation.Cymru @NationCymru]

A Welsh male voice choir is preparing to stage an ambitious one-day musical marathon across south Wales in aid of charity https://t.co/GSyIoXwhfO

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

This has to stop…

[Stephen Kinnock @SKinnock]

Improving the lives of people with dementia is a priority for this government.

We're developing new guidance on dementia care to tackle inequalities & variation, appointing a dedicated Dementia Tsar, and providing up to £150m for research & clinical trials.

#DementiaActionWeek

[Kiera Marshall @Kiera__Marshall]

Let’s get some facts straight:

1️⃣ Immigration is not devolved to the Welsh Government.

2️⃣ “Nation of Sanctuary” is a programme based on the statutory responsibilities the Welsh Government has toward asylum seekers and refugees within a system set by the UK Government.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

The Cul-de-Sac That Used to Be Her Home.
A female badger stands at the edge of a fresh tarmac driveway in the April twilight, her paws caked in the clay of a leveled hillside.

"I have raised six generations in the dark earth beneath this spot," she grunts, her scent-marking glands working fruitlessly against a concrete kerb. "I know the exact root where the bluebells first break and the slope where the oak mast falls. Now, there is only a fence where my front door used to be. I am not lost—the world is."

We often assume that wildlife can simply "move next door" when we build new housing estates, viewing animals as flexible commuters.

In reality, badgers are deeply site-faithful. A social group may use the same sett for over a century. Right now in mid-April, sows are weaning cubs and require immense caloric intake. When a development goes up in months, it destroys 15 years of topographical memory. Displacement leads to "road-kill" spikes as confused animals attempt to navigate old paths that are now motorways.

Practical Actions:

Support Wildlife Corridors: Advocate for "badger gates" in new housing fences to allow ancestral passage.

Report Sett Damage: If you see active digging near construction, ensure a license is in place.

She isn't a "nuisance" in your garden; she is a refugee standing in her own living room.

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

So, as a doctor I can’t accept a plastic pen from a pharmaceutical company because it might influence my prescribing decisions, but MPs can accept thousands in cash from those who want to privatise the NHS and it won’t affect their decision-making??? CTFO
https://t.co/ax78s1RSRJ

[Sam @SamCKx]

I can no longer hold my tongue seeing the utter lies being spread about Britain, our history of migration, and how this country was built into what it is today. For those so deeply buried in fake news, manufactured outrage and billionaire‑funded propaganda, I’m going to lay out the truth – and exactly why you’re being fed all this poison.

Britain was never a sealed white island. From Roman times there were African soldiers stationed on Hadrian’s Wall and living in British towns, people from across the empire walking these roads nearly 2,000 years ago. Through the Middle Ages and Tudor England you still find Black people in the records – sailors, craftsmen, servants, musicians – even Black musicians at the royal court and Africans being baptised, marrying and being buried in English parishes like anyone else. This isn’t some modern experiment; it’s older than half the castles people visit on their bank‑holiday tours.

As Britain went out into the world, the world came here. Sailors and traders from India, Yemen and beyond were arriving in British ports from the 1600s. Some of those men were practising a new faith to most Britons at the time, praying quietly in boarding houses near the docks while they worked brutal shifts in the engine rooms of British ships. Over the centuries, more people from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia passed through and settled, bringing their languages, foods and beliefs into port cities that were far more mixed than today’s nostalgia merchants like to admit.

After two world wars, the truth is simple: this country asked the Commonwealth to come and rebuild it. People from the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia didn’t sneak in; they were recruited. They came to drive buses and trains, staff the NHS, work in mills and foundries, clean offices, run corner shops, open takeaways and small businesses, and yes, build prayer spaces and community centres alongside churches and temples in the neighbourhoods everyone now pretends were always “traditional” and “unchanged”. They did the work that kept Britain going while being told to go home, refused housing, and treated as permanent outsiders.

And what have they been paid back with? Scandals where people who’ve lived, worked and paid taxes here for decades get told they don’t belong. Policies designed to make life so hostile that some give up and leave. A media that uses their names, accents, clothes or places of worship as props in endless scare stories. The message is always the same: you might toil for this country, but you will never fully be of it.

So when you hear that “Britain was white until recently” or that the country has been “overrun”, understand that you don’t arrive at that belief by accident. You get there because your history has been deliberately ripped out and replaced with a comforting myth: that “real” Britain is white, homogenous, and constantly under siege from people who look, speak or pray differently.

Now look at when this myth has been turned up to max volume. Wages frozen. Housing a sick joke. Energy and food prices out of control. Public services hacked to pieces. At the same time, the number of people hoarding unimaginable wealth at the top has exploded. Funny, isn’t it, how every front page is about boats and “swarms” and “our culture”, and almost never about the landlords, hedge funds, private equity and offshore trusts quietly buying up your city and your future.

That’s because this isn’t just prejudice; it’s a strategy. If you’re sitting on a mountain of wealth, the last thing you want is ordinary people – of every colour and background – realising they have the same problems and the same enemy. Much safer if the factory worker is furious at the new family down the road. Much safer if the person who can’t see a doctor blames the nurse with an accent instead of the minister who cut the funding. Much safer if a man who can’t afford his rent spends his rage on the woman in a headscarf at the bus stop instead of the billionaire who owns half his city.

Racist rhetoric, religious dog‑whistling, all of it, exists to break solidarity. It turns neighbours into enemies and stops people seeing that Black, brown and white working‑class communities have far more in common with each other than any of them will ever have with the people flying in on private jets. It keeps you so busy policing skin colour, passports and prayer mats that you never get round to asking why your kids can’t afford a home, why your parents can’t get a hospital bed, why you’re working harder and standing still.

The real story of Britain is this: a crossroads, not a fortress. Africans on Hadrian’s Wall. Black people in Tudor courts and city streets. Sailors, traders and workers from South Asia, the Middle East and beyond in the ports. Caribbean, African and Asian workers rebuilding the country after the war, staffing surgeries and hospitals, driving cabs, running shops, cooking food, teaching kids. Today’s multi‑ethnic, multi‑faith working class is not a glitch; it is Britain. It built this place and it keeps it running.

If you’re genuinely angry about what’s happening to this country, good. You should be. But aim it where it belongs. Britain was never pure, never untouched, never “theirs” to take back. The people ruining your standard of living are not the ones risking their lives to get here, or the ones whose names you struggle to pronounce. They’re the ones buying politicians, owning media outlets, writing the story of this country so you never learn your own – and never realise who is standing beside you.

[Will Hayward @WillHayCardiff]

Nigel Farage has called Welsh people “Foreign speakers” in a Cameo video.

I hate to break it to you Mr Farage, but if you read a history book you would realise English is more foreign in the UK than Welsh.

He said: “Gutted I couldn’t attend the wedding. I wanted to come, but I heard that half the guests were Welsh, and I don’t know. Who knows what would have happened with all those foreign speakers there. I don’t know.”

This is at a time that his party are trying to convince people in Wales that they should elect them to the Welsh Parliament.

Big credit to the Guardian for breaking this story: https://t.co/Uv1ltK4cqG

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

The NHS is under pressure to adopt Palantir software. Its founder openly despises the NHS.

You can push back: use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir
https://t.co/nET3kHD2bs

[𝕏 Dogs @_XDogs]

Brazil's President Bolsonaro has signed a new law that increases penalties for those who mistreat pets. Direct witness of the ratification: his dog. Now those who harm cats and dogs face 24 months in prison, a hefty fine and the absolute ban on adopting other animals.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Britain must do the same

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

We do NOT need work coaches in GP surgeries.

We DO need:
More GPs, Therapists, Benefits & Debt Advisors, Domestic Abuse Workers & Social Prescribers save lives & NHS cash by tackling mental health, poverty & trauma. 💙

Patients deserve care that heals, not pushes jobs.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

I think that @BBCNews, @SkyNews @ITVNewsPolitics and @Channel4News should all be reporting on Reform UK and Russian bribery.

RT if you agree!!

Why are the media ignoring such a blatant story?!

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Please watch and share this 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇸

President Macron, "Naively, we have entrusted our democratic space to social media controlled by American entrepreneurs or Chinese corporations whose interests do not align with the survival of democracy"

"Children are exposed to harmful content, fueling mental health and behavioral crises among youth"

"Public spaces encourage emotion over reason, negativity over positivity—driving extremes"

"Algorithms amplify this for profit. Our democracies were not designed for this"

"If we Europeans do not reclaim control of our democracy, in ten years, those exploiting this infrastructure will have won"

"We will become a continent of conspiracy theorists, extremists, and noise"

"If we believe in democratic order, we must put science, knowledge, culture, education, and learning at the center"

"We must protect our youth and regulate social media with the same standards as democratic spaces: no hidden or fake accounts, equal responsibility for published content"

"Otherwise, racism, anti-Semitism, and hate will triumph. Europe can rebuild a 21st-century democracy—but it requires action"

[Wales Vets Football @WalesVets]

🏆WORLD CHAMPIONS🏆

Our O70s squad have only gone & done it again!!

O70 World Cup Winners at the O70 World Cup in Japan 🍾

To be still playing football at this age is an achievement, but to be competing & winning on the world stage is amazing 👏🏻💪🏻

#VetsFootball ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚽️

[leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ @LeilaniDowding]

Please share, even if you are not a horsey person. Share everywhere. Feel free to save photo and share as your for better reach and exposure

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Nigel farage wants you to think that Britain has an immigration problem.

It doesn't.

Britain had a problem with millionaires hoarding wealth, egged on by politicians and the press.

Britain has a problem with racism.

Britain has a @Nigel_Farage problem.

RT if you agree.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven. The degree to which those comments can undermine public health, do harm to women who are pregnant, create anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic – is violence against the truth.

[Paul Vick @PaulVick138203]

Do you think the BBC gives Reform UK to much airtime compared to all the other political parties?🤔
Repost after voting please.