Keith Young

Father, husband, paramedic.

[Teddys mummy @Kimberleyerrin2]

Well that’s fabulous except trusts like @nottmhospitals regularly delete and wipe the logs that could possibly inform anyone that their data has been snooped on so… 🤷‍♀️

[Michelle Welsh MP @MichelleWelshMP]

An independent investigation has found maternity files at Nottingham University Hospitals were intentionally deleted.

Please read our statement as Nottinghamshire MPs ⬇️

[ElaineStark. @ElaineSstark]

En 2014, una niña de 11 años pidió conocer a Patrick Stewart.

Su familia esperaba que el actor le dedicara apenas dos minutos, pero él se quedó casi veinte.

Un fotógrafo tomó unas 5.000 imágenes durante aquella convención. Sin embargo, decidió publicar solamente una.

La niña se llamaba Dawn Garrigus y padecía una enfermedad mitocondrial grave.

Era admiradora de "Star Trek" y su mayor ilusión era conocer al hombre que interpretaba al capitán Jean-Luc Picard.

Gracias a la fundación Make-A-Wish, consiguió reunirse con Stewart durante una convención en Atlanta.

Sus padres pensaron que el encuentro sería muy breve. Pero Patrick se sentó junto a Dawn y comenzó a conversar con ella sobre sus personajes favoritos.

Le firmó sus figuras de acción y compartieron algunas risas.

En un momento, la niña le dijo que era un honor conocerlo.

Stewart respondió: "No, el honor es mío".

Después de unos quince o veinte minutos, cuando la conversación estaba terminando, Dawn lo abrazó espontáneamente.

El fotógrafo James Barker, que había permanecido a cierta distancia para darles privacidad, consiguió capturar aquel instante.

Durante los cuatro días de la convención había tomado unas 5.000 fotografías. Pero decidió publicar solamente esa.

La imagen se difundió ampliamente y conmovió a miles de personas.

El padre de Dawn contó después que aquel encuentro había cambiado su admiración por el actor. Ya no lo recordaba solamente por sus personajes, sino por la manera en que había tratado a su hija.

Hoy, 29 de octubre de 2026, se anunció el fallecimiento de Patrick Stewart a los 86 años.

Entre tantos papeles inolvidables, también quedan momentos como aquel: una niña que soñaba con conocer a su héroe y un hombre que consiguió hacerla sentir que la persona importante de aquel encuentro era ella.

[Teddys mummy @Kimberleyerrin2]

For nearly 6 years, I have been trying to get answers about my son Teddy's death. What I found wasn't just a clinical failure. It was a systemic failure to be honest. Today, I am laying out the paper trail that every official body has refused to address. 1/22

[Hugh Jackman @RealHughJackman]

We lost one of the greats of stage and screen today. And, in my book, a tremendous friend and man. I learned so much from him. I will miss you, Patrick Stewart, all of my days. @mang0ld

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

This seems like a great time to reshare my favourite Sir Patrick Stewart performance, ‘What has the ECHR ever done for us?’ It’s just perfect in every possible way … including the ending 😂😂😂 RIP.

🎥 The Guardian

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1952, an English teacher named Cecil Dormand secretly paid for a dirt-poor 11-year-old to take a drama course.

He never told him and the boy didn’t find out until decades later.

By then, he was a knight, that little boy’s name was Patrick Stewart.

He was born into a poor family in Mirfield, a small mill town in Yorkshire and his father came home from World War II a violent man, and he was violent toward Patrick’s mother.

Young Patrick learned exactly when to step between his father’s fist and his mother.

An English teacher put a copy of Shakespeare in his hand and told him to get up and perform.

He never stopped and left school at 15.

By 19 he was completely bald... most agencies told him he'd never make it because of that.

In 1987, the LA Times called him an “unknown British Shakespearean actor” when he was cast as Captain Picard.

Then he became one of the most famous faces on Earth.

You’ve probably heard that part.

Here’s the part you haven’t:

He spent decades as a patron of Refuge, sheltering women and children from domestic violence.

But he never stopped trying to understand his father.

He dug up a 1940 newspaper clipping that said his dad had come home with severe shell shock.

He went to France and walked the ground where his father’s unit was pinned down under bombing for hours.

He learned his father had PTSD, and nobody ever helped him.

So Patrick became an ambassador for Combat Stress, a charity that helps veterans.

In 2013, a young woman at a Texas convention told him she was a survivor of domestic violence.

He asked, “My dear, are you okay?”

Then he hopped off the stage, held her, and told her: “You never have to go through that again, you’re safe now.”

At Dragon Con, a Make-A-Wish girl dressed as Spock came to meet him.

2,000 people were waiting for him to speak... he sat down and talked with her for 15 minutes, making all of them wait.

He told her that since they were friends now, whenever she saw him on screen she could wave and say, “Hello Patrick.”

After 9/11, he felt helpless, so he brought his one-man A Christmas Carol back to Broadway for a full week of charity shows.

He played every character himself and donated every cent.

In 2019 he did it again, and every dollar went to feeding hungry New Yorkers.

In 2017, he fostered a pit bull named Ginger, who had been rescued from a dogfighting ring.

She was his first dog in more than 50 years.

He couldn’t bring her home to England, so he found her a family.

Then he kept fostering more.

When he said he was done with Star Trek so many people told him the show had gotten them through the hardest times of their lives.

So he wanted to see if Picard could do it one more time.

Rest in Peace, Sir Patrick 🖖

[Steven Ratnik @StevenJosephR]

@IanMcKellen Thanks for the memories.

[Ian McKellen @IanMcKellen]

SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)

Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.

We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.

America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.

His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.

Ian McKellen 29 October 2026

Photo: University of Huddersfield

[Rohoza (Дев'ятий) Mykhailo 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇨🇦 @Oct7NeverForget]

🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth just got absolutely humiliated by Senator Tammy Duckworth!

Senator Tammy Duckworth, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who lost both legs while serving in Iraq, challenged Hegseth:

"I'm glad you brought that up. Can you name a single country that belongs to ASEAN and explain what agreement we have with it? And, by the way, how many countries are in ASEAN? Frankly, I'm not sure you even know who our allies are."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth:

"Well, I can't give you the exact number, but I certainly know our allies in South Korea, Japan, and Australia..."

Senator Duckworth:

"None of the countries you just mentioned are members of ASEAN. I suggest you do your homework before engaging in these discussions."

And this is the kind of clueless bullshit running the Pentagon. Absolutely unbelievable.

[Teddys mummy @Kimberleyerrin2]

Six years. Three organisations. One dead son @nottmhospitals
@OckReview @NHSEngland @ICOnews
20+ requests. 5 formal complaints. 12+ escalations to ICO, MPs, and senior leaders.
88 documents requested. 22 provided. 66 withheld, missing, incomplete.

[Geri Perna @GeriPerna]

A farmer, tired of rats destroying his crops and stealing his grain, came up with a clever but cruel plan. He threw a dead pig into a deep, abandoned well. Attracted by the smell, nearly 80 rats rushed into the well to feast on the carcass. At first, everything seemed wonderful. There was more than enough food for everyone, and the rats ate until they were satisfied.

But when the food was gone, they discovered something terrifying. The walls of the well were too steep to climb. They were trapped. Days passed, and hunger turned into desperation. Desperation turned into aggression. The rats that had once eaten peacefully beside one another began fighting for survival. Eventually, they began killing and eating each other.

One by one, their numbers dwindled until only a single rat remained. Its eyes were bloodshot, and it had survived by consuming its own kind. Then the farmer returned, lowered a rope into the well, and rescued the last surviving rat. But he didn't save it out of kindness or compassion.

The farmer knew the rat had learned to survive by hunting other rats. When he released it into his fields, it would continue killing its own kind instead of eating his grain. The farmer had turned his enemy into his greatest weapon.

And that is the lesson of divide and conquer. Those who control the trap don't need to fight the battles themselves. They simply create the conditions in which others turn against one another.

The rats believed their enemies were the other rats. They never realized that the true enemy was the farmer who had put them there.

The greatest danger isn't always the enemy standing in front of you. Sometimes it's the one who created the conflict and stands quietly watching you destroy each other.

Before you turn against your neighbor because of their political beliefs, ask yourself who benefits from keeping Americans divided. While we fight each other over Republican and Democrat, we may be overlooking those who profit from the conflict. Perhaps the real question isn't which side you're on, but who built the well—and why they want us fighting at the bottom of it.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tax the rich?

Everyone is against it until they find out how it actually works.

Watch and find out how Wealth Taxes actually work.