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@AdvTravelBus is the 100 in Barry running today? not showing on tracker and never turned up earlier so had to get different bus

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@Cardiffbus Only didn’t go through because he was 2p short

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@Cardiffbus my son has lost his 16-21 mytravel pass and all drivers have understood this week for college and charged him £1 except yesterday when the driver made him pay full price. Surely a bit of discretion could be used for a kid going to college whilst waiting for a new card

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@Cardiffbus

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@Cardiffbus So why when he has checked his bank account this morning has he been charged £3.80 for a single ticket in Barry?

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@Cardiffbus Funny that every other local bus company doesn’t scan them and receives the funding only your company scans them. Anything to take an extra bit of money off a child that qualifies for the cheaper ticket. You kow the card doesn’t need to be scanned as does my bus driver partner

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@KanishkaNarayan To be fair I forgot you were even our MP have barely heard anything about you since you were elected I despised your Cairns but he was constantly around for a photo opp if nothing else

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@Cymru What is the point of VAR and still awarding that as a penalty?! Absolute bullshit

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@Stephen37846115 @SkyNews Wales is devolved

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@WG_Education Granddaughter suffers with food issues & very limited with what she will eat, school always makes a ham sandwich in case told today no sandwiches as an option due to Welsh gov directive so she went without food today and parents were not informed until pick up. Ridiculous

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@casualsdirect A couple of kids threw some bottles or cans towards a pub then carried on being herded away by the police and that’s it 🙄I’ve seen more carnage at a toddlers tea party

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@CardiffCityFC This club is a fucking joke

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@CardiffCityFC Was in no doubt it would be 🙄

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@lorrainemking Def not the only 1 I do this all the time 😫

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@Cymru @FIFAWorldCup

[Matt @matthewjamesali]

Riza’s the fall guy and so very obviously out of his depth but please don’t pile in on him. 12 or so managers in the last 10 years and one common denominator. Enough is enough. #tanout

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@racingblogger It cost £25 oh and there’s peppers on there

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@BeckettUnite @LauraAlvarezJC Fuck you @Keir_Starmer @JoeBiden you are both genocide enablers

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Horrific scenes as Israel 🇮🇱 again bombs the tents of displaced Palestinians in Khan Yunis 🇵🇸

Starmer 🇬🇧 & Biden 🇺🇸 are selling Netanyahu 🇮🇱 the weapons for genocide

They should be in The Hague.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024