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Physics PhD, software engineer, entrepreneur, translator of Welsh novels, evangelical Christian. Policy Spokesman for @Gwlad_Gwlad .🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇱🇺🇦

Pengwern, Swydd Amwythig

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Stephen Morris

1 year

@K_Niemietz "A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion; [but] if either forgets that we think of such things only in order to be able to think of something else—then [it has] become itself a new and deadly disease." C.S. Lewis

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Stephen Morris

4 years

Welsh must be the most forward-looking language there is. I don't know of another language that has words for "tomorrow" ('yfory'), "the day after tomorrow" ('trannoeth') and even 'the day after the day after tomorrow" ('trennydd').

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6 months

I'm sorry to hear that Mark Drakeford is stepping down as First Minister. Because I know that whoever Labour put up as his successor will be as bad, if not worse. Only by voting them out altogether will Wales ever be able to make any real progress.

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Tributes pour in following news of Mark Drakeford's resignation as First Minister

Emily Price Tributes have poured in following the announcement that Mark Drakeford will resign as First Minister this coming spring. Mr Drakeford made the announcement on Wednesday morning on the...

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@WelshGovernment Easter.

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@BrianRoemmele What about fourth-man syndrome: Daniel 3:24-25... "Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, “Weren’t there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?” They replied, “Certainly, Your Majesty.” He said, “Look! I see four men

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Stephen Morris

3 years

I seriously find it hard to believe that whoever runs @YesCymru 's social media account was taken in by this: @RAF_Luton is a brilliant spoof account. Another example of the Left's sense-of-humour bypass.

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6 months

@TPointUK If that were the only choice, I'd spoil my ballot paper.

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Stephen Morris

5 months

On this scale, Wales is less than one pixel. Welsh Labour want to close down the whole Welsh economy for the sake of that pixel.

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Visual Capitalist

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Visualizing All the World’s Carbon Emissions by Country 📊

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4 years

Reasons for learning Welsh no. 9,383: not making a complete ass of yourself when confusing geographical terms for personal names.

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WalesOnline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Lawyer and black rights activist wants name of residential street changed saying it honours a Welsh slave owner

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3 months

This is absolutely brilliant. I always think of the @NewStatesman as a left-of-centre publication, but not even the @spectator could have done a better job of nailing the surreal absurdity of Drakeford's Wales. HT @eifion_david

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Mark Drakeford doesn’t understand Wales

The First Minster’s socialism is numb to the realities of Welsh life – just look at farming.

www.newstatesman.com

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4 years

I have a PhD in theoretical physics and I endorse this message:

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4 years

Science is not an exact science. But our most precious moral truths are absolute, unalterable and eternal.

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4 years

@EuropeElects @Welsh4Isreal I seem to remember there was some minor unpleasantness in 1776 that ensured the Americans' choice of their President was none of our damned business.

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26 days

@BrianRoemmele Same decade as this.

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This is Andrea Bocelli performing “Con Te Partiro” for the first time in 1995 at an Italian singing contest. It almost never happened: Bocelli liked the song — which was composed for him — but didn’t think it was fit for the contest. The 37-year old was half right. He got 4th

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9 months

I think the current estimate by the Cardiff Bay Government is that the 20mph limit will save at most 9 lives per year. Imagine how many would be saved by the cancer centre. But it's private-sector so no doubt they're against it in principle.

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Professor Karol Sikora

@ProfKarolSikora

9 months

Which is a better use of Welsh taxpayer money? Lowering the default national speed limit from 30mph to 20mph. Or using those funds to reopen the state-of-the-art cancer centre in Newport - helping over 6,000 patients a year. Which provides better value? I know my answer.

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1 year

This is fascinating... Until today I'd never realised that Gruffudd ap Llywelyn (1010-1063) had not only united all of Wales under his reign, but large areas of what is now Shropshire and Herefordshire as well.

Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, the First and Last King of Wales - Historic UK

The story of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, how he united Wales, and the role he played in the years running up…

www.historic-uk.com

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Stephen Morris

4 years

Normally I'm much more sympathetic towards the Conservatives than your average Welsh Nationalist is. But the way they've been stoking up xenophobia and general bad feeling over this border issue is really disgraceful. It reflects very badly on them.

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1 year

It's surprised me, but I think monoglot English culture really does fear Welsh. Viscerally. It's older but still untamed. It's comprehended deeper joys and harsher griefs, and shines brightly. Yet it's open to all, and a delight to learn. It will ultimately prevail. Yma o hyd.

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Stephen Morris

1 year

@ShepherdWales @Gwlad_Gwlad @WelshGovernment I was skeptical about it but the reaction has surprised me. The Telegraph is still banging on about it today. There's still a real fear of Wales that I hadn't expected. That's not to exonerate the WG, who've done this for cynical motives to hide their failures elsewhere.

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Stephen Morris

3 years

Personally I'd like to see a little more Welsh history taught in Welsh schools. Is that too much to ask?

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Claudia Webbe MP

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Well done Wales. This will no longer be hidden. For the first time it will be mandatory teaching in schools.

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Stephen Morris

7 months

I'm bored rigid with all the Welsh nationalist types bellyaching about the King's Speech today. Many of the world's most stable and prosperous countries are monarchies, including most of the Nordic ones that so many nationalists like me admire. The reasons for Wales's poverty

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Stephen Morris

1 year

Too many people in the Welsh independence movement seem to motivated by what they hate: the Tories, the Royal Family, England... it gets tedious and dispiriting. For the record, I'm in it because of what I love: Wales, its people, its unique culture, and all it could become.

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Stephen Morris

8 months

Nothing at all about the @YesCymru march in Bangor today on @BBCWalesNews or @HeraldWales . Take a bow @WalesOnline , but why on earth does the headline say that "hundreds marched" when the article itself says "over 10,000"?

Hundreds march for independence in Welsh city

The march for independence was organised by YesCymru and AUOBCymru

www.walesonline.co.uk

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Stephen Morris

2 years

I noticed 'Calvinism' trending and looked at the tweets. Good grief. Three observations: - the vast majority of them are against it. - the vast majority of them don't understand it. - those two sets overlap almost completely. I'm proud to call myself a Calvinist.

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Stephen Morris

4 years

Despite having joined @YesCymru in February 2016, it seems I forgot to renew in 2018 and my membership lapsed. So I've just re-joined; and had my membership card #147 re-issued. I'm told that membership number 1-100 weren't used; if so then I'm one of the first 50 members.

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Stephen Morris

6 months

@TheGregMurphy Been taking lessons from @HafodHardware :

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Hafod Hardware Christmas Advert 2019

Here it is, our Christmas advert for 2019 #BeAKidThisChristmasWishing all our customers a Happy Christmas for 2019.Alan, Pauline & Tom..A big thank you to th...

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1 year

Wales: all the evidence suggests that your government hates you.

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1 year

Speaking as someone who's been saying for years that Wales will be independent before Scotland, this - from @YesCymru CEO @GwernGwynfil - is brilliant. 1/2

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Let an independent Wales show the way for Scotland's future

A Letter from Wales - Welsh Independence, Scotland’s road to freedom?

www.thenational.scot

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Stephen Morris

7 months

Personally I'm ashamed of the Senedd for appeasing terrorists.

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Senedd backs motion calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Israel

MSs have backed calls for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The Plaid Cymru motion was supported in the Senedd after ministers in the Welsh Government abstained and offered its backbenchers a...

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Stephen Morris

2 months

@IncMonocle @KiszelyPhilip @metpoliceuk Apart from anything else, it's a rubbish chant because it doesn't even rhyme.

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Stephen Morris

9 months

The perfect car for Drakeford's Wales.

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9 months

The vehicle's limitations – a short range, a maximum speed of only 15 miles per hour (24 km/h), a battery that ran down quickly and a lack of weath #wales #news

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Stephen Morris

3 months

@Jeremy_Miles @Jordon3Jane You miserable hypocrite. Stop all the net zero nonsense and make energy and transport prices competitive, and that would do much more good than poncing around with a placard.

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Stephen Morris

1 year

@ajcdeane @LivePOLITICO The fact that Kate Forbes is the MSP for Badenoch (alongside Skye and Lochaber) is one of those curious things that life throws up sometimes.

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Stephen Morris

3 years

To all those Plaid Cymru people doting over Mark Drakeford in the wake of the deal announced yesterday... Look around you. Look at Wales as she is today. Do you like what you see? No? That's what 100 years of Labour rule looks like. And you're asking for more of the same.

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Stephen Morris

2 years

@CSLewisDaily No, this article isn't faithful either to Scripture itself (e.g. Rom. 3:26) or to Lewis's own understanding of the Atonement (see e.g. the chapter in Mere Christianity entitled "The Perfect Penitent"). Please stick to Lewis's own quotes. That's why people follow this account.

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Stephen Morris

3 years

Allow yourself to imagine - just for a moment - what Wales would be like if it had a government that actually cared about Wales.

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Stephen Morris

2 years

I've very recently come across @DoombergT . At $30/month the subscription is a bit steep (more than @spectator and @unherd put together) and I'm not ready to stump up, but there's some good stuff on there. Here's one of their 'free samples'.

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Where Stuff Comes From

It is fine to not know where stuff comes from, but it isn’t fine to not know where stuff comes from while dictating to the rest of us how the economy should be run.

newsletter.doomberg.com

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Stephen Morris

4 months

"The vast majority of the Welsh public don’t understand any of this. Most blame Westminster and the developers for the recent windfarm invasion and the desecration of the hills. But in reality it is the Welsh Government, in the grip of climate religion, who are behind it all."

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Westminster gave Wales the same planning deal as England, but the Welsh Government sold out rural communities to meet virtue-signalling Net Zero targets.

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Stephen Morris

4 years

They've got a point. If we add 30 new seats to the Senedd and withdraw our 40 MPs from Westminster, then we're 10 politicans down and we save the Welsh Secretary's salary as well. Win-win.

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Stephen Morris

7 months

How on earth can 'climate change' affect the length of a journey? I expect the word she's looking for is 'weather'.

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Jamie Jenkins

7 months

🚨 | Climate Change minister - ‘I drove to North Wales last Thursday & back Friday. The thing that caused most disruption was flooding & climate change. 20mph made no difference to the amount of time it took’ 💥 Another politician out of touch with reality on the taxpayer

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@kingreddthe1st @itsmichalll Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005. Any conflict since then has been only the result of Palestinian aggression.

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@1ceiling_fan @AJamesMcCarthy Earth has an atmosphere; most of the meteoroids that Earth encounters burn up in the atmosphere before they hit the ground.

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Stephen Morris

4 months

If only there were a steelworks somewhere in Wales producing high-grade steel that could be used to manufacture the sort of armaments which are needed in Ukraine now, and may be needed here in a few years' time.

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Britain must prepare for war. America won’t save us this time

The era of peace dividend is over – we can no longer avoid the question of rearmament

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Stephen Morris

4 years

Ironic but accurate. According to polls, Wales is currently the most Unionist part of the UK. What is wrong with us?

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6 months

With Geert Wilders in the news today, I remembered that I have on my bookshelf a copy of his 2012 book 'Marked for Death' - which I remember reading - but it seems that it's personally signed by Mark Steyn (who wrote the foreword) and I've got no recollection how that happened.

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Stephen Morris

1 year

No rail investment. No road investment. 20mph speed limits on their way in. Wales after 23 years of Labour government.

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Paul Frost

1 year

@tfwrail 08:29 (a.08:35) Llanharan / Pontyclun to Cardiff Too crowded, standing Not enough carriages. (only 2) Taking ages to squeeze everyone, train is getting delayed at each station. People left on platform at Pontyclun, next train for them is 09:44 !!! Pay for taxi ?

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Stephen Morris

7 months

The Senedd can have about as much effect on the war in Israel as it can upon the global climate, so it would be a good thing all round if it held its peace about both and concentrated on governing Wales. The first thing it should do is ensure the safety of Welsh Jews.

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BBC Wales News

7 months

Calls grow in Welsh Parliament for ceasefire in Gaza

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Stephen Morris

1 year

"...the same entitlement and 'we have a right-to-rule' mentality that is levelled against the Tories in England." Having a single incumbent party in power all or most of the time is bound to lead to corruption and misgovernment, whichever party it is.

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The thing about Mark Drakeford nobody realises

Welsh Labour love to point out that they are the most successful democratic party of the last century. But this continuous auto-piloting into brushing away any legitimate criticism with indignation...

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Stephen Morris

11 months

So if I'm reading this right, it's a Plaid Cymru controlled council taking legal action to prevent the implementation of a Plaid Cymru policy. What am I missing?

Council launches legal action to stop hotel from housing asylum seekers

241 asylum seekers are due to arrive at the Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli from next week

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Stephen Morris

9 months

Since the end of Apartheid, South Africa's government has been dominated by a single party for the whole time - nearly 30 years now - and the result has been disastrous. The parallels with Wales, in particular, should be obvious.

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Britain is turning into South Africa

From schools to prisons, our state is crumbling

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Stephen Morris

7 months

Ych a fi. This is just wrong on all sorts of levels🤮: - misuse of the Welsh flag - misuse of a slogan which Israel has a far, far greater right to use than the Palestinians do (or for that matter, the Welsh) - amplifying the Senedd's shameful decision to appease the terrorists.

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7 months

"I made this design for some flags to take to London on Saturday. The Arabic is the line “Despite everything and everyone [every person], we are still here”. Happy for it to be used freely. Can provide hi-res version if needed." - Menna Wakeford.

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Stephen Morris

1 year

This is nuts, but sadly it's the mentality of many who vote Labour in the Valleys... - first they vote Labour, which makes them poorer. - then they blame the Welsh language for it. Rinse & repeat for 100 years and you get to where we are today.

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Residents in Pontypridd have opposed plans to give an English-speaking school a Welsh name because 'many people don't come back to Wales after completing university'

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Stephen Morris

1 year

But don't worry, some windfarms in Wales will fix it.

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Songpinganq

1 year

@disclosetv China is burning more coal than the rest of world combined，and China is building six times more new coal plants than the rest of the world combined.

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Stephen Morris

13 days

I'm going to take a wild guess that Bk wouldn't have described himself as a "Ceredigion man" and wasn't in Llangrannog to learn Welsh.

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Ceredigion man sexually assaulted woman whilst she lay in her bed

A Ceredigion man who sexually assaulted a woman in her own bed has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison after the jury took less than two hours to return a unanimous guilty verdict....

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Stephen Morris

8 months

The Conservatives are useless in Wales, unable either to speak up for us in Westminster or oppose Labour in the Senedd. A completely wasted vote.

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8 months

A 'blanket' wipeout for the Tories in Wales according to this latest poll. Great work @AndrewRTDavies @WelshConserv !! 😂😂🤡

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Stephen Morris

5 months

And there you have in a nutshell everything that is wrong with Plaid Cymru. They'd do the same things on health, education, the economy, infrastructure, the environment etc. as Labour have done. Running Wales down and impoverishing us. It's good that there are alternatives.

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As a Plaid Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 supporter I have to say that I think Mark Drakeford has done a great job as First Minister . The only difference between us is his support for Unionism. He does not deserve the abuse he’s suffered of late .

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1 year

@creation247 I'd go to the second one in preference to the first one in a heartbeat, if that were the one where the gospel was being preached.

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Stephen Morris

7 months

@TimothyBoyle9 I'd say 1 Cathedral Road, the HQ of the Labour Party in Wales which has steadily impoverished us over the past century and at an accelerating rate over the last 25 or so. Which makes sense - it's clearly in their interests to do so.

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Stephen Morris

1 year

No, not even science fiction can stretch that far.

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A Week in Future Wales

A vision of Wales in the year 2033 - how do we want it to be?

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#SocialistSunday

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3 years

@welshnotbritish Only when men catch it. When women do it'll be the choronavirus.

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1 year

My wife's an NHS dentist, and spends increasing amounts of her time treating asylum-seekers who are being accommodated in one of the main hotels in the centre of Shrewsbury. I asked her how many of these are women or children. The answer is zero. Not one. They're all young men.

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6 months

@oldbooksguy I've never read anything by C.S. Lewis that wasn't profound.

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Stephen Morris

1 year

@EdwardsofConwy @WelshGovernment I live over the border in England; we spend hundreds of pounds a year on your sausages because (a) they're outstandingly good, and (b) we like to support Welsh food businesses. So don't spoil it by echoing things by people who, even if they exist, Wales could do better without.

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Stephen Morris

3 years

In the UK, "the biggest players are in South Wales, with IQE, which builds chips at its factory in Cardiff, and Newport Wafer Fab". The South Wales semiconductor manufacturing cluster is something to be genuinely proud of.

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Global fears grow over Taiwan, the world's microchip factory

Island nation is caught dead centre in the superpowers’ battle for semiconductor tech

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Stephen Morris

7 months

Rule #1 . If you want a country to think you have its interests at heart, and you want to make a statement, then at least hold its flag the right way up. It's amazing that (a) they did this (b) they photographed it and (c) they even tweeted it !

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Natasha MS

7 months

🏥 Our #NHS is under immense pressure with waiting times spiralling out of control 🚙 Yet Labour ministers are focusing on rolling out #20mph speed limits & expanding the Welsh Parliament 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales deserves better - and that was the message from today’s protest! @WelshConserv

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Stephen Morris

8 months

We sometimes hear that the Senedd is so useless because Westminster still draws the most talented people away to where the real power still lies. But I've been trying to think of any really talented Welsh politicians - of any party - there at the moment. It's not easy. 1/3

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Stephen Morris

8 months

230,000.. This is nuts. And the geographical distribution still suggests that this is genuine and not the work of bots.

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Stephen Morris

2 years

@beckyboopta @CuriousCrippin @THEJamesWhale Quite; three out of my four grandparents were first-language Welsh-speakers, but had it beaten out of them by the 1950s. I was brought up in ignorance that there even was a Welsh language, and had to re-learn it in my teens.

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Stephen Morris

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@ScotNational You say "All under one banner" but you're starting the march with another banner, and I suspect your "All" doesn't include Jews. A very poor look for the Scottish independence movement.

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Stephen Morris

2 years

Ychydig dros wythnos yn ôl ges i strôc bach, sy'n esbonio fy absenoldeb o Drydar dros yr wythnos ddiwethaf. Dim yn ddifrifol iawn, ond rwy'n dal yn cael anhawster siarad weithau ac mae darllen a 'sgrifennu yn arafach nag arfer. Mi ail-gydiaf efo pethau ar ol wythnos neu dwy.

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Stephen Morris

1 year

A solitary leek, upside-down, and at the bottom. I'm still not a republican, but it does seem like Charles goes out of his way to insult Wales at every opportunity. Hopefully William will be better when his time comes.

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Stephen Morris

8 months

@therealmissjo @flambeau1914 @stevothebro7 That's right... full figures here with references:

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Stephen Morris

1 year

Number of slaves shipped by European countries from Africa to the Americas: By Britain, to USA: ~400,000 By Spain, to all its colonies: ~1.6 million By Portugal, to Brazil: ~ 3.6 million [Source: Philip D. Curtin, "The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census", 1969]

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8 months

This. The 20mph thing is a classic case of people either voting without thinking, or not voting at all, and then getting a shock when they discover the sort of people whom they allowed to get elected. ⬇️

@LloydCymru

Lloyd Warburton🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦

8 months

One thing the argument on 20mph speed limits demonstrates is the importance of voters being clued up before they vote. In 2021, 56.5% of votes in the Senedd election were to parties promising to lower the speed limit, and those parties picked up 43 of the 60 Senedd seats. 1/4

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2 months

@Camlan11 @KingBobIIV @JustinWelby Just as much to the point, any black Africans transported across the Atlantic were overwhelmingly likely to have enslaved by Arabs or by other black Africans before being sold to Europeans. That doesn't excuse the Europeans, of course, but it shows they weren't uniquely guilty.

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Stephen Morris

3 years

I've just re-joined @YesCymru .

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1 year

@libbyemmons When two Welsh-speakers meet it's the first question they ask each other.

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Stephen Morris

4 months

@GhostofGoose2 British culture was nearly wiped out in the 5th and 6th centuries, but against the odds we're still here ("Yma o Hyd"). We'd love to see a resurrection of all things British. A wider recognition of the distinction between 'English' and 'British' would be a great start.

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2 months

I've been hoping to write a blog post on the shockingly undemocratic voting system being proposed by Labour and Plaid Cymru for the Senedd. But I haven't managed it. Now I don't need to, because @JacotheNorth has absolutely nailed it.

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Stephen Morris

3 years

On the A5 northbound, just before Moreton Hall School and still well inside Shropshire, there's a roadside cafe called "Caffi Ffin" with this advertising hoarding in the verge, 200 yards or so before it. I just love it: [Photo taken by my daughter from a moving car]

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Stephen Morris

2 months

@TerribleMaps England shouldn't have the diagonals across it. Scotland and Cornwall shouldn't have any red on them at all. Wales needs its dragon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.

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Stephen Morris

1 year

@WalesOnline The actions of a man who thinks he's invincible. High time he was shown that he isn't.

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Stephen Morris

1 year

The design of this new GHIC card is absolutely minging.

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Stephen Morris

3 years

I can't comprehend why Welsh-medium education in Machynlleth should be the slightest bit controversial.

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Stephen Morris

4 months

@LozzaFox Y tro diwethaf i mi edrych, nad oedd Saesneg yn iaith 'swyddogol' mewn unrhyw ran o'r DU, ac felly dylai neb fod yn gorfod ei siarad. Er fy mod i'n byw yn Lloegr, rwy'n defnyddio Cymraeg yn aml ac mi fasai'n iawn tasai mewnfudwyr newydd yn defnyddio hon yn lle Saesneg.

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Stephen Morris

3 years

@WelshGovernment Annibyniaeth.

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Stephen Morris

4 years

@PhysicsAndAstr1 Where do I apply?

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Stephen Morris

2 years

@karaalyskennedy @TheSpectator Congratulations. Good company to be in.

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Stephen Morris

26 days

@DeeTaylor102 @BrianRoemmele I believe that, yes.

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Stephen Morris

1 year

Where the heck is Llandustumny? And for that matter, where is Snowdonia? I've got an inkling that you might mean Llanystumdwy, but it's miles away from Eryri. Come on @HeraldWales , you can do a great deal better than this.

Anniversary a 'momentous achievement that forever changed mountaineering history' - Herald.Wales

TODAY (May 28, 2023), we commemorate the anniversary of the historic Mount Everest climb, a momentous achievement that forever changed mountaineering

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Stephen Morris

6 months

Heaven help England; they won't know what's hit them.

@statsjamie

Jamie Jenkins

8 months

🚨 | Keir Starmer - ‘Welsh Labour is the living proof of what Labour looks like in power. A blueprint for what Labour can do across the United Kingdom 🔸 NHS waiting lists worse than England 🔸 Educational outcomes worse than England 🔸 20mph speed limits - slowing the economy

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2 years

1961: "There is no God" - Soviet Union 1991: "There is no Soviet Union" - God

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Soviet Visuals

2 years

“There Is No God!” Soviet poster - one of the most interesting examples of the USSR’s anti-religion campaign featuring a cosmonaut checking for signs of god in space. Shirts, wall art, towels available here:

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1 year

Ouch. Uncompromising, but actually bang on the money. "Wales needs to grow up; it needs key institutions to have a set of priorities that reflect the needs and ambitions of the people." @drdavidajames , check out @Gwlad_Gwlad .

Pity poor Wales if Michael Sheen is its saviour

There he is again, striding across the windswept landscape of rural Wales, untamed hair and beard fluttering in the gentle gwynt. It’s his voice that draws you in of course, those lilting, sing-song...

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Stephen Morris

2 months

@BladeoftheS Yet Finland's public sector is smaller than Wales's, with much more private-sector employment there than here. In particular, there is no NHS, with a much larger private healthcare sector than here and many state-funded healthcare services provided by private companies. 1/2

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Stephen Morris

3 years

Interesting conversation today with someone who lives in the Gower constituency. He said he'd normally vote Conservative, but won't vote for them this time around because of their aggressive anti-devolution stance. May well vote Gwlad. I wonder how many times that will play out.

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Stephen Morris

6 months

@CensoredMen I won't be lectured about Israel's right to defend itself by someone with metal snot.

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Stephen Morris

1 year

Lord Deben (formerly John Selwyn Gummer) is what's known in the trade as an arrogant hypocritical twerp. How dare he call people 'immoral' for wanting to defend their communities, when he lives in grand style in Suffolk - unaffected by these monsters.

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Climate change: Opposing wind farms morally unacceptable - expert

The burden of tackling climate change must be shouldered by everyone, says Lord Deben.

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Stephen Morris

9 months

Two things couldn't be clearer... - Westminster has nothing to offer Wales - Neither the Labour or Tory parties have anything to offer Westminster, Wales or anywhere else. We need new countries and new parties.

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The political elite has given up on Britain

Labour and the Tories have joined forces to condemn Britain to national failure. Their views are virtually indistinguishable

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Stephen Morris

3 years

And the Welsh Government seems to think that paying foreign companies to plant trees over Welsh farms while leaving Valleys communities to rot will save the planet.

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Stephen Morris

3 years

"Chinese coal consumption is on track to increase this year by around ten per cent. To meet that demand, vast new open cast pits are being rushed into service in Inner Mongolia, China’s biggest coal production region"

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@THEJamesWhale I'm not concerned about climate change. I'm very much concerned about the effect that climate alarmism is having on the economy and society, and particularly how it will affect poorer people and poorer countries. Especially Wales.

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Why Climate Change is an Emergency for Wales - Gwlad

It won’t escape anyone looking at the UK’s carbon budget that the Welsh economy is dominated by carbon-intensive industries: whether steel manufacturing in Port Talbot, oil refining in Pembroke,...

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Stephen Morris

3 years

@WillHayCardiff There's only one argument for independence which is worth anything: - The proper condition for a nation is to be independent. - Wales is a nation. - Therefore, Wales should be independent. Nothing the UK can do, short of obliterating us altogether, can change that.

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Stephen Morris

2 years

Welsh govt. economic policy in a nutshell. Or as I once heard it put, "take a perfectly healthy dog, beat it to within an inch of its life, then put it on life support and boast about what a great job you're doing keeping it alive."

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Incentive Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

2 years

@ComplexWales @realstephenlock 1) degrade a system to the point that it is almost impossible to function 2) monitor how bad its become 3) spend £000’s to learn new words for common sense and the licence to use those words 4) carry on as before with less money but righteously

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3 years

As a member of @Gwlad_Gwlad , I'm not interested in seeing the UK reformed - I want to see it abolished, and replaced with a family of independent countries on good terms with one another, following the model of Scandinavia or Benelux (but still outside the EU)... /1

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