Busy woman. ♡ feminism, housing, theatre, community & orangutans. Views don't represent my employer, all women or the Welsh. But they might.
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Julie Nicholas retweeted
We want peace. That’s why I came to the United States, and visited President Trump. The deal on minerals is just a first step toward security guarantees and getting closer to peace. Our situation is tough, but we can’t just stop fighting and not having guarantees that Putin will not return tomorrow.
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Safeguards are not bureaucracy, an impediment to effective working. They are key to safety.
You can’t make grand claims - most robust anywhere - and then remove them without losing credibility.
#AssistedDying
theguardian.com/society/2025…
Kim Leadbeater's winging it, chopping safeguarding rules for very vulnerable people. Glad my MP @RuthJonesLabour voted against. Are MPs that voted for now ready to listen to warnings of health experts & disability rights advocates?
#AssistedDyingBill
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2eg…
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Where were we?
🤔 Assisted dying is suicide prevention
🤔 Suicide prevention is coercion
🤔 Coercion never happens but is always identified
🤔 The current law protects no one
And as of tonight…
🤔 Removing something adds it
Through the looking glass is where we are
Julie Nicholas retweeted
“Don’t worry” they said
“A Judge will safeguard the vulnerable” they said
“It’s not a slippery slope” they said
Julie Nicholas retweeted
We are extremely sad to hear of the death of our revered long-time author David Lodge. Our thoughts are with his children and family. His influential place in the history of British letters will endure through the wonderful body of work he leaves behind.
Read the full statement: bit.ly/40krZ2E
Photography © Joel Kaplan
Julie Nicholas retweeted
The country urgently needs to talk about the 91% drop off in the number of affordable homes started in London in the last financial year. Catastrophic and unprecedented:
Julie Nicholas retweeted
Absolutely horrifying that women in Afghanistan are being totally banished from medical training.
Apart from it being incomprehensible for women like me, I’m equally appalled by Afghan women and girls not having access to female medics when needed.
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Two weeks have passed since Ahoo Dariyaei’s forced detention and transfer to a psychiatric hospital. Her family continues to face immense pressure. This injustice is not only a violation of human rights but also a clear example of the brutality of a regime that thrives on suppression and fear.
A friend of her sent me photos of Ahoo and told me that her life is in danger.
In Iran, a student harassed by her university’s morality police over her “improper” hijab didn’t back down. She turned her body into a protest, stripping to her underwear and marching through campus—defying a regime that constantly controls women’s bodies. Her act is a powerful reminder of Iranian women’s fight for freedom. Yes we use our bodies like weapons to fight back a regime that kills women for showing their hair.
This happened at Tehran’s Science and Research University She has since been arrested by the authorities.
Be her voice.
#WomanLifeFreedom
Should have gone a long time ago. #Safeguarding first.
Protecting children, not perpetrators, seems like a very basic thing for an institution to do. Sadly still not the case in 2024, despite feminists banging on about it for decades.
#archbishopofcanterbury
Statement from the Archbishop of Canterbury.
archbishopofcanterbury.org/n…
ALT A formal letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury, resigning from his post. The letter is displayed on a wooden surface. The letterhead features an emblem at the top and is signed at the bottom.
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#Remembrance
Lives wasted in war- Newport relatives killed in service:
•Emma Pring, 1942, Aux. Territorial, age 21
•William Nicholas, 1943, 6th Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fus. age 32.
•Albert Frederick Nicholas, 1918, 5th Bn. SWales Borderers, age 30 shaunmcguire.co.uk/newport/u… – at Newport, Wales
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A change in the weather.
Our blog about the Lady Rhondda statue unveiling is up on Time & Tide website. Cheer yourself up on a gloomy day. timeandtidemagazine.org/lady… – at Newport, Wales
Didnt Trump campaign pay a UK party leader (Farage) to be a warm up for his crowds? Isn't that much, much worse?
BBC News - bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1jrld1k…
Trump campaign accuses Labour of election interference as Starmer tries to play down row - BBC News
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Julie Nicholas retweeted
The symbolism of the statue.
Have you visited Lady Rhondda yet?
@JaneRobbinsArt talks about her amazing sculpture, just before the unveiling of #LadyRhondda. – at Newport, Wales
Julie Nicholas retweeted
The Daily Mail just won the right to say Douglas Barrowman has "cocktail-sausage fingers".
And it won the right to say his actions ruined thousands of lives, led to two suicides, and that he lied about his ties to a likely fraudulent tax scheme. Thread.
Thank you Evelyn at @GlasllwchP for the surprise poem 'Kind hearts are the garden', posted through my letter box today. I enjoyed reading the lovely poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for
#NationalPoetryDay
Julie Nicholas retweeted
Felt proud of my Welsh heritage today watching my sister Jane Robbins, in Newport, unveiling her amazing latest sculpture ..
suffragette Margaret Haig Thomas (aka Lady Rhondda) who championed women’s rights all her life. #MonumentalWelshWomen 🏴
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Some of our favourite photos from today; Zara- the littlest hand, Angela V. John the biographer, members of Lady Rhondda's family & the fantastic Jane Robbins our artist.
Julie Nicholas retweeted
The Statue of Lady Rhondda is at Millennium Walk, Newport, NP19 ONX, on the East side of the Newport City Footbridge. The 4th Monumental Welsh Woman & 1st Woman of Gwent, Margaret Haig Thomas is waiting for you. @women_welsh #womenshistory #MonumentalWomen #suffragette #herstory – at Newport, Wales
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The Betty Campbell Monument Lecture, 4pm 29.09.24
Examines the enduring connection between Wales & Birmingham, Alabama after the 'Wales Window', was gifted to the 16th Street Baptist Church following a racist bomb attack in Sept 1963.
Tickets here:
ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/…
