Helen Rowlands
@nelsews.bsky.social
Stitcher, dog walker, sailor, lino printer, gardener. Pro EU. Supporter of Ukraine. West Wales, UK
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Goodwin literally had a hissy fit when Alan Rusbridger & David Aaronovitch went for dinner after an event they all did together & chose not to ask him. He’s palpably desperate to go to fictional dinner parties that exist only in his warped imagination. Instead he gets to suck lemons with 30p Lee.
You dont win 'em all! Reform's Matt Goodwin in Sunday Times: 'Most .. people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head'. Hang on, I'm not THAT bad!Nerds sometimes have a (thoughtful!) point.
February 1, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Goodwin literally had a hissy fit when Alan Rusbridger & David Aaronovitch went for dinner after an event they all did together & chose not to ask him. He’s palpably desperate to go to fictional dinner parties that exist only in his warped imagination. Instead he gets to suck lemons with 30p Lee.
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457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment.
This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.
This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 2:16 PM
457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment.
This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.
This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.
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Also, this story illustrates a fundamental truth: Trump's opinions are shaped by the last person he spoke to
So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
How Badenoch’s meeting with Mike Johnson led to Trump’s Chagos deal rant
A brief encounter set off a chain of events that culminated in a public rebuff to the US president from Keir Starmer
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Also, this story illustrates a fundamental truth: Trump's opinions are shaped by the last person he spoke to
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Once again after an hour long racist rant full of lies by the US president the Times writes another of its “ say what you like about Trump but…’ editorials. If the paper ever had a moral compass it’s lost it
January 22, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Once again after an hour long racist rant full of lies by the US president the Times writes another of its “ say what you like about Trump but…’ editorials. If the paper ever had a moral compass it’s lost it
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🚨BOOM! Now over 90,000 signatures!
The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.
Let’s keep going!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.
Let’s keep going!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
January 22, 2026 at 1:22 PM
🚨BOOM! Now over 90,000 signatures!
The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.
Let’s keep going!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.
Let’s keep going!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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This is a shameful press conference, a rambling lying Trump running down his predecessor, egged on by a clutch of craven so- called journalists from both sides of the Atlantic
September 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This is a shameful press conference, a rambling lying Trump running down his predecessor, egged on by a clutch of craven so- called journalists from both sides of the Atlantic
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Political violence and threats are not the answer.
This is a watershed moment — we can choose to stay silent and live in fear, or we can choose to be loud for peace and compassion.
We must work together to stop this crisis, and it should start from the top with the President.
This is a watershed moment — we can choose to stay silent and live in fear, or we can choose to be loud for peace and compassion.
We must work together to stop this crisis, and it should start from the top with the President.
September 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Political violence and threats are not the answer.
This is a watershed moment — we can choose to stay silent and live in fear, or we can choose to be loud for peace and compassion.
We must work together to stop this crisis, and it should start from the top with the President.
This is a watershed moment — we can choose to stay silent and live in fear, or we can choose to be loud for peace and compassion.
We must work together to stop this crisis, and it should start from the top with the President.
Keir Starmer has an opportunity to claw back some reputation this week, by standing up to Trump. Don't be rude. Don't be aggressive, but if the orange lump starts criticising the UK then you have to show some back bone and tell him to back off and shut up. Get his own house in order!
September 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Keir Starmer has an opportunity to claw back some reputation this week, by standing up to Trump. Don't be rude. Don't be aggressive, but if the orange lump starts criticising the UK then you have to show some back bone and tell him to back off and shut up. Get his own house in order!
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Nine years on from the Brexit referendum, heres' a quick reminder of how it was sold to us
June 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Nine years on from the Brexit referendum, heres' a quick reminder of how it was sold to us
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Baron Trump off to the podiatrist first thing this morning.
June 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Baron Trump off to the podiatrist first thing this morning.
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Mahmoud Khalil released from Ice detention after more than three months
Mahmoud Khalil released from Ice detention after more than three months
Columbia graduate freed from Louisiana facility after judge ruled he is ‘not a danger to the community – period’
Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was released from US immigration detention, where he had been held for more than three months over his activism against Israel’s war on Gaza.
Khalil, the most high profile of the students to be arrested by the Trump administration for their pro-Palestinian activism, and the last of them still in detention, was ordered to be released by a federal judge on Friday afternoon from an Ice facility in Jena, Louisiana, where he has been held since shortly after plainclothes immigration agents detained him in early March in the lobby of his Columbia building. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Mahmoud Khalil released from Ice detention after more than three months
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Syrian refugee, 19, praised after pinning down assailant in Hamburg knife attack
Syrian refugee, 19, praised after pinning down assailant in Hamburg knife attack
Muhammad Al Muhammad called a hero after helping to halt train station attack in which 18 people were injured
A 19-year-old Syrian refugee in Germany has been hailed as a hero after he pinned down an assailant at Hamburg’s main railway station, helping to halt an attack in which 18 people were injured.
Police on Friday said a 39-year-old German woman had been arrested at the scene of the attack and that she was believed to be in a state of psychological distress. The 18 people injured were later reported to all be in stable condition, while the woman was placed in psychiatric care. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Syrian refugee, 19, praised after pinning down assailant in Hamburg knife attack
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Dear Canada-
Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever.
❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸
#MakeAmericaNormalAgain
Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever.
❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸
#MakeAmericaNormalAgain
April 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Dear Canada-
Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever.
❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸
#MakeAmericaNormalAgain
Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever.
❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸
#MakeAmericaNormalAgain
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Nigel Farage has told ITV News the first thing he would do as prime minister if he won a general election would be to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights
That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK.
THIS IS WHY
youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...
That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK.
THIS IS WHY
youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...
Nigel Farage says first thing he would do as PM if he won a GE would be to remove UK from the ECHR
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
April 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Nigel Farage has told ITV News the first thing he would do as prime minister if he won a general election would be to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights
That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK.
THIS IS WHY
youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...
That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK.
THIS IS WHY
youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...
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"The dream is over."
Historian Sir Anthony Seldon says America is "losing its moral authority" under President Trump.
#Newsnight
Historian Sir Anthony Seldon says America is "losing its moral authority" under President Trump.
#Newsnight
April 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
"The dream is over."
Historian Sir Anthony Seldon says America is "losing its moral authority" under President Trump.
#Newsnight
Historian Sir Anthony Seldon says America is "losing its moral authority" under President Trump.
#Newsnight
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Bonkers Donald Trump blames Volodymyr Zelenskyy for starting Ukraine war - a day after dozens killed in Russian missile strikes
news.sky.com/story/donald...
news.sky.com/story/donald...
Donald Trump blames Volodymyr Zelenskyy for starting Ukraine war - a day after dozens killed in Russian missile strikes
"Millions of people are dead because of three people," said Donald Trump as he blamed Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
news.sky.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Bonkers Donald Trump blames Volodymyr Zelenskyy for starting Ukraine war - a day after dozens killed in Russian missile strikes
news.sky.com/story/donald...
news.sky.com/story/donald...
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In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
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I think this the first time Brexit has appeared as an attack line in a major English speaking political campaign.
Mark Carney: “I have seen this movie before. I know exactly what’s going to happen.”
April 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I think this the first time Brexit has appeared as an attack line in a major English speaking political campaign.
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US protests live: Demonstrations planned across US to oppose Trump agenda
US protests live: Demonstrations planned across US to oppose Trump agenda
More than a thousand events to be held across the country in a show of defiance against Trump’s ‘authoritarian overreach’
Good morning,
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take to the streets of Washington DC and other major cities across the US in a show of defiance against Donald Trump’s “authoritarian overreach and billionaire-backed agenda”.
This is a nationwide mobilization to stop the most brazen power grab in modern history. Trump, Musk and their billionaire cronies are orchestrating an all-out assault on our government, our economy and our basic rights – enabled by Congress every step of the way.
They want to strip America for parts – shuttering social security offices, firing essential workers, eliminating consumer protections and gutting Medicaid – all to bankroll their billionaire tax scam. They’re handing over our tax dollars, our public services and our democracy to the ultra-rich.
If we don’t fight now, there won’t be anything left to save. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
US protests live: Demonstrations planned across US to oppose Trump agenda
The 2 US interlopers in my kitchen cupboards. Once gone, never to be replaced.
April 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The 2 US interlopers in my kitchen cupboards. Once gone, never to be replaced.
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The benefit gained from amputating your feet is that you save money on buying shoes.
April 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The benefit gained from amputating your feet is that you save money on buying shoes.
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I did this little video on trump invoking the alien enemies act
March 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I did this little video on trump invoking the alien enemies act