Roger Plater
@rogerplater.bsky.social
Cerddor. Anybynniaeth, Ieithoedd, Bwyd.
Musician. Indy, Languages, Food
Musician. Indy, Languages, Food
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Reseach Arkestra
Paul Tortelier and Erik Heidsieck
Pink Floyd (Hyde Park)
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Mabsant
Eclectic and old!
Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Reseach Arkestra
Paul Tortelier and Erik Heidsieck
Pink Floyd (Hyde Park)
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Mabsant
Eclectic and old!
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to
Hawkwind
Jethro tull
Steeleye Span
Fairport Convention
Blue Oyster Cult
I have seen all of these at least five times and some in double figures.
I am so old...
Hawkwind
Jethro tull
Steeleye Span
Fairport Convention
Blue Oyster Cult
I have seen all of these at least five times and some in double figures.
I am so old...
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to.
Cocteau Twins
Robyn Hitchcock
The Jazz Butcher
Stump
Goodbye Mr Mackenzie
Cocteau Twins
Robyn Hitchcock
The Jazz Butcher
Stump
Goodbye Mr Mackenzie
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Reseach Arkestra
Paul Tortelier and Erik Heidsieck
Pink Floyd (Hyde Park)
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Mabsant
Eclectic and old!
Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Reseach Arkestra
Paul Tortelier and Erik Heidsieck
Pink Floyd (Hyde Park)
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Mabsant
Eclectic and old!
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Gwarthus
Labour ditches day-one protection from unfair dismissal in U-turn www.bbc.com/news/article...
Labour ditches day-one protection from unfair dismissal in U-turn www.bbc.com/news/article...
Labour ditches day-one protection from unfair dismissal in U-turn
The right will now be introduced after six months, in a breach of Labour's election manifesto.
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Gwarthus
Labour ditches day-one protection from unfair dismissal in U-turn www.bbc.com/news/article...
Labour ditches day-one protection from unfair dismissal in U-turn www.bbc.com/news/article...
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94% of bottles and cans now recycled in Romania - including glass. Why can’t UK do this? Wales wants to!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We like it a lot’: how Romania created the largest deposit return scheme in the world
In the two years since the system was launched, beverage-packaging collection and recycling has risen to 94%
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
94% of bottles and cans now recycled in Romania - including glass. Why can’t UK do this? Wales wants to!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Some myths, long debunked, refuse to go away. No, there's no 'trickle down effect', Conservatives aren't better with money, & rich people do not run from #WealthTax. Politicians still quoting these myths know better & journalists should. Stop perpetuating the myth. It's fear mongering w/o substance.
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Some myths, long debunked, refuse to go away. No, there's no 'trickle down effect', Conservatives aren't better with money, & rich people do not run from #WealthTax. Politicians still quoting these myths know better & journalists should. Stop perpetuating the myth. It's fear mongering w/o substance.
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🚨The petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has already passed 40,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
🚨The petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has already passed 40,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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U.S. tangerine in chief:
I've ended eight wars in nine months, got one to go. I thought this one would be easier.
Can anybody list these wars for me? Please? 🙏
I've ended eight wars in nine months, got one to go. I thought this one would be easier.
Can anybody list these wars for me? Please? 🙏
a close up of a dog 's face with a collar that says ' spaniel '
ALT: a close up of a dog 's face with a collar that says ' spaniel '
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
U.S. tangerine in chief:
I've ended eight wars in nine months, got one to go. I thought this one would be easier.
Can anybody list these wars for me? Please? 🙏
I've ended eight wars in nine months, got one to go. I thought this one would be easier.
Can anybody list these wars for me? Please? 🙏
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LOT. RHY. GORMOD.
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
LOT. RHY. GORMOD.
Just seen a link to an article on BBC News site asking "Has Britain's budget watchdog become too all-powerful?" I think I need to lie down in a darkened room clutching a grammar book!
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Just seen a link to an article on BBC News site asking "Has Britain's budget watchdog become too all-powerful?" I think I need to lie down in a darkened room clutching a grammar book!
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He was last seen almost 24 hours ago
Police have 'growing concerns' for missing man, 68, with white walking stick
He was last seen almost 24 hours ago
www.dailypost.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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🍺 JD Wetherspoon – whose founder campaigned for the UK to leave the EU – is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-induced red tape.
https://m.independent.ie/business/wetherspoon-uses-ireland-to-skirt-brexit-red-tape-for-eu-expansion/a1911675912.html
https://m.independent.ie/business/wetherspoon-uses-ireland-to-skirt-brexit-red-tape-for-eu-expansion/a1911675912.html
Wetherspoon uses Ireland to skirt Brexit red tape for EU expansion
UK pub and hotel group JD Wetherspoon – whose founder campaigned for the UK to leave the EU – is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-induced red tape...
m.independent.ie
November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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This is America now.
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This is America now.
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It's so absurd that of the last 4 Home Secs who all drove the dehumanisation of immigration, 3 were children of immigrants. I look at Patel, Braverman, & Mahmood, & wonder how deluded, how entitled you've to be to not see it & pause. Any Reform govt they currently enable would seek to send them away
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It's so absurd that of the last 4 Home Secs who all drove the dehumanisation of immigration, 3 were children of immigrants. I look at Patel, Braverman, & Mahmood, & wonder how deluded, how entitled you've to be to not see it & pause. Any Reform govt they currently enable would seek to send them away
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"Noson arbennig o gerddoriaeth Gymreig o’r radd flaenaf yng nghalon Dyffryn Ogwen. Bydd elw’r noson yn cefnogi ymgyrch Plaid Cymru Bangor, Conwy a Môn."
neuaddogwen.com/events/plaid...
neuaddogwen.com/events/plaid...
Plaid Cymru Dyffryn Ogwen yn cyflwyno: VRï + Angharad Jenkins - Neuadd Ogwen
Noson arbennig o gerddoriaeth Gymreig o’r radd flaenaf yng nghalon Dyffryn Ogwen. Bydd elw’r noson yn cefnogi ymgyrch Plaid Cymru Bangor, Conwy a Môn. VRï yw tri cherddor o galon capeli Cymru sy’n rho...
neuaddogwen.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"Noson arbennig o gerddoriaeth Gymreig o’r radd flaenaf yng nghalon Dyffryn Ogwen. Bydd elw’r noson yn cefnogi ymgyrch Plaid Cymru Bangor, Conwy a Môn."
neuaddogwen.com/events/plaid...
neuaddogwen.com/events/plaid...
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@spaincivilwartours.bsky.social
And for those who’ve never come across Ralph Bates:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_B...
And for those who’ve never come across Ralph Bates:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_B...
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
@spaincivilwartours.bsky.social
And for those who’ve never come across Ralph Bates:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_B...
And for those who’ve never come across Ralph Bates:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_B...
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7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Revealed: Thousands of elderly people evicted from care homes every year
Thousands of elderly and vulnerable people have received eviction notices from their care homes in the last year, the Big Issue has found.
www.bigissue.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
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More Tory trousering.
"Revealed: the billion-pound PPE contractor with a Tory MP on site."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"Revealed: the billion-pound PPE contractor with a Tory MP on site."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Revealed: the billion-pound PPE contractor with a Tory MP on site
Special report: Uniserve was paid £1.4bn for Covid contracts that included supply of £178.5m in never-used equipment
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
More Tory trousering.
"Revealed: the billion-pound PPE contractor with a Tory MP on site."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"Revealed: the billion-pound PPE contractor with a Tory MP on site."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Vile, inhumane behaviour
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Vile, inhumane behaviour
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I've been getting pushback from Labour loyalists for my last posts.
I'll just say this. I'm physically disabled. I depend on my husband, a foreign national with ILR, for support with mobility & daily living. Since Starmer got in the fear & anxiety I experienced under the Tories has only got worse.
I'll just say this. I'm physically disabled. I depend on my husband, a foreign national with ILR, for support with mobility & daily living. Since Starmer got in the fear & anxiety I experienced under the Tories has only got worse.
November 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I've been getting pushback from Labour loyalists for my last posts.
I'll just say this. I'm physically disabled. I depend on my husband, a foreign national with ILR, for support with mobility & daily living. Since Starmer got in the fear & anxiety I experienced under the Tories has only got worse.
I'll just say this. I'm physically disabled. I depend on my husband, a foreign national with ILR, for support with mobility & daily living. Since Starmer got in the fear & anxiety I experienced under the Tories has only got worse.
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Mwy o newyddion digalon i bawb ohonom sy'n credu bod dysgu ieithoedd yn cyfoethogi bywydau www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/ert... #ieithoedd
Pryder am 'amddifadu' plant o ieithoedd modern wrth i niferoedd ostwng
Mae'r ffigyrau diweddara yn dangos gostyngiad pellach yn y nifer sy'n astudio ieithoedd tramor yng Nghymru ar ôl cwblhau TGAU.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Mwy o newyddion digalon i bawb ohonom sy'n credu bod dysgu ieithoedd yn cyfoethogi bywydau www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/ert... #ieithoedd
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Starmer will go down in history as the man who destroyed a 100 year old Labour movement by selling it out to the rich for the sake of his own career and advancement. The Tories are dead, Labour is dead, time for a new left based on the Greens, the Celtic indy parties & the old Labour left.
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Starmer will go down in history as the man who destroyed a 100 year old Labour movement by selling it out to the rich for the sake of his own career and advancement. The Tories are dead, Labour is dead, time for a new left based on the Greens, the Celtic indy parties & the old Labour left.
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ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky.
Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock.
CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.
Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock.
CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.
ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky
The talks focus on ITV's Media and Entertainment division, which include its TV channels as well as its streaming service, ITV X.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky.
Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock.
CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.
Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock.
CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.
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Proof that no matter how obscenely wealthy they are, the greed of the super-rich can never be satiated. No one 'earns' a billion never mind a trillion.
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/b...
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/b...
Tesla shareholders approve $1 trillion pay package for Musk | CNN Business
Tesla shareholders approved a pay package on Thursday that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire.
edition.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Proof that no matter how obscenely wealthy they are, the greed of the super-rich can never be satiated. No one 'earns' a billion never mind a trillion.
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/b...
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/b...
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" #NHS #Scotland staffed & equipped to complete 98% of more than 25 000 operations in September 2025 despite 12% increase in demand is deeply impressive "
In today's day & age, this is an incredible achievement.
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/04/n...
In today's day & age, this is an incredible achievement.
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/04/n...
NHS Scotland staffed and equipped to complete 98% of more than 25 000 operations in September 2025 despite 12% increase in demand is deeply impressive
Professor John Robertson OBA From Cancelled planned operations Month ending 30 September 2025, published today: There were 25,322 operations planned to take place across NHSScotland. This is 12.1% …
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
" #NHS #Scotland staffed & equipped to complete 98% of more than 25 000 operations in September 2025 despite 12% increase in demand is deeply impressive "
In today's day & age, this is an incredible achievement.
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/04/n...
In today's day & age, this is an incredible achievement.
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/04/n...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Delivery firm DPD in “revenge” sackings after workers spoke out against a plan to cut thousands of pounds from their earnings.
DPD had £200m pre-tax profit last year. Boss paid £1.5m.
Wants to cut £6,000 - £8,000 in pay to workers.
Can't grow economy without protecting worker rights.
DPD had £200m pre-tax profit last year. Boss paid £1.5m.
Wants to cut £6,000 - £8,000 in pay to workers.
Can't grow economy without protecting worker rights.
Delivery firm DPD accused of ‘revenge’ sacking drivers who criticised pay cuts
Exclusive: Labour peer calls for change in the law after company terminates contracts of strike ‘ringleaders’
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Delivery firm DPD in “revenge” sackings after workers spoke out against a plan to cut thousands of pounds from their earnings.
DPD had £200m pre-tax profit last year. Boss paid £1.5m.
Wants to cut £6,000 - £8,000 in pay to workers.
Can't grow economy without protecting worker rights.
DPD had £200m pre-tax profit last year. Boss paid £1.5m.
Wants to cut £6,000 - £8,000 in pay to workers.
Can't grow economy without protecting worker rights.