Julia Barrell
@juliabarrell.bsky.social
Environment, gigs, camping, politics
Bob Dylan.
Swansea Arena.
Best gig I've been to for ages.
Want to go again.
Swansea Arena.
Best gig I've been to for ages.
Want to go again.
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Bob Dylan.
Swansea Arena.
Best gig I've been to for ages.
Want to go again.
Swansea Arena.
Best gig I've been to for ages.
Want to go again.
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It’s the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith’s iconic ‘Horses’ . . In depth interview with Patti by John Robb from ten years ago.
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Patti Smith : The John Robb interview
YouTube video by JOHN ROBB
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November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith’s iconic ‘Horses’ . . In depth interview with Patti by John Robb from ten years ago.
youtu.be/xZOSSLbbQyA?...
youtu.be/xZOSSLbbQyA?...
Didn't recognise Pedro Delgado at all- seems a lot heavier than he used to be. (And so young looking for his age.)
No wonder he gave up cycling.
No wonder he gave up cycling.
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Didn't recognise Pedro Delgado at all- seems a lot heavier than he used to be. (And so young looking for his age.)
No wonder he gave up cycling.
No wonder he gave up cycling.
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We need an international “What do we do about the billionaires?” summit.
Their manipulation of our governments in the service of their insatiable greed threatens not only the quality of life of everyone on Earth but also the very survival of the human race.
Their manipulation of our governments in the service of their insatiable greed threatens not only the quality of life of everyone on Earth but also the very survival of the human race.
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
We need an international “What do we do about the billionaires?” summit.
Their manipulation of our governments in the service of their insatiable greed threatens not only the quality of life of everyone on Earth but also the very survival of the human race.
Their manipulation of our governments in the service of their insatiable greed threatens not only the quality of life of everyone on Earth but also the very survival of the human race.
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The Muslims/Atheists/Wokes have cancelled Christmas season starts earlier every year
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The Muslims/Atheists/Wokes have cancelled Christmas season starts earlier every year
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Our idiotic and incompetent government has just agreed to pay more than a million £ a day in support of the continued destruction of ancient forests to feed the Drax power plant
Pure insanity
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pure insanity
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Our idiotic and incompetent government has just agreed to pay more than a million £ a day in support of the continued destruction of ancient forests to feed the Drax power plant
Pure insanity
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pure insanity
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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@WillHayCardiff newsletter this week focuses on an area wales should have done far more Child poverty. Essential if not wholly saddening reading.
open.substack.com/pub/willhayw...
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The worst person to be in Wales
A crisis we are just accepting
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November 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
@WillHayCardiff newsletter this week focuses on an area wales should have done far more Child poverty. Essential if not wholly saddening reading.
open.substack.com/pub/willhayw...
open.substack.com/pub/willhayw...
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Britain’s most endangered orchid brought back from the brink of extinction
www.channel4.com/news/britain...
www.channel4.com/news/britain...
Britain’s most endangered orchid brought back from the brink of extinction
On Wednesday, the British Red List of plants will be published for the first time in 20 years.
www.channel4.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Britain’s most endangered orchid brought back from the brink of extinction
www.channel4.com/news/britain...
www.channel4.com/news/britain...
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The Welsh Government is being urged to introduce major changes to traffic signals and road layouts across the country to tackle congestion slowing down bus travel ✍️Emily Price
Calls for overhaul of road systems in Wales to speed up buses
Emily Price The Welsh Government is being urged to introduce major changes to traffic signals and road layouts across the country to tackle congestion slowing down bus travel. The Confederation of Pas...
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November 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The Welsh Government is being urged to introduce major changes to traffic signals and road layouts across the country to tackle congestion slowing down bus travel ✍️Emily Price
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Seven new tunes from acts I was unaware of before this years Sŵn Festival louderthanwar.com/seven-new-tu...
Seven new tunes from Sŵn Festival 2025.
Cardiff's Sŵn Festival yet again provided more new names and new music that we need to spread the word about.
louderthanwar.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Seven new tunes from acts I was unaware of before this years Sŵn Festival louderthanwar.com/seven-new-tu...
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We’ve been working on our Souvenir Ticket Generator for a few weeks
A brilliant team
are putting together the final touches. It’ll be yours on Friday - totally free to use. Stand by for updates
A brilliant team
are putting together the final touches. It’ll be yours on Friday - totally free to use. Stand by for updates
November 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
We’ve been working on our Souvenir Ticket Generator for a few weeks
A brilliant team
are putting together the final touches. It’ll be yours on Friday - totally free to use. Stand by for updates
A brilliant team
are putting together the final touches. It’ll be yours on Friday - totally free to use. Stand by for updates
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Went to Cardiff/saw some bands/wrote words . . . . . louderthanwar.com/swn-festival...
Sŵn Festival 2025, Cardiff – Festival Review
The annual Sŵn Festival 2025 took place in Cardiff recently. We report on our discovery of more new music the event provided us with.
louderthanwar.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Went to Cardiff/saw some bands/wrote words . . . . . louderthanwar.com/swn-festival...
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A start has been made on the Sŵn Festival 2025 (Thursday) post on the Music festivals and gigs blog.
Pushbike and AKA were the first acts on at Tiny Rebel and Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff.
Post includes photos and audio clips.
Work In Progress.
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Pushbike and AKA were the first acts on at Tiny Rebel and Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff.
Post includes photos and audio clips.
Work In Progress.
musicfestivalsandgigs.blogspot.com/2025/11/swn-...
Sŵn Festival 2025 - Thursday
Thursday 16 October 2025 Sŵn Festival features live music at multiple venues in Cardiff on Thursday evening, Friday evening and all day Sat...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A start has been made on the Sŵn Festival 2025 (Thursday) post on the Music festivals and gigs blog.
Pushbike and AKA were the first acts on at Tiny Rebel and Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff.
Post includes photos and audio clips.
Work In Progress.
musicfestivalsandgigs.blogspot.com/2025/11/swn-...
Pushbike and AKA were the first acts on at Tiny Rebel and Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff.
Post includes photos and audio clips.
Work In Progress.
musicfestivalsandgigs.blogspot.com/2025/11/swn-...
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Hellllllloooo? Are you there? Please help birds by sharing this if you also want to ensure swifts & other urban birds have homes alongside us. People power works but only if we work together. SAVE OUR SWIFTS.
November 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Hellllllloooo? Are you there? Please help birds by sharing this if you also want to ensure swifts & other urban birds have homes alongside us. People power works but only if we work together. SAVE OUR SWIFTS.
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Obviously I’m not really a ‘media voice’ but I was recently subject of a BBC documentary. Someone took time out of their day to email me and tell me I should ‘learn to speak properly and say my t’s’.
They took time out of their day to write that. Imagine. I have an accent. I’m not ashamed.
They took time out of their day to write that. Imagine. I have an accent. I’m not ashamed.
TV presenter Lorraine Kelly has emphasised the need for better representation of working-class voices in the media because ‘if you’re only going to hear elite opinions we’re never going to get anywhere’
Media needs to retain opportunities for ‘working-class voices’ – Lorraine Kelly
TV presenter Lorraine Kelly has emphasised the need for better representation of working-class voices in the media because “if you’re only going to hear elite opinions we’re never going to get anywher...
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November 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Obviously I’m not really a ‘media voice’ but I was recently subject of a BBC documentary. Someone took time out of their day to email me and tell me I should ‘learn to speak properly and say my t’s’.
They took time out of their day to write that. Imagine. I have an accent. I’m not ashamed.
They took time out of their day to write that. Imagine. I have an accent. I’m not ashamed.
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It seems that very few of those in power at our councils and at the Senedd have a disability, or a family member with one, and it shows. If they had, we'd have our pavements back overnight ✍️ Stephen Price
Chasing pavements: Can we have our streets back, please?
Stephen Price Towards the end of my dad’s life, his only option to get out and about and away from the confines of his small flat and the TV screen was through the (initially very reluctant) use of a ...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It seems that very few of those in power at our councils and at the Senedd have a disability, or a family member with one, and it shows. If they had, we'd have our pavements back overnight ✍️ Stephen Price
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Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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False claims are often spread about what level of help asylum seekers are given while awaiting decisions on their application to stay in the UK. Here is a list, although not exhaustive, of what they are actually entitled to
Fact Check: What are asylum seekers entitled to while awaiting a decision?
August Graham, PA False claims are often spread about what level of help asylum seekers are given while awaiting decisions on their application to stay in the UK. These details can be obscured by not ...
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November 1, 2025 at 8:20 AM
False claims are often spread about what level of help asylum seekers are given while awaiting decisions on their application to stay in the UK. Here is a list, although not exhaustive, of what they are actually entitled to
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Don’t forget you have one week (in the UK) before LinkedIn starts quietly using ALL of your visible content to train AI.
It's unsurprisingly an Opt Out system so most users will be blithely unaware.
The relevant toggle is in Settings - privacy and data. You know what to do.
It's unsurprisingly an Opt Out system so most users will be blithely unaware.
The relevant toggle is in Settings - privacy and data. You know what to do.
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Don’t forget you have one week (in the UK) before LinkedIn starts quietly using ALL of your visible content to train AI.
It's unsurprisingly an Opt Out system so most users will be blithely unaware.
The relevant toggle is in Settings - privacy and data. You know what to do.
It's unsurprisingly an Opt Out system so most users will be blithely unaware.
The relevant toggle is in Settings - privacy and data. You know what to do.
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FOCUS Wales has been shortlisted for Best Initiative for Emerging Talent at the UK Festival Awards! PLEASE VOTE NOW via the link in bio 🥳
October 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
FOCUS Wales has been shortlisted for Best Initiative for Emerging Talent at the UK Festival Awards! PLEASE VOTE NOW via the link in bio 🥳
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Whenever I take the train past a solar farm, people say what a disgrace it is to have it on good agricultural land
They say nothing about the golf courses, fields of Halloween pumpkins, or strips of fields left as cover for pheasants
They're the victims of oil and gas propaganda
They say nothing about the golf courses, fields of Halloween pumpkins, or strips of fields left as cover for pheasants
They're the victims of oil and gas propaganda
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Whenever I take the train past a solar farm, people say what a disgrace it is to have it on good agricultural land
They say nothing about the golf courses, fields of Halloween pumpkins, or strips of fields left as cover for pheasants
They're the victims of oil and gas propaganda
They say nothing about the golf courses, fields of Halloween pumpkins, or strips of fields left as cover for pheasants
They're the victims of oil and gas propaganda
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The Planning Bill is back in the Lords today - and it still falls short of the win-win for nature the Government says it wants.
We’re grateful to the Peers that have stepped up with vital fixes.
But today’s votes help decide whether this Bill truly delivers for nature & people. 👇
We’re grateful to the Peers that have stepped up with vital fixes.
But today’s votes help decide whether this Bill truly delivers for nature & people. 👇
October 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The Planning Bill is back in the Lords today - and it still falls short of the win-win for nature the Government says it wants.
We’re grateful to the Peers that have stepped up with vital fixes.
But today’s votes help decide whether this Bill truly delivers for nature & people. 👇
We’re grateful to the Peers that have stepped up with vital fixes.
But today’s votes help decide whether this Bill truly delivers for nature & people. 👇
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This last bit is the problem: 'Rothbury Estate was owned by the Duke of Northumberland's youngest son, Lord Max Percy, and had been in the family for about 700 years...'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sir David Attenborough backs bid to buy Rothbury Estate
Wildlife trusts attempt to raise £30m to keep Northumberland's Rothbury Estate from being split up.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This last bit is the problem: 'Rothbury Estate was owned by the Duke of Northumberland's youngest son, Lord Max Percy, and had been in the family for about 700 years...'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...