Gaynor Madoc Leonard
@madocleonard.bsky.social
Author of The Carmarthen Underground novels. Middle-class Problematic Woman of a certain age. 🏴🇺🇦🐧
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From Seattle to LA, the demand is clear: NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE.
Join us on the picket line tomorrow: dsa-la.org/event/dsa-la...
Join us on the picket line tomorrow: dsa-la.org/event/dsa-la...
December 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
From Seattle to LA, the demand is clear: NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE.
Join us on the picket line tomorrow: dsa-la.org/event/dsa-la...
Join us on the picket line tomorrow: dsa-la.org/event/dsa-la...
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During WW2, Stephen Bone served as a civilian camouflage officer and later as an Official War Artist attached to the Royal Navy. This picture depicts Ardrossan, a town on the North Ayrshire coast in Scotland, which played a key effort in the war when it was used as a naval base.
December 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
During WW2, Stephen Bone served as a civilian camouflage officer and later as an Official War Artist attached to the Royal Navy. This picture depicts Ardrossan, a town on the North Ayrshire coast in Scotland, which played a key effort in the war when it was used as a naval base.
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A Welsh beekeeper has won the prestigious BBC Countryfile Young Countryside Champion Award
Interview: The young Welsh beekeeper keeping his grandfather's legacy alive
Ella Groves A Welsh beekeeper has won the prestigious BBC Countryfile Young Countryside Champion Award. Crowned champion at the BBC Food and Farming Awards in Bristol last month, Dafydd Pett has been ...
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December 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
A Welsh beekeeper has won the prestigious BBC Countryfile Young Countryside Champion Award
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'Though completely eclipsed by Don Quixote, Cristalián de España, which was first published in 1545, has a unique claim to fame. Its 800 pages, bristling with swords, sorcerers, dragons and damsels, make up the earliest known work by a female Spanish novelist.' 1/2
‘From her pen sprang unforgettable females’: 16th-century Spanish author’s knight’s tale given reboot
Beatriz Bernal’s pioneering novel features brave, chivalrous women who ride dragons and her adapter wants his illustrated version to reach young readers
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
'Though completely eclipsed by Don Quixote, Cristalián de España, which was first published in 1545, has a unique claim to fame. Its 800 pages, bristling with swords, sorcerers, dragons and damsels, make up the earliest known work by a female Spanish novelist.' 1/2
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Industry insiders are concerned that fewer, shorter non-tilting trains are on order for HS2 — and that journey times will return to those of the 1990s
Why HS2 may lead to smaller, slower trains on west coast main line
Industry insiders are concerned that fewer, shorter non-tilting trains are on order for HS2 — and that journey times will return to those of the 1990s
www.thetimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Industry insiders are concerned that fewer, shorter non-tilting trains are on order for HS2 — and that journey times will return to those of the 1990s
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Two Indian students ‘forcibly recruited’ into Russian army die in Ukraine
Two Indian students ‘forcibly recruited’ into Russian army die in Ukraine
Two Indian students ‘forcibly recruited’ into Russian army die in Ukraine
www.independent.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Two Indian students ‘forcibly recruited’ into Russian army die in Ukraine
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After the rise of AI-generated fake case citations, we're now witnessing the proliferation of references to fake academic articles...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
After the rise of AI-generated fake case citations, we're now witnessing the proliferation of references to fake academic articles...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Huguette Clark was the daughter of Senator William A Clark, a copper tycoon who in the early 1900s had been as rich as John D Rockefeller. Huguette painted this scene from her Fifth Avenue apartment window just after a snow storm in the mid 1920s.
December 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Huguette Clark was the daughter of Senator William A Clark, a copper tycoon who in the early 1900s had been as rich as John D Rockefeller. Huguette painted this scene from her Fifth Avenue apartment window just after a snow storm in the mid 1920s.
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Shirokuro, a Japanese restaurant in NYC's East Village, where the interior mimics a hand-drawn black-and-white sketchbook.
December 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Shirokuro, a Japanese restaurant in NYC's East Village, where the interior mimics a hand-drawn black-and-white sketchbook.
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This is a personal favourite, heard it a while ago and love it from so many directions.
Okay, I’m breaking my promise (sorry) because I forgot one of my favourites, which is a Nigerian way of disparaging someone’s intellect that goes “why are you such a Dundee United?” Dundee has been synonymous with being idiotic ever since Dundee United’s disastrous West African tour in the 1970s.
December 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This is a personal favourite, heard it a while ago and love it from so many directions.
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A man repeatedly plunged a kitchen knife into a stranger outside a Gorseinon social club in an attempt to kill him, a court has heard. Kane Evans stabbed his victim a total of 10 times in the unprovoked attack, with one wound so deep it cut his intestines.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
Young rugby player repeatedly stabbed in murder attempt
Morgan Hopkins - known as 'Hoppy' - was in surgery for more than 10 hours and had to have part of his bowel removed after Kane Evans attacked him outside a south Wales social club
www.walesonline.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A man repeatedly plunged a kitchen knife into a stranger outside a Gorseinon social club in an attempt to kill him, a court has heard. Kane Evans stabbed his victim a total of 10 times in the unprovoked attack, with one wound so deep it cut his intestines.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
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I’m embarrassed to report today was my first visit to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries high up in Westminster Abbey. Waxworks, effigies, souls in flight… now one of my highlights of London, and getting up close with that architecture……
December 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I’m embarrassed to report today was my first visit to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries high up in Westminster Abbey. Waxworks, effigies, souls in flight… now one of my highlights of London, and getting up close with that architecture……
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I could not be more thrilled to learn that my work has been selected for the 159th Annual International Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society. Thanks so much to AWS for all the hard work. And special thanks to the Jury of Selection:
"Golden City"
30x22 inches
Watercolor on Arches Paper #art
"Golden City"
30x22 inches
Watercolor on Arches Paper #art
December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I could not be more thrilled to learn that my work has been selected for the 159th Annual International Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society. Thanks so much to AWS for all the hard work. And special thanks to the Jury of Selection:
"Golden City"
30x22 inches
Watercolor on Arches Paper #art
"Golden City"
30x22 inches
Watercolor on Arches Paper #art
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Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.
Exclusive: David Walliams dropped by publisher over inappropriate behaviour towards women
Telegraph investigation into best-selling children’s author uncovers claims that he ‘harassed’ junior female employees at Harper Collins
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.
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"My client misjudged his descent, your lordship."
The geese used to walk about the campus at York like tasty geezers. They never attacked anyone, but you had the feeling they might at any moment.
The geese used to walk about the campus at York like tasty geezers. They never attacked anyone, but you had the feeling they might at any moment.
December 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"My client misjudged his descent, your lordship."
The geese used to walk about the campus at York like tasty geezers. They never attacked anyone, but you had the feeling they might at any moment.
The geese used to walk about the campus at York like tasty geezers. They never attacked anyone, but you had the feeling they might at any moment.
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Pitt the Younger became Prime Minister on this day in 1783! #Blackadder
December 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Pitt the Younger became Prime Minister on this day in 1783! #Blackadder
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One last one for the road (my apologies as this thread has gone on far too long)...
December 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
One last one for the road (my apologies as this thread has gone on far too long)...
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❌ "Seasonal depression"
✅ "It's morbin' time"
✅ "It's morbin' time"
Ten archaic English slang phrases…
10. Got the morbs (sad)
9. Bumpsy (drunk)
8. Whittled as a penguin (very drunk)
8. Scandal water (tea)
7. Bitch the pot (pour the tea)
5. Sauce-box (mouth)
4. Cupid’s kettle drums (breasts)
3. Dash my wig (OMG)
2. Poked up (embarrassed)
1. Not up to dick (unwell)
10. Got the morbs (sad)
9. Bumpsy (drunk)
8. Whittled as a penguin (very drunk)
8. Scandal water (tea)
7. Bitch the pot (pour the tea)
5. Sauce-box (mouth)
4. Cupid’s kettle drums (breasts)
3. Dash my wig (OMG)
2. Poked up (embarrassed)
1. Not up to dick (unwell)
December 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
❌ "Seasonal depression"
✅ "It's morbin' time"
✅ "It's morbin' time"
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Lambert Rd, Brixton. Home of the avant garde knitted Christmas tree.
December 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Lambert Rd, Brixton. Home of the avant garde knitted Christmas tree.
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The Trump trail has taken me to Gibraltar. To answer a question: Why did the son of the most powerful man on the planet show up at a law firm in a tiny British outpost one Friday this November looking for money? @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Why did Donald Trump Jr turn up in a tiny British enclave looking for money?
Meetings in Gibraltar are the latest twist in worldwide campaign that is enriching the US president’s family
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The Trump trail has taken me to Gibraltar. To answer a question: Why did the son of the most powerful man on the planet show up at a law firm in a tiny British outpost one Friday this November looking for money? @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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When people reveal who they truly are, through words or actions, trust what you see.
"Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
"Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid
As Black activists in South Africa fought against their country’s racist apartheid...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM
When people reveal who they truly are, through words or actions, trust what you see.
"Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
"Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
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The suspect in the Brown University shooting has been found dead in a storage facility in New Hampshire
Brown University shooting: police investigate link to MIT murder
www.thetimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:03 AM
The suspect in the Brown University shooting has been found dead in a storage facility in New Hampshire
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A new post on our website - Details of the annual Cymdeithas Lloyd George Society Weekend Event, Llangammarch Wells, 7/8 March 2026!
lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/2025/11/24/l...
lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/2025/11/24/l...
Lloyd George Society's Annual Weekend Event 2026 - Booking Details and Draft Programme. - Cymdeithas Lloyd George
Booking Instructions Lloyd George Society – Annual Weekend Event 2026 – March 7-8 2026 We are delighted to share with you the programme for the Lloyd George Society’s 2026 Weekend, on the attached fil...
lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
A new post on our website - Details of the annual Cymdeithas Lloyd George Society Weekend Event, Llangammarch Wells, 7/8 March 2026!
lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/2025/11/24/l...
lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/2025/11/24/l...
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Brussels, Belgium, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have de facto sided with Russia.
Yes, it is that simple.
This pathetic "compromise" tells Moscow all it needs to hear: the EU can be rolled over.
Next up? NATO.
Yes, it is that simple.
This pathetic "compromise" tells Moscow all it needs to hear: the EU can be rolled over.
Next up? NATO.
Ukraine war latest: EU agrees new funding for Kyiv's war effort
EU leaders have agreed to provide Ukraine with a €90bn loan to fund its war effort for another two years - but there's been no deal reached on using frozen Russian assets. Follow the latest here.
news.sky.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Brussels, Belgium, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have de facto sided with Russia.
Yes, it is that simple.
This pathetic "compromise" tells Moscow all it needs to hear: the EU can be rolled over.
Next up? NATO.
Yes, it is that simple.
This pathetic "compromise" tells Moscow all it needs to hear: the EU can be rolled over.
Next up? NATO.