Gaynor Madoc Leonard

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...

Mimi, expecting balls to be thrown #Caturday

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.

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 ...

A Welsh beekeeper has won the prestigious BBC Countryfile Young Countryside Champion Award

‘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

'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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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.

Shirokuro, a Japanese restaurant in NYC's East Village, where the interior mimics a hand-drawn black-and-white sketchbook.

This is a personal favourite, heard it a while ago and love it from so many directions.

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

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...

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……

An evening view of the 59th Street Bridge and the illuminated Manhattan skyline from Roosevelt Island

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

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

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.

"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.

Pitt the Younger became Prime Minister on this day in 1783! #Blackadder

Two women having tea... Woman A: Can I ask a stupid question? Woman B: Better than anyone I know

One last one for the road (my apologies as this thread has gone on far too long)...

Hi. The problem is the oven. When that goes on, the lights go off! I can use the hob and the microwave so all is not lost.

Same thing happened in April. It was fine until I turned the oven on.

❌ "Seasonal depression"

✅ "It's morbin' time"

Lambert Rd, Brixton. Home of the avant garde knitted Christmas tree.

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

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...

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...

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-...

Brown University shooting: police investigate link to MIT murder

The suspect in the Brown University shooting has been found dead in a storage facility in New Hampshire

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...

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.

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.

The word ‘whore’ is etymologically related to ‘charity’, ‘to caress’, ‘to cherish’, as well as Romance words such as French ‘cher’ and Spanish ‘caro’, which mean “dear”.

They all stem from a Proto-Indo-European word meaning “desired; loved”.

Zoom in on my new graphic to discover their stories:

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Understand why the label “mercenary” is Russian disinformation, and why he is nothing of the sort. Hear from foreign soldiers recruited by Russia, including Wagner PMC, to help overthrow a democratically elected government in Europe. The very definition of a mercenary.

Famously, when the dot.com bubble burst, that was the end of the Internet, wasn't it?