Môr Leidr

@bartiddu

Prof of Child Health (retired) Interests: art; history; children’s rights; 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. 🏳️‍⚧️ & 🇵🇸 rights are human rights Banner: 1 of our dogs contemplating his existence in a shaving mirror Profile: the other channelling Rousseau’s tiger🐅 No DMs (I can’t access) 🙏🏻

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Môr Leidr@bartiddu· 2d

Man holding up a poster which reads

“I COULD
SHIT A BETTER PRESIDENT”

Amen to that

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· 11d

I love her stuff Made a copy of one once.

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· 16d

With alt text

HOW WE DISAPPEAR
I am in the store touching things.
Linen napkins, a blue bowl.
The world is on fire and I am choosing between two kinds of soap.
Everyone here is doing this, filling carts with small comforts while somewhere a child goes to bed hungry, while the earth heats, while men make decisions about who gets to live.
I know what this is, this careful arranging while everything collapses.
This is how we survive.
And also how we disappear.
Alessandra Olanow

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· 20d

I have no expectations of Burnham Why are Labour politicians so endlessly disappointing? (I never expect anything except 💩 from the Tories so they never disappoint)

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· 23d

Great castle this one, in a glorious valley But native Welsh castles aren’t that rare. Although they make up only 10% of Wales’ castles, because we have so many there’s still quite a few of them www.castlewales.com/native.html

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· 25d

The poem

Don't Mention the Children

(Israel bans radio advert listing names of children killed in Gaza. ' Guardian, 24 July 2014)

Don't mention the children.
Don't name the dead children.
The people must not know the names of the dead children.
The names of the children must be hidden.
The children must be nameless.
The children must leave this world
having no names.
No one must know the names of
the dead children.
No one must say the names of the dead children.
No one must even think that the children
have names.
People must understand that it would be dangerous to know the names of the children.
The people must be protected from knowing the names of the children.
The names of the children could spread like wildfire.
The people would not be safe if they knew the names of the children.
Don't name the dead children.
Don't remember the dead children.
Don't think of the dead children.
Don't say: 'dead children'

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· 25d

Are these comparisons overplayed? Here’s Miller going full on eugenics - a fundamental value of Nazism. Trump’s regime may have different ethnic targets (for now - Miller is stupid if he thinks the US right aren’t antisemitic) but like the Nazis they are targeting the left & the “deformed” 1st

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left
To speak out for me

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· 26d

Photos show Welsh and English versions of Six Dinner Sid

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· Jul 9

I took these from the Eglwyseg escarpment Being both a Welsh prince’s castle & an Iron Age fort the walk up to it is definitely worth the effort.

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· Jul 6

Beautiful photo I love that part of the world. You feel could meet Merlin at every bend in the path The whole of the Welsh March through Monmouthshire up to past Hay Bluff is magical Here’s one I took between Hay & Capel-y-ffin a few years back. Wild pony instead of sheep.

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· Jul 3

This is why Britain is such a mess We have mostly a “yes” press & media Meanwhile Starmer is trying to shut down the “No” press in a swan song act of anti-democratic authoritarianism: the National Security (State Threats) Bill 2026 The Labour Party is 💀⚰️ #CardiffSchoolOfJournalism

A photo with the following “bilingual” quote

"Y wasg rydd yw'r
elfen bwysicaf oll
er mwyn dwyn y
wladwriaeth i gyfrif.
Mae gwasg daeog yn fygythiad enbyd
i lywodraethu da."
Tom Hopkinson
Cyfarwyddwr Sefydlur
Ganolfan Astudiaethau Newyddiaduraeth
"A free press is the most watchful sentry of the state.
A 'yes' press is fatal to good government."
Tom Hopkinson
Founding Director of the Centre for Journalism Studies

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· Jul 2

This is what is wrong with the PLP - a lack of principles Whilst Mahmood is off practicing performative cruelty all they worry about is that this bill looks bad But the real issue is not that this bill is too “draconian” or too strict It’s way too disgusting

Guardian headline reading “Pressure on Mahmood over immigration bill as MPs fear it is too draconian”

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· Jul 1

I know it’s “Not all men”. But cases like this, & that of Gisèle Pelicot, leave you looking at all the men in your acquaintance & thinking “Could you do this”? The monsters living quietly amongst us Uuuggghhh

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· Jun 30

Articles 12 and 13 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which the UK has signed and ratified

Article 12 (The right to be heard):
Grants every child who is capable of forming views the right to express them freely in all matters affecting them. It requires adults and decision-makers to give those views due weight in accordance with the child's age and maturity.
Article 13 (Freedom of expression): Protects a child's right to seek, receive, and share information and ideas of all kinds.
This can be done orally, in writing, in print, through art, or via the internet. Authorities can only restrict this right if it is legally necessary to protect the rights, reputations, or safety of others.

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· Jun 16

When I was at medical school in the 1970s Lyme disease was extremely rare in Britain - barely got a mention in my course Now every GP needs to be familiar with it, as late diagnosis is not a good idea I assume the big difference in incidence between Scotland and Wales is the deer?

Graph showing huge increase in incidence of Lyme disease

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· Jun 16

Could be. Or possibly Noggin the Nog #vikings (my absolute favourite TV programme from 1959 to 1965)

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· Jun 15

If you eat dairy please make sure it all comes from cows allowed out to roam in the fields

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· Jun 5

•“Middlemarch” & “Wives and Daughters” - insights into people •“The Citadel” - made me study medicine • “Wolf Hall” - just SO much to think about there •“The Raj Quartet” - made me view the British Raj very differently to the way I was taught about it at school •And this wonderful poem

Cynddylan on a Tractor
Ah, you should see Cynddylan on a tractor.
Gone the old look that yoked him to the soil, He's a new man now, part of the machine, His nerves of metal and his blood oil.
The clutch curses, but the gears obey His least bidding, and lo, he's away Out of the farmyard, scattering hens.
Riding to work now as a great man should, He is the knight at arms breaking the fields' Mirror of silence, emptying the wood Of foxes and squirrels and bright jays.
The sun comes over the tall trees
Kindling all the hedges, but not for him Who runs his engine on a different fuel.
And all the birds are singing, bills wide in vain, As Cynddylan passes proudly up the lane.

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· Jun 3

The state of this 😫 Just arrived through my letterbox. Normalising the crappy working conditions imposed on #NHS staff as a result of chronic underfunding from government

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Môr Leidr@bartiddu· Jun 2

Not a reason to ban him from entry, but Cenk Uygur is “anti-woke” & expresses problematic views towards trans people Given that race, gender & class are inextricably tied up into who is disadvantaged & exploited under neoliberalism, he’s not really left wing www.plutobooks.com/product/frac...

Identity politics has been a smear for decades. The right use it to lament the loss of free speech, while many on the left bemoan it as the end of class politics. It has been used to dismiss movements such as Black Lives Matter and brought seemingly progressive people into the path of fascism. It has emboldened the march of the transphobes.
In Fractured, the authors move away from the ahistorical temper of the identity politics debate.
Instead of crudely categorising race, gender and sexuality as fixed and immutable identities, or forcing them under the banner of diversity, they argue that these categories are inseparable from the history of class struggle under British and US capitalism.

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· Jun 1

This perfect answer was in response to the question “Why does Trump lean forward”? “Someone said he's a centaur missing the back part”

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· Jun 1

Sadly I couldn’t make the Hay festival this year So putting up a photo of a wild Welsh mountain pony grazing against a spectacular sunset I took a few years back, driving home via Capel-y-Ffin after spending the day at Hay

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· May 25

Surprise!

The book cover of “The Remains if the Day”

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· May 19

Makes me think of this

Roald Dahl
The witches
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· May 14

Ukraine was never a democracy In 2019, before the war, it was a hybrid regime in the Economist Democracy index, Russia an authoritarian one. Ukraine scored 5-6 Russia scored 3-4 (Full democracy 8-10) This is hardly “freedom” & “democracy” against tyranny It’s daft & dishonest to frame it thus

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· May 11

We call it the Stone Age because virtually no wood survived But really, I think it must have been a wood age When you see what they could work in stone just imagine the wonders they must have made in wood, which was available in abundance Like a huge David Nash retrospective

Picture of some David Nash wood sculptures

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· May 8

This must st be the most beautiful place in the country an election count is taking place Gwyr Abertawe (Swansea) votes being counted in Brangwyn Hall surrounded by Frank Brangwyn’s fabulous murals

Picture of count taking place in Brangwyn Hall

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· May 2

And by The Times

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· May 2

If Kier Starmer doesn’t loudly & soundly condemn this cartoon we’ll know he doesn’t really give a sh*t about antisemitism per se Just about his Israeli and Zionist backers/funders And purging the left from Labour Absolute disgrace from the Times

Cartoon in which Zack Polanski is depicted with a face that doesn’t resemble him at all, but has the sort of features used to depict Fagin in early versions of Oliver Twist

Môr Leidr@bartiddu· Apr 29

Also look how bulls have been changed over the last 100+ years His is very weedy