“These days you don’t just take what you’re offered, you swipe right until you’re offered something else.”

The 70th #eurovision in Vienna - phew! Well done 🇧🇬 on a first win - Bangaranga saves the contest for another year Next year in Sofia youtu.be/EltgrumKJfk?si=iOX-…

Who are we? Lots to ❤️ in this for me, but one line stands out 🤣

Let there be light - love the simplicity of the winning design chosen for a memorial to the journalists who have lost their lives reporting on conflicts overseas, to be built at @Nat_Mem_Arb #placestogopeopletosee thetimes.com/article/8e3d21b…

Enjoyed @ITVCymruWales #leadersdebate with @adrianmasters84: started out thinking it would be a long two hours without a live audience but by the end I felt the format gave viewers at home plenty of chance to make up their minds👏

At the @niassembly today with Rob from @AbilityNet to talk about how we are working together to help older people in Northern Irleand be more confident online. Here til 3.

In politics… timing is everything! 🤣 A Little 📕 Red Book for your summer holidays!

.@WIRED published a tabloid conspiracy piece about how the gays are running Silicon Valley, control everything, use saunas together & discriminate against non-gay people. Buried deep in the article: From 2000 to 2022, a whopping .5% of venture funding went to LGBTQ founders. 🤯

🤔 If we didn’t have the @BBCNews then who would have the resource or expertise to trawl through the #EpsteinFiles to systemically check for references to those in power and positions of influence here.

Years of campaigning have paid off, better mobile coverage has finally arrived at Penmachno. A real win for our rural community! janetfinchsaunders.org.uk/ne…

Hump Day energy, powered by AI! Signed up to the new AI Skills Hub before I got out of bed this morning. Interested to see how this initiative delivers against the ambition before the end of the decade. gov.uk/government/news/free-…

Always❤️ to read @TheNorthernEcho when I am up here… but nearly choked on my porridge when I spotted a byline for a reporter who was on the paper when I did my @CardiffJomec placement in spring 1993. Seriously impressive Mr Engelbrecht! 👏

To @SeneddWales for a dissection of the latest @ITVCymruWales 🗳️ poll: points to nothing short of an earthquake in the politics of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 this May, making waves well beyond Cardiff Bay. Old enough to remember when, in a previous life, we started doing these polls.

Hugo the Barrister from Cardiff 🤔 Seen him before somewhere, I’m sure #TheTraitors

Just 1 in 5 Brits say they would be angry/disappointed if their child were gay, maybe surprisingly Labour voters were the most likely to say they’d be angry or disappointed - more so than Reform or Tory voters - Green and Lib Dem voters were the least likely to say they would be

A huge poll has just dropped in Welsh Politics. The poll from YouGov/Cardiff University suggests votes in the Senedd election will be: - Plaid Cymru - 33% - Reform UK - 30% - Labour - 10% - Conservatives - 10% - Green - 9% - Lib Dem - 6% In terms of seats it would mean: Plaid Cymru - 39 Reform UK - 34 Labour - 10 Conservatives - 6 Green - 4 Lib Dem - 3 This is absolutely damning for Labour. For detailed analysis check out the full break down in my news letter (see pinned tweet)