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Various social media threads about Wales and Welsh topics.

Ancient mass migration transformed Britons' DNA

By Paul Rincon, the Science editor for the BBC News website writes about new research into pre-historic migrations and how DNA extracted from ancestral graves shows how lactose tollerence spread through the population. Amazingly this hints at who the Celts were and were they might have come from!

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The players of @AberavonRFC volunteering with @AgeConnectsNPT #coronavirus #lockdown #volunteers pic.twitter.com/KBzq3YSvWS
— michael sheen (@michaelsheen) March 26, 2020

For Ballbag hill walker types near Snowdonia. pic.twitter.com/vvrjy9lfli
— Frank O’Cathain (@FrankoSerpico) March 22, 2020

Dim diolch. Empire Day hasn't been celebrated since 1950s. We'll celebrate the day Wales wins her independence instead. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇳 https://t.co/jlfBbJP6LV
— YesCymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@YesCymru) March 5, 2020

Film director Agnieszka Holland on her new film ‘Mr Jones’ inspired by Welsh journalist Gareth Joneshttps://t.co/kwO8Py1aZF
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) February 9, 2020

British Prime Minister at Africa Investment Summit says he is looking forward to increasing imports of beef from Uganda. Bad news for Welsh farmers.
— Jonathan Edwards (@JonathanPlaid) January 23, 2020

Just resting this here... https://t.co/GBBgbehUOX
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) July 1, 2018

This morning I asked Dominic Cummings, unelected bureaucrat, why John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton was in Leave HQ on the night of the 2016 referendum results. He says he's never heard of him...
Otherwise, PM's chief advisor says "Get ready to take back control, mate"#WhitehallWatch pic.twitter.com/1KmhorJr2Z
— Steve Bray #NotGoingAway (@snb19692) August 22, 2019

Who will hold these people to account asks @june_mummery?
She has also asked if she can come back to attend fisheries com mtgs. Thing is June you wanted to leave. You wanted us to have no voice here, to go it alone. You all crow about your ‘win’. This is what it means. Well done https://t.co/VkHbnsnoZS
— Caroline Voaden MEP 🔶 (@CarolineVoaden) January 20, 2020

Leavers: We're concerned about foreigners taking our jobs.
Also Leavers: This is fine.https://t.co/44t6nVkdLZ
— Graham Hughes 👊🤠 #FBPE 🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@EveryCountry) January 17, 2020

Richard Hopkins, my beloved father, resting in eternal peace... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” Dylan Thomas pic.twitter.com/LbOegtGa9b
— Anthony Hopkins (@AnthonyHopkins) April 25, 2021

A Welsh doctor and former Parachute Regiment medics has designed an emergency ventilator which could have a major impact in fight against coronavirus. The devices are already being manufactured in Ammanford, and the firm reckons it could make 100 a day. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 https://t.co/hFDHBCYUHV
— Jason Evans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 (@EvansTheCrime) March 24, 2020

No-one should have to (and people were promised they wouldn’t need to) seek approval to remain in their own home. https://t.co/RSRJMrJ9xh
— Seb Dance 🌹🇪🇺 (@SebDance) March 6, 2020

West Wales Facebook is wild 😳 #StormDennis pic.twitter.com/qMH96oaBDO
— Dan Jardine 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@JardineOfficial) February 17, 2020

On the day that English nationalism triumphed, I give you one great Welshman Anthony Hopkins reciting another great Welshman. Do not go gentle into that good night. Hillsborough took 30 years. Time is on the side of justice. Night, friendspic.twitter.com/VSkEmO27oT
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) February 1, 2020

Kudos to the Welsh blacksmith who ran a school at his premises and was simultaneously welding iron and explaining decimals when a government inspector turned up in 1860.
— Martin Johnes (@martinjohnes) January 22, 2020

🇪🇺On 31 January Wales and the rest of the UK will leave the EU.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Join Plaid Cymru Leader @Adamprice
as he outlines his vision for Wales #BeyondBrexit

🕛 12 to 2pm
📅 Monday, 27th January
📌 Pierhead, Cardiff Bay

👉https://t.co/jlsAiEEt9x pic.twitter.com/AXxAVl7j5R
— Plaid Cymru (@Plaid_Cymru) January 22, 2020

Before you find yourself agreeing with anything that Plasticine Goebbels @PiersMorgan says, seek out the answer to these two simple questions...

1. Why was he sacked as editor of The News of the World?

2. Why was he sacked as editor of The Mirror?
— Graham Hughes 👊🤠 #FBPE 🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@EveryCountry) January 20, 2020

Banks has dropped claim against 1 talk & tweet. BUT he's carrying on with TED talk & tweet 2. Sigh. I'm SO VERY grateful to everyone who gave to crowdfunder. But I've ringfenced that in case of costs. And am launching this to help pay current legal feeshttps://t.co/if0yDPsPTt
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) January 23, 2020

There are 53 countries in The Commonwealth. I've been to all of them. Take out the UK, Canada, Oz, NZ & India, and the remaining 48 countries have a combined nominal GDP of... you guessed it... less than France.

Just France.

On its own. https://t.co/QnAC27suCt
— Graham Hughes 👊🤠 #FBPE 🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@EveryCountry) January 22, 2020

Thank EU ⁦@catherinemep⁩ for inviting us to Brussels. It’s been an emotional visit. Thanks too to everyone who has supported the SODEM protest. I couldn’t have done it without you. #NotGoingAway #HoldThemToAccount pic.twitter.com/Tep8DgJeH2
— Steve Bray #NotGoingAway (@snb19692) January 23, 2020