THOMAS WALDROM Born on 28 April 1983, England international Thomas Waldrom played for Leicester 113 times.

My wife knows me so well. I love unexpected pressies 🥰

🎶 We do want to change the world 🎶 We are looking for a new England 🎶We are ready to replace Labour 🎶

OTD: ZURICH CHAMPIONSHIP 2001 Tigers 24 (Stanley 1t, Healey 1t, Stimpson 1c 4p) London Irish 11 Quarter-final Welford Road, 28 April The Premiership top eight qualify for a new competition that lasted for two seasons, the Championship. The Tigers would move closer to the second leg of a treble.

Animal testing is not incidental suffering. It is systemic, deliberate, and built into the process itself. Science has moved on. We no longer need to rely on cruel animal testing.

Update: took less than a day to be boiled away... www.cityam.com/treasury-rul...

Renters across the country are crying out for real action from this government as they watch their living costs skyrocket. But half-measures won't cut it - we need permanent, loophole-free rent controls to tackle the affordability crisis and end rip-off Britain.

OTD: HEINEKEN CUP 2002 Tigers 13 (Ellis 1t, Stimpson 1c, 2p) Llanelli 12 (S Jones 4p) Semi-final City Ground, Nottingham, 28 April With a couple of minutes remaining Tim Stimpson successfully launches a 58 metre kick via bar and post to snatch a lead.

Tony Blair’s assault on the anxious, depressed and those with ADHD www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04...

If you ever doubt the impact that the @greenparty.org.uk can have on British politics, remember this week - the week that, after years of Labour ministers telling me their party does not support rent controls, the Rachel Reeves is now considering rent controls. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

On 28 April 1990 Les Cusworth played in a 15-26 loss at Bath. His final Leicester appearance in a memorable career lasting 12 years with the club. bsky.app/profile/hist...

Boris Johnson and Michael Gove admitted taking cocaine and a Tory MP in the last parliament had to go to rehab to treat his addiction. But no rightwing commentators mention this when discussing the Greens' drug policy.

OTD: GALLAGHER PREMIERSHIP 2024 Tigers 19 (Hassell-Collins 2t, van Wyk 1t, Pollard 2c) Bristol Bears 21 Mattioli Woods Welford Road, 27 April Most of the sell-out 25,849 crowd leave disappointed as Leicester blow a 19 point lead over the final 12 minutes.

Yes, we're Greens! Riding the 148 bus to Parliament and who should sit down beside me? @greenparty.org.uk MP @sianberry.bsky.social

1. Every year, large areas of gorse in Dartmoor and Exmoor national parks are deliberately burnt. It’s an appalling act of vandalism, killing wildlife, preventing regeneration of crucial habitats, releasing toxic smoke and carbon. This thread is about why it’s happening. Pic from this weekend. 1/7

OTD: AVIVA PREMIERSHIP 2018 Tigers 23 (May 1t, Fitzgerald 1t, G Ford 2c 3p) Newcastle Falcons 25 Welford Road, 27 April A last minute score by the fourth place Falcons would mean Leicester failed to make the Premiership play-offs for the first time since 2004.

Another politician, more private healthcare-linked donations. 🚩 Heidi Alexander has accepted £20,000 from Labour Together & OPD Group Ltd. We’re tracking the connections to the private healthcare sector to hold MPs to account. Donate to help us dig even further: link in bio.

If you don’t agree with drug legalisation, then please read my article If you still then don’t agree please comment your thoughts below 👇 open.substack.com/pub/harryecc...

👉 NEW — Why don’t UK media mention the Israel lobby? Because they’re part of it. By @markcurtis30.bsky.social www.declassifieduk.org/why-dont-uk-...

First NHS England and now NICE. Streeting is dismantling the safeguards that ensure that when the NHS spends money, decisions are led by what's best for patients. Instead he's taking control of contracting and it seems to be led by what's best for US big business. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We have a massive crisis coming - and we'll only survive it using radical ideas, like taxing wealth more, now. youtu.be/c4K0BY5hpJQ?...

I can't recall our parent and grand parents fretting about govt debt but they did notice improvements in quality of life. MMT supporters would argue that govts with international currencies don't need debt, they can create money and use taxes to withdraw and cancel money in times of inflation.

People will tell you that Attlee increased the country’s debt which took years to pay back. They will say this like it is so important and made a difference to the running of the country (clue: it didn’t) because growing the economy and not people’s lives, seems to be the only aim of current govs

We should let doctors on call drink. I a very clever opinion makerer.

Streeting is as corrupt as his boss Starmer.... @labouruk.bsky.social

Today Wes Streeting overruled NICE so he personally buys medication for the entire NHS He did this so he can give an extra £6.4bn a year to the USA for nothing Paying Doctors an extra £0.6bn a year is too expensive But 10x as much for Donald Trump is done without question

Hannah Spencer, a woman who had an ordinary job, becoming an MP and immediately noticing and talking about how, for example, our MPs drink at work, is one of the reasons why the establishment doesn’t like it when normal people get elected.

Rock Against Racism youtube.com/watch?v=ubMm...

Cow Parsley. Flamstead , Herts #wildflowerhour

I would go with her to the end, into the very fires of Mordor 🌹

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#OtD 26 Apr 1937 the ancient Basque city of Guernica was bombed and largely obliterated by the German and Italian air forces at the behest of the Spanish nationalists during the civil war. The event was famously depicted by Picasso. More in this podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...

Israeli forces destroyed solar panels supplying electricity and water to Debel, a Lebanese Christian village surrounded by Israeli troops whose residents have refused to leave - and no one does anything because there’s no law for ‘Israel’. They do whatever they want, apparently.

Hannah Spencer speaking to PoliticsJOE, "You can smell the alcohol when people are in-between votes" "I wasn't prepared for what goes on in the rest of the chamber where there is a lot of jeering going on" "We're making decisions about people's lives we're here to do a job and to serve people"

Such a wonderful interview. Powerful to hear Hannah speaking so clearly about the cost of living crisis and the dire political choices by this Labour Government. Let's make different choices and support everyone - rather than the super rich. youtu.be/ffpDGH1-5tY?...

Last week I paid £110 for a boiler fault and small repair, I was happy to pay This chap was happy to pay £110 for a home call out from a private GP The #NHS funds GP practices less than £24 for a consultation including home visits (£125 pa per patient) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's the principled nature of Labour's stances, like the pressing need to give young people a stake in democracy, that I most admire about them.

We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself #ShakespeareSunday

MPs have: • Free Car Parking • £4,695 pay rise this year • Free heating and electricity • Subsidised restaurants & bars • Free tickets to concerts & sports Meanwhile, you’re counting the pennies struggling to make it to the end of the month.

I hope Mitchell puts the English players on jankers for shelling at least 5 trues. Good day out. 👍

Did you know that until today, the Red Roses had only conceded 3 try bonus points in the Six Nations? With 24 points from two converted and two unconverted tries, Wales join a very exclusive group.

Louis Armstrong playing for his wife, Egypt (1961)

The Daily Mail aren't even trying to pretend to be normal anymore. Lower bills & invest in our communities. Join.greenparty.org.uk

We boycotted apartheid South Africa — now we must do the same to Israel youtu.be/0fq051jFFTY?...

1/ Today's British newspaper headlines show a unified wall of outrage against Donald Trump, across the political spectrum. It's a sign of how a reported plan to punish the UK by 'reassessing the status of the Falkland Islands' has crossed a line that's redder than red. ⬇️

OTD: AVIVA PREMIERSHIP 2015 Tigers 38 (B Youngs 1t, Pearce 2t, Harrison 1t, Gibson 1t, T Youngs 1t Burns 2c, Bell 2c) London Welsh 17 Welford Road, 25 April 23,016 see a battering of an Exiles on their way out of the Premiership. They also see a battering as drunken japes meet focussed athlete.

They aren't living democratically now, they are living in an apartheid state with different laws and rights for Jewish people/others. I still want a United Eire. 80 years is nothing. If Jewish treasure stolen in WW2 is returned, why not Palestinian land?

Today in the “free world”. 9 people arrested outside Woolwich Crown court, for the outrageous offence of holding up placards that say "jurors deserve to know the whole truth". novaramedia.com/2026/04/24/n...

Starting with his long time front row colleague Stuart Redfern for the final time 34 years ago, Chris Tressler also finished playing with Leicester in the 22-22 draw with Rugby Lions. bsky.app/profile/hist...