Alun Davies AM – Jac o' the North

One Planet, Future Generations & George Soros

Jac — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 23:50:08 +0000

PLEASE APPRECIATE THAT I GET SENT MORE INFORMATION AND LEADS THAN I CAN USE. I TRY TO RESPOND TO EVERYONE WHO CONTACTS ME BUT I CANNOT POSSIBLY USE EVERY BIT OF INFORMATION I’M SENT. DIOLCH YN FAWR ♦ I‘ve written about One Planet developments before, but to refresh your memories, and help newcomers, here’s a …

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M4 relief road

Jac — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 08:00:13 +0000

By now everyone’s aware of the decision announced last week by the ‘Welsh Government’ not to proceed with the planned M4 ‘relief road’ through the Gwent Levels and Newport docks. This decision that took most of us by surprise needs to be examined and certain ramifications and possibilities considered. For last week’s decision might have …

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Wales 2019: state-subsidised colonisation

Jac — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 08:25:22 +0000

PLEASE APPRECIATE THAT I GET SENT MORE INFORMATION AND LEADS THAN I CAN USE. I TRY TO RESPOND TO EVERYONE WHO CONTACTS ME BUT I CANNOT POSSIBLY USE EVERY BIT OF INFORMATION I’M SENT. DIOLCH YN FAWR ♦ You’ll recall that in the post before Easter I reported on ‘Welsh Government’ generosity in Aberteifi. Now …

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Corruption in the wind?

Jac — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 09:00:40 +0000

People contact me regularly asking, ‘Why don’t you write about wind energy, Jac, and about saving the planet, because we’re all doomed, doomed!’ To which I usually respond, ‘Sod off.’ But one recent request to look into wind energy was different, and after an hour or so of digging I realised I just had to write about …

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Local Government Reorganisation, Again!

Jac — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:30:53 +0000

INTRODUCTION I’m old enough to remember the term ‘Wales and Monmouthshire’ being used, which gave us the thirteen old counties, and then there were the four county boroughs (Swansea, Cardiff, Newport and Merthyr). This system was swept away by the Local Government Act 1972 which in 1974 gave us a two-tier system of local government, …

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‘Genocide by Substitution’

Jac — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 11:45:20 +0000

INTRODUCTION The National Renaissance of the 1960s put the wind up our masters for two main reasons. First came the shock that there were numbers of Welsh people prepared to use violence and civil disobedience to achieve their political aims, with a far greater number supporting them. Second, came the more worrying realisation that Welsh …

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Housing Associations: Secret or Public?

Jac — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 22:22:54 +0000

It’s difficult to know where to start with this rather complex story. Maybe we should go back to 2008 and the Welsh Housing Quality Standard, presented as an attempt to improve the standard of social housing. The WHQS was in fact nothing more than the Decent Homes Standard that operated in England. Another example of ‘Welsh’ …

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The Green Smokescreen

Jac — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 21:39:02 +0000

AND THIS LITTLE PIGGY CAME TO WALES To properly understand this article it’s best to know a little of the legislative and other background, and when we put it all together it should warn us that what we see at Red Pig Farm (yes, honestly, Red Pig Farm) is one element of the dystopian future …

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Shorts & Updates for St. David’s Day

Jac — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:52:52 +0000

I’m off to Swansea this weekend, treating myself and the wife to a wee break. (Well, actually, the wife’s paying for the hotel.) I shall visit relatives and friends and go watch the Swans playing Norwich (son’s treating me!). So it will be at least a week until I put up my next post. In …

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Dummies, Motorways and Bloodless Genocide

Jac — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:45:39 +0000

If you scroll down my sidebar you’ll see that, under ‘Jac’s Reads’, one of the blogs I follow is Wales Eye, written by Daran Hill, managing director of Positif, a political lobbying firm in Cardiff docks and an integral part of the self-important but ultimately impotent Cardiff bubble. Don’t think I’m being nasty to Daran …

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