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Coleg Soros And Associates Part 2

Jac — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:30:42 +0000

I had considered doing this piece as an update to the one I put out on Tuesday, but there’s too much I want to say, so it has to be done as a second posting. And that wasn’t the only problem. For I’d also intended including a reminder about the generosity to Coleg Soros that …

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Coleg Soros And Associates

Jac — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:30:00 +0000

This wasn’t planned, but it’s too big and complicated for a tweet, and so I’m putting it out as a quickie. As the title suggests, it concerns Coleg Soros in Talgarth, otherwise known as Black Mountains College. For those new to this blog, or regulars with short memories, I have written a few times about …

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It’s Getting Sinister

Jac — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 08:15:25 +0000

This quickie begins with the response to a Freedom of Information request. It concerns ‘Welsh Government’ dealings with an outfit called Lynn, which former Future Generations Commissioner, Sophie Howe, joined in May as a ‘Global Strategic Partner’. ‘Global Strategic Partner’! Has she ever lived outside of Cardiff? The sole director and shareholder of Lynn Group …

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The State Of Wales

Jac — Tue, 02 May 2023 08:15:20 +0000

I’m sorry I haven’t put out anything for a few weeks, but there’s just been too much to write about, and my lack of self-discipline has resulted in me being too easily distracted, too often. So here goes, again. With a story that in my opinion is not being properly interpreted. What you’re about to …

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The Alliance Against Livestock Farming

Jac — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:00:51 +0000

This week’s piece about wildlife trusts and environmental groups complements what I put out last week about the assorted river charities. For both seem to be funded to shield Dŵr Cymru (Welsh Water) and others from criticism by blaming livestock farmers for all river pollution. Also, to pursue the so-called ‘Welsh Government’s Net Zero lunacy …

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Miscellany 07.07.2022

Jac — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 08:00:05 +0000

As the title suggests, this week’s offering is a miscellany, bits and pieces from hither and yon. Covering . . . Wind turbine disposal. Fears for the planning system in the north west. Awkward locals opposing the hundreds of executive homes Aberdyfi so desperately needs. A development in the ongoing saga of the Llanbedr by-pass. …

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Gilestone Revisited

Jac — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 08:00:54 +0000

I took a week off last week. It was too hot for blogging. For which we must all blame anthropogenic global warming. Then again, it might just have been normal summer weather. It certainly was when the rain arrived. So different to when I was a boy . . . Back then, summer started in …

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‘Saving Wales From The Welsh’

Jac — Mon, 30 May 2022 08:00:41 +0000

“LISTEN TO US” Lurking behind the barns in the Gilestone saga I published last week were environmental / wildlife groups. Now I think they need some sunlight. What prompted my decision was a tweet I saw just over a week ago. The idea that a wildlife trust should be directing the ‘Welsh Government’s farm funding …

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Green Man, Red Herring?

Jac — Fri, 20 May 2022 09:00:59 +0000

When someone drew my attention to the Green Man festival being gifted a farm by the so-called ‘Welsh Government’ I thought to myself, “I’m sure I’ve written about those buggers recently”; but no, I was thinking of the Green Gathering. There are just so many using the ‘Green’ label, desperately trying to look enviro-virtuous! Bullshit, …

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Miscellany 21.09.2020

Jac — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 18:40:52 +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 ♦ Here’s the round-up that’s been postponed for the past few weeks. It covers quite a bit of …

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