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		<title>Wales, Where Democracy Came To Die</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 17:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If the title strikes you as over-stated, just hold your judgement until you&#8217;ve read what I have to say. And if you still disagree with me, then you can claim your refund from the Reimbursements Unit of the Finance Department at Jac Towers. Seeing as last week&#8217;s offering was a little long, at over 3,000 &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/wales-where-democracy-came-to-die/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Wales, Where Democracy Came To Die</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wales, the unmourned death of devolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;M SENT. DIOLCH YN FAWR ♦ In this post I&#8217;m going to look at the latest YouGov for ITV/Cardiff University poll. There&#8217;s a &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/wales-the-unmourned-death-of-devolution/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Wales, the unmourned death of devolution</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>National Development Framework</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2019 07:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;M SENT. DIOLCH YN FAWR ♦ Last week the self-styled &#8216;Welsh Government&#8217; produced the first version of the consultation document for its 20-year &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/national-development-framework/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">National Development Framework</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Local Government Reorganisation, Again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[INTRODUCTION I&#8217;m old enough to remember the term &#8216;Wales and Monmouthshire&#8217; 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, &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/local-government-reorganisation-again/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Local Government Reorganisation, Again!</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Devolution as Prozac</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[But first . . . A LESSON FROM HISTORY Following victories over the Persians at Salamis (480 BC) and Plataea (479 BC), and with mainland Greece liberated, the Spartans withdrew from their leadership of the wartime alliance. Athens seized the opportunity and in 478 BC created the Delian League. Athenian greed and heavy-handedness soon made the &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/devolution-as-prozac/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Devolution as Prozac</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tesco Delivers an Uncomfortable Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most of you reading this will by now be aware that Tesco is closing its call centre in Cardiff and concentrating its operations in Dundee. Inevitably, this has caused Labour politicos to weep and wail but equally predictably the buggers are also lying, because they will never admit to the political realities at work here. &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/tesco-delivers-an-uncomfortable-truth/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Tesco Delivers an Uncomfortable Truth</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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