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Renaissance Men

Jac — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 08:15:58 +0000

This piece results from news I received about a court case in Sussex. I started digging, and it got to be like peeling an onion. Perhaps not pleasant, but there you go, that’s life. Obviously I won’t comment on the case itself, or the proceedings. What I’ll do is look at the fascinating connections the …

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Segregation Makes A Comeback

Jac — Mon, 20 May 2024 07:00:22 +0000

As I’ve said before, 2016 was a watershed year in Western politics. Brexit coupled with Donald Trump’s victory told leftists they’d lost large sections of the (white) working class. This resulted in a desperate search for a replacement ‘proletariat’. Groups and issues that had been around for a while were cleaned up, eagerly adopted, and …

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Housing in Wales

Jac — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:30:08 +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 ♦ The title tells you what this week’s article is about. I’m going to look at how the …

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Social cleansing in the Wild West Show

Jac — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 11:30:35 +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 ♦ This week’s offering keeps to the bits and pieces format that’s popular in certain quarters; but there …

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Shorts 16.07.2018 (Well it is summer!)

Jac — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 09:00:39 +0000

I’m taking a wee break from the Williams-Partridge gang, but I shall return to them, you can count on it. Weep for Wales 6 is already forming itself in the old Jac noggin. But as the Walrus said, The time has come to talk of many things . . . but we shall not stray …

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Welsh Social Housing, A Broken System

Jac — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 20:25:14 +0000

My previous post dealt with offshore property company Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd and housing associations leasing properties from it, though I made passing reference – just a paragraph – to another publicly funded housing association, Pembrokeshire Housing, and Mill Bay Homes, the latter a subsidiary of the former that builds houses to sell to anyone. …

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Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd: An Open Letter to Carwyn Jones

Jac — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:38:36 +0000

October 17th 2016 First Minister, You may have read my previous post, ”. If not, then I suggest you read it, if only to help you understand what follows. Your government gives a great deal of public money to housing associations. These bodies are largely unregulated and, as a consequence, a law unto themselves. (One reason …

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Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd

Jac — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 22:43:43 +0000

Regular readers of Private Eye – and perhaps those who abjure Lord Gnome’s organ – will know there is now a database available that tries to list all property in Wales and England owned by overseas registered companies. You can browse it here. Naturally, my interest was in Wales, and so I extracted the Welsh properties …

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The Leaving Of London

Jac — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:01:11 +0000

There has been a lot of discussion on Twitter and elsewhere in recent days of a video discovered on YouTube that advises Londoners to leave the Great Wen for other cities and areas under the ‘Out of London‘ scheme. The video itself focused on a man who had used the programme to move to Swansea. …

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