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Guest Post by Neil McEvoy: The Rotten Heart of Welsh Politics

Jac — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:30:31 +0000

As the title tells you, this is a guest post by former Plaid Cymru MS Neil McEvoy. Neil has made enemies. When you know who those enemies are then, just like I did, you’ll warm to him. A man I’ve always found to be straight, honest, and approachable. Neil’s enemies tend to have certain things …

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England’s wind turbines – in Wales!

Jac — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 08:30:13 +0000

My intention was to start winding down this blog, spend more time with my wife, grand-children, books, Malbec . . . but things keep cropping up. That said, it’s very unlikely I shall undertake major new investigations. Diolch yn fawr. ♦ Last week, I introduced you to the Bute empire, based in Edinburgh and London, …

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Miscellany 26.11.2020

Jac — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 10:30:31 +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 is the roundup I promised last week before the Knighton piece just grow’d like Topsy and …

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Miscellany 04.06.2019

Jac — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 08:00:26 +0000

I haven’t prepared any in-depth or weighty post for this week; instead, I’ve put together a few things I’ve been thinking about, or been sent, that might also be of interest to you. You know me – always trying to please! ◊ COALITIONS One of the more bizarre responses to the 2016 EU referendum result …

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Neil McEvoy, Plaid Cymru, deja vu all over again

Jac — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 21:30:55 +0000

INTRODUCTION In a few days time Neil McEvoy, the Assembly Member for the South Wales Central region, is up before the beak, in the form of Sir Roderick Evans, the Standards Commissioner. The charge is that McEvoy used equipment the Assembly had provided for constituency work for party political purposes. Reported here just before Christmas …

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Third Sector Bollocks

Jac — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 21:20:13 +0000

UNCRITICAL PUBLICITY Over recent years, at the prompting of political friends of the homelessness industry, both BBC Wales and the print media have given television series and pages of newsprint so that the countless competing and duplicating businesses in the sector can promote themselves and their ‘mission’. To my knowledge, nothing even vaguely critical of …

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