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		<title>Looking Ahead To Senedd Elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this piece I shall look towards the May 7 Senedd elections. Rather than delve into party manifestos, or expose the peccadillos of individual candidates, I&#8217;m adopting a broad brush approach. Impressions and perhaps even informed generalisations. Digressions guaranteed, but not without a touch of whimsy and a few doses of ironic humour. This offering &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/looking-ahead-to-senedd-elections/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Looking Ahead To Senedd Elections</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Windward-Bute Empire, Fresh Insights</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had something else planned to go out on Monday, but I&#8217;ve held it back in light of fresh information I&#8217;ve received about the activities of Bute Energy. Information that raises wider considerations. ◊ INTRODUCTION Let me start with an apology. I&#8217;ve been writing about Bute&#8217;s activities in Wales for seven or eight years. This &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/the-windward-bute-empire-fresh-insights/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Windward-Bute Empire, Fresh Insights</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Plaid Cymru &#8211; Party Of Nowhere</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to write this, or something like it, for some time. So, with the Senedd elections roughly three months away, now seems as good a time as any. In some ways I suppose this is an update to a piece I put out in February 2019, back when I was young, handsome, and &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/plaid-cymru-party-of-nowhere/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Plaid Cymru &#8211; Party Of Nowhere</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Caerffili By-election: Random Thoughts</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This piece is totally unplanned; but I want to get it out because I see so many misinterpreting the result and failing &#8211; or refusing to understand &#8211; what lies behind it. ◊ PLAID CYMRU AND LABOUR, LABOUR AND PLAID CYMRU Let me begin by congratulating Plaid Cymru on a great victory. As I&#8217;ve mentioned &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/caerffili-by-election-random-thoughts/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Caerffili By-election: Random Thoughts</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Plaid Cymru Abandons Welsh Farmers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 08:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday I put out a post on X drawing attention to something that had been said at the Plaid Cymru conference in Swansea. This piece follows on from that. ◊ &#8216;IT&#8217;S THEM FARMERS WOT DONE IT!&#8217; Speaking from the main stage Alex Phillips of the WWF wanted the audience to believe that when it &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/plaid-cymru-abandons-welsh-farmers/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Plaid Cymru Abandons Welsh Farmers</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Future Generations Deserve Better Than Net Zero</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 08:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a gathering of envirogrifters on February 4 at the Pierhead Building in Corruption Bay. Here&#8217;s an invitation from Daniel Lock of Nature Service Wales, a newish outfit and local branch of the scarcely older Food, Farming &#38; Countryside Commission (FFCC). Reminding us that &#8216;environmentalism&#8217; sees new groups spring up almost every day, proliferating like &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/future-generations-deserve-better-than-net-zero/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Future Generations Deserve Better Than Net Zero</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Welsh Independence And The Left</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2023 09:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m kicking off 2023 with thoughts on independence; more exactly, the kind of independence being offered by those who&#8217;ll be gathering in the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, on the 28th of this month. Ah! the Brangwyn Hall. I remember being slung out of there many years ago. It was a Labour Party do, with that son &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/welsh-independence-and-the-left/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Welsh Independence And The Left</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Child Abuse in a One-party State</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2022 08:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just over two years ago I published Do you know where your child is tonight? In which I explained how children are being taken into care, often in Cardiff, then moved by private companies to Swansea and other areas where property is cheaper. This was being done with the consent or even the connivance of &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/child-abuse-in-a-one-party-state/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Child Abuse in a One-party State</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Misplaced Trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2022 09:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Retirement remains the ambition. That said, this post is produced in the hope of drawing attention to developments in one locality that may link with wider, national concerns. ♦ &#8216;Y FOEL&#8217; Today&#8217;s piece took wing with the article you see below. It appeared in last Thursday&#8217;s Daily Post. A strange piece in a number of ways; &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/misplaced-trust/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Misplaced Trust</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>YesCymru, the beginning of the end?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2021 09:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;M IN SEMI-RETIREMENT AND THIS BLOG IS WINDING DOWN. I INTEND CALLING IT A DAY SOON AFTER THIS YEAR&#8217;S SENEDD ELECTIONS. POSTINGS WILL NOW BE LESS FREQUENT AND I WILL NOT UNDERTAKE ANY MAJOR NEW INVESTIGATIONS. DIOLCH YN FAWR. ♦ After recent postings on YesCymru it&#8217;s time to analyse what happened at last Saturday&#8217;s AGM &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/yescymru-the-beginning-of-the-end/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">YesCymru, the beginning of the end?</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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