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		<title>Whisper It In The Tramshed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 08:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is another of those pieces I wish I didn&#8217;t have to write. Another sorry tale of political bias and incompetence, and the wasting of large amounts of public money. ◊ WHISPER AND LABOUR Our tale begins with two announcements. The first came from the self-styled &#8216;Welsh Government&#8217; last Friday. Informing us a &#8220;Wales-based&#8221; company, &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/whisper-it-in-the-tramshed/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Whisper It In The Tramshed</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Swansea Disloyals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:30:53 +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 ♦ This post is a bit out of the ordinary, and rather personal. I felt it needed to &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/swansea-disloyals/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Swansea Disloyals</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Miscellany 04.06.2019</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2019 08:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t prepared any in-depth or weighty post for this week; instead, I&#8217;ve put together a few things I&#8217;ve been thinking about, or been sent, that might also be of interest to you. You know me &#8211; always trying to please! ◊ COALITIONS One of the more bizarre responses to the 2016 EU referendum result &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/miscellany-04-06-2019/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Miscellany 04.06.2019</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Poor old Swansea! victim of devolution and Cardiff-centricity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:45:39 +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 ♦ THE TOWN I LOVED SO WELL As you&#8217;re probably aware, I am a native of Swansea; as &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/poor-old-swansea-victim-of-devolution-and-cardiff-centricity/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Poor old Swansea! victim of devolution and Cardiff-centricity</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Welsh Assembly, Time to Move</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 21:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When the incoming Labour government offered us devolution in 1997 I didn&#8217;t get too excited, but still, if Kinnock and George Thomas are against it, I thought, then it might have something going for it. So I voted Yes, but only because I saw devolution as a step on the road to independence. Encouraged by &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/welsh-assembly-time-to-move/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Welsh Assembly, Time to Move</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pies, Planes &#038; Property Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 10:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in October 2012, on my old Google blog, in the post Wales: Sicily Of The North, I touched on the emerging story of publicly-owned land being sold off rather cheaply by the Regeneration Investment Fund for Wales. Sold to the mysterious, Guernsey-based company, South Wales Land Developments. Information on the deal was sparse in 2012 &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/pies-planes-property-development/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Pies, Planes &#038; Property Development</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>No Way to Run a City, a County, or a Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CARDIFF: The council of our capital city is advertising for an &#8216;adviser&#8217; to the council leader . . . though not in Wales, for the advertisement appeared in the Sunday Times. Which I assume means that knowledge of Cardiff, or Wales, is not required. As this article makes clear, the news has provoked a debate &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/no-way-to-run-a-city-a-county-or-a-country/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">No Way to Run a City, a County, or a Country</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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