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		<title>High Stakes General Election 2024</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 07:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no avoiding it, and I won&#8217;t bother trying. So here&#8217;s my quick preview of the general election, and my reason for voting for Reform. Not because I support Reform but because I reject the rest. Don&#8217;t worry, I still want independence, but the immediate priority is confronting Globalism. Because an &#8216;independent&#8217; Wales run from &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/high-stakes-general-election-2024/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">High Stakes General Election 2024</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wildlife Trusts &#8211; Not To Be Trusted</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 08:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a sense, this is a follow-up to a piece I put out in February called &#8216;Wildlife Trusts, Crazy Money, Hidden Agendas&#8216;. Perhaps a variation on a theme. Though this is not quite the piece I originally promised. Perhaps I&#8217;ll return to the sweat lodges and other joys in the &#8216;Bhutan of Wales&#8217; (&#8220;ample parking &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/wildlife-trusts-not-to-be-trusted/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Wildlife Trusts &#8211; Not To Be Trusted</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lobbying in Wales</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 18:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[INTRODUCTION This piece is prompted by the &#8216;Welsh Government&#8217; suggesting it wants to address the issue of lobbying. As the website puts it: &#8220;The Standards of Conduct Committee is undertaking an inquiry into lobbying and is keen to establish whether lobbying is a matter of concern to the people of Wales&#8221;. A disingenuously worded paragraph &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/lobbying-in-wales/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Lobbying in Wales</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Housing for Wales or housing for the Welsh?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2020 08:50:12 +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 ♦ We are confronted by a paradox. The stock of housing in Wales is growing, yet less and &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/housing-for-wales-or-housing-for-the-welsh/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Housing for Wales or housing for the Welsh?</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dummies, Motorways and Bloodless Genocide</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you scroll down my sidebar you&#8217;ll see that, under &#8216;Jac&#8217;s Reads&#8217;, one of the blogs I follow is Wales Eye, written by Daran Hill, managing director of Positif, a political lobbying firm in Cardiff docks and an integral part of the self-important but ultimately impotent Cardiff bubble. Don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m being nasty to Daran &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/dummies-motorways-and-bloodless-genocide/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Dummies, Motorways and Bloodless Genocide</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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