Natalie Buttriss – Jac o' the North

Who Ya Gonna Vote For?

Jac — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:30:18 +0000

Well, we’re almost there. Thank God! Because this has been the most uninspiring and negative election in the history of devolution. Never have so many deadbeats, activists posing as ‘journalists’, party hacks, and nut-jobs, wasted their time trying to rouse a people who’ve just lost interest. ◊ RUNNERS AND RIDERS IN HEAVY GOING This election …

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Climate Cult Killing The Welsh Family Farm

Jac — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 09:00:25 +0000

In this piece I’ll explain that the ‘Welsh Government”s Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS) is just the latest in a long series of attacks on the Welsh family farm, and all that that means. The SFS demands that 10% of every farm be given over to trees, with a further 10% to ‘habitat’. Many farms will …

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The Alliance Against Livestock Farming

Jac — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:00:51 +0000

This week’s piece about wildlife trusts and environmental groups complements what I put out last week about the assorted river charities. For both seem to be funded to shield Dŵr Cymru (Welsh Water) and others from criticism by blaming livestock farmers for all river pollution. Also, to pursue the so-called ‘Welsh Government’s Net Zero lunacy …

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Summit to Sea: a guest post by Jon Coles

Jac — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 08:12:25 +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 post is by Jon Coles, the Herald‘s Chief Writer, who has written about farming and rural …

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Miscellany 22.08.2019

Jac — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 00:00:15 +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 ♦ ‘COME AND JOIN US, COME AND JOIN US . . . ‘ A rather strange story surfaced …

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Wales 2019: state-subsidised colonisation

Jac — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 08:25:22 +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 ♦ You’ll recall that in the post before Easter I reported on ‘Welsh Government’ generosity in Aberteifi. Now …

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Wales: nationalism ethnic and civic

Jac — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:35:51 +0000

INTRODUCTION I’m suffering from shyster fatigue and so I need a break. Which explains this post, something of a departure from my recent offerings. Though it’s a topic I’ve meant to tackle for a while, but kept putting off as information about the plague of crooks and shysters preying on Wales kept coming in. But …

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The Welsh Clearances

Jac — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 00:10:47 +0000

It’s generally agreed that Welsh farming is in for a hard time after Brexit, though there seems to be some confusion as to why this should be so. So let me explain. It has nothing to do with Brexit itself, or the EU, it’s merely certain elements in the ruling apparatus using Brexit as an …

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