Ospreys – Jac o' the North

Devolution Is Cardiff Council On Stilts

Jac — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:00:50 +0000

To explain the title . . . Back in the 1960s and 1970s, when there was any talk of a Welsh Parliament, Home Rule, or devolution, one of the arguments used against the idea was that such a creation would just be “Glamorgan County Council on stilts“. The implication being that other parts of Wales …

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Wildlife Trusts, Crazy Money, Hidden Agendas

Jac — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 09:45:42 +0000

This is a follow-up to last week’s piece on the enviro-shysters blaming farmers for everything wrong with our rivers, and those behind them hoping to get their corporate claws into farmland. ◊ MERGERS First, let’s make sure you know where our five wildlife trusts are located. On the image below you can also see the …

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Poor old Swansea! victim of devolution and Cardiff-centricity

Jac — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:45:39 +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 ♦ THE TOWN I LOVED SO WELL As you’re probably aware, I am a native of Swansea; as …

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Background to a Carmarthenshire Vendetta

Jac — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 22:03:21 +0000

In my post of November 24th, Wales, Colony of England, I mentioned multi-millionaire businessman Clive Hughes and his tribulations with Carmarthenshire County Council, due to that authority’s hostility towards his project for a biomass combined heat and power plant near Kidwelly. In my follow-up post on December 1st, Meryl Gravell & Robin Cammish, Only in …

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Swansea Labour Post

Jac — Sat, 21 Sep 2013 22:54:42 +0000

As you know, I’ve been home in Swansea for a few days. I was actually staying in Llanelli but the new roads make getting to Swansea a doddle. The problems start once you get to Fforestfach, and all the out-of-town stores. From there on, through Fforestfach Cross, on to Sketty Cross, past Singleton Hospital and …

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Three Gems From The Mule

Jac — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:50:47 +0000

1/ Today the WM managed to run a front page story (continued inside) on what the rest of the media knows as the Swansea measles epidemic (even making an international disaster alert site!) . . . but the Mule managed to cover the story without mentioning Swansea! Instead, the writer, Julia McWatt, wrote the report …

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Swansea Council, English Lords, Swansea Labour Party, German Multinationals, Student Politics, Trots, Wind Turbines, etc., etc: Part the Third

Jac — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:34:41 +0000

Are you sitting comfortably? Good. Because what follows gets a bit complicated. That said, I believe there is now enough evidence to question the legitimacy of the decision taken by Swansea council on February 7th to allow RWE to erect wind turbines on Mynydd y Gwair, common land owned by the Duke of Beaufort on …

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