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Miscellany 31.10.2018: The Olive Trust, Mumbles Pier, Cartrefi Croeso, Welsh Clearances, The Disaster that is Devolution

Jac — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:00:08 +0000

It may be Hallowe’en but you’ll find no ghosties or ghoulies here, just the usual parade of grotesques and exhibitions of idiocy and cupidity that haunt modern Wales. Night and day. All year round. Seeing as I haven’t put anything out for over a week this is a bumper issue, around 4,000 words, but there’s …

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Carry On Brexiting

Jac — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:00:56 +0000

Seeing as no one knows what kind of Brexit the UK government wants, and because so much of what you’re reading and hearing on the subject is either biased or just ill-informed, it falls upon Uncle Jac to shed a little light on the matter. Because there are implications in Brexit for the unity of …

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Alun Cairns, Severnside, the Union

Jac — Wed, 23 May 2018 10:15:00 +0000

SEVERNSIDE Llais y Sais last Saturday published a curious report – presumably written by Martin Shipton – of a speech made to the Welsh Conservative Spring Conference by Secretary of State for Wales, Alun Cairns (below). It was almost in the form of an apologia, though of course Cairns didn’t write the article himself. The …

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Carwyn Jones the Betrayer

Jac — Wed, 16 May 2018 20:45:11 +0000

INTRODUCTION Just over six months ago, in early November, the world must have looked a very pleasant place to Carwyn Jones, First Minister of Wales. For he’d reached the top of the pile; he was leader of Labour Party in Wales, the Assembly and, by extension, Wales itself, which he managed on behalf of the …

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News round-up 25.04.2018

Jac — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 15:00:04 +0000

SHEEP AND GOATS My attention was drawn last Saturday morning to a very curious story on the BBC Wales website. Telling of some woman named Miranda Whall who has been crawling around on all fours in the hills inland of Aberystwyth (apparently sober!). Read it for yourself. My instant, and characteristically cynical, reaction, put out on …

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Snippets and Updates 19.04.2018

Jac — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:45:54 +0000

I’ve neglected you in recent weeks, relying on two excellent guest posts from Brychan Davies and Aled Gwyn Jôb. But now I’m back. With a vengeance! Though this offering is long, over 3,000 words, it’s made up of six different items, so you can take them one at a time if you like. Enjoy! ◊ …

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