Rhyl – Jac o' the North

A Property Empire

Jac — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 09:00:42 +0000

This piece took root in my head when I read in late September that Aberllefenni had been sold. This small village not far from me had been on the market since 2016. If you want to get there, just pass the Slaters Arms in Corris and keep going ’til you can’t go much further. That …

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Miscellany 28.09.2022

Jac — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 09:00:49 +0000

I hadn’t planned on putting out a post this week. But people contact me and say, ‘Have you seen this, Jac?’; and most of the time I can politely respond and let it pass. But now and again I get a clutch of reports or leads that are worth bringing together in a post like …

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Miscellany 27.10.2021

Jac — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:15:49 +0000

Miscellany 27.10.2021

National Development Framework

Jac — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 07:10:37 +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 ♦ Last week the self-styled ‘Welsh Government’ produced the first version of the consultation document for its 20-year …

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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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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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An Existential Threat to Wales

Jac — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:25:00 +0000

TWENTY YEARS ON We are currently celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the referendum that gave us devolution. Ron Davies described it at the time as “a process not an event”, but little if any progress has been made. In yesterday’s Llais y Sais Ron Davies was allowed to explain why he thinks devolution has failed …

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Round-up: Rhigos, Aberystwyth, Cardigan, Pontypridd

Jac — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 08:50:30 +0000

CHINA TO RHIGOS Not so long ago I wrote about the Pen y Cymoedd wind farm project, and developer Vattenfall’s use of bribery to win over or silence the local populace. (Click here and scroll down to the section Vattenfall of Money.) Well now I know the route by which the turbines for Pen y …

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Wales, Colony of England

Jac — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 22:02:25 +0000

Let me start by establishing what I mean by a colony. A colony is a territory or country run in the interests of another country, and for the benefit of the elite or the population in general of that other country. The colony does not need to be far away, nor do its indigenes need …

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Housing Associations – The Great Deception

Jac — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 23:52:19 +0000

REMEMBERING BUDDY HOLLY Back in January I posted a piece, Let’s Be Honest About Housing Associations, that began in nostalgic-humorous mood before going on to make more serious points about the provision of rented accommodation. The fundamental point I tried to make was that up until about a century ago rented accommodation was provided by …

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