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		<title>Housing in Colonial Wales: The Sun King teams up with The Godfather</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2018 09:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s begin by setting out my stall: Housing in Wales is dysfunctional, inefficient, corrupt, wasteful of public funding, damaging to Welsh community life, and undermines Welsh nationhood. It&#8217;s a great system . . . but not for the Welsh. ∼ LE ROI SOLEIL In an earlier post (scroll down to the section &#8216;Who will buy . &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/housing-in-colonial-wales-the-sun-king-teams-up-with-the-godfather/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Housing in Colonial Wales: The Sun King teams up with The Godfather</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Miscellany 31.10.2018: The Olive Trust, Mumbles Pier, Cartrefi Croeso, Welsh Clearances, The Disaster that is Devolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It may be Hallowe&#8217;en but you&#8217;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&#8217;t put anything out for over a week this is a bumper issue, around 4,000 words, but there&#8217;s &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/miscellany-31-10-2018-the-olive-trust-mumbles-pier-cartrefi-croeso-welsh-clearances-the-disaster-that-is-devolution/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Miscellany 31.10.2018: The Olive Trust, Mumbles Pier, Cartrefi Croeso, Welsh Clearances, The Disaster that is Devolution</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Social Housing Back to Council Control?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2016 18:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[THE TRAVAILS OF CANTREF Over the years I have written exhaustively on housing associations, I&#8217;ve explained the funding they receive, their staffing levels, and the fact that at a time when politicians argue our 22 local authorities must be cut to 8 or 9 those same politicians are quite content to see Wales lumbered with &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/social-housing-back-to-council-control/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Social Housing Back to Council Control?</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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