Sally, you are bloody astounding.

I know nothing of Jane Davidson’s background, but someone did tell me some years back that she had been a councillor in Pontypridd and very close to Alun Michael. But I refuse to believe that.

Re Myfanwy’s comments on Lammas, OPD and Jane Davidson: I’d be interested to know how Davidson became so influential in Wales because she didn’t seem to actually achieve very much and as one of your respondents above mentioned, she came from Birmingham. There isn’t much info available about her pre being elected as an AM – she has a background in education, so I am wondering if she was yet another of those caring sharing wimmin in the Senedd who like Jane Hutt and Julie Morgan wielded power because of what she knew about those involved in the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal. After the cover-up to end all the other cover-ups which was the Waterhouse Inquiry, everyone who knew where the bodies were buried (literally – witnesses to the north Wales abuse were found dead over a period of years) did very well for themselves.

When Davidson vacated the Assembly she was given her own eco and sustainability empire at Trinity St Davids University. But then Trinity St Davids has hosted some odd things and odd people in recent years. The most obnoxious dysfunctional members of the theology dept from Bangor University ‘relocated’ there a few years ago and subsequently caused most of the resident Trinity St Davids theologians to resign. Then the dreadful Meri Huws aka The Crack of Doom was given a senior position at Trinity St Davids after making a terrible mess of the job that she had at Bangor University as well as becoming embroiled in scandal after she was given a senior role on the Welsh Language Board by, it was alleged, shagging a few of the right people – she was there at about the same time that Rhodri Williams was. I was told that it was actually another Rhodri in Welsh politics – who was rather more powerful and well-known than Rhodri Williams – who had once been a bedfellow of Meri’s (along with others), which is why Meri was parachuted into so many senior jobs that she could not do. And of course Meri was a social worker on Maesgeirchan in Bangor back in the 1980s when the kids from the Ty’r Felin Children’s Home on Maesgeirchan were being sexually abused and trafficked to Dolphin Square to be used by the ageing paedophiles of Westminster and Whitehall…

One of the senior posts that Meri landed in which she caused havoc was PVC for Cultural Affairs and the Welsh Language no less at Bangor University. Meri having the remit for cultural affairs was hilarious – she is as thick as a brick, got absolutely rat arsed at University functions and the drunker she became the more offensive she became. One of my mates quipped that she was Wales’s answer to Sir Les Patterson, the cultural attache. Meri’s idea of a cultural event was an art exhibition at Llangefni hosted by Rolf Harris – there was Meri on camera with Rolf, just months before Rolf was banged up for molesting children…

As Samantha Fox would have said in 1984 ‘ere, what is it with Meri and child molesters?’

The VC at Bangor at the time came under much flak for appointing the lunatic Meri to a job that she very obviously couldn’t do. I was told that he had been ordered by the Welsh Gov’t to appoint her to a senior role because Bangor didn’t have any senior wimmin managers. Meri knew that the order had gone out to the University from her old mate Rhodri and then threatened the only other woman in the University who stated her intention to apply for the post…So once more, every other woman was kicked in the chops by an ill thought out ‘equality initiative’ which simply served to advance the career of a total fuckwit who treated other wimmin dreadfully.

Meri was not the only fuckwit who bagged a job as a PVC – one of her colleagues was a total shitbag called John Farrar. Farrar was a plant biologist and like Meri had achieved high office by stuffing other people over. I wondered for ages why Farrar hadn’t been had up for bullying because he really was dreadful – then I found that he was placing the student feedback forms in front of PhD students and watching whilst they filled them in saying ‘sign there to say that you’ve never had a problem with your PhD supervisor’. Farrar taught me years ago when I was an undergrad and by the time we were in the third year no-one would go near him because he was unable to answer a student’s question without shouting at us. There was one student whom he didn’t shout at – a student whom he was shagging. She then landed a job as his research assistant which caused a great deal of embarrassment to the university – although I doubt that anyone said anything to him, they’d have just been on the receiving end of a tantrum. The offspring of that student and the dreadful Farrar is Robin Crag Farrar – currently a leading light in Cymdeithas (the Chairman or CEO or something similar).

The other seriously weird thing that happened at Trinity St Davids was their acquisition – from Oxford no less – of the Alester Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre. That Centre was Chaired by the late Lady Bronwen Astor when it was in Oxford. Bronwen was the third wife of Bill Astor of Profumo Affair fame – Bronwen was on the scene re the parties with Russian spies, Govt Ministers, teenaged call girls and, those in the know alleged, a member of the Royal Family (rumoured to be Phil the Greek). After Bill Astor died, Bronwen re-invented herself as a therapist and came over all spiritual, leading a therapy centre at Godalming in Surrey. Bronwen was originally Bronwen Pugh from Wales – she went to boarding school in Dolgellau, but I’m not sure where her home was – her dad was Welsh judge Sir Alan Pugh, who did very well out of having a daughter who married into the Astor dynasty. Sir Alan played a big part in advising the Astors re damage limitation over the Profumo Affair. The reason why Profumo is still important is that it is likely that Stephen Ward, the osteopath who was scapegoated by that bunch of hypocrites, was killed rather than having committed suicide. The appalling Baroness Trumpington, friend of Thatcher, was a member of the Cliveden Set and has the dirt on Profumo and exactly what went on. Trumpington was given a peerage by Thatcher in 1980 despite her life’s only achievements being very posh and doing a stint as the Mayoress of Cambridge. Then Thatch made Trumpers a junior Health Minister – it was Trumpers who appointed Jimmy Savile to the job as manager of Broadmoor. Not only did they all know that Savile was a sex offender but they also knew that a lot of Broadmoor patients weren’t dangerous nutters at all, they had been the victims of sexual abuse themselves – some of the north Wales victims ended up there. Well if you’re about to name a few people in high places as sexual predators, no-one’s going to listen once you’re a Broadmoor patient are they…At least two patients in Broadmoor topped themselves after being assaulted by Savile.

Regarding the Steiner school that Myfanwy mentioned – beware Steiner schools and not just because they teach the kids pseudoscience that isn’t true. The Steiner school in Porthmadog which was a magnet for alternative types back in the 80s and 90s was the focus of paedophile activity. One of my hippyish mates sent her children there and took them away when she found out what was going on. There was also a Steiner healing centre in Birmingham which grossly exploited a vulnerable woman known to me who had been offered the chance to ‘train in Steiner healing’ – they had her doing the cleaning from morn til night at bugger all rates of pay. She was a former social worker from London where she had blown the whistle on the abuse of kids in care – the inner London borough involved destroyed her. She was sacked, had a nervous breakdown, was abused again in the mental health system and ended up virtually destitute, which was how she found herself in the arms of alternative communities and then the Steiner predators…

Which brings me to Brychan’s question of why Hwel Dda NHS Trust are wasting money on quackery. Nearly all NHS Trusts do – quackery is big business in the NHS. Patients tend to embrace quackery after having had very bad experiences with conventional medicine, but the patients don’t realise that the quackery is just as ruthless. One person who has done much to ensure that quackery is available on the NHS is Prince Charles. Now I really don’t mind if Prince Charles wants to use quackery himself, there exists a thing called free choice – but a lot of very desperate people are not told that the quackery is ineffective. Professor Edzard Ernst was hounded out of Exeter University after he demonstrated that much quackery didn’t work and refused to lie about his results. The person who personally leaned on Exeter to get rid of Edzard and his team was Sir Michael Peat, Private Secretary to Prince Charles.

As for Dafis’s observation re chicks with dicks colonising the media – chicks with dicks are a very effective lobbying group and have been for quite a few years. I do not underestimate the distress that someone might experience if they have gender dysphoria – some people commit suicide as a result – but there are two things about the transgender lobbying that really worry me. First, adolescents and young adults being encouraged by some to take irreversible hormone treatment or undergo gender change surgery – if you have enough dosh you can simply purchase this in Harley Street and a lot of people bitterly regret doing so when they are older. Dafis, I take the view that it is actually far more preferable for a bloke to dress/live as a woman even if he’s obviously a bloke than to throw himself upon the mercy of the ruthless bastards that are currently building careers and making a fortune out of people who feel distressed by the expectations of their gender. The other major problem is men who are definitely men announcing themselves to be women if they are sentenced to prison, in attempts to get transferred to a women’s prison. Transgender campaigners really hate feminists making this point, but it has happened – there have been cases of male sex offenders trying to get into women’s prisons this way. I know it’s unusual and of course I don’t believe that transgender people are all sex offenders, but even one person doing this is one too many. The answer to transgender prisoners being treated so badly in prison is to improve prison conditions and effectively protect them whilst they are inside – which would benefit everyone…

The transgender field is a cause of much bad feeling in feminist circles which is probably why Wales’s leading but not very brave feminist Leanne hasn’t said a word about it – it brings serious grief. A group of older feminists were violently assaulted by ‘women’ with penises at a protest in England a few months ago. As for Leanne’s fave feminist book, I’m not sure that we should believe Leanne’s accounts of what she reads – she popped up on Any Questions dropping Raymond Williams’s name but obviously wasn’t that familiar with his work, ‘ooh there was a man called Raymond Williams and he said…’ Not that Jonathan Dimbleby was any more informed – he called Williams a sociologist. Williams was a cultural critic. It was bloody obvious that none of them knew their arses from their elbows. By the way Leannne, I have read Raymond Williams – some of his cultural criticism and observations on 1960s culture was great but ‘Border Country’ was so fucking boring that I never managed to complete it.

Dafis – you’re dead right that Joseph Rowntree should have stuck to making sweets and chocs, but they’re having great fun influencing Gov’t policy by funding ‘research’. They do fund research, they fund a lot of it – but they will only fund certain researchers whom they trust to produce the results that they want. Professor Danny Dorling has received a fortune out of Joseph Rowntree – Dorling used to be based at Sheffield University, but after all that lovely lolly from Joseph Rowntree he’s now made it through the gates of Oxford. Some years ago I had a friend who was a professional bid writer for a Russell Group university – they have professional bid writers in the Russell Group, its how they are so good at getting the dosh, not only do they write the bids but they spend a lot of time hobnobbing with influential figures on the grant awarding committees of things like Joseph Rowntree. I told this friend that I was going to put in a bid for Joseph Rowntree funding – she actually told me that they only fund certain favoured researchers, so if I wanted dosh from them I had to begin a five year plan of getting to know and ingratiating myself to the right people in their organisation before I should even bother to apply for dosh…

nearly every news bulletin broadcast by the main channels now contrives to feature “chicks with dicks”. It’s a cheap way of filling up news programmes without having to go looking for the real bad stuff that needs reporting and serious in depth raking over. They tend to feature an ugly brute with a massive adam’s apple, dressed in a frock, hands like a bloody navvy, who starts chirping on about how difficult it is ! Well it’s difficult for us having to put up with this unecessary intrusion too.

While on this theme, Cymdeithas had a bit of form for turning militants into greedy selfish bastards. There was another mouthy little cnut way back in early 70’s who thought hunger striking and getting banged up by the old bill was just the ticket, revolutionary pacifist stuff, then pops up about 20 years later in a shiny suit spouting business school crap and running various things for WDA then WAG. I have nothing against the pacifist stance, as long as it’s held sincerely, guys like Ffred Ffransis who will probably die defending that way of doing things but these creeps who indulge their fantasy in the age range 16-25 before going off to be some “Executive nobhead” need a bloody good hiding.

The current Cymdeithas team seem to be quite clean, as yet. No doubt some of them will spend too much time in TV studios or down the Bay and will later opt for the cushy life spouting waffle and bollocks for tidy salaries and fees.

The dame in the picture – is she the boss of the Skinhead branch of Cardiff Bay Wimmins Massive, or is that some dodgy photoshopping by Paddy ?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cachwr

Just spotted the term “third rail”….

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=third%20rail

Wiki…….

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_rail_of_politics

Difficult to believe that Rhodri Williams was once a firebrand member of Cymdeithas yr Iaith . . . or maybe not.

Before long there’ll be no fancy dress or carnivals. If ‘ealth and safety don’t kill it off, what with we can’t have the Carnival Queen riding in the back of an open truck, no seatbelt see, and we can’t have kids mixing with adults because they haven’t had a CRB check, then the politically correct will do for it. When I was a young man there were always certain members of my rugby team (not me, I hasten to add) liked to put on dresses, make up and generally behave like outrageous sluts. Leanne, Deryn – are you listening? That’s bloody outrageous and I hope such debauchery and insult to wimminhood has long been consigned to the past.

It’s still OK and has their full backing if you’re “transitioning” of course. FFS!