My earlier comment resonates here too. Who asked homosexual, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, transvestite, kinky, asexual, intersex, non-binary and who knows what other manner of people whether they’d be jolly fine and dandy with being lumped all in together as part of a continually expanding acronym? If I were gay, I can imagine being insulted by patronising reference to a ‘gay community’, more of this bollocks boxing off of people. Similarly, reference to ‘community leaders’ within ethnic minority groups, to me has implications of tribalism, as though these people are under the command of some high chief or something.

They claim to be representing a minority, or minorities, but they’re a minority within a minority themselves. And as the anonymous source pointed out, they’ve all worked for the organisations they’re slating.

Someone else got in touch earlier with a piece telling us that same women involved in WAARU were pushing the same message in March 2019. The message seems to be: ‘People are nasty to us – give us money!’ How does money help combat racism?

That update of 8th Sept is pretty damning. Pushy dame chucks her weight around then finds that it has no influence ( or weight!). The anonymous feedback is also evidence that these gangsters are bullying within their own “artistic” and ethnic communities Sounds like small scale organised crime. Guess Alun Michael won’t want to know though as it would offend his Labour sentiment and bias.

I’ve searched for a link between Tori West and the WAARU but I couldn’t find one. The report produced by the WAARU almost certainly pre-dates West’s tweet about funding ‘marginalised Welsh creatives’. Which doesn’t rule out that she was aware of the report.

A good source had this to say:

‘I’ve been picking my way through the Arts Wales Corporate Plan to 2023. I think I can see why the WARRU issue has arisen.

I think I would come to a conclusion of questioning whether Arts Wales is fit for purpose, but more importantly what anyone can do about it. For Arts Wales is established by Royal Charter and is a charity in its own right. Welsh Gov provides funding, but it recognises the arms length independence of the organisation. Like some Uni’s in Wales, the Royal Charter aspect means that certain elements of the organisation such as detailed accounts do not have to be published.’

‘Monolith illusions’ are definitely coming under pressure. Here, I’ve touched on the absurdity of certain persons claiming that all non-white people share the same outlook and attitudes. On a different front, the Stonewall position of claiming to speak for all LGBTQ+ people is unravelling by the day.

Well I suppose you could call the colonisation of the Cardigan Bay coast “gentrification” because the Cheshire set and others mostly from N.W England have used wealth and loans to price out the native people. The aforesaid suburbs of Cardiff have seen a lot of well paid “Welshies” drawn from the professions, academia, the media and business displacing the more traditional blue collar demographic. I guess you could excuse that as upward mobility.

If we are talking about the gentrification of certain Cardiff neighbourhoods then I’m not sure what that has to do with the Welsh language. This is why I wondered if it was being used as a cade for the takeover of places like Aberdyfi and Abersoch.