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Newid means change: Peter Hain is my anti-guru
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Monday, 21 September 2009. Peter Hain is my anti-guru. Although I’ve never met him, Peter Hain. Inspired me to get involved in politics after 30 years spent avoiding it like the plague. A year spent as president of the student’s union at Hornsey College of Art in the mid-seventies was enough to put me off participation in politics for life. Leon Trotsky was assassinated with the pointy end of an ice axe - destroyed my political ideals as completely as the Spanish Civil War did for those of George Orwell.
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Newid means change: Who wants a referendum on more of the same?
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Monday, 16 November 2009. Who wants a referendum on more of the same? The attempt last week by the Secretary of State for Wales, Peter Hain, to undermine the All Wales Convention before its Chair, Sir Emyr Jones Parry, has had a chance to present its recommendations, was contemptuously undemocratic and disrespectful of the will of the Welsh people, whatever the Convention believes that to be. In the opposite corner, Dr Barry Morgan, Archbishop and Chairman of Tomorrow’s Wales, a cross-party, pro-re...
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Newid means change: September 2009
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Monday, 21 September 2009. Peter Hain is my anti-guru. Although I’ve never met him, Peter Hain. Inspired me to get involved in politics after 30 years spent avoiding it like the plague. A year spent as president of the student’s union at Hornsey College of Art in the mid-seventies was enough to put me off participation in politics for life. Leon Trotsky was assassinated with the pointy end of an ice axe - destroyed my political ideals as completely as the Spanish Civil War did for those of George Orwell.
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Newid means change: November 2009
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Friday, 27 November 2009. Demarchy - can the people rule? This article was first published on 23rd November 2009 in. In a small nation on the Western margin of the British Isles, amidst sheep and rocks and old mines, the world’s first popular movement for demarchy is beginning to test its strength. The nation is Wales. The party is Newid (pronounced neh-wed, ‘change’ in Welsh). It’s prospects of success look to have improved significantly this week with the publication of a repo...Such a move is clearly ...
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The Blue Book of Shame: Some people call me the space cowboi
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The Blue Book of Shame. Tales from Wales and Llundain. Wednesday, 25 April 2007. Some people call me the space cowboi. The brilliant news is that I’ve made the Welsh Space Agency’s shortlist to become a Cymrunaut! How cool is that? Click here to dock with the Welsh Space Agency. Click here to check out The Red Dragonhood. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Newid and The Red Dragonhood. I am the founder of Newid and the creator of The Red Dragonhood. View my complete profile. SUBSCRIBE TO THIS FEED.
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The Blue Book of Shame: A Welshman, five Irishmen, an American and a Scot
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The Blue Book of Shame. Tales from Wales and Llundain. Monday, 30 April 2007. A Welshman, five Irishmen, an American and a Scot. I'm in a greasy yellow cab in New York with Jeremy McWilliams, the Grand Prix motorcycle racer, on our way to see Sean Lennon, whose gig will shortly prove to be worse than crap. Anyway, the cab driver, his eyes addressing mine via the rear view mirror, says, "You in the music business? To which I answer, "Yeah, kind of," although McWilliams contradicts me by blurting, "No, we'...
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The Blue Book of Shame: A Chip Off The Old Block
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The Blue Book of Shame. Tales from Wales and Llundain. Thursday, 12 June 2008. A Chip Off The Old Block. 8220;By the way”, I said after the ‘well-dones’ had done their stuff, “what did you get it for? 8220;Literacy”, she said confidently and precisely. 8220;and for sitting on the mat good”, she then added for extra measure, having had time to consider the sum of her achievements. 8220;For sitting on the mat good, eh? That’s my girl.”. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Newid and The Red Dragonhood.
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The Blue Book of Shame: April 2007
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The Blue Book of Shame. Tales from Wales and Llundain. Monday, 30 April 2007. A Welshman, five Irishmen, an American and a Scot. I'm in a greasy yellow cab in New York with Jeremy McWilliams, the Grand Prix motorcycle racer, on our way to see Sean Lennon, whose gig will shortly prove to be worse than crap. Anyway, the cab driver, his eyes addressing mine via the rear view mirror, says, "You in the music business? To which I answer, "Yeah, kind of," although McWilliams contradicts me by blurting, "No, we'...
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The Blue Book of Shame: Welsh Icons
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The Blue Book of Shame. Tales from Wales and Llundain. Friday, 4 September 2009. The nice folks at www.welshicons.org.uk. A website where Welshness abounds, recently asked me to discuss my own personal Welsh icons for their blog. The following is a reproduction of the resulting article:. For some reason, Welsh Icons makes a point of “not condoning the actions of the Free Wales Army” before giving the ‘Byddin’ a detailed listing in the Welsh Info section. Yet the Famous Welsh s...You don’t have to b...
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The Blue Book of Shame: It’s time for Wales to enter the Eurovision Song Contest
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The Blue Book of Shame. Tales from Wales and Llundain. Thursday, 24 May 2007. It’s time for Wales to enter the Eurovision Song Contest. This begs any number of questions, but prominent among them must be whether these people ought not to have something better to do and what moral authority gives them the right to accuse anyone else of ‘narrow voting’? I’ll deal with the ‘quality of the song’ issue shortly. Even our own fluent Estonian speaker, Lembit Öpik, the Montgomeryshire MP who should know better gi...