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The Western Mail reverts to an old old type…
The Western Mail, Wales’s National Newspaper, has lost the plot. A front page editorial states: AN EXTRAORDINARY recommendation has been made by eight AMs that would see up to £400,000-a-year spent on translating the written record of every meeting held at the National Assembly into Welsh. We say that at a time when budgets are [...] more »
Fisk reminisces.
From the Independent: You can check in any time you want – but you can never leave.: On the Europa Hotel’s message pads, my handwriting records “2 sold VSI RVH” (two soldiers very seriously ill Royal Victoria Hospital), “bomb in SR and VS St” (Sandy Row and Great Victoria Street railway station), “son of judge [...] more »
Scotland – choose your narrative.
Gerry Hassan just gets better: Rupert Murdoch, the Referendum and Rangers FC: Self-government has to be a democratising process and project, or it will produce a change in name only which won’t affect the lives and experiences of Scottish people. That entails nourishing a culture which is both honest and humble, respecting different viewpoints and challenging [...] more »
The red tide returns – Labour win big in Wales.
Labour won 10 of the 21 councils contested in Wales (there are a few issues on Anglesey delaying elections there until next year). Here’s the detail from the BBC. Labour gained 231 seats to get to 576. All other major parties lost. Plaid lost 41 to fall to 158 seats, Tories fell 61 to 105 [...] more »
“Pa bryd y cawn fyned i Seion” – the forgotten history of Welsh Mormonism
It’s a fairly remarkable fact that the place outside these islands with the largest percentage population of Welsh descent isn’t Scranton (from the Western Mail), Gaiman (From the Argentina Independent), or the Welsh Tract of Pennsylvania (from Wiki). The winner is Malad City in Idaho. The link is to this year’s Malad Valley Welsh Festival. Here’s Malad City’s Wiki with an [...] more »
Six Nations – yet another boring Welsh Grand Slam?
Ok - I have people staying over for the weekend so forgive me for a post on Thursday. Sam’s back for Wales.. (from the Independent) Whatever. - that’s from Le Monde with the Google Translate here. I don’t think Rougerie is a centre. How many points are Ireland going to beat these idiots by? Foden want’s [...] more »
Plaid’s new leader – a Rhondda woman.
This is a big deal. Leanne Wood is the new Plaid Cymru leader. (From the BBC). A pretty convincing victory: First preferences: Leanne 2,879 Elin Jones 1,884 Dafydd El 1,278 Leanne almost won on the first vote and after transfers won a convincing victory. A few things: 1) The first non first Welsh language leader [...] more »
Six Nations – Another boring weekend.
OK – in the prediction contest we have two joint leaders, Johnny Boy and Reader. Neither have gone for Tommy Bowe as top try scorer so it’s still very open. Today it’s Wales v Italy and Ireland v Scotland. Tomorrow England travel to Paris. In the Western Mail Michael Owen hails the best Welsh team [...] more »
Elliott off – what next for the UUP?
Tom Elliott has obviously had enough. (from UTV) Mr Elliott has said he will not seek re-election to the position at the annual general meeting, in just over three weeks time. In a statement outlining his decision and the reasons behind it, he said some “obstruction and hostility” began immediately following his election as leader [...] more »
SIx Nations – Let’s try this again…
A miracle or a massacre? – From the Irish Independent: Le massacre du printemps, incidentally, was a headline from L’Equipe on the morning of the 1992 fixture in the old Parc des Princes, where Ireland managed never to win — against France or Argentina. Philippe Saint-Andre was on the wing that day when the home [...] more »
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Total Politics: Top 20 NI Blogs…
Fair play to Iain, he managed to get over 2,200 people voting in his poll for the top Northern Irish blogs this year… We (just, I imagine) retained our top spot, with Splintered coming straight in at number 2, no doubt his pet subject du jour will have garnered him a lot of fans… I’ve [...] read our review »
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Debating the Churches’ Role in the Peace in Northern Ireland
This morning’s Sunday Sequence featured a substantial debate (about 35 minutes into the recorded programme) on a new book,Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press 2011), written by sociologists John Brewer, Gareth Higgins and Francis Teeney. The debate was framed in an opening vignette by presenter William Crawley in uncompromising terms, [...] read our review » -
“It was a trivial problem that… occurs every year”
Just your average family gathering at Christmas, with a bit of an argument about the seating cleaning arrangements… Scuffles have broken out between rival groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian clerics over a turf war in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. Bemused tourists looked on as about 100 priests fought with brooms while cleaning the [...] read our review »
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Comment on The Western Mail reverts to an old old type…
on 24 May 2012 at 12:03 am
Thanks Reader – i do prefer reading the Welsh — might be the point?
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Comment on The Western Mail reverts to an old old type…
on 23 May 2012 at 7:56 pm
Simples – National Assembly should publish everything in national language(s). What’s the point if it don’t?
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Comment on The Western Mail reverts to an old old type…
on 23 May 2012 at 12:15 pm
And what version of Welsh. There are at least 4 dialects so do they cover all 4?
No partcular variation in written standard Welsh. Probably less variation than English in England to be honest. Do they write Hansard in Geordie?
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Comment on The Western Mail reverts to an old old type…
on 23 May 2012 at 10:18 am
Not the most coherent of my postings DR…….
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Comment on The Western Mail reverts to an old old type…
on 23 May 2012 at 1:06 am
DR – -its about status…tonight i was was watching BBC Parliament as we do…about a third of the speeches were in Welsh. Cool – why translate that stuff to English? . and anycause we don’t need our poetry translated to english – you lot just need to learn about culture..
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Comment on The Western Mail reverts to an old old type…
on 23 May 2012 at 12:57 am
“Presumably driven by Welsh speakers eager to read the Welsh translations of Assembly meetings”
Believe it or not I actually do..
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Comment on The Western Mail reverts to an old old type…
on 23 May 2012 at 12:33 am
For a Welsh government not to publish everything in Welsh is bizarre. In Wales.
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Comment on Leinster would probably win 9 times out of 10, but…
on 19 May 2012 at 5:51 pm
Wonderful kick at an important time.
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Comment on Ian Junior claimed £10,000 in postage in his six last months in office…
on 15 May 2012 at 7:28 pm
“To take away £10,000 of stamped envelopes…”
Is that how it works? You just ask for stamped envelopes? Daft process if that’s the case.
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Comment on Ian Junior claimed £10,000 in postage in his six last months in office…
on 14 May 2012 at 11:55 am
How does it work? I presume there’s a franking machine which records transactions?
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