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Y Byd needs new and straight thinking

July 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Press and Media, Welsh Politics

I can’t be sure whether the reawakened chorus of support for the launch of a Welsh-language daily is because of rock-bound support for the venture…

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Post RevMin. Where now?

July 18th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Welsh Politics

Wales is in grave danger of being considered a nation of narrow-minded hypocrites in the wake of the Rev Rhodri Glyn Thomas being forced to resign as culture minister after mistakenly walking into a Bay public house with a cigar in his hand .

Apparently, the resignation followed a tete-a-tete on his future with party leader [...]

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RevMin goes up in smoke

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments · News

Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM obviously couldn’t quit the habit. What that habit really is… one can only guess. However, it seems a pity to be punished for what, ostensibly, are relatively minor human failings and vanities like  not wearing your spectacles and needing a cigarette/cigar when there are other politicians whose snouts are so deep [...]

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Rhodri Glyn misses the truth without glasses

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Welsh Politics

So we know at last precisely why culture minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas announced the wrong winner at the Wales Book of the Year ceremony.

He wasn’t wearing his glasses.

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The truth about Dylan Thomas and sex

June 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Welsh Politics

How can we ensure that the forthcoming bio-pic on Dylan Thomas does not turn the film-makers’ imaginations, feelings and emotion into accepted “fact” about the life of the poet.

Perhaps, indeed, we should look to a touch of help from the minister himself, the Rev Rhodri Glyn Thomas.

Like so much which appears from the world [...]

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