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RADNORIAN: August 2015
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Thursday, August 06, 2015. I'm currently reading the book Treachery. By the indefatigable journalist and ancient - it was written in his 90s - cold war warrior Chapman Pincher. One thing which is clear from the book is the author's grudging admiration for the Soviet agent code named Sonia. Who he describes as the most successful female agent in the history of espionage. One of Sonia's greatest known achievements was to obtain and transmit to Moscow the above top secret Quebec Agreement. Delete as appropr...
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RADNORIAN: Party Poopers
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Sunday, June 07, 2015. The 150th anniversary of the Welsh settlement of Patagonia is not, we are told. An occasion for celebration. Indeed it something to be regretted, an example of Welsh colonialism. I agree that the Patagonian enterprise deserves serious historical attention - rather than sentimentalism - as does Welsh participation in the British Empire. For example this Radnorian well wisher. At the time of the establishment of the Welsh colony the Chubut river was something of a border between the ...
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RADNORIAN: Army Tweeters
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015. One thing you're not going to hear very much about during the election campaign is foreign affairs. After all the main parties are broadly in agreement on membership of NATO and the EU and the necessity for British nuclear weapons. Even the SNP wants an independent Scotland to be part of NATO and while Trident is said to be a redline would that matter given Tory support for any Miliband government vote on renewal. At best a frozen conflict, at worst a nuclear war? Already we've h...
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RADNORIAN: My country 'tis of thy people you're dying.
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Monday, March 09, 2015. My country 'tis of thy people you're dying. Now that your big eyes have finally opened. Now that you're wondering how must they feel. Meaning them that you've chased across America's movie screens. Now that you're wondering "how can it be real? That the ones you've called colourful, noble and proud. In your school propaganda. They starve in their splendor? You've asked for my comment I simply will render. My country 'tis of thy people you're dying. As it rang with a thud. From sma...
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RADNORIAN: American Exceptionalism
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. The world can look forward to interesting times. Meanwhile let's enjoy some real American Exceptionalism:. The family had actually arrived in the US a few months before mam-gu's birth. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Dienekes - anthropology and dna. Jac o'the North - Wales fights back. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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RADNORIAN: Hillbilly Nationalists*
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Saturday, July 04, 2015. Simpering, self-serving, holier-than-thou bullshit" so says the heading of a sidebar on Jac's blog. A pretty controversial statement in a Wales that seems to have more than its fair share of simpering, self-servers. It was a very clever move for the elite to take over the original rainbow coalition idea. It wasn't always like this. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Dienekes - anthropology and dna. Jac o'the North - Wales fights back. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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RADNORIAN: Nuclear Option
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Thursday, August 06, 2015. I'm currently reading the book Treachery. By the indefatigable journalist and ancient - it was written in his 90s - cold war warrior Chapman Pincher. One thing which is clear from the book is the author's grudging admiration for the Soviet agent code named Sonia. Who he describes as the most successful female agent in the history of espionage. One of Sonia's greatest known achievements was to obtain and transmit to Moscow the above top secret Quebec Agreement. Delete as appropr...
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RADNORIAN: November 2014
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Friday, November 14, 2014. Herefordshire's Welsh Field Names. After bragging-up access to historical records in Wales as compared to England, I have to admit that this is not the case with 19C field names, where we certainly lag behind some of the border counties - see Herefordshire. The Herefordshire and Cheshire databases are searchable, so to get a quick idea of the distribution of Welsh survivals what better element to look-up than the word cae. On Welsh placenames in that county. I did identify a gr...
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RADNORIAN: March 2015
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Friday, March 20, 2015. What about Ffred Fflintstone? The Welsh according to the Financial Times are stone age. It's hard to disagree until you realise the paper isn't referring to the Assembly or local government or the state of our national media. Instead it's a response to the latest scientific offering regarding British DNA, albeit research that's a step-up from the Dafydd Iwan is descended from an old Welsh King of England. Hooey currently entertaining the public on S4C. This might have told us some...
