It has been a crazy few days as I have been receiving a lot of attention and praise after receiving an Honorary Fellowship from Glyndwr University for my work in Disability Rights. Of course, I am indebted to a number of people who have provided me with unflinching support and assistance as I do my […]
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Last night I was lucky enough to attend Denbigh Town Hall to see Aleida Guevara – daughter of Che Guevara – speaking to a packed congregation. Her passion shone through and did not need any translation as she spoke in her mother tongue through a quietly spoken interpreter. It was a pleasure to spend the evening
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The #SaveWILG campaign will not be operating for a few days to respectfully pay tribute to the passing of dedicated former Assembly Member Carl Sargeant who reportedly took his own life on the 7th of November 2017. Below, I have included a report from the BBC into his sad passing. The thoughts of everyone at
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Interesting news from Cardiff today as there has been a cabinet reshuffle at the Senedd. This means Rebecca Evans is no longer the Minister for Social Services and Public Health. The person we now need to lobby with regard to the #SaveWILG campaign is Huw Irranca-Davies who has been made Minister for Children and Social
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Throughout the 2017/18 football season I will be contributing to the Wrexham AFC matchday programme. I will be penning a feature called Memory Match, a look back at classic Wrexham games from the past that I will share in this blog over the coming months. This is the third successive season that I have been writing the
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This letter has been sent to a number of #SaveWILG campaigners from Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure Ken Skates who has represented the constituency of Clwyd South since the National Assembly for Wales election of 2011. I don’t know why I am bothering sharing this nonsense, but if you don’t read it yourself then
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I have just received the following letter from Rebecca Evans AM in response to the many #SaveWILG postcards she has received. I guess it shows that we have got her attention but it also underlines that we have a fight on our hands to educate the Minister on the impact of her changes. There are so
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According to Wikipedia, Tanka (短歌, “short poem”) is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature. A Tanka consists of 5 lines and 31 syllables. Each line has a set number of syllables see below: Line 1 – 5 syllables Line 2 – 7 syllables Line 3 –
As I write this blog, I am feeling quite insulted as I have just received an email from the good people at Disability Wales who have sent me the agenda for their annual conference in Cardiff. It makes for interesting reading – not because of what it includes, but rather because of what it does
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