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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Carthenogenesis

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There are good reasons for many people to applaud recent events in Tunisia, a country I'd hitherto thought was no more than a bebop refe...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Quis custodiet idiotas?

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The wisest advice I ever received came courtesy of Nurilbek Atajanov, deputy director of the Shymkent Brandy Distillery in Kazakhstan. ...
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Friday, December 31, 2010

A Brack of Brine

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As has become a tradition at No Good Boyo, here to usher in the New Year is another Ghost Story of a Welsh Antiquary : I see you are all set...
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Friday, December 17, 2010

False teeth consciousness

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Leslie Nielsen is mourned on eight continents, including one from Altair IV that ended up in orbit around the Star of Knöchbant. His passi...
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Saturday, December 04, 2010

Tribuni plebis consulari potestate

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Jana Bennett has quit as Director of Vision (meaning TV, film and, in Wales, the magic lantern ) at the BBC, and Mrs Boyo is thinking of b...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

WikiLeaks - Wales responds

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Wales "enjoys" WikiLeaks report of corruption, violence Text of report by Welsh official Taffinfform news agency Boyograd [formerl...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Scenes from a Pedantic Hard-Boiled Novel

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Exiled pedagogue Matthew Ward once proposed a two-fisted actionfest to the BBC, based on the sort of wish-fulfilment even Robert Fisk enj...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Honi soit qui mal y ponce

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I'm sure that you will join me and all of Wales, man and beast, in conveying our best wishes to HRH Prince William and Miss Kate Middlet...
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Friday, November 05, 2010

Gwae y Cayman

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A pronunciamento from the Prif Sasiwn of the Cymru Rouge (Commissariat of External Relations and Instant Rebuttal): So! Once again, the exp...
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Sunday, October 31, 2010

The Weremen of England

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Halloween, like much of modern life, works well in America but collapses like a suet soufflé when we try it over here. Escape if you can. I...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Cain Rising

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The salons and lavabos of Europe have trilled with talk of riot and revolution in Kyrgyzstan , a country close to the kidney of all Welshme...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Old fags and cabbage-stumps

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Autumn is upon us like a damp, slightly-aroused setter , and still no word from the BBC about my programme suggestions . Never mind, here ar...
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Thursday, September 09, 2010

Dearth of the Cool

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Gorilla Bananas has catalogued the disappointing career of sunny Swede Ulrika Jonsson . I shuddered - not because I've met Ms Jonsson, ...
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Monday, August 30, 2010

Revolution: Televised

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The BBC autumn television schedules will shortly sidle up, chalk an ominous "M" on our overcoat and move on unnoticed through the...
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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Dai-aspora

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This is a momentous day for all Welsh and conspiracy theorists, not to mention the free people of Australia. For in that mulleted land on th...
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I was born in a small village just off the coast of Wales in the 60s, and should have stayed there.
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