An English bibliotaph of fifty years residence in Wales pontificates about politics (slightly off-message), films and trivia. Acting secretary of Aberavon and Neath Liberal Democrats. Candidate for Neath in the Westminster elections of 1997 & 2017 and the Welsh general election of 2016.
Thursday 23 July 2020
On this day ...
... in 1970, two canisters of CS gas were thrown into the chamber of the House of Commons. Two men were later charged in connection with the incident, claimed by a group calling itself the “Present from the Bogside Committee”.
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