ffranc sais

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.

Friday, 26 January 2024

Messages in a bottle

This is my last scheduled entry in this blog. These blogs have always been no more than messages thrown into the html ocean. I took to blogg...

Wednesday, 24 January 2024

The paternal paradox

One does not want to die, but neither does one wish to live to see ones children die.

Tuesday, 23 January 2024

My channels are failing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_I/O

Monday, 25 December 2023

Last Christmas

So Wham!'s catchy song has finally topped the year-end poll. It is of course a song about the break-up of a relationship and not anythin...

Sunday, 24 December 2023

"It's OK, lads, I'm with the AA"

Standing on a wet grassy slope behind a crash barrier on the M4 for ninety minutes on the evening of the eighteenth while the rain steadily...

Sunday, 17 December 2023

Solar panels on canals

When I first read the headline, I thought: what a splendid way to combine two green issues, but how would it work? Then it dawned on me: ...

Saturday, 16 December 2023

Salty tea, anyone?

On this day in 1773 occurred the Boston Tea Party , after which a radical Republican group which is anti-tax among other things, takes its n...

Friday, 15 December 2023

Those rare metals the modern age depends on

There is an outline of the importance of rare earth elements and the shift in power resulting from China's exploitation of them here . ...

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