Raymond Williams

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@SaulStaniforth @SkyNews have you interviewed anyone from Plaid Cymru?

Plaid Cymru won the Caerphilly by election, beating Reform into second place. So does #trevorphillips interview someone from the winning party? Of course he doesn't! Instead he interviews Zia Yusuf from Reform.

@bigfanofmykids anti-Chartist? Wow

@RaymondKeywords @AllisonPearson Good luck to you with this thinking

Plaid Cymru wants Wales to be a Nation of Sanctuary. Basically, open the borders to thousands of migrants to the detriment of Welsh people. Any available resources must be reserved for locals who are too often living in poverty with rubbish services.

@Mab_Taliesin @AllisonPearson remember when Cymru welcomed all those evacuees* from London and other English cities seeking sanctuary during WWII? Was that a bad thing @AllisonPearson? *another word for 'refugee', much like 'ex-pat' is another term for migrant

@AllisonPearson You are talking bollocks - Wales has a proud history of welcoming those in need of refuge and aid. Also, immigration is a reserved area; the Senedd has no control over it, it is a Westminster issue.

@JackLloyd_18 @TMacgaillimh because of course a "crypto investor" is going to be in touch with the real world...

@TMacgaillimh @AllisonPearson Stop falling for poor people v poor people arguments. No poor immigrant is taking from a poor “local”. We have stopped investing and allowed the super rich to get richer.

@MichaelG899990 "millions"? Maybe stop sniffing glue

@AllisonPearson Unbelievable what’s happening here in Barry … St Athens, illegals, hotels, sanctuary millions… what has happened? Our leaders are twp!! Madness!!

@bigfanofmykids @AllisonPearson "no taxation without representation" is what the Chartists, rightfully, campaigned for. All those listed above are obliged to pay tax so they should be able to vote

@AllisonPearson Under the Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020, ALL qualifying foreign nationals can vote in Senedd £ local elections in Wales if they are: • 16 years old • Registered to vote • Resident in a Welsh constituency • Lawfully in the UK This includes refugees There you go

@JeffGoodwin3 @AllisonPearson Stop telling porkies jeff

@AllisonPearson I live in one of those communities in the Vale of Glamorgan

POUM Antifascist Militia card issued to American marxist Harry Milton. On 20 May 1937, Milton saved George Orwell's life after the writer was shot through neck by sniper on the Aragón front, by quickly stopping bleeding. In Catalan reflecting party's strong (Marxist) Cat identity

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With its sheltering mountains, the Glynmawr valley lay broad and green. To a stranger Glynmawr would seem not a village but just thinly populated farming country - Border Country, 1960

In 1791 [Jeremy] Bentham defined the anarchist as one who 'denies the validity of the law...and calls upon all mankind to rise up in a mass, and resist the execution of it', a sense again near that of early [definition of] democrat - Keywords, 2nd ed., 1983 #anarchism

There is no single relation between the nature of a society and the character of its literature, but there are significant and possibly significant relations which seem to vary with the actual history - The Long Revolution, 1961

For thirty miles he had been able to look back at the mountains, at the blue peaks and the long grey ridge, gradually lowering in the sky. Now, when the last contact had gone, he looked at a different country, flat and open - Border Country, 1960

Most of T.S. Eliot's mature work was in drama: in the plays from 'Murder in the Cathedral' (1935) to 'The Elder Statesman' (1958) - Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1968

**Copy of Drama From Ibsen to Brecht in @oxfamcardiff