(Are they even passing a fraction of that on to the pig and cattle farmers whose 'experiments' are so valuable?).
November 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
(Are they even passing a fraction of that on to the pig and cattle farmers whose 'experiments' are so valuable?).
What would be an honest narrative then? 'I'm supporting approaches to land use which are so economically unattractive that my funding mechanism will pay them £65,555/ha/yr'? (£59 p.a. to 'adopt' 9 m2) Not sure Rad. WT are selling THAT as a model to the local farmers...
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
What would be an honest narrative then? 'I'm supporting approaches to land use which are so economically unattractive that my funding mechanism will pay them £65,555/ha/yr'? (£59 p.a. to 'adopt' 9 m2) Not sure Rad. WT are selling THAT as a model to the local farmers...
If the state we're in doesn't care about the state we're in, and it's a voluntary union, I don't know what unionists think they're playing at. Just saying you'd be even worse off if you left might just wear thin in the end, but either way it just looks like further proof they don't care. Mad.
November 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If the state we're in doesn't care about the state we're in, and it's a voluntary union, I don't know what unionists think they're playing at. Just saying you'd be even worse off if you left might just wear thin in the end, but either way it just looks like further proof they don't care. Mad.
....and of the Scots. We have to read 'we' in these comments as meaning just English, or Welsh in the case of @twlldun.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
....and of the Scots. We have to read 'we' in these comments as meaning just English, or Welsh in the case of @twlldun.bsky.social
Can someone explain? I'm reading it as saying 'it will be easily accessible from the M4 and people will use the M4 before then using the train instead of the M4, so that's net bad for env.' (oh, and also bad because couple more mins train time westwards to Cardiff Central). Is that it?
October 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Can someone explain? I'm reading it as saying 'it will be easily accessible from the M4 and people will use the M4 before then using the train instead of the M4, so that's net bad for env.' (oh, and also bad because couple more mins train time westwards to Cardiff Central). Is that it?
...sy'n wych, gyda llaw! 😉 Mae 'politics' yn aml mor arwynebol - dim jyst heb gysylltiad â pholisi, ond â'r broses o weithredu polisi hefyd. Na pam oedd cyfres Lee Waters yn agoriad llygad ym mhob pennod, serch ffocws ymddangosol y cyfryngau ar broses 'politics' bob dydd.
October 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
...sy'n wych, gyda llaw! 😉 Mae 'politics' yn aml mor arwynebol - dim jyst heb gysylltiad â pholisi, ond â'r broses o weithredu polisi hefyd. Na pam oedd cyfres Lee Waters yn agoriad llygad ym mhob pennod, serch ffocws ymddangosol y cyfryngau ar broses 'politics' bob dydd.
Gwir, ond mae hi'n ymddangos yn aml nag oes lle canolog i ffeithiau wrth ystyried beth yw 'balans' (a hynny yn symptom o'r rhaniad anffodus rhynt polisi a 'politics' sy'n rhannol wrth wreiddyn y peth - rhaniad lle gellir gweld pethau fel brwydrau rhynt dwy ddadl ayyb heb unrhyw angor ffeithiol)
October 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Gwir, ond mae hi'n ymddangos yn aml nag oes lle canolog i ffeithiau wrth ystyried beth yw 'balans' (a hynny yn symptom o'r rhaniad anffodus rhynt polisi a 'politics' sy'n rhannol wrth wreiddyn y peth - rhaniad lle gellir gweld pethau fel brwydrau rhynt dwy ddadl ayyb heb unrhyw angor ffeithiol)
@mimosacymru.bsky.social - dyma ben draw llwybr Walescast yntefe?
October 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
@mimosacymru.bsky.social - dyma ben draw llwybr Walescast yntefe?
...in which 10% of votes will give you 10% of seats. 🤡
October 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
...in which 10% of votes will give you 10% of seats. 🤡
Now Walescast is talking about the 'two horse race' of the next Senedd election - what kind of sense does that make under the new system?? It's misleading, but arguably it's not even neutrally misleading - it feeds on and into certain parties' false narratives
October 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Now Walescast is talking about the 'two horse race' of the next Senedd election - what kind of sense does that make under the new system?? It's misleading, but arguably it's not even neutrally misleading - it feeds on and into certain parties' false narratives
If that's what objective journalism means, we're lost. Maybe an inevitable result of 'political' correspondents seemingly being largely detached from and uncaring about the realities of policy and the underlying facts on the ground. It's all too much of a game to them.
October 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
If that's what objective journalism means, we're lost. Maybe an inevitable result of 'political' correspondents seemingly being largely detached from and uncaring about the realities of policy and the underlying facts on the ground. It's all too much of a game to them.
I'm fed up with Walescast presents, every episode, reassuring each other that it's necessary to spend lots of their time discussing dubious Reform talking points - 'that's what people want to talk about', ignoring the fact that these very talking points are generated by dominant unregulated media.
October 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I'm fed up with Walescast presents, every episode, reassuring each other that it's necessary to spend lots of their time discussing dubious Reform talking points - 'that's what people want to talk about', ignoring the fact that these very talking points are generated by dominant unregulated media.
Diolch Richard - wedi'ch dilyn nawr ar Podbean trwy'r linc (ond dal ddim yn dod lan o chwilio amdano am ryw reswm...)
October 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Diolch Richard - wedi'ch dilyn nawr ar Podbean trwy'r linc (ond dal ddim yn dod lan o chwilio amdano am ryw reswm...)
Gwych iawn - heol mlaen na'r newydd-ddyfodiad arall! ;) A da gweld cwshin Yr Hen Iaith yn y cefndir!! Ond heb gyrraedd ar Podbean eto - brysied yno hefyd!
October 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Gwych iawn - heol mlaen na'r newydd-ddyfodiad arall! ;) A da gweld cwshin Yr Hen Iaith yn y cefndir!! Ond heb gyrraedd ar Podbean eto - brysied yno hefyd!
It's all of a piece with the 'Natural Capital' narrative which is so big up there. There may be a mechanism for returns of course, but it will surely be from the State directly or from an articifical market enforced through State regulation. But they can pretend it's not evil tax money....
September 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It's all of a piece with the 'Natural Capital' narrative which is so big up there. There may be a mechanism for returns of course, but it will surely be from the State directly or from an articifical market enforced through State regulation. But they can pretend it's not evil tax money....
Hm - wonder how that will go down in NI?
September 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Hm - wonder how that will go down in NI?
It was striking to see how the TUV's vote hardly shifted as more and more candidates dropped out - their initial vote was significant in some constituencies, but noone else considered giving them their second preferences.
September 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
It was striking to see how the TUV's vote hardly shifted as more and more candidates dropped out - their initial vote was significant in some constituencies, but noone else considered giving them their second preferences.
The very condescension of the question illustrates some of what is frustrating. 'Of the early 1900s' is a symptom of another source of it.
August 19, 2025 at 6:33 AM
The very condescension of the question illustrates some of what is frustrating. 'Of the early 1900s' is a symptom of another source of it.
It's been a decrease in such systems which has often been one of the factors which makes fires uncontrollable. It's not black and white - pleeenty of grey - no doubt about that. But that's what makes the 'no matter what the question, the answer is "rewilding"' message so frustrating.
August 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
It's been a decrease in such systems which has often been one of the factors which makes fires uncontrollable. It's not black and white - pleeenty of grey - no doubt about that. But that's what makes the 'no matter what the question, the answer is "rewilding"' message so frustrating.
But large herbivores have always been a part of keeping fire risk down, in the form of pastoral agriculture. Your picture gives the impression that wooded land covers are fire-resistant, but of course it's wooded and scrubby vegetation which often goes up in flames. (And not just non-native)
August 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
But large herbivores have always been a part of keeping fire risk down, in the form of pastoral agriculture. Your picture gives the impression that wooded land covers are fire-resistant, but of course it's wooded and scrubby vegetation which often goes up in flames. (And not just non-native)
Not sure I understand - what exactly is your prescription for fire risk management in the Mediterranean zone?
August 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Not sure I understand - what exactly is your prescription for fire risk management in the Mediterranean zone?
Whoever designed the so-predictably appalling traffic system followed by the inexplicably atrocious management of parking once you'd eventually arrived at the actual Eisteddfod should be reviewed very harshly and then sacked anyway.
August 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Whoever designed the so-predictably appalling traffic system followed by the inexplicably atrocious management of parking once you'd eventually arrived at the actual Eisteddfod should be reviewed very harshly and then sacked anyway.
August 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Apart from having a lot of Sitka, it's actually NOTHING like W Washington and its forests!
August 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Apart from having a lot of Sitka, it's actually NOTHING like W Washington and its forests!
1) because funders want precise numbers; 2) because it involves (notionally) precise costs funders can use for grant calcs; 3) because there are vested interests who benefit from this approach. Seen photos of ministers standing next to plantings with mature seed sources just behind...
July 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
1) because funders want precise numbers; 2) because it involves (notionally) precise costs funders can use for grant calcs; 3) because there are vested interests who benefit from this approach. Seen photos of ministers standing next to plantings with mature seed sources just behind...