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Peter Black
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Author http://url.ie/13xlu, Welsh Lib Dem Cllr, ex-Welsh AM🔶 Llys Nini VP, cat lover. Promoted by Peter Black, 115 Cecil Street, Manselton, Swansea,SA5 8QL
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Peter Black @peterblackwales.bsky.social · Feb 23
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New blogpost: The past comes back to haunt Farage peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The past comes back to haunt Farage
The row over whether Nigel Farage exhibited anti-semitic and racist behaviour at school has been rumbling on for more than a week now, with ...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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New blogpost: Is the proscription of Palestine Action undermining government anti-terrorism programmes? peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/11/is-p...
Is the proscription of Palestine Action undermining government anti-terrorism programmes?
The Guardian reports on warnings by a member of the Home Office’s homeland security group that the anti-terrorism Prevent programme risks b...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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New blogpost: The Russian connection peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Russian connection
On the Nation Cymru website, Martin Shipton discusses the significance of former Welsh UKIP leader, Nathan Gill's imprisonment and its impl...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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New blogpost: An unlikely connection peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/11/an-u...
An unlikely connection
A new blue plaque has been unveiled at Langland Bay to honour one of the 20th century’s most influential philosophers, Ludwig Wittgenstein, ...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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New blogpost: Trial by jury should remain a fundamental right
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Trial by jury should remain a fundamental right
In a democracy like the UK the right to trial by jury is a fundamental right, but under this Labour government all that is going to change. ...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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New blogpost: Is digital ID in trouble? peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/11/is-d...
Is digital ID in trouble?
The Mirror reports that campaigners have told the Home Affairs Select Committee that voters are 'up in arms' about digital ID proposals and...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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New blogpost: Labour are seeking “to use children as a weapon” peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/11/labo...
Labour are seeking “to use children as a weapon”
The Guardian reports on claims by veteran Labour peer, Alf Dubbs, who came to Britain as a child refugee, that the home secretary is seekin...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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New blogpost: The futile attempt to out-Farage Farage peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The futile attempt to out-Farage Farage
A Guardian editorial hits the nail on the head over the Shabana Mahmood’s asylum overhaul, which they say burdens an overstretched system a...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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New blogpost: Labour's lazy narrative peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/11/labo...
Labour's lazy narrative
I wrote a few days ago that Labour are poised to block amendments to their planning bill designed to protect English wildlife and its habit...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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New blogpost: Has Rachel Reeves budget turned into an omnishambles?
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Has Rachel Reeves budget turned into an omnishambles?
The Independent reports  that Downing Street has been blamed for forcing Rachel Reeves to reverse Budget plans to raise income tax in what ...
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November 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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New blogpost: A Tudor farm and a Roman fort
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A Tudor farm and a Roman fort
Having recently taken over as chair of RSPCA Llys Nini, a branch that covers most of south Wales from Carmarthenshire to Cardiff, I thought ...
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November 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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New blogpost: Labour to reject amendments to planning bill that protect nature peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/11/labo...
Labour to reject amendments to planning bill that protect nature
The Guardian reports that housing secretary Steve Reed has told Labour MPs to vote down an amendment to the new planning bill intended to p...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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New blogpost: Labour pile one crisis onto another
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Labour pile one crisis onto another
Why has the recent speculation about the future of Keir Starmer suddenly surfaced now? After all his position has been tenuous for some time...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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New blogpost: Are Labour's u-turns too little too late? peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/11/are-...
Are Labour's u-turns too little too late?
Labour's first year in power has been an unmitigated disaster for them and it's all their fault.  In scrapping the winter fuel allowance, ma...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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What exactly is the BBC biased against? peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/11/what...
What exactly is the BBC biased against?
The furore over the BBC's alleged bias against Donald Trump is starting to get out of hand, not least through Trump's own actions in threate...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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New blogpost: Ministers lose environmental plot on planning bill peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/11/mini...
Ministers lose environmental plot on planning bill
The Guardian reports on the scale of lobbying of ministers by developers on Labour’s landmark planning changes, which seek to rip up enviro...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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New blogpost: Government in turmoil
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Government in turmoil
The Independent reports that Labour MPs are said to be plotting to oust Sir Keir Starmer, despite the prime minister welcoming rebellious b...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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New blogpost: The castle that isn't peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The castle that isn't
Morris Castle or Castle Graig (Castell Morris or Castell Craig) is a ruined residential building situated on the Cnap-llwyd common in the Tr...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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New blogpost: Careless Labour ministers undermine government authority peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/11/care...
Careless Labour ministers undermine government authority
The Independent reports that Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has admitted to breaching the governance code for public appointments regarding h...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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New blogpost: Be careful who you vote for
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Be careful who you vote for
The Guardian reports on one Reform voter in Lancashire, who is learning the price of supporting Nigel Farage's party. They tell us about ...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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New blogpost: Farage outlines his real agenda
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Farage outlines his real agenda
The Guardian reports that Nigel Farage has backtracked on his party’s election promise to cut £90bn of taxes, accusing Labour and the Torie...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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New blogpost: Protecting the fat cats peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/11/prot...
Protecting the fat cats
The 'This is Money' website reports that the Government has axed a public list that named and shamed companies hit by major shareholder rev...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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New blogpost: Tory-Reform pact on ECHR won't stop the boats peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/11/tory...
Tory-Reform pact on ECHR won't stop the boats
We were told by the popularist right wingers in 2016 that voting for Brexit would solve illegal immigration and strengthen our economy, unfo...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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New blogpost: Most sane people would run a mile' from politics peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/11/most...
'Most sane people would run a mile' from politics
This interview with former Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Minister, Kirsty Williams is both sobering and shocking, exposing the pressures...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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New blogpost: Remembering a disaster
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Remembering a disaster
The Story of Mumbles website features the stained glass window in All Saints Church, Mumbles to commemorate the Samtampa Lifeboat Disaster...
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November 1, 2025 at 7:21 AM