Lost in the reshuffle
August was a typically quiet month for County Hall developments until Tuesday’s announcement that the council’s leader, David Simpson, is appointing...
POLICE LETTER IN FULL: No further action in grant fraud claims
CPS DECIDES NO CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS TO BE TAKEN INTO ALLEGATIONS OF PEMBROKE DOCK PROPERTY RESTORATION GRANT SCHEME FRAUD • ‘INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE’ TO SUPPORT FRAUD PROSECUTIONS • GRANT FRAUD ALLEGATIONS DOSSIER WAS HANDED TO POLICE IN 2014 ... Read more →
Carwyn’s comedown!
As Wimbledon fortnight starts tomorrow my mind turns to last year’s visit, which involved some particularly good fortune. I had Centre Court tickets for t...
Get Carter
Readers will recall how Solva councillor Mark Carter was one of four Pembrokeshire county councillors who accused JW of breaching the members’ code of conduct over comments I had made at a January committee meeting. I had dared to use a four-letter word ... Read more →
Cosy complainers
You’ll recall at Pembrokeshire County Council’s last meeting in late February, Johnston councillor Ken Rowlands tabled the following question to the authority’s leader, David Simpson: A dictionary definition confirms that, “a Cosy Relat... Read more →
Hazard an opinion
Last week’s conclusion of Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation across the pond caused quite a stir among those who had banked on a different outcome. To Donald Trump’s detractors the development that the extraordinary probe had foun... Read more →
Ken’s big book of words
Thursday’s meeting of Pembrokeshire County Council features a question tabled by Johnston councillor Ken Rowlands. The brown-nosing sermoniser’s levels of blind loyalty to unelected officers, and what he perceives to be their absolute infallibility... Read more →
Questionable antics
The depths to which some elements at County Hall will stoop to avoid admitting mistakes and culpability are well documented. Many episodes have taken on legenda...
Full disclosure?
Following on from yesterday’s article (Terrible with names), this is the other blogpost I never got round to publishing this year. The conviction and leng...
Terrible with names
As December nears its end I imagine most bloggers, like me, annually revisit posts they never got round to publishing. Only two failed to escape my drafts folde...














