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Unprecedented really, this persperctive. Blimey: “How dare any English or British politician turn to Wales and go ‘you need us, and I’m going to give you scare stories about how we’ll make sure you don’t have the resources to do that’. We should be empowering our neighbours”

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

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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

**Copy of Border Country in the Marie Curie charity shop in Bracla, Bridgend

The word [Genius] is now so widely used to describe any and all kinds of exceptional ability that survivals of the older sense of characteristic disposition are often ambiguous - Keywords, second ed., 1983

For even an institution as wholeheartedly commercial in production and distribution as the cinema, it had been possible, and indeed remains normal, to watch a film as a whole, in an undisturbed sequence - Television: Technology and Cultural Form, 2nd ed., 1990

At last Will took the note and scribbled: I cannot sign, I cannot write, I lost my pen Last Sunday night Brychan wrinkled his nose disapprovingly, then folded the paper and carefully passed it back - Border Country, 1960

A note had been passed to them, from Phyllis Rees: Sweetheart now, who you may be, Sign and pass it back to me. This was usual, but they had to think of a good answer. They looked at each other, widening heir eyes - Border Country, 1960

A skilled theatrical craftsman might well remain satisfied with such a situation, and go on writing plays for stock. But #Ibsen was always an artist, for whom the communication of significant experience must be the primary concern - Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973

Huckleberry Finn, in its middle sections, creates a general reality within which the personal narrative gains breadth - The Long Revolution, 1961