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Reacting to the recent Manx Radio / Treasury Minister ‘love fest’ one commentator on the CL Facebook site said that Manx Radio should be ‘left to die a natural death’.

Strangely whilst understanding the reasons behind the sentiment I can’t share them. I have an unerring personal habit of sticking with principles once adopted including those adopted 55 years ago.

Cannan and Skelly remind me of Matthew 15:14:

"Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit."

The government policy to give away £50 million pounds of YOUR financial reserves has been ended the policy as with most strategies pursued by the Department for Enterprise has thankfully been a total flop:

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/50-million-enterprise-de...

Manx Radio should be ashamed to peddle this nonsense from Alf Cannan MHK and Treasury Minister:

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/treasury-takes-bold-step...

‘As I imagine myself gazing out on the flowing waters of the Dniester Media man is still droning on to MTTV!’

It's a kind of ‘media luvvie do’ at government house and MTTV of course are there. Somehow however from the start I get the sense Paul Moulton’s heart is not in it - unusual - maybe it's just perception.

He’s interviewing someone called Wilson who I’ve never heard of it turns out he's the Chief Executive Officer of Isle of Man Media - still none the wiser:

Earlier this month a Basque campaigners demanded answers to the issue of political activists who disappeared in Spain and France over the past over forty years. August 30th is International Day of the Disappeared.

This report (originally from Mediabask) from Breton site 7seizh:

http://7seizh.info/2018/09/06/sept-disparitions-non-resolues-dans-le-con...

Welsh language will be the focus of a special event at the beginning of October with a Welsh in the Workplace Fair. This is Ceredigion’s first ‘Welsh in the Workplace’ Fair and the aim will be to encourage and support businesses who want to increase bilingual provision in their daily work. This is part of the work being undertaken by officers of Cered: Menter Iaith Ceredigion’s Welsh in the Workplace who are promoting and assisting businesses in the Mid Wales county of Ceredigion (Sir Ceredigion) to benefit from the use of Welsh in their business.

YOU’LL GET ‘A TROLLEY IN THE CORRIDOR’ UNDER ALFS PLANS FOR HEALTH

Well ‘stone the crows’ if it isn’t ‘fake news’:

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=43002&headline=Health%20Departm...

Far from being in the red four months into the financial year the IOM Health Service is as usual underfunded.

Manx Radio news editor Tim Glover has a sound lengthy clip with CM Howard Quayle MHK in which he outlines the stance on Syrian refugees and aid given.

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/island-turning-its-back-...

The news item persons the question ‘Island turning its back on International Duty’?

Efforts by Undeb Amaethwyr Cymru (the Farmers Union of Wales) to have a widespread badger cull in England extended to Wales are being resisted by the Welsh government and by animal rights bodies such as the RSPCA.

The FUW say:

"The Welsh cattle industry has simply had enough and the FUW is now calling on the Welsh Government to properly recognise the impact of this insidious disease on farming families.”

However the government say:

"Evidence shows that most causes of Bovine TB in cattle in Wales results from cattle-to-cattle transmission,"

Report here on a project by Fermanagh and Omagh District Council to (via the creation of a Folk Traditions Forum) to record for posterity some of the lost or dying traditions of the area such as Mumming and Wren Boys.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45566721