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We reported back in August about Isabel dos Santos she’s a nice wealthy lady from Angola who had invested in property in London using Manx business connections.

Many Angolans struggle on subsistence earnings as the country tries to shake of the legacies of decades of colonial exploitation and Civil War,.

News from the Celtic League:

Report here in the Irish Times about the decline of Bewick Swans in Ireland the species now winter further north in Germany as temperatures are warmer:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/swan-census-part-of-european...

Link here to a trailer and also the full Welsh documentary ‘Poncho Mamgu’. It's a drama documentary (with subtitles) about the life of Elen Davies first as a child in Patagonia and later as a young woman in Wales.

It tells the story of the hardship faced by the early Welsh settlers in the Chubut Valley area of Argentina. The Death of her mother and the friendship and sympathy shown to her by the indigenous Indian people of the area.

Link here to a trailer and also the full Welsh documentary ‘Poncho Mamgu’. It's a drama documentary (with subtitles) about the life of Elen Davies first as a child in Patagonia and later as a young woman in Wales.

It tells the story of the hardship faced by the early Welsh settlers in the Chubut Valley area of Argentina. The Death of her mother and the friendship and sympathy shown to her by the indigenous Indian people of the area.

News from the Celtic League:

Back in 1999, an article in the 'New York Times' concluded with this memorable piece:

''The Isle of Man is streets ahead of other jurisdictions in this area,'' said John R. Aspden, head of the island's Financial Supervision Commission. But the entanglement with Russia still rankles. ''Is the Isle of Man a satellite of Russia?'' he said. ''Of course, it's not.''

News from the Celtic League:

Books I’m trying to divest myself of them - then Paul Moulton at MTTV pops up interviewing Steve Rodan (President of Tynwald) about a bursary for young people to attend the UN in Geneva and of I go - not to Geneva!

On my bookshelf is a tome purchased two decades ago and read by me only once its about Seán Lester, ‘The Last Secretary General’ of the League of Nations, I dig it out.

Predictably much of the English press and their servile followers have been squealing with indignation at the decision for children starting school in the Western Isles to be taught in Gaelic, unless their parents opt-out. Until now parents had to opt in to Gaelic-medium education (GME) on the islands, where lessons in English was the default. The truth is that the history of English rule in the Celtic lands has always had the design to make the Celtic people less Celtic. Part of this process has been their centuries old policies of destroying the language.

The Second Severn Crossing (Welsh: Ail Groesfan Hafren) is a road  bridge over the River Severn (Welsh: Afon Hafren)  which rises between England and Wales. The bridge marks the lower limit of the River Severn and the start of the Severn Estuary. It flows into the Bristol Channel and then into the Celtic Sea and the wider Atlantic Ocean. The name Severn is thought to derive from a Celtic original name (Welsh: Hafren; Old Welsh: Habren). Habren was a Celtic Princess and the name was later Latinized into the name Sabrina.

Robert Burns was born in the scottish village of  Alloway (Scottish Gaelic Allmhaigh) on January 25, 1759. The eldest of the seven children of  William Burnes (1721–1784), a tenant farmer from Dunnottar in the Mearns, and Agnes Broun (1732–1820), the daughter of a Kirkoswald tenant farmer. His parents ensured that their son received a relatively good education.  He died at the age of 37 on 21 July 1796 and his Mausoleum is at St Michael’s churchyard in Dumfries (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Phris). Throughout his life he was a practising poet and wrote many poems, lyrics and other pieces.

From Nation Cymru:

We hear a lot about why Welsh should move aside and allow English to take over. But why should it? The Welsh language is vastly superior to English, as we will now demonstrate! And, in fact, we think the English would be much better off cognitively, financially and intellectually if they cast off the yoke of their own dismal tongue and embraced the ancient Celtic language of Britain.

1.) English doesn’t have enough vowels