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  • Erasmus Lewis: spad, spy, friend of Gulliver

    Erasmus Lewis: spad, spy, friend of Gulliver

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    Andrew Green
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    This small corner of Carmarthenshire is new to me – the point where the Cothi flows into the Tywi, just west of Llanegwad.  A track leaves the village, passes a cottage, Penygoilan, and a farm, Llwchgwyn, and then turns into a narrow lane that leads down to the banks of the Tywi and a large…

  • Death of a satirist

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    Andrew Green
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    News of the death of Simon Hoggart a couple of weeks ago caused widespread dismay.  For so many years he skewered politicians with wit and ridicule in his parliamentary sketches and on the radio it seems hardly possible that it’s all come to an end so suddenly.  Who will we have in future to talk…