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  • CONSIDER THIS: Celtic Mysticism Meets Valentine’s Day

    CONSIDER THIS: Celtic Mysticism Meets Valentine’s Day

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones

    A Coruña, Saturday 14th February 2026

    Oh, marvellous. Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, the fourteenth of February, twenty twenty-six. The nation is already knee-deep in the annual ritual of manufactured affection. There’s pink packaging everywhere and the faint whiff of desperation lingers. And now, because apparently one layer of cynicism isn’t enough, we’re adding this so-called Celtic mysticism. It’s as if it’s the missing ingredient that turns a cynical cash-grab into something profound and ancient. How delightfully Welsh of us. We can’t resist a bit of mythic bollocks to make the whole thing feel less embarrassing.

    Celtic mysticism on Valentine’s Day.

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  • Saint Valentine’s Day – Romancing the Data – 2026/02/14

    Saint Valentine’s Day – Romancing the Data – 2026/02/14

    To Begin at the Beginning

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones

    Oza-Cesuras, Saturday 14th February 2026

    Ah, cariad, let us speak now in the shadowed cadence of the valleys. The voice rolls like the Tawe after rain. It is rich and resonant, a little rough at the edges yet velvet beneath. Burton might have murmured it after one too many whiskies. Or Hopkins in that quiet, measured thunder waits. Patient as stone, it strikes. And through it all, the ghost of Dylan himself weaves words like nets of starlight over Talacharn’s black waters. Gwynfor’s steady, unyielding fire burns low and true for the land. It is more than soil and more than song. It is memory made flesh.

    If Data and Information were our Valentine’s sweetheart, she would be fierce and elusive. She would not be some simpering rose but a wild thing of the Welsh hills. She would be ancient and newborn, speaking in cynghanedd of numbers and patterns. Her breath would be the soft hiss of wind through bracken.

    We would woo her thus, yn Gymraeg ac yn Saesneg entwined, with the lilt that carries the green pulse of Cymru beneath every syllable:

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  • Les Gallois et la Construction de l’Amérique 2026/01/19

    Les Gallois et la Construction de l’Amérique 2026/01/19

    Oui, nous l’avons fait !

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones

    Madrid, vendredi 16 janvier 2026

    Ah, les états d’origine des galés. Fueron les révolutionnaires silencieux et les escurridizos Padres Fundadores. Ce sont les chicos et les chicas qui ont essentiellement construit le pays. Vous allez ensuite disparaître dans le papier peint comme si vous deviez de l’argent !

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  • La influencia galesa en la historia de EE.UU. 2026/01/20

    La influencia galesa en la historia de EE.UU. 2026/01/20

    Yes, We Did!

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones

    Madrid, Friday 16th January 2026

    Ah, los estadounidenses de origen galés. Fueron los revolucionarios silenciosos y los escurridizos Padres Fundadores. Estos son los chicos y chicas que básicamente construyeron la mitad del país. ¡Y luego desaparecieron en el papel pintado como si debieran dinero!

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  • IT’S POLITICS: How The Welsh Made America – 2026/01/16

    IT’S POLITICS: How The Welsh Made America – 2026/01/16

    Yes, We Did!

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones

    Madrid, Friday 16th January 2026

    Ah, Americans of Welsh origin. They were the quiet revolutionaries and the sneaky Founding Fathers. These are the guys and gals who basically built half the USA. Then, they vanished into the wallpaper like they owed money!

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  • The Magical Celtic Welshness of the Number Ten – 2026/01/10

    The Magical Celtic Welshness of the Number Ten – 2026/01/10

    Ten out of Ten!

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones

    Madrid, Saturday 10th January 2026

    What do Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins have to tell us about the magical Celtic number ten?

    To capture the essence of these two titans, we must look at the number ten through two different lenses. One lens is the thunderous, poetic gravity of Richard Burton. The other is the quiet, rhythmic precision of Sir Anthony Hopkins.

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