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Share Bbc Sat, Mar 17 2012 03:45:11 Click on the orange arrow to play the edited clip from the show.  Share http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/40139336&show_artwork=true&maxwidth=900 Sunday Papers BBC Wales – Sunday Supplement18032012 by peterdcox SoundCloud Share The Honourable David Furnish? Gay partners of knights and peers may be given courtesy titles in latest equality drive The prospect of [...]

A Welsh High Tea: a poem from the Creative Writing at the Museum Course 2010

I got my blooding at the PechaKutcha in Cardiff on 27th May when the Guardian kindly blogged: Peter Cox from Cardiff Civic Society gave a compelling insight to how Cardiff is changing and what elements have been lost along its development. He said: “Cardiff’s growth has been both sudden and exponential. The city of 1891 [...]

I thought a primary rule of politics was to stop digging when you are in a hole: not Cardiff’s leadership apparently. There’s been good advice given since Ocober 2008 that Cardiff’s Local Development Plan wasn’t any good. Amongst others, Cardiff Civic Society (disclaimer, I am it’s chair and have worked with the team who produced [...]

Pendenis goes public

Posted: October 23, 2007 in Uncategorized

I always wondered why my middle name only had one ‘n’: now I know, it was to help us sell our house and save thousands of pounds. When we were restoring our very nice mid-terrace Victorian house in Pontcanna a couple of years ago, the cleaning of the Bath stone revealed a name “Pendenis House”. [...]

Commenting on this blog I made my position clear The problem is not just about having a conversation about Wales’ status it’s also about where! Just look at that front page and compare it an average day in the life of the Western Mail. First the name – The Scotsman (forget gender issues for a [...]

Cancel the Olympics

Posted: April 19, 2007 in Uncategorized

In response to the blog here, I was unequivocal Peter D Cox said at 7:24 AM, 19 April 2007 As chair of an arts organisation my questions are simple: 1 – can the nation afford an Olympics without it threatening its cultural life? 2 – do we allow uncapped capital development projects in the arts [...]

Becoming a Portfolio Person – Learning to learn This is an article that first appeared in the UK teleworker magazine April/May 1996. Peter Cox is managing director of TMPL Training, which provides training to organisations in the public and private sector and to charities. TMPL are developing telematic support of training. The Company’s consultants are [...]