Welsh Column Made in England

If you go down to the shops today you wont be in for a big surprise for every Western Mail that ever there was has 48 pages of God's own language and 2.5 column inches in that heathen language 'Cymraeg'. I might have got those two descriptors the wrong way around but no matter, a mathematician of very little brain would be able to tell, that the odds are in the favour of Trinity Mirror now printed in Oxford, home to the dreaming spires. The fact that the column is written by the 'Golygydd Cyfarwyddwr' of the Welsh Language's only weekly magazine of note 'Golwg' makes a citizen blogger like myself pause for thought. The Welsh Language Newspaper Y Cymro which has been running since 1932 and at a loss for some time is up for sale and the Welsh speaking and reading public do not know yet what the result of negotiations with Tyndall Newspapers will be. I have always been of the mindset that any kind of Welsh is better than none, I have been known to write in a kind of Wenglish patois on this blog, but am wondering about the epithet 'Any Welsh is better than none' in this context. If you are writing for the Western Mail you are essentially collaborating with a Principality mindset, one that sees Wales as a part of England rather than an Independent Nation State. Whatever the minutiae of history this Shark Fisherman would contend that any country with its own language deserves 'Independent Status' purely for having the gall to carry on in the face of Anglo American dumbing down which is what the Western Mail essentially is. Now I don't know, perhaps there are moves afoot for Golwg to buy out the Cymro which would be a smart move, keep all the Welsh Language content in house rather than collaborating with Trinity Mirror. This Cardiff/Oxford paper has a colour supplement on a Saturday which carries the heading 'Welsh Watch' purporting to tell the proles and trolls about the delicacies lined up on S4C on our behalf and with columnists like myself bemoaning the fate of the language. These guys are in the belly of the beast. I am outside the leviathan poking it with cocktail sticks when I can. These columnists will be receiving payment for their services. I knock out my vitriol for nothing. It is free and ex gratis butt! So 'Welsh Column' and 'Welsh Watch'. They expect us to stand up straight and tall and doff our cap to the 'tirfeddiannwr'