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Okay guys. Y'all remember the treaty protest in NZ parliament that went viral a few months ago? Well, the right wing weasle-faced asswipe who was pushing for the treaty to be overridden, David Seymour, has recently made massive cuts to the NZ school lunch programme (surprise surprise) to "save taxpayer dollars".

The new supplier putting over 70 local kiwi enterprises out of business is multi-billion dollar UK company Compass Group. Compass Group have been involved in various scandals including UN misconduct, bribing overseas officials, slave labour, negligence to allergies (including in hospitals), multiple cases of food contamination, and a proven international track record of substandard services. They also refuse to have halal or kosher certified meals, probably related to the horse meat scandal they were involved in.

Not only are these new school lunches arriving hours late, small, shallow, and cold, but they're largely unidentifiable and basically inedible.

Like. Look at this shit.

Meatballs (?) mash & gravy

Ibid

Allegedly a cold ball of mac and cheese and chilli

"Plant based meat and tomato sauce"

Chilli and mystery sauce

Fucked if I know, rated "a 2/10"

Chicken teriyaki on rice

A vegetarian option. I can only imagine this was meant for rabbits but shovelled into a tortilla last minute. I'm not sure if something that loose counts as a wrap.

Chilli and rice, again. Note (haha) the size.

Size comparison to a snack apple/adult hand. The apple/snacks were supplied entirely by the school.

These meals are not free— students still have to pay, but thanks to Seymour can save a whopping $1! Meals are cold unless the school can somehow heat them all.

Feeding kids was certainly never a waste of money, especially as for some it was the only hot meal they'd get all day. Now it is a waste, because kids aren't eating them (they reportedly taste... like they look), and even for free at the end of the day schools can't shift them.

Because these meals are, frankly put, fucking gross, schools may have to resort to scraping through their already strained individual budgets to source edible food for their kids.

This is disproportionately affecting poorer families and low socioeconomic areas, which are overwhelmingly comprised of Māori & pasifika communities. Obviously access or the lack thereof to food hugely impacts school attendance and achievement, and by extent class mobility, quality of life, opportunities etc. But these are decisions made by old white men, so what do we expect.

Yum.

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I'm from the UK so the difference between Jelly and Jam is a lot bigger, but there's an actual distinction between different types of preserves so I'm gonna list them all here for you!

(USA & Preserves) Jelly: is made with strained fruit juice. No seeds, no pulp. Boiled with at least 65% sugar to be considered a Jelly by the FDA. (less than 65% sugar is considered a "Fruit Spread" instead!)

Jam: is made with mashed fruits; the legal definition for jam requires the jam to be made from one type of fruit.

Conserves: Similar to Jam or Preserves but made with multiple fruits, usually added berries or stone fruits. Sometimes contain nuts or dried fruits!

Preserves: are made with whole fruit or large pieces of fruit! Marmalade is a type of preserve made with citrus fruits.

Butters: are pureed fruit, usually less sweet than preserves but more fruity! They're usually darker in colour as well. (My favourite is Plum! It goes well with cheese <3)

Compote: A fruit compote is usually whole or chunky fruit that's been cooked and seasoned with spices, ie. cinnamon and ginger.

Chutney: Generally a savoury fruit preserve, much less sugar and includes spices and vinegar or other acids to make them Tangy!

and of course (UK) Jelly: Jell-O but correct. :) Jello is a brand name for Jelly!

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Live podcasts are like smooth cream cheese on a bagel. They easily spread their benefits around. Podcasters who do live events better monetize their show, engender greater loyalty among listeners, polish their skills in front of a live audience where they receive instant feedback, and attract more media attention.

The pandemic took a sledgehammer to that trend in March 2020, and it's taken this long for live podcasting to gain momentum.

That's why it's significant that, following recently sold-out live shows in the US and UK, where they were joined on-stage by Alexa Chung, Alison Roman, Hari Nef, Joe Mande and John Early, the How Long Gone podcast has also announced a new slate of tour dates today. 

In May, they will return to Philadelphia, Black's native Atlanta, and Chicago, before appearing as the sole podcast on the lineup of California's 2000s-era indie music festival, Just Like Heaven. Additionally, in August, How Long Gone will head back overseas for another London show. Find the current list of tour dates below and tickets here, on-sale at 10am local time on Friday, March 31st. 

That is the other big news for How Long Gone. The Talkhouse podcast network recently made an announcement that "it could not be more thrilled to welcome How Long Gone to its award-winning podcast network."

 Hosted by Chris Black and Jason Stewart, How Long Gone has been hailed as "the podcast everyone wants to appear on" (The Guardian) and "a clubhouse for the chattering classes" (The New York Times). It has been described as both "brain-soothing" (British GQ) and "a tricky phenomenon to wrap your head around" (Vulture), delivering its own charming and critical strain of color commentary on all things culture, fashion and fitness. 

Since its conception in 2020, How Long Gone has been an independent operation for almost 500 episodes, but through their new deal together, Talkhouse will now handle the series' distribution, ad sales, marketing and podcast-relevant partnerships. Maintaining a frantic clip of three shows per week, and a growing audience of more than half a million monthly listeners, the podcast will continue to welcome an interesting array of guests.

"We're major fans of what Chris and Jason are doing," says Ian Wheeler, Founder of Talkhouse Creative Studio. "We're excited to bring their particular brand of sophistication and nuance to even more fans and, importantly, more sexy as hell brands. We couldn't be more honored to work/build together." 

Hosts Chris Black and Jason Stewart added, "We are very excited to partner with Talkhouse. They have a proven track record and great taste, and will allow us to continue avoiding Patreon. Björk, Feist, The New Republic…How Long Gone makes sense."

Listen to all episodes of How Long Gone and subscribe, with new episodes out every Monday/Wednesday/Friday: https://pod.link/HowLongGone 

How Long Gone Tour Dates

5/6 - Philadelphia, PA - World Cafe Live

5/10 - Atlanta, GA - Terminal West

5/11 - Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge

5/13 - Pasadena, CA - Just Like Heaven

8/4 - London, UK - The 100 Club

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This is a different strain kind of cheese and merciless berries. While exhaling, you may likewise see an insignificant substance of corner store cheese hits. In any case it appears appropriately isolated likewise, it' is a unique taste that you can't go wherever else. 

Besides its individual, U.K. Cheese gives its clients calming and euphoric impacts. Similarly, it can assist with creating high energy meanwhile.

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Quarkkäulchen — Quark patties

Sweet dish from Saxony made from mashed potatoes, Quark (a type of fresh acid-set cheese), eggs and flour with raisins as sweetener. Usually served with apple sauce or plum puree and cinnamon sugar.

Recipe for 4 persons:

Ingredients:

500 g boiled potatoes from the day before

250 g Quark available in the UK or the US in specialized online shops)

2 eggs

50 g flour

a pinch of salt

100 g raisins

ground peel of a lemon

clarified butter

cinnamon sugar

apple sauce or plum puree or mixed stewed fruit

Preparation:

pour boiling water over the raisins, let stand for 5 min, then strain the water off, dry them gently with a kitchen towel and dust them with flour

stir potatoes, flour, Quark and eggs to a smooth dough, let stand for 5 min

work raisins and groung lemon peel into the dough

using a tablespoon, cut out dumplings of 5 cm diameter out of the dough, place them onto a flour-dusted surface and press them flat to form patties

heat a good amount of clarified butter in a pan and fry the patties from both sides until golden brown

keep warm until serving

sprinkle generously with cinnamon sugar and serve with apple sauce, plum puree, or mixed stewed fruit

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The OG Bubba Kush strain is frequently prescribed to medical patients, but it is also used recreationally.

It has around 17% THC, yet regardless, it is an ideal strain on the off chance that you're searching for something near OG Kush and others of its sort.

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Fandom: Narcos Category: Gen, Humour, Crack Relationships: Javier Peña & Steve Murphy Characters: Javier Peña, Steve Murphy Word Count: 1,900+ For: @djarsdin and @javierian.

Warnings: Swearing, drug mentions, crack (as in a silly idea) treated far too seriously, period inaccuracies, food, McDonald’s.

Summary: Javier Peña is not having a good day so Steve Murphy brings him a McDonald’s Happy Meal to cheer him up.

Notes: This makes no sense. The Happy Meal menu is from the UK in 2021, the toys are from 2018 and the boys are in the 1980s. But just go with it, for me, pretty please?

This, all of this, was inspired by @djarsdin’s tag “someone get this man a happy meal” under this already dryly funny post by @javierian. This is for both of you. :)

Any Spanish is from Google Translate so please forgive me if it’s wrong.

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Javier Peña and the Brown-Nosed Bear

Javier is staring blankly down at a page, cigarette hanging loosely from one hand as he cups his chin with the other. The typewritten words are blurring and he’s read the same paragraph countless times now, in limbo, unable to get any further.

A small red box, having evidently just been thrown in his direction, lands with a soft thud right under his nose. Javi jerks back with a start, blurry black and white suddenly replaced with bright red and… yellow? Javi blinks, his tired eyes finally focus — it’s a McDonald’s Happy Meal.

“There,” says Steve, “now cheer the fuck up.”

He sets two soda cups down safely on the desk and throws himself down onto his chair with enough force to send it rolling backwards a few feet. Identical Happy Meal box cradled lovingly on his lap, he rolls the chair forwards with his feet until he’s close enough to his desk again to put his boots up on it.

Looking over, Steve nods meaningfully at Javi’s paperwork.

Javi follows his gaze. “Shit.”

Javi’s half cigarette has been dropping flakes of ash onto his page. He swipes the tiny flakes away with the side of his hand — when only faint grey stains remain on the crisp white paper, he rests the still lit cigarette on the rim of the ashtray and leaves it sitting there, hazy wisps of smoke rising into the air.

“You look like shit,” Steve comments needlessly around a huge bite of a chicken burger.

Javi grimaces, rubbing at his tired eyes. He feels like shit, he doesn’t need to be told, thank you, he wants to say. Instead, he says aloud, “How’d things go with your C.I.?”

Chewing noisily, Steve shrugs. “No shop talk over dinner. I’ll tell you later. Eat up.”

With a pointed look, Javi sets the paperwork aside. Perhaps he will try to finish it again later, perhaps tomorrow, or even better still it may find itself in Steve’s annoyingly sparse inbox.

Opening the red and yellow box, Javi finds a bag of fries and a box of chicken nuggets. He hadn’t realised how hungry he was — as soon as the scent of fried fast food hits his nostrils his mouth starts to water. He glances at the clock — well after four in the afternoon. Last time he had checked it was just before one.

“Oh — almost forgot.” Steve plunges his hand into his jacket pocket. First he places a tiny tub of ketchup on Javi’s side of their desk, then a wad of napkins an inch thick.

“Your kid joining us?” Javi asks, meaning the excessive collection of napkins, but concentrating on pulling the lid off the ketchup dip.

Steve, halfway through his chicken burger already, adopts an enigmatic expression. “I’ve learned to be prepared.”

Javi is absolutely ravenous — the chicken nuggets and fries after almost a day’s unintended fasting are heavenly.

They both eat in companionable silence until—

Crunch!

Javi looks up from his food, takes a moment to register what’s in front of his eyes. “What the fuck is that?”

“It’s a carrot stick.”

“What’s it doing in a kid’s meal?” Javi asks, and then, more to himself, “Why am I eating a kid’s meal?”

“One — it’s healthy. Connie and I are watching what we eat right now and trying to keep in shape.” Javi can think of other ways two married people could keep in shape, but hasn’t the chance to voice his opinion as Steve carries on, “Two — shut up, it’s tasty, ain’t it? And three — I thought it might cheer you up, you’ve been a real downer today.” He doesn’t use a finger to emphasise each point, rather a wiggle of a carrot stick with the end bitten off. Javi decides instantly that he doesn’t like that.

“I’m touched,” he says dryly, dipping a fry in his sauce. He really is touched by the kind thought from his partner, but the kind thought is wrapped in so many layers of hillbilly bullshit that it’s hard to find the words to express that. He leaves his gratitude unsaid, veers the conversation away. “How did you order all this, anyways? Your Spanish isn’t that good.”

Steve appears offended, which Javi knows to mean that he isn’t offended at all. “Hey, I know the words for ‘drug dealer’ and ‘cocaine’ and ‘gun’.”

Javi peers into his red and yellow box — only a plastic bag with something black inside remains. “I don’t see any cocaine in here,” Javi mutters under his breath, deliberately loud enough to be heard.

“These carrot sticks are better than coke, believe me,” Steve says, shoving another piece of carrot into his mouth with a triumphant grin as if that proved it.

Javi shakes his head, sips on his soda. “Lying bastard.”

Steve’s expression gives nothing away.

“I just pointed at what I wanted. Took me a few attempts but I got there in the end. How do you say carrot sticks in Spanish? Just, you know, for future reference.”

“Palo de mierda,” Javi tells him with a straight face, without hesitation.

“What?”

“Palo de mierda,” Javi says again, unrepentant — he holds in a breath, hoping that Steve doesn’t catch on. He needn’t have worried.

Steve repeats it a few times, committing the phrase to memory. Javi stuffs a whole chicken nugget in his mouth before he can laugh.

They lapse into silence again — or as silent as it can be when one of them is crunching on raw carrots.

Chicken burger and carrot sticks finished, Steve wipes mayo off of his moustache with a napkin. A few minutes later when Javi reaches for a napkin from the pile as well, Steve looks very pleased with himself.

Javi starts tidying up, collecting the leftover rubbish from his desk and putting it inside his red box. Only his soda remains to be finished.

“Nice,” Steve says and Javi looks up — he’s got a little stuffed penguin toy in a plastic bag. “My little girl’s gonna love this.”

Javi reaches into his box and pulls out a bag too — it’s a black thing with a brown nose and tummy, some kind of stuffed animal he doesn’t recognise. He turns it over — there’s a card inside.

SLOTH BEAR, it reads.

“Here you go,” Javi says, lifting himself out of his chair to reach across their desk made out of two desks. He holds out the sloth bear in its plastic bag for Steve to take — but Steve doesn’t make a move, just stares at Javi like he’s sprouted an extra head that’s just told him the sky isn’t blue. Catching his look, Javi asks, “What? It’s for your kid.”

“No, no, man, that’s yours,” Steve says, shaking his head along with every ‘no’.

Javi doesn't retreat, just shakes his outstretched hand as if to tempt him — the little bear in the bag jumps up and down and the plastic crinkles noisily with the movement. (Javi hasn’t thought of the Serpent tempting Eve in the Garden of Eden for a long time.)

After a few moments of them staring stubbornly at each other, bear in a bag suspended between them, Javi falls back into his chair with a huff. He looks down at the bear in his hands. “What am I going to do with this?”

Steve rolls his eyes and lifts up his hand, fingers wiggling to beckon Javi — or the bear — to him.

He gets the bear — it flies across the desk and slaps him on the cheek with some force, bouncing off of him and to the ground. Steve bends over in his chair and it rolls back slightly as he strains to reach the bear where it has landed. He straightens, the bear clenched securely in his fist, and fixes Javi with an outraged look. “What the hell?”

Javi takes a drag of his half-finished cigarette, blows out the smoke. “It’s a tiny stuffed animal, Steve, it can’t feel a thing.”

“He’s got a brown nose.”

“He?” Javi mutters to himself, but is talked over.

“He’s got a brown nose, d’you know what that means?” Steve points at the bear’s pale brown muzzle, just in case Javi hasn’t noticed — he has noticed, he just doesn’t see why the hell he should care.

Steve’s expecting an answer — Javi rolls his eyes, feebly attempts, “He — it — has been using a sun bed wrong?”

“No, it means he’s your mascot,” Steve declares with childlike glee.

Javi blinks in the face of Steve’s unaccountable delight. “You’re losing it, Murphy.”

“He is. Think about it — how much brown-nosing do you and me have to do on a weekly basis? It’s a fuckton. I can handle it fine because I am calm and collected and an excellent people person — but you? You look like you’re constipated the whole time — quit flipping me the bird, man, I’m serious here — and the big cheeses know it, Javi, they’ll start taking a real dislike to you. But this bear is an expert, look at him, it’s all over his face. You take inspiration from him and he’ll show you how to brown-nose like the best of them.”

Steve holds out the bear in the bag for Javi to take. The three of them stare at each other — Steve with a look of ridiculous seriousness, Javi with straight-up disbelief, and the bear with the blank expression of the fucking inanimate.

“Kiss my ass,” Javi says, and in one swift and graceful movement he’s out of his chair and heading for the restroom. His knees protest after sitting for most of the day but he’s not fucking stopping. He has to get away from this maniac. “I’m going for a piss,” he throws over his shoulder as he disappears into the corridor.

When he returns several minutes later Steve is gone — but the brown-nosed bear is unwrapped from its plastic bag and nestled in between his outbox and his pen pot.

Javi sighs, but the bear stays.

TWO DAYS LATER

“Ambassador Noonan wants to see us about my C.I.,” Steve tells Javi, almost apologetic, as he puts the phone back on the hook.

“Both of us? Great,” Javi says, the final word sounding chipper but dripping with sarcasm.

They both head for their desks, collecting I.D. badges from drawers and putting their coats on. Steve fiddles with his hair — which makes very little difference, Javi thinks — and picks up his car keys. “I’ll drive,” he says, and goes on ahead.

The brown-nosed bear catches Javi’s eye as he turns to leave. He pauses despite himself, mutters, “Fuck it.”

He puts the bear in his pocket and follows Steve out of the building.

In the meeting, every time Noonan says something that will needlessly halt their progress in catching Escobar, Javi squeezes the bear hidden in his pocket and tries to look less ‘constipated’, as Steve succinctly put it.

Steve’s C.I. will get them a small step closer to Escobar but a small step is better than none at all. Noonan is pleased, grants them some extra funds and manpower to follow the C.I.’s lead. In all, the meeting goes much better than usual — they leave with more than they arrived with.

Javi and Steve are descending the stairs to the underground parking lot together when Javi says, “Palo de zanahoria.”

“Huh? What’s that?”

“Palo de zanahoria. Carrot sticks. In Spanish.”

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The first time a red flag was ever flown in the name of revolution; a symbol of Welsh oppression by the Crown; a most notorious miscarriage of justice - this is the story of the Merthyr Rising and Dic Penderyn, the Martyr of Merthyr.

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The second war of independence was won by the Americans in February 1812, with the ratification of the Treaty of Ghent. Simultaneously with this, the Napoleonic wars were in full swing as the tensions were rising up to the famous Waterloo Campaign where Napoleon was decisively beaten bringing the wars to a close.

Fighting two wars simultaneously, whilst dealing with the trials and tribulations of the Industrial Revolution pushed Britain's government, and the populace into difficult territory.

Significant economic deprivation occurred within the twenty years as the Conservative Government attempted to balance the books through extreme austerity. High levels of unemployment was the 'norm' across Britain, significantly affecting working-class areas up and down the country. This unemployment was particularly prevalent amongst those soldiers returning from either the Napoleonic wars of the Second War of Independence.

Britons began to express their dissent, and the Government became more authoritarian as a result to attempt to quell violent uprising. Afraid of the country turning to despair as it did in France during the only-recently-resolved French Revolution, the dominant Conservative party government, led by The Earl of Liverpool slapped down attempts at parliamentary reform with harsh refusals.

The notorious Peterloo massacre followed, counting 18 deaths amongst the 60,000 protesters. This massacre, which occurred in Manchester on 16th August 1819, became the government's catalyst to enact the repressive 'Six Acts' laws which prohibited unsanctioned military training, gatherings of more than 50 people, dictatorial search and seizure laws and punished the press and writers who wrote opinion on church and state matters.

There was a deep tension amongst the working class, whose lives were insecure and expendable in the eyes of their employers, and largely ignored by those in power. This resulted in what can only be described as simmering unrest - a general distaste for those of wealth, and those with authority and power.

The Crawshay Catalyst

William Crawshay was one of the main employers in Merthyr Tydfil in the 1800s. His empire stretched across the Welsh Valleys in the form of coal mines, and the famous Cyfartha Ironworks. Given the Valleys populace featured a significant amount of people who moved to the region specifically for the employment, it meant that changes to employment circumstances affected the population of the region as a whole.

If a factory or employer went into administration in the present day, only the workers at that employer would be affected, but since so many people in the region worked for Crawshay in the 1800s in one form or another, the moment economic deprivation began to affect his bottom-line, he looked to pinch his workers in order to maintain his profits. This was not a situation specific to William Crawshay; numerous big-names of the industrial revolution across Britain made similar moves, resulting in loyal workers all across the country being unable to acquire food or security.

Merthyr Tydfil and the surrounding regions were one of the main producers of Iron in the UK at the Cyfartha Ironworks, Hirwaun Ironworks and numerous other ironworks in the area, all were fuelled by the nearby affiliated coal mines. By 1831, most were owned by William Crawshay, or his son Henry. Richard Trevithick's revolutionary steam trams, which ran through the centre of town of Merthyr Tydfil acted as a centralisation of the industry in the Valleys. Merthyr Tydfil became the centre of the universe for much of the working-class, and when this centre began to strain, the effects were felt by the population all the more keenly than elsewhere because of this fact.

In 1829, the price of iron fell, so the Crawshays, and the other industrial owners in the region began closing down furnaces in response to the slowing demand. Wages were cut and the price of local goods began to increase, forcing many previously working families into poverty. The Court of Requests, which acted in the interests of lawmakers and the King, was seen as one of the major antagonists in the eyes of the working class during this time; the ruthless bailiffs would seize any personal possessions of those in debt.

Crawshay defied all other ironmasters by keeping wages high, and co-founding the Political Union of Merthyr. He began to stockpile Pig Iron, convinced he could outlast the recession and bounce back. Unfortunately, his confidence was misplaced, the rocky political climate extended the recession beyond predictions, the battles amongst the liberals and the Conservatives in Westminster caused a dissolution of parliament. Crawshay's hands were tied, and in March 1831, announced a pay cut for his workers. The Crawshay workers were some of the last families in Merthyr who joined the hordes of others towing the poverty line.

Elimination of Debt & The Shutting of the Mines

In May of 1831 the rumblings of dissent were being felt across Merthyr and the surrounding communities. Local coal miners began to protest against their employers demanding working conditions, lowered wages and the large proportion of unemployed workers. Small localised protests soon became larger centralised protests as word began to spread. Merthyr Tydfil became the battleground for these protests.

Flags doused in calf blood were waved, alongside the burning effigies of prominent Conservatives, by the protesters that filled the streets of Merthyr, calling for "Caws a Bara" (cheese and bread) as so many of the town's unemployed were fast approaching starvation. This is widely regarded as the first time that red flags were flown to represent workers rights specifically. Nowadays the symbol exists as a representation of socialism, even communism, Marxism and anarchism; almost the left-wing working class symbol of protest.

During the protests, dissenters spilled into the Court of Requests in Merthyr town centre and began burning ledgers containing the details of debts incurred by the people of the region, effectively attempting to eliminate debt - removing the weapon of Merthyr's bailiffs against the working class. Rallying under the cries of "I lawr â'r Brenin" (down with the King), the protests continued throughout the month of May.

At the beginning of June, the protesters sought to involve the working local miners in the rebellion, resulting in the shuttering of many of the mines as the workers absconded from their shifts.

All of this caught the eye of the British Government, who responded in characteristic Conservative authoritarian manner and sent in the army to attempt to disperse the crowds and keep order in the town. The 93rd Regiment of Foot were amongst the responders to the call, and they marched on Merthyr to engage the protesters. However the crowd was far larger than they were equipped for, so to prevent being overrun they were ordered to protect some key buildings and people.

A Fateful Engagement

3rd of June, 1831, a meeting was held in the Castle Inn on Castle Street in Merthyr town centre. The High Sheriff of Glamorgan amongst local employers, ironmasters, magistrates and other important people in the town sought to bring to an end the conflict. Understanding the importance of this meeting, a large group of protesters led by Leswyn yr Heliwr (Lewis "The Huntsman", or more likely "The Haulier") as he was known descended upon the Castle Inn to make demands.

Lewis Lewis was Leswyn yr Heliwr's real name, a haulier from Penderyn, a town roughly 10 miles away whose job it was to haul coal from the pits in Llwydcoed to the lime kilns in Penderyn. If this rebellion had any such leader, then Lewis Lewis was it, as one of the most outspoken agitators of the crowd.

Lewis Lewis was effectively one of the 'spokespersons' of the crowd, and the following demands were communicated to those meeting in the Castle Inn - abolition of the Court of Requests, the abolition of all imprisonment for debt, new laws against price gouging, and no hiring new colliers and miners on lower wages than their predecessors. These demands were regarded as 'mild' and somewhat 'reasonable'. Unfortunately, despite the lawmakers acquiescing on the abolition of the Court of Requests, their refusal to protect workers rights, and ensure the freedom and safety of debtors without a guarantee for industrial reform meant that largely the workers demands were summarily rejected. The crowd did not take the news well.

A struggle ensued. The magistrates read aloud the Riot Act, and warned the crowd to disperse. The crowd became more agitated. Magistrates threatened the crowd with the use of force; the 93rd Regiment of the Foot were standing by. The crowd became even more agitated.

The exact blow-by-blow details of the following moments are up for debate, but what we do know is that Lewis Lewis through the anger and adrenaline, encouraged the crowd to disarm the soldiers, and the crowd surged forward, grasping at the rifles of the soldiers. Some were disarmed, others were injured and bludgeoned by the crowd. One soldier, Donald Black, was stabbed in the leg with a bayonet that had been wrestled from a soldier. The soldiers began to fire upon the crowd. 24 protestors were killed, hundreds more were injured on both sides of the conflict.

A source describes the following: "The street outside the Inn was dreadfully covered in blood, women were screaming and looking for their husbands and sons and the soldiers, too, were in a sorry state, injured and some seemed near death. Altogether 16 soldiers were wounded, 6 of them severely, and up to 24 of the rioters had been killed."

The soldiers retreated to Penydarren House, leaving the town entirely in the hands of the rebellion.

Protracted Occupation

Over the course of the next few days, Penydarren House became the only point of authority in the region, where the town itself was being occupied entirely by the rioters.

From the soldiers, the rebellion managed to commandeer arms, explosives and used these to great effect setting up roadblocks, and taking full control of the town. They began to prepare the town for a protracted occupation, a siege.

Reinforcements were requested and were answered in the the form of both the East Glamorgan Yeomanry and the Swansea Yeomanry. The East Glamorgan Yeomanry, were prevented from reaching Merthyr where they were escorting essential supplies for Penydarren House, via an ambush on the baggage train by the rebellion, forcing them to retreat to the Brecon hills. The Swansea Yeomanry, upon entering the town of Hirwaun, they were surrounded by dissenters. In an apparent peaceful engagement, the Yeomanry were disarmed of their sabres which were then forced to return to their garrison at Swansea in order to re-arm. Their return to Merthyr following their rearming, was hitch-free and they finally added to the numbers gathering at Penydarren House.

Penydarren House sent a detachment of 100 cavalry to try and re-take Merthyr Tydfil, however, since the town had been geared up for a siege, the cavalry were surprisingly outmatched, where again they were forced to retreat.

During this time, the news of the town's violent engagements began to spread to the outlying towns and outside the region of Merthyr, spreading panic amongst the populace. The lack of clear leadership amongst the dissenters led to many absconding from the rebellion. Families began to flee from the riots, and the town of Merthyr began to descend into disarray.

The Ending of the Rising

In an attempt to restore the public confidence in their rebellion, the rioters called a mass meeting. The authorities at Penydarren House managed to send messages to their agents who had joined the rebellion, and those messages began to spread throughout the rioters. The authorities had announced that involvement in the rebellion amounted to high treason and clearly, that all dissenters would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. This was enough to destabilise the shaky ground already faced by the rebels.

The meeting went ahead at Waun above Dowlais, on the outskirts of Merthyr town, and Penydarren House sent a large detachment of soldiers to the meeting. Some 12,000 unarmed, unconfident, scared rebels faced 450 well-armed and organised troops.

There was allegedly no violent confrontation at this event, but faced with the force of troops, the crowd immediately dispersed into the countryside, all going their own way. It was this 'conflict' that represented the end of the Merthyr Rising; the troops re-took the town, and the industry began to start working again.

The aftermath saw many of the dissenters, including Leswyn yr Heliwr being sentenced harshly for their part in the rebellion. Leswyn yr Heliwr was initially sentenced to death by hanging before being commuted to exile to Australia after a police officer testified that Lewis had personally shielded him from angry rebels at the Castle Inn conflict. The wealthy and royalists in England, in particular Charles Gray, the 2nd Earl Gray (yes, of the variety of tea-fame), was determined that someone should pay the ultimate price by example, so there was no further reprieve for any of the other sentences. Unfortunately, of the two death sentences in result of the rebellion, the one who did not have his sentence commuted was Dic Penderyn.

Dic

Amongst the crowd at the Castle Inn engagement of the 3rd of June 1831, and one of the twelve dissenters who were granted access to the Castle Inn to deliver the list of demands to the magistrates, was Richard Lewis, a miner who was born in Aberavon, in a cottage called Penderyn, but resided in Merthyr Tydfil at the time. Richard Lewis was 23 years old, a large man, and known for being a heavy drinker amongst his friends. He is also purported to be intelligent, and a strong debater, known for fighting for workers rights, sometimes physically. He was known affectionately by his friends as Dic Penderyn (short for Richard, and in reference to the cottage he grew up in).

Penderyn was arrested for stabbing Private Donald Black during the Castle Inn conflict. This stabbing was one of many injuries across the soldiery during this conflict, and was by all accounts, not serious. However, Dic Penderyn was sentenced to death.

Contributing to his prosecution was James Abbott, a local hairdresser and Special Constable for the Police, who testified that he'd personally saw Dic Penderyn stab Private Donald Black.

Private Black however, went on record to say categorically, the man that stabbed him was not Dic Penderyn. However, at this point, the ruling class wanted someone to answer for the Rising. Since they gave Lewis Lewis a reprieve with his sentence being commuted; this move was in-part because they didn't want his hanging to trigger another rebellion - so with Lewis Lewis out of the firing line of the magistrates, they sought to try, convict and sentence someone for the crime as an example to the workers of Merthyr. Dic Penderyn was their scapegoat.

They had one testimony from James Abbott aligning him with the crime, but a conflicting testimony from the victim himself that Dic was not the perpetrator, as well as many outspoken members of the public who saw Dic Penderyn elsewhere in the crowd during the conflict. None of this mattered, all that was required was James Abbott's testimony, and a judge was convinced, and he was therefore sentenced to hang.

His sentence triggered an outpouring of support, from many working-class and their wealthy landowners and employers alike. A petition was signed 11,000 people in the region, and was supported by the likes of Joseph Tregelles Price, the Quaker philanthropist. All this support was hoped to move Lord Melbourne the Home Secretary at the time of the Rising, especially when Price petitioned him personally to commute sentence, but the petition was refused.

On the 13th of August, having been transported to Cardiff, Dic uttered the famous line "O Arglwydd, dyma gamwedd" (O Lord, there is an injustice) prior to being hanged for the 'crimes'. The hanging reportedly caused his pregnant wife to suffer an immediate miscarriage.

He was laid to rest in St Mary's Church in Aberavon, and his body was accompanies on the funeral march by thousands of mourners.

Conspiracy

At the point when Joseph Tregelles Price sought to petition the Lord Melbourne, it very much appeared (and was later reported as) the arrest and subsequent sentence were ordered personally by Lord Melbourne in order to make an example of the rioters, and as such, Price's petition was summarily refused, and the hanging was to go ahead. It appeared to onlookers that the wheels of justice were directed at Dic Penderyn purposefully, and through no sense of the reality of 'justice', but as revenge for the workers of Merthyr's audacity of rebelling against the ruling class. Dic Penderyn was officially convicted of stabbing, but his sentence was to single-handedly bear the entirety of the consequence across the whole of the Merthyr Rising rebellion event.

More evidence of a conspiracy to convict emerged in later years when hairdresser and one-time Special Constable for the Police admitted that he lied under oath, and that he was directly instructed to do so by Lord Melbourne.

In 1874, in America, a high-regarded minister named Evan Evans communicated that a man by the name of Ianto Parker had been the person to stab Private Donald Black, which was confessed to him as part of a deathbed confession. Parker had, upon committing the crime, immediately fled to America to escape justice.

It looks like the Crown and the Parliament got their revenge for the riots by killing an innocent man, when they knew full well the extent of his innocence.

Legacy

Dic Penderyn's legacy is that he is a martyr. He is viscerally representative of the Crown, the wealthy, and Parliaments campaign against the poor and working-class of the country. His ascension to martyr was immediate, and far-reaching. Nearly 200 years after his death, his name is still known. There is a plaque on the wall of Cardiff Market where the gallows once stood, and even as recently as 2016, MP for Aberavon, alongside MPs for the Cynon Valley where much of the conflicts took place, are campaigning parliament to officially extend an exoneration.

Dic Penderyn is innocent.

Dic Penderyn was killed unlawfully by the Crown.

Dic Penderyn is a martyr.

Cofiwch Dic Penderyn.

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Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dic_Penderyn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merthyr_Rising

https://biography.wales/article/s-LEWI-RIC-1807

https://biography.wales/article/s-LEWI-LEW-1793

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_Kingdom#Postwar_reaction:_1815%E2%80%931822

https://libcom.org/library/1831-merthyr-tydfil-uprising

https://www.socialist.net/the-merthyr-rising-1831-rage-rebellion-and-the-red-flag.htm

Consolidation of conflicting facts, my own.

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I'm kinda freaking out. People are talking about food not coming in. Does this mean there'll be rations on stuff? I can't see my family this year, which is just depressing. I have no clue if I'm gonna have to do my A levels exams. If they are cancelled then how will results be decided?? I've fallen off the wagon with my maths hw, will that fuck me over?? No clue if we're going back to school in the new year given how quick massive changes are being made. There's a new covid strain that's apparently more contagious!? Does this mean the vaccine will be useless now? ...It's just a lot y'know? Do you by any chance have any tips on how to calm down?

1) Most food is still able to come in at the moment- there are no restrictions on what can come across the border.

The current issue is that France have said no people (including lorry drivers) are allowed into France from the UK. Which means there are a LOT of lorries stuck in Kent with nowhere to go- which causes delays. It also means EU drivers don’t want to come over here and get stuck.

Unaccompanied freight can still come over, so AFIAK it’s mostly refrigerated lorries which are affected, and there are other routes in and out of the UK. But it will all have a knock on effect and we can probably expect to see random shortages in the shops for the next few weeks at least- not of everything but it might be e.g. no tomatoes or no cheese or whatever.

Of course, if we have No Deal Brexit, that compounds the situation, because then, in theory, we have to customs check everything that comes in. Chances are we won’t, we’ll just wave everything on through, but again, getting things back out will be an issue and EU firms will be less keen to deliver stuff to the UK.

There’s already been disruption to the supply chain due to Covid, and Christmas is a disruptive time of year anyway. Supermarkets have plans, but it’s very likely we’d have a bit of an uncomfortable time- I don’t think it would be rationing levels uncomfortable, but you might not be able to get all the food you like. Which is a major issue for people with allergies/intolerances/restricted diets, who may have a limited amount of safe food.

I don’t think we’ll see official rationing, but it might be like March/April, where supermarkets put in their own restrictions.

The major pain will be for our exporters and anyone in manufacturing who rely on certain parts being able to get through in a timely manner.

2) We’ve got no word on A-level exams - at the moment they are going ahead as normal. Last year, CAGs would take into account mock performance and your assessments in class over the year, but this year it’s likely teachers will have less data. I’d try to get back on the wagon with your homework- either way it can only help you.

3) At the moment, if you’re in Y13 and you’re in school rather than a sixth form college, you should be in school on 4th Jan or whenever term starts. Exam years are to be in as normal. I would assume that plan is going ahead until something changes- I reckon it’s unlikely they will change it again. It’s more likely other years will go on a rota or something.

4) The vaccine apparently works on the new strain- but it means all of us need to be more careful (especially teenagers who are more prone to the new strain) until we can get vaccinated.

I know it’s all super stressful, and I had a bit of a panic the other night too. If you’re feeling panicky all the time and can’t calm down, please contact your GP. It’s normal to feel anxious to some extent- this is scary stuff. But if you feel panicky for hours or days at a time, then definitely talk to a healthcare professional.

Sometimes it can help to focus on the things you can control- like doing your maths homework and wearing a mask when you go out and sticking to the rules on socialising. Sometimes it might be good to take a short break from the news- especially over Christmas.

If you are really worried, maybe talk to your parents about how you could take that first week in January off.

But feeling a bit anxious, some of the time, about a global pandemic and no deal brexit is also normal. They are both scary prospects, and it is normal to be a bit scared of them.