Sanddef Rhyferys

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Sanddef Rhyferys
Sanddef Rhyferys

Sanddef Rhyferys (born Simon John Taylor on 3 October 1972) is a Welsh blogger, Plaid Cymru member, Cymuned activist and former busker

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[edit] Education & Background

Born in Gütersloh, North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany and raised as a child of the Royal Air Force in various locations in Wales, Scotland and England, Rhyferys was educated at primary schools in Elgin, Moray, Halton, Buckinghamshire and Swanton Morley, Norfolk; in the former St George's boarding school in Great Finborough, Suffolk, at Northgate Highschool in East Dereham, Norfolk, at Ysgol David Hughes in Menai Bridge, Anglesey, and at Bangor University, Gwynedd.

Rhyferys is of Scottish and Irish descent through his father, a native of Greenock, and of Polish, Welsh and Irish descent through his mother, a native of Llangefni.[1]

[edit] Political activity

As a professional busker holding individualist anarchist and left-libertarian views he was involved with the squatting movement in Amsterdam, Berlin, Oslo, Barcelona, Christiania in Copenhagen and especially in the depopulated Pyrenees region of Aragon, Spain. He has also been a member of the cultural co-operative Kulturfabrik Moabit in Moabit, Berlin, since 1994.

As well as being a member of Cymuned and Plaid Cymru, other political activities in the past have included taking part in demonstrations organised by Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg and involvement with the Abertzale movement, particularly the call for Basque political prisoners to be relocated to the Basque Country.[2] [3]

[edit] Media work

His blog, entitled ORDOVICIUS (singular of Ordovicii), is one of the most widely-read political blogs in Wales, and it is as the author of that blog that he has appeared on 18 Doughty Street[4] [5], S4C's politics programme, CF99, and has written for the Welsh language current affairs magazine Barn, as well as appearing in the 'Who's Who' section of Iain Dale's Guide to Political Blogging in the UK (Harriman House, 2007).

He interviewed Conservative candidates Dylan Jones-Evans and Guto Bebb in Llandudno for 18 Doughty Street as well as his own blog, a video that was later posted on Conservative Home. Other video blog interviews include Ffred Ffransis of the Welsh Language Society and Aran Jones of Cymuned.

He is also a prominent Welsh language blogger and a polyglot, speaking fluent Spanish, German and Aragonese as well as Welsh and English.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Fy Mhroffeil, from the Welsh language blog e-clectig
  2. ^ Fy Mhroffeil, from the Welsh language blog e-clectig
  3. ^ Dale, Iain, Guide to Political Blogging in the UK, Harriman House, 2007
  4. ^ 18DoughtyStreet Blogger TV interview, from the 18 Doughty Street website
  5. ^ 18DoughtyStreet Blogger TV interview in the Senedd, from the 18 Doughty Street website