A Different View with Dave O’Connell

Even in a week when the Western World’s autocratic dictator was given a free run to invade a neighbouring state and snatch that country’s President, perhaps the most bizarre story of recent days occurred much closer to home.

It concerned the court appearance of a Welshman who had turned up at a remembrance event in the seaside resort of Llandudno in full military uniform, resplendent with at least a dozen military medals, to lay a wreath at the town’s monument.

Except he wasn’t a military man at all, and he’d bought the medals online. And he hadn’t been invited, but he took centre stage and belted out the national anthem like it was written for him or by him.

This week, 65-year-old Jonathan........

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