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Ian Saltern 〓〓
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Cornish rights, culture, economy and community. Bard of Gorsedh Kernow /|\ Views my own 〓〓 Claire and I wrote this: https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/c30m0joh/the-cornish-a-uk-national-minority-web.pdf
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · Nov 16
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The UK's forgotten 'fifth nation'
The Tamar River is central to Cornish history and identity, marking a 1,000-year-old divide between Celtic Cornwall and Anglo Saxon England.
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · 2d
Coastguards rescue six people “in Cornwall” cut off by tide.

There are many sound reasons why Cornwall should be disaggregated from BBC News coverage of ‘the south west’ - high amongst them is a woeful ignorance of the area - Woolacombe is in Devon.

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Cornwall coastguards rescue six people cut off by tide
Falmouth Coastguards said teams across Cornwall had been called out multiple times this weekend.
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Onnen Jolly @onnenjolly.bsky.social · 3d
Dy'Sul lowen dhewgh oll!
Fatel owgh hwi?
Ottomma lyvrow yeth kernewek pur bosek. Res yw dhyn moy!

(Happy Sunday to you all!
How are you?
Here are very important Cornish language books. We need more!)

#kernewek #kernow #cornish #vornwall #langsky
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · 4d
I did! Drog yw genev!
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · 9d
Gool Mighal Lowen | Happy Feast of St Michael 🗡️ 〓〓
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · 12d
‘One size fits all’ disadvantaging Cornwall. Again.

Policies (or indices) designed by the centre and applied from the centre fail Cornwall time and again. Devolve now! 〓〓

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Rural poverty 'hidden behind scenic views' www.bbc.com/news/article...
Cornish rural deprivation 'misunderstood' warns new report
New research says current deprivation measurements don't take into account rural difficulties.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 12d
“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏
Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians
The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · 13d
Nine years have passed in the blink of an eye. Miss you. Always.
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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 14d
please stop and think of the hogs
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · 13d
Today is the Feast of St Cadoc - a Cymraes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 who established chapels in Breizh ➕ Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿and Padstow parish, Kernow 〓〓 His ‘Life’, written in the early Norman period, mentions King Arthur 🗡️👑 Also the Feast of St Finbar - an Éireannach - venerated at Fowey 🇮🇪
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · 17d
Peace to all the nations of Earth
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · 17d
The people of today’s Cornwall were trading tin with the people of today’s Palestine (Levant) some 4,000 years ago. Such trade with the eastern Mediterranean continued into the sixth century CE - with unprecedented amounts of pottery once holding wine and oil found at Tintagel #Palestine
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · 17d
@jaynekirkhammp.bsky.social is right. Let’s continue to fight for the funding, powers, recognition and respect Kernow deserves from the UK Government, and not simply argue our case from within the paradigm of an ‘English’ Devolution Bill. Would Wales? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Would Scotland? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · 23d
Yn hwir!!!

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Cornish clung on as living language beyond Dolly Pentreath, says writer
Author of new book suggests Kernewek continued to be spoken in the 19th century, albeit in ‘tiny numbers’
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · Sep 7
It’s amazing what we can do in Cornwall when we intervene to create the right conditions for traditional inhabitants to live and thrive.

Cornish families next?

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BBC Radio Cornwall - BBC Radio Cornwall, Bumper breeding season for Cornish Choughs
Julie Skentelbery has been finding out more from Paul St Pierre from the RSPB.
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · Sep 4
Cornwall’s national bird (like its national identity) is on the rise - not that the BBC (England, county) would ever see it that way.

Bird charities 'choughed' as numbers increase again www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bird charity choughed as numbers increase
The number of Cornish chough chicks has surpassed 100 for the third year running.
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · Sep 3
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MP declares he is Cornish, not English, and urges others to be ‘loud and proud’
Cornish people should be “loud and proud” of their identity, a Labour MP has said, as he told the Commons he is not English. Perran Moon said he had been “mocked” for describing himself as Cornish, as...
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Cornwall is a Nation @yescornwall.bsky.social · Sep 3
Cornish MP Perran Moon stands up in Parliament and declares “I am Cornish, not English”
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Kernow 〓〓 @kernow.bsky.social · Sep 2
Cornish Labour MP Perran Moon:

"I'm first and foremost a Cornishman. My party is very, very important to me, but the prime minister made very clear in the run-up to the election that it was Party first, country second. My country is Cornwall"

#KernowFirst

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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · Aug 31
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Rose of Nevada review – uncanny ghost ship story from one-of-a-kind Cornish auteur
A vanished trawler returns in Mark Jenkin’s time-slipping film, an enigmatic drama steeped in loss, memory and the unsettling rhythms of coastal life
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · Aug 31
On this day in 1644, the Cornish Royalist Army defeated the Parliamentarians at the Battle of Lostwithiel. It would be the heaviest Parliamentarian defeat of the entire Civil War, with thousands taken prisoner, and thousands more chased out of Cornwall by an angry populace.
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · Aug 27
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Cornwall is a Nation @yescornwall.bsky.social · Aug 18
Cornish MPs have called on Historic England to ensure that its Cornish sites reflect Cornwall’s national history and status.

They say Cornwall’s heritage is not “a subset of English history”.

Even better would be to call for all Cornish heritage sites to be run from Cornwall.
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · Aug 27
Keep sharing! Approaching 20,000 signatures 〓〓

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Grant Cornwall nation status
We urge the UK Government to formally recognize Cornwall as a nation, granting it equal status to Wales and Scotland. This includes devolved powers, cultural preservation, and official recognition of Cornwall’s distinct heritage, language, and historic autonomy.
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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · Aug 24
Palores! | Chough!

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Illuminated - Into the West - BBC Sounds
Horatio Clare goes in search of the bird he’s loved since childhood: the red-billed chough
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