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Article: Flights of fancy or intellectual butterfly?; Glyn Mon Hughes on a programme trying to unmask the true face of politician Dafydd Elis Thomas.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2003
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Byline: Glyn Mon Hughes
0, who is the real Dafydd Elis Thomas?It's a question people -constituents, especially -must have been asking for decades by now. It was something of an historical moment when the BBC's anchor man in the election coverage of February 1974 talked about `big news for Plaid Cymru' -and Thomas's face flashed across the screen. He was to become the youngest MP in the House of Commons at that time -and that allowed him to continue his career of controversy.
It's led him from being a pirate radio DJ to a Peer of the Realm. From student protest or to Presiding Officer of the National Assembly.
Elis-Thomas seems to have alienated ...