In honour of Lisa Simpson taking up the
Cornish cause and shouting 'rydhsys rag Kernow lemmyn'
(Freedom for Cornwall now), Warlinenn is dedicating a page
to the yellow-skinned girl from Springfield. This event
was on Channel 4 on Christmas Day while the Queen
of England spouted on the BBC. Lisa deserves to be given an honoury
bardship for her efforts. The episode featured the family
on a soundstage recording a special Christmas message for
the UK. Lisa's part was brief (but so was the episode),
but effective, and in no way at all detrimental to the
Cornish cause.
The 'Lisa effect' has meant
global coverage for the story about how Cornwall's Celtic
culture is reviving and how the people of Cornwall are
pushing for their own assembly. The most recent examples
of this have been on www.reuters.co.uk,
BBC Radio 5-live, ABC Western Australia, and on Channel
4's Richard and Judy Show (see the picture). On the 5th
November 2004, Matthew Clarke from the Cornish Language
Fellowship was a live guest on the tea-time chatshow.
