Rhisiart Tal-e-bot

Rhisiart Tal-e-bot (born Richard Stewart Talbot, Merthyr Tydfil, 1975) is a Welsh activist, Early Years lecturer and language expert who has been General Secretary of the Celtic League since 2006 and editor of Carn magazine since 2013. He is also the former president of the European Free Alliance Youth.

Tal-e-bot has been a long time member of the Celtic League, taking part in various campaigns, and writing articles for Carn since 2004. In 2006 he was elected by the annual general meeting of the League to be General Secretary. In 2013 he was also chosen to be the new editor of Carn.

As General Secretary, Tal-e-bot has pushed for greater representation of the Celtic League on international bodies. This culminated in the League securing NGO (Non-governmental organization) status with the United Nations, an achievement former General Secretary Bernard Moffat credits Tal-e-bot with.

Tal-e-bot has also led campaigns against the UK Government's now scrapped regional spatial strategies.

Under his editorship Carn has undergone several changes. Both printing and publishing of the magazine have moved from Ireland to Cornwall and it now has a glossy cover.

Tal-e-bot has been a member of the advisory board for the Institute for Cultural Relations Policy since 2012. The ICRP is a non-governmental and non-profit organisation for the fostering of scientific education and public discourse regarding cultural relations policy based in Budapest, Hungary.

As part of Mebyon Kernow, Tal-e-bot co-founded the youth branch Mebyon Kernow Bagas Yowynk, later KernowX. In 2013 he stood, unsuccessfully, for election to Camborne Town Council.

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