Llinos Dafydd I was surprised at the BBC’s announcement today that Radio Cymru’s Andrew ‘Tommo’ Thomas will be returning to presenting after only two weeks off the air. According to Golwg 360 and Pink News, Tommo made off-colour comments about rape while presenting at the Gŵyl Nôl a Mla’n […]
The Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure, Ken Skates, has announced that plans for an ‘Iron Ring’ sculpture at Flint Castle have been put on hold. It was announced today that he would “pause and review the plans for the sculpture”. Ken Skates said: “We have listened and recognise […]
Huw Williams If the story of erecting a £400,000 iron ring in Flint Castle was a parody, it would be a wonderful allegory of modern day Wales. Unfortunately, difficult though it is to believe, it is not a made up story. This is real life, and it tells us […]
Ifan Morgan Jones Cadw has today released a statement defending the ‘Iron Ring’ sculpture that is due to be to installed at Flint Castle. It’s heartening that they state their willingness to “continue to listen to a range of views on this important project as it evolves”. However, their […]
Izzy Evans Welsh taxpayers are being asked to pay £630,000 for a memorial to their own conquest. It’s very difficult to come up with an alternative explanation for the ‘giant Iron Ring’ which is to be erected at Flint Castle. According to the Welsh Government’s own statement: “The Iron […]
Once again there are people tediously arguing that the National Eisteddfod’s ‘Welsh-only’ rule should be abandoned and that the festival should allow people to compete in English. For some reason, it’s the BBC that seems to pick at this scab year after year. And not a year seems to […]
Ifan Morgan Jones Since JRR Tolkien first introduced us to Middle-Earth in the 1930’s modern fantasy authors have mined Welsh mythology for inspiration. Some of the most successful blockbusters and series of the last 20 years, including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, are all seriously indebted to Wales’ […]
The Chairman of Literature Wales has hit back against criticism of the body published in a government report. The report, commissioned by the Welsh Government, recommended that Literature Wales have its funding and responsibilities cut. But the Chair of Literature Wales, Professor Damian Walford Davies, has condemned the report as […]
Ifan Morgan Jones I’m yet to meet anyone who thinks that the Government’s target of 1 million Welsh speakers by 2050 is anything other than an attempt to kick the issue into the long grass. It’s difficult to take seriously any deadline which will be reached after the politicians […]
Jasmine Donahaye There may not be blood, but we should expect a fight. At last, after repeated delays, the review of government support for publishing and literature in Wales has appeared. And what a report it is. Personal and partisan in tone, its recommendations are harsh: to strip Literature Wales […]
