More than 60 Welsh MPs, Assembly Members, and other pro-EU campaign leaders have published an open letter to First Minister Mark Drakeford, urging him to press the UK Government and the Labour leadership to back a new referendum on the final Brexit deal. They say that the ‘paralysis’ and ‘chaos’ […]
The shadow of Brexit looms large over the Bevan Foundation’s forecast for Wales in 2019. The influential Welsh think tank notes in its latest State of Wales briefing that, with the UK set to depart the EU in just three months, the lack of clarity about the sort of Brexit […]
Plaid Cymru has described delays to the government’s Superfast Cymru broadband roll-out programme as ‘unacceptable’ with some parts of Wales facing delays of up to two years for new connections to be installed. Phase 1of the scheme ended in late 2017and following delays in the tendering process the commencement of […]
Aran Jones The single most important project for the future of the Welsh language is – quietly – up and running at Bangor University, working with Meddal.com. Whether it succeeds or not, though, is entirely in the hands of ordinary Welsh speakers. It’s all about voice. Voice is rapidly becoming […]
An Assembly Member has clashed with Jeremy Vine after the BBC presenter seemed to suggest that Welsh was on par with a foreign language in the UK. Sian Gwenllian, the Plaid Cymru AM for Arfon, said that his comments implied that “other languages don’t belong here, indigenous or otherwise”. Jeremy […]
BBC Radio 2 host Jeremy Vine has been criticised after seeming to suggest that Welsh was on par with a foreign language in the UK, and that people should speak English instead. His official Twitter feed responded to an online message suggesting that Welsh people speaking Welsh in Wales was […]
Members of the Kurdish community in Wales are on hunger strike after a lawmaker of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) was arrested by the Turkish state. Leyla Güven went on hunger strike after her imprisonment and has been joined in her protest by many Kurds across Europe, including in Wales. Welsh […]
A Welsh Conservative candidate has come under fire after calling the Welsh curriculum “appalling” – because it aimed to develop children as “ethical, informed citizens”. Ross England, the 2016 and 2021 Welsh Conservative candidate for the Vale of Glamorgan Assembly constituency, was responding to a statement from the Welsh Government. […]
The BBC has been accused of keeping people in the dark about Welsh politics after it emerged that none of the next 14 episodes of Question Time will be filmed here. All episodes will be filmed in England, apart from one which will be filmed in Scotland. It comes after […]
More than half of those who indicated a preference want Wales to have more powers, according to a poll by Sky Data and Cardiff University. Excluding don’t knows, 52% said that they wanted more powers for the Assembly or wanted Wales to become independent of the UK. Only 19% said that […]
