Ifan Morgan Jones Once Brexit is ‘done’ the Welsh Parliament is likely to become a target for those who wish to further centralise political power at Westminster. There are some signs that the effort has already begun, with a Facebook page (originally run out of an address in Bristol) set […]
Martin Johnes, Professor of History at Swansea University Why Welsh declined is an emotive topic. For more than a hundred years, some have liked to blame the British state, with the Welsh Not offering an apparently convenient symbol of official attitudes. Others prefer to argue that wider state attitudes deliberately […]
Cerith Rhys Jones Over the weekend, the leader of the Brexit ‘party’ group in the Senedd, Mark Reckless, gave an interview to BBC Wales, in which he floated the idea of making the position of First Minister directly elected. This would be a significant departure from the current system, in […]
*English follows below* Catrin Glyn, Partneriaeth Yr Wyddfa Ers sawl blwyddyn bellach, mae’r nifer blynyddol sy’n ymweld â’r Wyddfa yn uwch na 600,000, ac mewn ardal wledig warchodedig mae hynny ar brydiau yn creu heriau sylweddol o fewn ein cymunedau lleol ac i’n hamgylchedd. Yn nhermau parcio a thrafnidiaeth mae […]
Neil Lewis, TrydaNi Following the announcement earlier this week of the huge investment by the Westminster Government in building HS2, all eyes have mostly been focused on rail infrastructure and how English, urban centres stand to benefit, while Wales will be negatively impacted. However, less attention is given to the […]
Gareth Ceidiog Hughes The Westminster system was created to run an empire. Consensus wasn’t really its modus operandi. Indeed, that would rather defeat the point, which was for those running the British Empire to tell the people in the colonies what to do, and nick their stuff. Because of this, […]
Ant Evans Mine was apparently a difficult birth, but when I eventually arrived, there was silence. I took a couple of minutes to take my first breath, which was a source of great concern for my mother (though the staff told her everything was fine). They still insisted I was […]
Ifan Morgan Jones The political left needs to start winning elections, and soon, or the 2020s are going to be an extremely long decade for them. In the UK and USA, it is now almost a decade since anyone on the left won a nation-state wide referendum or election. Across […]
Leena Sarah Farhat, Diversity officer for the Welsh Liberal Democrats You may have heard the word mentioned. Windrush, the generation, the scandal and the ongoing pain to a group of people who came to the UK with the best of intentions. Between 1948 and 1970, nearly half a million people […]
Angharad Mair, Welsh Television presenter and Executive Director for Tinopolis This is a lightly edited transcript of Angharad Mair’s address at the Yes Cymru Talks event in in Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tudful on 25 January 2020. Some of you might have seen on twitter or Facebook an item we produced […]
