Luke Upton 1. The Expert Your lucky to be in his company (and it is always a he) and what will unfold across the 80 minutes will be a master class of insight and expertise so good he’ll expect you to be writing it down. As soon as the game […]
Opinion
The Tryweryn statue campaign shows how Welsh identity is still defined by our losses
Theo Davies-Lewis What makes us who we are? It’s a central question that we have tried to answer in order to comprehend key ideas about human purpose and existence. For anthropologists like me, it is an increasingly difficult one to answer, complicated over recent centuries by the formation of nation […]
The Pitching In disaster shows that you need to ‘make in Wales’ not just ‘set in Wales’
Delyth Jewell AM, Plaid Cymru Shadow Minister for International Affairs and Culture I like Larry Lamb. He’s an eminently warm and likeable thespian. Lamb by name, lamb by nature. But it’s Lamb to the slaughter in his new role as Frank Hardcastle in the BBC’s catastrophic new series, Pitching In. […]
Viewed from abroad, the UK has become an international laughing-stock
Patrick McGuinness One of the educational things about going abroad for a few days is that it helps us see our country from the outside. Not that I’d especially want to see that, given the state it’s in. Because the UK is, not to mince my words, an international laughing-stock […]
Westminster is deliberately holding back Cardiff Airport – and Wales’ economy – to favour Bristol
David Williams This morning the Welsh Government has accused the Westminster Government of deliberately holding back plans to boost the number of domestic routes from Cardiff Airport. This isn’t a surprise as the Westminster Government has shown every indication of wanting to hold back the development of Cardiff Airport and […]
Imposing martial law on Britain’s streets wasn’t on the side of the big red Brexit bus
Jonathan Edwards, Plaid Cymru MP Symon Hill, Peace Pledge Union The current chaos over Brexit must not be weaponised to present the armed forces as the only institutions which can save us in a crisis – a narrative straight from the playbook of crass reactionaries the world over. Both Leavers […]
How memes are changing the Welsh national movement
Joe Williams Are memes really a part of the Welsh National Movement? Do memes have any importance? Are they even really a topic worth discussing? If you had asked me a year ago, I would have said that memes were a fun, albeit inconsequential part of politics within Wales. They […]
Why scrapping the name ‘Welsh Parliament’ and sticking to just ‘Senedd’ is a bad idea
Ifan Morgan Jones I’m a huge supporter of the Welsh language. I speak it at every opportunity- with my children, in my community and at work. I’ve written five books in the Welsh language and written and edited hundreds of articles for Golwg, Golwg 360, Barn, BBC Cymru Fyw and […]
The trial of nine Catalan political prisoners clashes with the fundamental values of the European Union
Jill Evans, Plaid Cymru MEP Today, after having been in arbitrary pre-trial detention for over fourteen months, nine Catalan political prisoners (six former members of the Catalan Government, the former Speaker of Parliament and two civil society leaders) are facing a long trial before the Spanish Supreme Court. They face the […]
While Wales remains invisible on the silver screen no one will know who we are
Nick Stradling, Wales in the Movies Most of us have no doubt at some point been abroad and mentioned that we’re from Wales. Usually, the person will either look rather bemused (very common) or tell you that they thought Wales was part of England. For any Welshman or woman, this […]
