Theo Davies-Lewis Much of the last week has been dominated by debates over the influx of people into Wales. The problem was so severe that several political leaders in North Wales wrote to the First Minister to say that that they were “extremely concerned” about tourists’ ability to maintain social […]
Ifan Morgan Jones It recently dawned on me that the reason why Scottish independence now feels so inevitable is that the Unionist parties no longer seem bothered to make the effort required to stop it from happening. It’s difficult to come to any other conclusion looking at what is going […]
Hywel Williams, Plaid Cymru MP for Arfon This week Plaid Cymru submitted its thoughts to yet another review on the so-called ‘restoration and renewal’ of Westminster. In truth you don’t need 750 words to make the argument, the shocking stats are enough. The cost of restoring the Palace of Westminster […]
Rhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru Member of Senedd for Ynys Môn and Plaid Cymru Shadow Health Minister The world is in the grip of a brand new virus, and even before it was declared a global pandemic, anyone who could, started to take measurements. Data is king, after all. As […]
Owen McArdle Powys County Council politics rarely throws up much to quicken the pulse. It was a surprise, then, that there has been a row this week that has made it beyond the borders of our shire and into national political discourse, based around an implication (or inference – people […]
Heledd Fychan, Plaid Cymru Councillor representing Pontypridd Town ward Last week schools and sixth forms in Pontypridd were saved from closure after a historic legal judgement. Since the plans were first mooted there had been uproar locally with children, young people, parents, teachers and the wider community joining forces to […]
Theo Davies-Lewis One of the most poignant statements from John Hume, who died this week at the age of 83, was on the nature of being different. The former SDLP leader and Nobel Laureate said that difference should never be the source of hatred or conflict, but something we should […]
Sian Gwenllian MS, Plaid Cymru Shadow Minister for Culture and the Welsh Language Are Ynys Lawd, Llyn Bochlwyd or Clogwyn y Geifr names you’re familiar with? If not, you’re unlikely to learn of them from modern maps, guide books or websites, in which they’re being replaced with anglicised names such […]
Gydag ychydig llai na blwyddyn i fynd nes Etholiad Senedd 2021, beth yw cyflwr y prif bleidiau, pa ganlyniad allen nhw obeithio amdano a pha bynciau llosg sy’n debygol o ddylanwadu ar y ras? Yn ymuno â’r sgwrs mae rhai o’r unigolion rheini sydd wedi cyfrannu’r erthyglau mwyaf heriol a […]
Llinos Dafydd Last week, the Victims’ Commissioner Dame Vera Baird QC decried the “catastrophic” decline in prosecutions for rape. “We are witnessing”, she wrote, “the decriminalisation of rape. In some cases, we are enabling persistent predatory sex offenders to go on to re-offend in the knowledge that they are highly […]
