Stephen Amos A number of reports recently have highlighted the way that Wales is perceived when compared to the wider United Kingdom. Firstly, Sky News presenter Adam Boulton suggested in an interview with Delyth Jewell AM that Wales is not a country. Boulton asked: “Do you think that Wales really […]
Ifan Morgan Jones Over the next three and a half weeks until Election Day, we will be looking in more detail at some of the key electoral battlegrounds in Wales. But to get us started, here is an overview of some of the most interesting and most critical seats in […]
Gari Wyn, Ceir Cymru Finally, the Labour Party in Wales have openly and honestly shown their contempt and lack of respect towards the status of the Welsh language and the branding of our identity for the 21st century. In refusing to acknowledge and establish once and for all the historical […]
Ifan Morgan Jones One of the most notable but least commented-upon features of this General Election campaign in Wales has been the invisibility of Welsh Labour. In 2017 it was very different. Fearing that the unpopularity of Jeremy Corbyn would drag them down with him, First Minister Carwyn Jones – […]
Terry Mackie Let us not waste our time in idle discourse, as Beckett wrote. The Commissioner for The Office of Future Generations for Wales is to schooling as Ronnie Corbett was to basketball. Sophie Howe may be expert in many areas for all I know (she was called a ‘Labour […]
Nation.Cymru is a news service by the people of Wales, for the people of Wales. So we’d like you to help shape our election coverage! There are 40 constituencies in Wales, but the political battles going on in some are more interesting than others. Which ones do you have the […]
Helen Mary Jones AM, Plaid Cymru Shadow Minister for Health and Social Care At one point or another, every one of us will have to consider the possibility that we might need care as we get older. However, it’s not something many people like to think about until we reach […]
Ifan Morgan Jones When Nigel Farage announced that the Brexit Party would not be standing in Tory held seats the immediate reaction by many political pundits was that it was a huge boost for the Conservatives. The odds of a Tory majority flew up as everyone hurried to put their […]
Lt Col (Ret) Dr Rhys Thomas, Plaid Cymru parliamentary candidate for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Today marks 101 years since the allied forces and Germany signed an armistice treaty, to end one of the bloodiest periods of conflict in modern history. Welsh soldiers fought and died then, as they […]
Nicola Lund, part-time supply teacher Schools in Wales are facing a budget crisis, and yet the use of private teaching agencies has rocketed in recent years. Formerly, schools requiring cover teachers would employ regular supply teachers directly or would use local authority pools of suitably vetted and qualified staff. However, […]
