Jonathan Edwards, Plaid Cymru MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Over a year ago, in an article for the Western Mail, I warned that when the crunch point comes, the House of Commons would face paralysis on Brexit. There is no majority in Westminster for a hard Brexit that would do […]
Carwyn Graves Un o nodweddion amlycaf diwylliant y Cymry Cymraeg yw gafael cymaint ohonom ar ddaearyddiaeth. Mae daearyddiaeth yn ganolog i’r broses o ddod i nabod rhywun – ‘o ble ych chi’n dod, de?’ – ac yn elfen graidd i hunaniaeth llawer ohonom gyda chysyniadau fel ‘y milltir sgwar’, ‘brogarwch’, […]
Cynog Dafis, former Plaid Cymru MP for Ceredigion and AM for Mid and West Wales Plaid Cymru is in the electoral doldrums. We narrowly averted disaster in the 2017 election and our membership is stagnant at a time of buzzing, if sceptical, interest in the political process. Both Labour and the […]
Daran Hill, Managing Director at Positif public affairs consultancy The most turbulent term ever at the Assembly in party political terms is drawing to a close, leaving observers both breathless and bewildered. Yet some questions continue to niggle. How on earth did it take some people so long to make their minds […]
Leanne Wood, Leader of Plaid Cymru Westminster’s extraction and exploitation of our natural resources is an emotive and historically significant issue. The physical scars still mark our national landscape and emotional ones our national psyche. The last extractable resource of value to England, our water, is now the target. I […]
Alex Meredith I have been involved in a big renewable energy project that was cancelled due to lack of government support. I’ll never forget the emotion from the project leader, the ashen faces of colleagues around me, the expletives uttered about the relevant minister, and the slow sullen shuffle for […]
Leanne Wood AM, Leader of Plaid Cymru “Running around in circles screaming” was the sum-total of the Labour First Minister’s plan to mitigate the worst of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit for Wales. That’s what he told me in First Minister’s Questions. Westminster is in chaos and leaving the EU without a […]
Dafydd Mac Is football going ‘home’? Who knows! Do the people of Wales want it to go ‘home’? Well some do, some don’t, and many don’t care. But what seems clear is that, win or lose, England is particularly keen that the rest of the UK get behind them. I’ve […]
Teilo Trimble, Vice Chair YesCymru Aberystwyth As one of the founder members of YesCymru Aberystwyth, I have had dozens if not hundreds of conversations with people about independence. With friends, family members, work colleagues and strangers; Particularly on street stalls which we have held over the last year and a […]
Huw Williams The recent speech given on the Welsh language by Phil Bale, the ex-leader of Cardiff Council, seems to have ruffled a few feathers, especially with his declaration that all new schools in Cardiff should be bilingual or Welsh medium. In fact, his ideas succeeded in getting so much […]