Ifan Morgan Jones “So life in the Shire goes on, very much as it has this past Age… full of its own comings and goings, with change coming slowly, if it comes at all.” This is Bilbo Baggins’ description of his home county in the Lord of the Rings, but […]
Iestyn ap Rhobert, first Chair of YesCymru With YesCymru approaching 18,000 members it has been a long and sometimes difficult journey to get where we are today, yet 2021 sees YesCymru marking its 5th year as a membership organisation and the second largest political organisation in Wales. YesCymru had opened up […]
*English follows below* Aled Roberts, Comisiynydd y Gymraeg Does dim amheuaeth ynghylch pwysigrwydd y sector addysg fel un o brif lwybrau creu siaradwyr Cymraeg newydd. Bydd cyflawni’r nod o gyrraedd miliwn o siaradwyr erbyn 2050 yn gofyn am gynllunio strategol ar draws y gyfundrefn addysg; o’r sector gofal plant ac addysg […]
Llŷr Gruffydd, Plaid Cymru Shadow Minister for Rural Affairs and the Environment The Senedd will vote this week on a new set of controversial water regulations commonly known as the Nitrate Vulnerable Zones or NVZ Regulations. These are the regulations that the Environment and Rural Affairs Minister famously promised Members […]
Dafydd Trystan Today has seen the publication of BBC/ICM’s yearly St. David’s Day poll for Wales – which shows Labour strengthening its position somewhat and the Conservatives and Plaid vying for second place but largely sharing the regional spoils between them. Based on the BBC graphic used in their report, […]
Professor Peter Saul, Joint-Chair RCGP Cymru Wales “The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need of the population served”. It is a sentence which could easily fit into the growing evidence base looking at how the impact of Covid-19 has spotlighted health inequalities in Britain […]
Ifan Morgan Jones You wait ages for a bus, and then… When Nation.Cymru launched in 2017 the main motivating force behind it was that there was a huge gap in English language national news provision in Wales. In the Welsh language, we had Golwg360, BBC Cymru Fyw, Newyddion 9, Barn […]
Richard Tunnicliffe A few weeks ago Ifan Morgan Jones wrote an interesting article for this site arguing that Patriotism and Nationalism are the same thing and that we were all nationalists. I felt I had to respond to it because it was one of those rare articles where I found […]
Ifan Morgan Jones There are few issues as emotive in Welsh local government as changing a school from Welsh to English medium (or vice versa). It combines understandably strong feelings that parents have about what is best for their children on one side and understandably strong feelings about the future […]
Steve Thomas It’s a feature of current political debate that huge energy is spent arguing for enlarged democracy for Wales, but silence dominates when it comes for the case for democracy within Wales. While the national argument rages, local government languishes in a lower league, often maligned and prone to […]
