Jack Pulman-Slater Wales has exported an awful lot over the centuries: we’ve churned out of coal, a lot of water has been extracted out of us and we do a good line in pop singers, sports personalities and cheese. Since living in London and working as a Welsh tutor, I’ve […]
Ifan Morgan Jones Who should you vote for in you want to oppose the Brexit Party in Wales? The answer, mathematically, is Plaid Cymru. And I’ll explain why now. The first thing to remember however is that Wales is one constituency in the EU elections. So it doesn’t matter if […]
Jill Evans, European Election Candidate for Plaid Cymru Wales is in a child poverty crisis. Research published this week by Loughborough University for End Child Poverty Network – a coalition of organisations which includes Children in Wales, Oxfam Cymru, Barnardo’s Cymru and Save The Children, found that 29.3% of children […]
Terry Mackie The New Curriculum for Wales, planned for implementation from 2022, has dominated Welsh educational discourse since 2015 in the same way that Brexit is overshadowing UK political issues. Our Government has bet the farm on a new curriculum being the brighter future for all its future learners. But […]
Tim Richards The Brexit party is the first virtual political party – so vague that it is difficult to know what they really want, except to become members of a European Parliament that they are opposed to. They are asking people to vote for them without explaining what a vote […]
Ifan Morgan Jones Please sign my petition calling on the Welsh Assembly to stop politicians elected on the regional list from switching parties. This may seem like quite a technical and dull issue to be petitioning about, so let me explain why it’s important. Today, four Assembly Members in the […]
Caoimhín De Barra Growing up in Ireland, I didn’t know much about Wales. Frankly, I thought it was just part of England. It wasn’t until I learned that it had its own language, just as we do in Ireland, that I became more curious. Eventually, this led to me writing […]
Gareth Ceidiog Hughes No you did not misread the headline. No, this isn’t satire either. I’m deadly serious. Well perhaps not deadly. However I am serious. Monkeys and grapes can indeed tell us something about the S4C poll on devolution. The poll was for the S4C politics show Y Byd […]
Rhun ap Iorwerth, Ynys Môn Assembly Member I take both a personal and political interest in promoting a shift from petrol and diesel to new, greener, propulsion technology. I have had a lifelong interest in the motor vehicle, from transport, engineering and aesthetic perspectives, but I’m acutely aware of the […]
Emyr Jenkins, images Jon Gower, words Usually it’s left to the future to decide which moments are historic but luckily we had a historian among the 2,000 marchers for independence in Cardiff. Swansea University’s Martin Johnes though it was “maybe a historic moment in the history of our nation” and […]
