Ifan Morgan Jones Jeremy Corbyn has been spending the final weekend before the General Election on a campaign visit to Wales. Coming to Wales makes complete sense as it is no longer a Labour fortress at Westminster elections but a key swing state, with both the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru […]
Gareth Ceidiog Hughes The census is racist. The Office for National Statistics’ 2021 survey essentially suggests you’re not Welsh if you’re not white. This is an appalling state of affairs, and the ONS has quite rightly received a fierce backlash. The singer Kizzy Crawford is one of many who’ve expressed […]
Adam Price, Leader of Plaid Cymru Anyone who has ever tried to get around Wales by train knows that what we have now is a crumbling, 19th-century rail system that simply isn’t fit for purpose. We have about 5% of the UK’s population and yet we get just 1% of […]
Ifan Morgan Jones At the beginning of this campaign, I thought that there was one seat in Wales that was almost certain to change hands: Ceredigion. The Liberal Democrats won only 4.5% of the vote in Wales at the 2017 General Election but when the 2019 GE was called they […]
Delyth Jewell AM, Plaid Cymru AM for South East Wales At election time, the NHS often dominates debate. But the reason why the future of our beloved health service is so starkly at stake in this dark December election is just this: if Boris Johnson gets his Brexit deal, there’ll […]
Gareth Ceidiog Hughes The Barry Horns have been sent into permanent Twitter exile. After being banished to the Twitter equivalent of Siberia a few times, the account of the very fine brass band and Welsh football superfans has been chucked out for what appears to be for good. Its name […]
Ifan Morgan Jones Ideally, everyone would just vote for their first-choice candidate. If you’re one of the people who intend to do so no matter what, then this article isn’t for you. Unfortunately however, as there’s no proportional voting at Westminster elections, voters are often forced into pragmatically choosing their […]
Nation.Cymru Editor Ifan Morgan Jones takes a look at the constituency of Ceredigion. In 2017 there were only 104 votes in it as the seat flipped from the Liberal Democrats’s Mark Williams to Plaid Cymru’s Ben Lake. Who will be victorious this time?
Greg Robson-Cainu Like many Welsh children, I grew up hearing stories of our famed rugby support; a crowd that was the first to sing a national anthem before a sporting event, the only crowd that sang in harmony, the crowd that led one BBC presenter back in 1964 to refer […]
Sian Burkitt An unfortunate reality of UK politics at the moment is that young, first-time voters are often disillusioned by the thought of heading out to the polls. In the last seven general elections, those aged 18-34 have consistently been the least likely to put pencil to paper at their […]
