Mike Parker, Plaid Cymru’s candidate for Ceredigion in the 2015 Westminster General Election, looks at this year’s contest…
Opinion
Wales’ politics needs more women, fewer robots
Dr Rhiannon M Williams, lecturer in theatre & performance in USW, calls for more female politicians in Wales… I was sat on the sofa on Friday, breastfeeding my youngest, when Theresa May did the walk of shame to face the cameras after her visit to Buckingham Palace. A part of me almost […]
A Grand Coalition could be the only way out of the current crisis
Dyfrig Jones Reading today’s papers, it appears that June 11th is our National Day of Hot Takes. And, not wishing to feel left out from this important celebration of opinionation, I present to you my humble offering. It is, in the tradition of the great hot take, simplistic, self-important and […]
Once again, Wales voted Labour, got Tory
Ifan Morgan Jones Once again Wales went beyond the call of duty in ensuring that a Labour government was elected at Westminster. Contrary to the expectations that the Conservatives could take some seats such as Wrexham and Bridgend, it was Labour who over-ran the Vale of Clwyd, Gower and […]
Plaid Cymru: A few votes from disaster
Ifan Morgan Jones Plaid’s press office will attempt to spin last night’s General Election result as a positive one, and may well succeed in doing so. A disinterested British media will note that they kept all their seats, and added a new MP in Ceredigion’s Ben Lake. But the truth […]
Wales’ battlegrounds: Clwyd South
No. 33 on the Conservative’s target list, a victory here would suggest a healthy Tory majority. Aled McKenzie looks at how it could swing this time… Welsh people often like to describe their own region of the country as Wales in a microcosm, but in Clwyd South’s case this may […]
Britain’s growing neo-fascism won’t die with UKIP
The drift towards neo-fascism represented by UKIP isn’t dead – it’s become mainstream, argues Huw Williams… “And there is for us a terrible warning. For when the regime of profit comes to a point where it can no longer be doctored, it shall easily fall upon us that we are […]
It’s Blair, not Corbyn, at the heart of Welsh Labour
South Wales Central Assembly Member Neil McEvoy argues that those who support Corbyn’s policies should lend their vote to Plaid Cymru instead… 18 March 2003 – Labour bring about a vote on Iraq – Declaration of War. Within two days of Labour winning that vote they join the United […]
Putting the Red Dragon on top of it: A Welsh space economy
Dr Bleddyn E. Bowen of the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London, looks at the state of the much-ignored British space economy and the hurdles for the Welsh space economy… When most people think of outer space, the Space Race to the moon, the International Space Station (ISS), or the […]
Wales’ battlegrounds: Ceredigion
Could an upset be on the cards for young Plaid Cymru candidate Ben Lake? Huw Williams senses that the Liberal Democrats will lose votes to both the Conservatives and Labour… If there is any certainty that can be expressed about politics in Ceredigion, it is that you never quite know […]
