Padi Phillips This article represents one last call for you to sign the petition to call on the Welsh Government to purchase and refurbish Coleg Harlech. Last week we saw the Welsh Government U-turn on cuts to the National Library of Wales, announcing an extra £6.2 million of funding after […]
Alison Alexander, Liberal Democrat Senedd candidate for Montgomeryshire Throughout January Wales saw multiple instances of flooding, including most notably the battering provided by Storm Christoph which resulted in 58 flood warnings throughout the country. Disruption was widespread across the whole of Wales, with homes evacuated from Ruthin in the North […]
Helen Mary Jones, Plaid Cymru’s Shadow Minister for Economy The Coronavirus pandemic isn’t just a public health crisis. It’s an economic crisis too. The Welsh economy is now facing its biggest challenge for a generation with unemployment predicted to reach 120,000 by the summer. So many of us have lost loved ones. […]
Ifan Morgan Jones The dominant form of national identity in Wales between around the Tudor period and the 2010s was what can be called ‘contributionist Welsh-British nationalism’. This kind of nationalism is interesting because it wasn’t a binary between Welshness on one hand and Britishness on the other. Rather it […]
Nesta Lloyd-Jones, Assistant Director of the Welsh NHS Confederation The NHS in Wales is going through one of its darkest winters in memory. The pressure on all our services due to the Coronavirus pandemic continues to be immense and for many of our staff working in our hospitals, GP surgeries, […]
Russell Deacon, Visiting Professor in History and Politics at the University of South Wales I recently did an interview for Bloomberg Radio and one of the central questions they were interested in was “If Scotland voted independent would Wales follow?” The reoccurring question is the second reason why news media […]
Dr Carl Iwan Clowes The corridors of the London School of Hygiene and Topical Medicine provided a hugely stimulating environment for this Master’s student, fresh and somewhat green from a medical practice in the Llŷn peninsula in the late 1970s. The London School, an internationally renowned centre for Public Health, […]
Jon Gower It is instructive to consider the contents of the Museum of Military Medicine at its current home in an Army barracks in Surrey in light of its declared aim of becoming one of Wales’ premier tourist attractions should it move to a new home in Cardiff Bay. Housing […]
Steve Thomas Those who engage with social media can’t fail to be impressed by the online presence of YesCymru. The independence movement dominates these platforms in Wales and should be congratulated on its success. The organisation is fast approaching 20,000 members and polls suggest support for independence has reached the […]
Neil Anderson As climate change bites deeper, it is inevitable that governments worldwide will assume greater control over humankind’s use of land. Long critical to our food supply and our well-being, the immense significance of land as a carbon sink has only recently come to be fully recognised. That its […]
