Liz Saville Roberts MP, Plaid Cymru Westminster leader ‘Wales isn’t too poor to be independent’ read the headline following my debate with ex-First Minister, Carwyn Jones on Tuesday. They were quoting Mr Jones, who seems to have had the revelation since standing down from the top job. To be fair, […]
Helen Wales, Chair of Cardiff for Europe Everyone has a theory about why the campaign to Remain in the EU failed to convince in 2016. Leave had better slogans. Remain only talked about the economy. People wanted to give Cameron a kicking. Project Fear. Cambridge Analytica. Boris Johnson’s ego. One […]
Ifan Morgan Jones Just over a week ago 8,000 people marched in Caernarfon for Welsh independence, an occurrence that might have seemed unthinkable as recently as the beginning of May. And this week both the Brexit Minister Jeremy Miles and former First Minister Carwyn Jones came to the National Eisteddfod […]
Theo Davies-Lewis We are in the middle of the Eisteddfod, our largest and most notable cultural festival. It’s a place where the Welsh language is at ‘home’; protected from the clutches of Rod Liddle with its traditions and celebrations, this is arguably Wales at its purest form in symbols and […]
Leigh Jones The National Eisteddfod is the largest annual cultural event in Wales – usually drawing more than 150,000 visitors across the course of a week. The event that is being held in Llanrwst this week is a summer highlight for a huge number of Welsh-speakers – a centuries-old celebration […]
Ben Gwalchmai I’ve purposefully waited to write this article until now. Until Roger Awan-Scullly’s latest poll showing Labour in second place in Assembly and Westminster voting intentions, until Boris’ ‘tour’ and creation of a ‘Minister of the Union’ (or is it ‘for’ the union…his spokespeople don’t seem to know the […]
Arwyn Lloyd There’s no avoiding it. An ageing population is costly. Countries such as Japan have struggled with rising government spending because of its changing demographics. Other countries have sought to plug the gap with in-migration of younger working-age people. So when people in Wales say the net inward migration […]
Huw Prys Jones, Mayor of Llanrwst Llanrwst Town Council is delighted to welcome the National Eisteddfod to the town for the third time in its history. The two previous visits, in 1951 and 1989, proved to be among the great eisteddfodau of the last century and we are confident that […]
*English version follows below* Menna Machreth Un o’r prif bethau sy’n taro rhywun wedi’r Rali ‘Annibyniaeth i Gymru’ mwyaf erioed dros y penwythnos, yw pa mor gyflym bu i’r sgwrs newid a bod annibyniaeth bellach yn cael eu drafod fel rhywbeth allasai ddigwydd o fewn ein hoes ni. Ddeugain mlynedd […]
Morgan Bowler-Brown, with contributions by Sioned James (co-chairs of Plaid Ifanc) On Saturday I joined 8,000 other people and their flags on the maes of Caernarfon, within the walls of its famous castle, to march for Welsh independence. If you weren’t there, you missed something special. Of all the great […]
