Daran Hill, Managing Director at Positif public affairs consultancy Assembly Commission Questions are usually even less gripping than the obituary hour (or ninety-second statements as AMs call it). This week, however, someone asked something challenging when Bethan Sayed AM (Plaid Cymru, South Wales West) called into question some new events policies related […]
Lila Haines, Chair of Fair Trade Wales Wales has just marked a decade as the world’s first Fair Trade Nation, a lead since followed by other nations and regions. We can be proud of this landmark, of our example, of our active support for ethical trade that is improving lives […]
Neil McEvoy AM On Friday at 6.30pm I’ll be in the Royal Celtic Hotel in Caernarfon speaking at Propel Wales’ first public meeting in the north of the country. The need for individual, community and national sovereignty has never been clearer than when I’m in the north. One of the […]
Mike Parker Like most queer people, I can smell bullies a mile off. It’s part of our training, you see, something we had to learn as youngsters growing into an identity at odds with the mainstream, sometimes violently so. We learned to scan any situation and quickly identify the thugs, […]
Sebastian Cooke Why are the ideas of Karl Marx – born 200 years ago – still relevant to Wales? The question could be answered in many ways but let’s take a look at just one area: class struggle. In one of the most influential pieces of text ever written, The […]
Ifan Morgan Jones David Dimbleby has confirmed that he’s standing down from Question Time after almost 25 years in the moderator’s chair. I wonder if my hometown of Caernarfon, the location of last Thursday’s broadcast, was the straw that broke the camel’s back! It has been suggested by many that […]
Ben Gwalchmai People talk about their first time with reverie or horror or embarrassed amusement – mine was fantastic. It was with a thirty-year-old. This year was the first time I’d been to the Association for Welsh Writing in English (AWWE) conference and it was their thirtieth year. On my […]
Leanne Wood AM, Leader of Plaid Cymru This week I have resubmitted my nomination to lead Plaid Cymru. In line with our party’s democratic principles, I am required to table my nomination to lead the Party of Wales every two years. This ensures that Plaid Cymru is always led by […]
Hywel Williams MP, Plaid Cymru Brexit spokesperson in Westminster. This week, Jeremy Corbyn had the chance all opposition leaders dream of: the opportunity to defeat the government on a defining vote on maintaining membership of the Single Market. Labour’s MPs, save for a handful, Plaid Cymru, the SNP, Liberal Democrats, […]
Steve Collings After having spent most of my adult life being an activist, ‘mainstream’ politics held little interest back in 2012. There was no variety, no radicalism and no sincerity to be found in any of the political parties as far as I could see. It was a politics populated […]
