Leanne Wood, Leader of Plaid Cymru The events of the past few weeks in Westminster have seen the Brexit negotiations sink to a new level of shambles. We have a Tory government hellbent on a hard Brexit, propped up by Labour MPs who are either unable or unwilling to fight it. […]
Manon Elin, Cymdeithas yr Iaith You can read this article in Welsh here. Last summer, the Government published a white paper outlining its plan for a new Language Act. An Act, which would, in Cymdeithas yr Iaith’s view, be a step backwards for the Welsh language, and wouldn’t help to […]
Ifan Morgan Jones I’ve just spent a week in Edinburgh and Glasgow, on a holiday visiting family. Edinburgh, in particular, is one of my favourite cities in the world (this was my fourth visit, and I’ve even run the marathon twice). There’s something intoxicating about the mix of architecture, […]
Max Wallis Last week, the Israeli parliament adopted a declaration that only Jews have the right to self-determination in Israel. It was strongly opposed in Israel as racist, in excluding citizens of Arab descent. The proponents said it just codifies existing practice. Indeed! For example, the Israeli state defines people worldwide […]
Sarah Rees Unaffordable childcare and a lack of flexible employment are the bricks and mortar of the wall that stop mothers returning to work. Why should we care about this? Because equalising economic participation would grow our economy by more than 10% in the next decade, and at present Wales […]
Tim Richards The Welsh Government has revealed its true colours by offering to bury radioactive waste from England and Northern Ireland in Wales. Under the proposed scheme, communities in Wales would volunteer to store higher-activity radioactive waste in what is known as a ‘geological disposal facility’ (GDF) long-term in […]
Jonathan Edwards, Plaid Cymru MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Over a year ago, in an article for the Western Mail, I warned that when the crunch point comes, the House of Commons would face paralysis on Brexit. There is no majority in Westminster for a hard Brexit that would do […]
Carwyn Graves Un o nodweddion amlycaf diwylliant y Cymry Cymraeg yw gafael cymaint ohonom ar ddaearyddiaeth. Mae daearyddiaeth yn ganolog i’r broses o ddod i nabod rhywun – ‘o ble ych chi’n dod, de?’ – ac yn elfen graidd i hunaniaeth llawer ohonom gyda chysyniadau fel ‘y milltir sgwar’, ‘brogarwch’, […]
Cynog Dafis, former Plaid Cymru MP for Ceredigion and AM for Mid and West Wales Plaid Cymru is in the electoral doldrums. We narrowly averted disaster in the 2017 election and our membership is stagnant at a time of buzzing, if sceptical, interest in the political process. Both Labour and the […]
Daran Hill, Managing Director at Positif public affairs consultancy The most turbulent term ever at the Assembly in party political terms is drawing to a close, leaving observers both breathless and bewildered. Yet some questions continue to niggle. How on earth did it take some people so long to make their minds […]
