Our Bay buildings

Nearly a decade has passed since the construction of the Senedd and the Wales Millennium Centre next door to each other in Cardiff Bay; enough years for the novelty and …

Uruguay 2 England 1

After Henry Newbolt (1862-1938) There’s a breathless hush on Sky News tonight –Subs to sell and a League to hype –An England team that is total shite,Super-rich egotists true to …

World Cup 2014

There must be a few people alive who can remember the inaugural World Cup in Uruguay in 1930 – although not many, since they would be at least 90 by now …

Back into the future

21st century Britain is often presented (by the British) as a thrusting, dynamic, forward-looking model of modernity. And it certainly delivers constant, chaotic, ever-accelerating change. But in truth Britain is actually …