Senedd situation

A month has passed since the seventh Senedd was elected and, predictably, Reform UK’s assortment of clueless ignoramuses, infantile hooligans, malevolent Cymruphobes and ridiculously deluded egomaniacs are showing themselves to …

Goodway’s latest lackey

Following his election to the Senedd (Caerdydd Penarth constituency), Labour’s Huw Thomas has stood down as the Leader of Cardiff Council and a Splott councillor. The 49 remaining Labour councillors …

Romania 2 Cymru 1

Cymru completed a deeply disappointing season with another avoidable defeat, this time in a friendly against Romania at the Steaua Stadium in Bucharest. This was Cymru’s first encounter with Romania …

Cymru 1 Ghana 1

The friendly international in Cardiff this week was an opportunity for Craig Bellamy to give fringe players a taste of international football while Ghana’s newly-appointed manager Carlos Queiroz used it …

Euphemism epidemic

Euphemisms (from the Greek euphēmismos, meaning ‘speaking well’) are words or phrases used as softer or less direct substitutes for expressions deemed to be too harsh, blunt, embarrassing or offensive. …

Pubocalypse 17

BREWDOGWestgate Street‘Craft beer’ pub chain BrewDog, founded by two Scotsmen in 2007, rapidly expanded on the back of provocative attention-seeking, concocted controversies and a self-proclaimed ‘punk’ attitude designed to present …

Jersey Royal blues

A classic example of how corporate capitalism ruins everything it touches is the Jersey Royal potato (Solanum tuberosum ‘International Kidney‘). These early spuds from the largest and southernmost Channel Island …

Victory!

After three days sleeping it off, my hangover has faded and now I’m just about capable of writing the blog of my dreams… The Senedd election was a truly historic …

D-Day

The English fight for power, the Welsh for liberty;Their aim is domination, our aim is to be free.The English way is war, land-grab, greed and hierarchy,While the Welsh value equity …