Following on loosely from https://tinyurl.com/yxlda9e5 We’ve got the builders in again, having reluctantly decided to embark on the next phase of renovating this decrepit hovel. This time it’s the ‘utility …
International football has tentatively returned in empty stadiums after a six month hiatus. There’s now a huge backlog of fixtures stacked up that must be crammed into the already packed …
Wales feels a poorer, diminished place following the death in June of playwright, poet, novelist and scriptwriter Siôn Eirian. We have been deprived not just of his multi-talented artistry and …
It’s a long red Willie. He can play it as a shot to nothing and get back to baulk if he avoids the blue. Key shot…brilliant! He played it a …
The English language has long been an insatiable borrower of vocabulary from other languages, a consequence of the English being insatiable invaders of other countries, but there’s something categorically different …
*From Under Milk Wood I’ve got some bad news for Cardiff. Ever-accelerating global heating is melting ice-caps and glaciers and rapidly raising sea-levels. Unless this process is stopped and reversed …
Pandemic fall-out is likely to mean that a lot of the pubs ‘temporarily’ closed during lockdown will never open again. The random, spontaneous social mixing intrinsic to a public house …
Janek Alexander, who died in April following infection by coronavirus, made an immense, immeasurable contribution to the cultural life of Wales. During a 30-year career at Chapter in Canton he …
Leader of Cardiff council Huw Thomas has supported the totally justified calls by the Black Lives Matter movement for the removal from City Hall of the statue of murderous slave …
This month I should have been revelling in Wales’ Euro 2020 campaign, but the tournament has been delayed for a year due to the pandemic. The pause in international football …
