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The art of losing
Cymru are out of the World Cup after a calamitous sequence of events in the play-off match against Bosnia & Herzegovina in Cardiff on Thursday night. The defeat on penalties …
Geraint Jarman (1950-2025)
For over half a century Geraint Jarman was a key figure in the ever-evolving culture of Wales, a tireless innovator and creative dynamo across multiple platforms as a singer, a …
Be afraid, be very afraid
We are living in the most frightening times since WW2. Correction: considering that Germany didn’t possess nuclear weapons whereas the USA has no less than 3,700 nuclear warheads at its …
Terry Yorath (1950-2026)
There is one cast-iron certainty that every single human being must accept, sooner or later, willingly or reluctantly: it’s a hard life. Oh yes, it really is. And there can’t …
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi/St David’s Day 2026
This year March 1st falls on a Sunday, meaning more people will be able to attend the miscellaneous celebratory events and parades taking place over the weekend in cities, towns …
Moronic? Try a mnemonic!
The word ‘mnemonic’ is one of around 150,00 words of Greek origin – from air to zoo – that have found their way into English, a language with more borrowed …
Pubocalypse 16
THE NORTH STARNorth RoadAfter the Taff Vale Railway (TVR) sliced through the countryside in 1841, the half-anglicised nonsense word ‘Maindy’ usurped Llystalybont and Blackweir as an alternative name for the …
Starmer and Mandelson: flying the flag
Kier Starmer is wriggling like a worm on a hook as he desperately tries to distance himself from his own appalling decision last year to appoint as the UK’s ambassador …
Oranges are not the only oranges
The Citrus genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the Rutaceae family produces a range of fruits that it is hard to imagine life without. It is a very rare …
An American in London
It was around 1973/74 when I first encountered Adam in Holland Park, a delightful green woodland on the high ground between Kensington and Notting Hill in west London. He was …