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Labour Welsh Secretaries
Labour has been back in power in Westminster for a year – enough time to assess the performance of Jo Stevens, Kier Starmer’s selection as Secretary of State for Wales. …
The special relationship
Starmer: Let me pick up your papers Mister President – and while I’m down there would you like your boots licked? Trump: What was your name again?
Lines on the death of Dafydd Elis-Thomas
With apologies to E. J. Thribb (aged 17½) So.FarewellThenLordElis-Thomas (don’t forget the hyphen)Of Nant Conwy. Across 50Years of public serviceYou went from an idealistic Welsh radical To a rightwing,British,Royalist. Keith’s …
Starmer, psychoanalysed
In six short months Keir Starmer has managed to achieve the impossible. Incredibly, he has outdone even Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak, the five corrupt, criminal Tories who preceded …
Lifeless in Gaza
The horrendous mass-murder (over 40,000 dead so far) being inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza by the brutal far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu has brought to mind my very small but …
How to vote
The number of Welsh MPs has been reduced from 40 to 32 by the UK government, bringing Welsh representation in Westminster down to its lowest number since the introduction of …
Lines on the sacking of Suella Braverman
With apologies to E. J. Thribb (age 17½) So. Farewell thenSuella Braverman,The worst Home Secretary in British history –Which is saying something! You will be remembered forAbuse of office,Aggressive ignorance,Authoritarianism, …
Biased, Bad, Conservative
Last year, with its characteristic smug self-satisfaction, arrogant air of entitlement and oily unctuousness, the BBC loudly sang its own praises to mark the centenary of its founding in 1922. …
Brrr
By any reckoning, these are exceptionally low temperatures. Cardiff’s average December daytime temperature is 9°C but currently, at mid-day, it is 1°C – a massive drop from the norm. This …
Hypocrisy hits new highs
It is so obviously wrong to hold the World Cup in Qatar that it hardly needs saying. To briefly summarise the many reasons why FIFA should never have selected the …