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Jump jockeys of Wales
With Wales excluded from most sports – see Sport in Cardiff for more – and with Welsh rugby union, the sport that defined our nation for over a century, being …
Starmer the harmer
In October’s Caerffili by-election Labour lost the previously safe seat and its share of the vote collapsed from 46% to 11%. Should something similar happen in the 2026 Senedd election, …
Nasty Nigel
Last year, in return for abstaining in a key Senedd vote, Plaid Cymru extracted a promise from Labour to introduce a law before the 2026 election that would disqualify any …
Wales shows the way
What a fantastic, amazing, sensational result in the Caerffili by-election! Labour, having held both the Westminster seat since it was created in 1918 and the Senedd seat since the start …
Senedd by-election
Tomorrow there will be a by-election in Caerffili following the death in August of Hefin David (1977-2025), Labour MS for the constituency since 2016. No words of mine will make …
Fatal plane crashes in Wales
Before WW1 no flying had ever occurred over Wales, except for the non-mechanical floating of hot-air balloons (a spectacle that instigated Wales’ first fatal air accident in 1896 – see …
The enshittification of football
“Enshittification” is a word coined in 2022 by Canadian author, journalist and blogger Cory Doctorow to describe the relentless decline of products and services over time. Originally, he was particularly …
Film review
Mr BurtonThis ‘true story’ biopic about schoolteacher Philip Burton (1904-1995) and his part in the metamorphosis of promising pupil Richard Jenkins into superb actor Richard Burton (1925-1984), is fatally flawed …
Wales plundered and swindled
Many years ago on this blog I coined the word ‘Cymruphobia’, to mean the hatred/fear of Wales. Since then the word ‘Cymrophobia’, meaning the hatred/fear of Welsh people, has occasionally …
Dydd Santes Dwynwen
Today on Dydd Santes Dwynwen I surprised my partner with a hand-made greeting card to mark our relationship (approaching 25 years and counting!). It’s a partnership that has always been …