20mph

The introduction of a 20mph speed limit in residential areas across Wales has many benefits: ■ Up to 10 fewer deaths and 2,000 fewer serious injuries every year.■ £100 million …

Great train robbery

England/Britain/UK (take your pick, they’re synonyms) has been systematically stealing from Wales for centuries. Land, natural resources, water, minerals, language, culture, autonomy, self-determination, health, wealth, freedoms, lives – all have …

They also were thespians…

Nine years have slipped by since I wrote about Wales and film, so I reckon it’s time to supplement that blog’s coverage of the most famous Welsh actors with this …

Pob hwyl Rhun

Many congratulations to Rhun ap Iorwerth, Ynys Môn MS, who was elected unopposed as the new Plaid Cymru leader this month. He now embarks on the vitally important task of …

Running riot

Whether last month’s disturbances in Ely, Cardiff’s far-flung western suburb, can be called a “riot”, as per the screeching, sensationalist coverage in the UK’s reliably dreadful media, is a moot …

Colonial viceroy sunk

Unelected first generation Englishman Rishi Sunak has spoken: instead of calling the Welsh national park by its new official name Bannau Brycheiniog, the UK Prime Minister intends to “keep calling …

Visionary Wales

It has been quite a while since I wrote about some of the many important Welsh contributors to the visual arts. The years roll by and now the list could …

Yma O Hyd

The FAW’s excellent World Cup video Er gwaetha pawb a phopethRy’n ni yma o hyd Despite everyone and everythingWe’re still here

Independence march

We have never voted for them, they couldn’t run a whelk-stall, yet we let the ignorant, venal, corrupt, incompetent, absurd English Tories possess and run Wales. We are their oldest …

I’ve been everywhere

Composed in 1959 by Australian Geoff Mack (1922-2017), the first version of I’ve Been Everywhere was, naturally enough, dedicated to Australian place names. The novelty tongue-twister became a big hit …