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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 …
Council elections
Elections in all 22 Welsh local authorities take place tomorrow and it goes without saying that the priority must be to send a loud and clear message to the shambolic, …
Senedd election dissection
My reaction to the election outcome is a massive sense of relief, almost (but not quite) bordering on joy. First and foremost, the seven seats captured in 2016 by UKIP’s …
2021 Senedd election
Oh no, oh please no, it’s that time again: the 6th Senedd election takes place this Thursday. I’m dreading it. Why? Because, through the events and experiences of a pretty …
Cymru am byth!
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!
Welsh lives matter
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 …