I’m going to wade into the controversy that has raged since the publication in June of the Welsh government’s Independent Review of Support for Publishing and Literature in Wales. The …

My partner has cancer. He has been so brave. We had to go to Merthyr for the next bout of chemotherapy. I had not set foot in Merthyr Tudful for at …

Why should I always produce original material and new ideas? Why can’t I just regurgitate hackneyed formulas and knackered stereotypes like everyone else?  Hmm, let’s see whether I can wring anything …

Oh no, it’s voting time. Council elections for all 22 Welsh local authorities take place on May 4th. I will duly trudge to the polling station tomorrow, duly put my crosses next …

MONDAY 8.00am precisely: Phone GP. Engaged. 8.01am-8.59am: Repeatedly phone GP every few minutes. Always engaged. 9.00am precisely: Phone GP. Receptionist answers immediately. “I’d like to make an appointment please.” “All …

Whenever the entire British establishment sings from the same hymn-sheet there is one thing you can be certain of: they are telling a gigantic lie. This is what we have …

Picking up on a thread from previous blog http://wp.me/pTfaP-gL, which looked at contemporary Welsh painters, here in alphabetical order is a selection of great Welsh artists from the past. This is …