Eamonn Kirk offers a diary of his progress from obesity to fitness and examines the Welsh Government’s response to a problem exacerbated by poverty and austerity. What can we learn from radical initiatives to tackle obesity beyond our borders?
Read moreCongratulations to Miriam Elin Jones, winner of our 2015 Young Writers' Competition. Miriam is spurred on by her frustration at traditional Welsh-language culture to explore new debates about 'cymroddyfodoliaeth' – Welsh futurism – in music and literature.
Read moreRobert Minhinnick’s fiction piece, written for our regular series of creative responses to the Wales Coast Path, is set on the Merthyr Mawr dunes in the near-future, and depicts how climate change is truly ‘Retracing Wales’.
Read moreNed Thomas travels to Instanbul at the end of a year in which Kurds have experienced a strengthening of cultural rights in Turkey and the Kobanî siege in Syria.
Read moreCatrin Ashton runs in the footsteps of Gwladys, daughter of Brychan Brycheiniog, evoking a sense of home and history in this post-industrial landscape, and describes why the hills of Merthyr are really mountains.
Read moreAlyce Von Rothkirch evaluates a report by Dai Smith on the profound importance of arts and creativity in education as the government develops a full response in their National Plan for Creative Learning.
Read moreDavid Greenslade on a wonderful 'waking dream' of ongoing collaboration between Czech and Welsh artists and writers associated with late Surrealism.
Read moreDiarmait Mac Giolla Chríost explores what the notion of 'radical' (in both Welsh and English) should mean for Wales, in a context where the timid process of devolution creates a vacuum for UKIP.
Read moreSamarendra Das and Felix Patel report on the battle of India's indigenous communities over the mining of bauxite and other minerals, and the extreme repression this brings.
Read morePauline Sheppard presents an extract of her play Tin and Fishes which brought together the words of people from St Just in Cornwall whose lives are still marked by the closure of Geevor Tin Mine in 1991.
Read moreWelsh-Australians Claire Parfitt and Rachel Rowe on what coal mining in Wales and Australia tells us about both struggles over climate change and the needs of working people, and how these campaigns can be reconciled.
Read moreJasper Elgood finds a confluence of religion, aesthetics and rationality in a Barmouth church hall.
Read moreAngharad Thomas reviews A Welsh Dawn
John Osmond reviews Disunited Britain
John T. Koch reviews Wales and the Britons 350-1064
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