The Paper Trail Mike Parker gives his account of the controversial Cambrian News distortion of his 2001 Planet article in the lead-up to the General Election, and argues that this episode offers a disturbing insight into wider media bias and the politics of race today…
Where is the Welsh Revolution? Simon Brooks decries the weakness of Welsh nationalism as demonstrated through Plaid Cymru’s General Election campaign: has the national cause become subsumed within a British anti-austerity radicalism?
Welsh Keywords: Cymdeithasiaeth Martin Wright reflects on ‘cymdeithasiaeth’ and other words in Welsh for ‘Socialism’ as part of our Welsh Keywords series, inspired by Raymond Williams’ Keywords. He describes how today’s left-wing debates about how to bring cultural diversity together with global unity have a very long history in Wales…
The Far Paradise: The Road to New York Ben Lloyd gives the back-story to his new art installation, which includes the persecution of Welsh Quakers, beach detritus and why there is a road to New York on the Pembrokeshire coast…
Scrum Down in the Departure Lounge In the lead up to the Rugby World Cup, Eddie Butler looks back 40 years to the death of a dictator and the autumn in Madrid when he first learnt to love rugby, reflecting on the struggles both Wales and Spain have faced since then…
Retracing Wales: Cefn Sidan Sands In our Retracing Wales series of responses to the Wales Coast Path, Francesca Rhydderch remembers the sands of Cefn Sidan, her seafaring father and Wales’ complex entanglement with Empire.
Notes from a Funeral Farewell Mererid Hopwood remembers the life and work of artist, writer and activist Osi Rhys Osmond.
New Fronts Against Fracking Kelvin Mason reflects on the divergent ways people in Wales are resisting the threat of fracking and climate change, and calls for a new set of values for the Anthropocene Era.
Reviews T. Robin Chapman reviews Wales Unchained Tomos Owen on Carwyn Rita Singer looks at Gwalia Patagonia by Jon Gower and much much more