Mike Parker gives his account of the controversial Cambrian News distortion of his 2001 article in Planet, and is troubled by what this episode tells us about the media and the politics of race today.

Simon Brooks decries the weakness of Welsh nationalism as demonstrated through Plaid Cymru’s General Election campaign, and argues that the national cause has become subsumed within a pan-British anti-austerity radicalism.

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…

Ben Lloyd gives the back-story to his new exhibition which includes the persecution of Welsh Quakers, beach detritus and why there is a road to New York on the Pembrokeshire coast...

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 where he first learnt to love rugby, reflecting on the struggles both Wales and Spain have faced since then.

A short story by Rachel Trezise

A poem by Mike Jenkins

A poem by Tracey Rhys

Mererid Hopwood remembers the artist, writer and activist Osi Rhys Osmond.

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.

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.

Read letters received from issue 219

Dylan Lewis criticises the loss of government funding for combating poverty in rural areas, but argues that other deprived areas can learn much from Penparcau Community Forum’s pioneering approach to grassroots community activism, freed from government control

Rebecca Edwards laments a lack of self-confidence within the creative industries in Wales.

Stephanie Tillotson celebrates how Yvonne Murphy’s all-female performances of Shakespeare plays in Wales are challenging both gender stereotypes and notions of ‘Britishness’

T. Ropbin Chapman reviews Wales Unchained by Daniel G. Williams

Tomos Owen reviews Carwyn by Alun Richards

Rita Singer reviews Gwalia Patagonia by Jon Gower

Tony Brown reviews New Welsh Short Stories and A Fiction Map of Wales

Sarah Coles reviews Shedding Paper Skin and Boy Running

Steven Thompson reviewsWilliam Hazell's Gleaming Vision by Alan Burge

Gareth Evans reviews Contemporary Welsh Plays edited by Tim Price and Kate Wasserburg

Peter Wakelin reviews A Fold in the River by Philip Gross and Valerie Coffin Price