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Opposition parties "playing silly political games" calling for PM to face probe
1+ hour, 54+ min ago (937+ words) Labour has accused opposition parties of playing "silly political games" over attempts to launch a formal investigation into whether Sir Keir Starmer lied to MPs over the appointment of Lord Peter Mandelson. The Prime Minister is facing mounting pressure over…...
Campbell likens Starmer to Bush as he warns of "dark place" if Labour fails
3+ hour, 10+ min ago (366+ words) Former Number 10 spin doctor Alastair Campbell has warned the UK could end up in a "dark place" if the Labour-run UK Government fails as he likened Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to former US president George W Bush. Speaking to…...
Tens of thousands of jobs at risk in Wales if Reform wins power, says TUC Cymru
6+ hour, 14+ min ago (834+ words) TUC Cymru analysis has found that more than 42, 000 jobs in manufacturing, public services and the charity sector could be at risk from Reform's policies if the party took power in Wales and the UK. The warning comes after the unions…...
Why the youth of Wales cannot be complacent
5+ hour, 57+ min ago (541+ words) If you are reading this now, you are probably in an echo chamber. You're most likely a well-educated, politically engaged and progressive person who, like me, desperately wants to stop the rise of Nigel Farage's English nationalism in our country,…...
Book review: Muslim Wales: a History in 9 Places by Abdul-Azim Ahmed
16+ hour, 34+ min ago (1261+ words) Bang off the bat it turns out that I've peddling Fake News, or at least, Fake History. Multiple sources have reported over the years that Britain's oldest mosque was founded in Cardiff. The story was picked up by the Welsh…...
Some People Should Get Out More
17+ hour, 19+ min ago (645+ words) Watching Katie Hopkins descend upon Cardiff'to instruct us that voting Reform is in our best interests, I briefly wondered if I'd slipped into delirium. This is a woman who was, last time I checked, so widely reviled for her self-publicising,…...
Book review: Weights and Measures by Jane Fraser
17+ hour, 34+ min ago (1291+ words) Niall Griffiths In the handwritten introductory note in my review copy of this novel, the author declares that it is her "love letter to a time, place and community that is no more. The time is 1939/1940, the place is a…...
A change of power would free Wales from Labour's internal traumas that inhibit plain talking to the UK Government
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (898+ words) The latest campaign tactic of the flailing Welsh Conservatives is to create a scare story around the prospect of Plaid Cymru, the SNP and Sinn Fein forming a "dangerous alliance" to break up the UK. In a press release that…...
Fools United: Want control over immigration in Wales? There's only one answer for that. ..
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (1139+ words) Eating humble pie for breakfast on 24 June 2016 " a day us "Remoaners" will never forget " I recall making a Facebook status, back when they were a thing, quoting Catatonia"s immortal line, "Fools get votes in a democracy" from a lesser-known…...
Is Plaid Cymru a nationalist party? And what if it is?
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (822+ words) In the Oxford English Dictionary the entry for Plaid Cymru simply states " a political party in Wales. In the Collins dictionary the entry reads "the nationalist party of Wales. I personally think that goes a long way to describing the…...