Having worked in journalism for more than half my life, days seem to come and go without the dates really registering with me... it applies to birthdays, even my own, Christmas and all sorts of other anniversaries that should have significance but don’t as I struggle to even remember what day it is let alone the date.

As far as I’m aware it’s either today, yesterday or tomorrow... with the actual name of the day and date being somewhat irrelevant except when working out how distant events were in the past or will be in the future.

So it didn’t come as any great surprise to me when St David’s Day crept up without me really being aware of it. And only yesterday did it really dawn on me that it would be in three weeks’ time that Wales play Finland in a Euro 2024 play-off semi-final in Cardiff, the same night Israel play Iceland in Budapest... because playing in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem would be far too dangerous during a campaign of genocide in Gaza targeting innocent children and civilians. Really? People are stupid enough to buy that story? Do they not realise it’s just part of the narrative to legitimise Israeli propaganda to justify genocide? FULL STORY