Boasting an impressive list of speakers, including singer and TV personality Charlotte Church, Saturday’s Welsh National March For Palestine saw thousands of humanitarian crusaders from across Wales gather in Cardiff’s Central Square to express their prayers for the UK government to stop condoning Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign of terror in Gaza, where tens of thousands of…
Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank is not an isolated atrocity… history is littered with similar inhumane examples of the savagery mankind is capable of. Cambodia, Vietnam, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Nazi Germany, the list is endless and spans centuries. But I refuse to believe that this blood lust…
Buoyed by the Senedd’s endorsement for an immediate call for a ceasefire in Gaza to prevent further suffering, thousands of Welsh humanitarians gathered at the Aneurin Bevan statue at the bottom of Queen Street yesterday to demand Westminster follows suit on Tuesday following a parliamentary debate on the crisis. After a series of powerful addresses…
Tomorrow I hope thousands of people will take to the streets in Cardiff, following Wednesday’s Senedd vote in favour of an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, to support the humanitarian stance taken by Welsh politicians against the genocide caused by Israel in the Palestinian enclave. In Cardiff Bay on Wednesday 24 members of the Senedd voted…
Jamaican-born dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson was the first person, in the late 1970s, to make me completely aware as a young undergraduate that Margaret Thatcher’s England was “a bitch”… but there’s still “no escaping it”, Rishi Sunak’s England is an even bigger bitch. How can any decent human being not condemn Jerusalem’s genocidal assault…
A crowd of 53,271 turned up at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium yesterday afternoon for a meaningless rugby match between Wales and the Barbarians that provided a winning send-off for retiring full-back Leigh Halfpenny as Wales romped to a 49-26 win. I say meaningless… but the fixture did commemorate 50 years since the epic match between the…
Cabbage whites and red admirals aside, I’m not much of a butterfly aficionado… but just like the high brown fritillary I am quite partial to the Alun Valley. For those not from that part of the world and those, like myself, unfamiliar with the name, the Alun Valley sits in the western section of the…
There can be few Welshmen down the centuries who have suffered a more tragic end than racing driver Tom Pryce. A wet-track specialist, Pryce was firmly on the road to a successful Formula One career when a series of freak occurrences on this day, 5 March, 44 years ago led to the 27-year-old’s tragic demise…
Set in the heart of the Gower Peninsula just west of Swansea, the Gower Heritage Centre is a rural-life museum based around a working 12th century watermill. Established in 1990, it is recognised as a vibrant community for crafts and welcomes visitors from all around the world. The centre houses displays about the history of…
The National Waterfront Museum in Swansea tells the story of Welsh industry and innovation over the past 300 years when Wales can lay claim to being the world’s first industrial nation. By the late 19th century, South Wales was internationally recognised as a centre for heavy industry, coal production and maritime trade and the National…
