Welsh Politics

St David gives no welcome to Welsh – or to locals

WELCOME TO the new, expanded St David’s Centre in Cardiff… by NO WELCOME to the Welsh language, writes Clive Betts from the Assembly press gallery.

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Language

Copying BNP tactics to knock the Assembly and Welsh

When it comes to the Welsh language, people can harbour some very strange ideas, writes Clive Betts from the National Assembly press gallery.

The latest and strangest is that 80… Read the rest

Welsh Politics

Are the Welsh-Not Tories showing their true-blue colours ?

ARE THE Welsh Tories showing their true colours in these Euro-elections ?

The election leaflet pushed though my door contains NOT ONE word of Welsh.

Apart from a line saying that if you want to read the election manifesto in Welsh (in pamphlet form), you have got to phone a number in Cardiff (and it’s not a freephone number), presumably only during working hour.

Language

Welsh Language LCO – a plea for sanity

I can’t quite shake off that feeling of dread that the Welsh Affairs Select Committee, and a handful of anti-Welsh language MPs, will perhaps trip us up. They will certainly try.

Welsh Conservatives

Language LCO battle – Tory versus Tory

A division of opinion has surely appeared between Tories in the Assembly and those in the Commons on the most contentious political issue affecting Wales.

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Welsh Politics

Language gets jammed in a legal tangle

Almost every time Carwyn Jones opens his mouth, the delays to the proposed new, stronger legal status for the Welsh language get longer.

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Press and Media

Honesty, Plaid and Y Byd

There’s something to be said for politicians being honest about the promises they will deliver when they get elected.

Plaid’s loss of control of Gwynedd County… Read the rest

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