Once upon a time, Plaid Cymru used to hold an annual conference which attracted nationalists from all corners of the country to debate ideas and to decide policy. But not now.
A conference to control the Nasty Nats
September 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Welsh Politics
Tags: annual conference·coalitions·conference·Huw Lewis·Ieuan Wyn Jones·lynne neagle·Merthyr·NHS reorganisation·Plaid Cymru·Torfaen·Y Byd
Golwg’s £600k web boost
May 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Press and Media, Welsh Politics
More power to Golwg. Let us hope they can make a go of it. We shall follow their progress (or lack of) with bemused interest.
Of course, there will be envious carping by others not least from the many penniless Welsh bloggers who have been providing the proposed service for several years unpaid and largely [...]
When the Press failed at the election
May 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Press and Media
As expected, Labour’s local election collapse over much of Wales (eg, Flintshire, Wrexham, Carmarthen, Merthyr, Blaenau Gwent, Torfaen and Newport) was a five-second wonder in a couple of English morning papers, and all-but unmentioned in the rest.
“National” for our London newspapers presumably equals “English”.
But we’ve got problems in Wales, too. So little of [...]



