Dark days indeed
I just missed Hugo Chavez and Michael Moore on a visit to Venice a few days ago – my first ever time in that astonishingly beautiful city (or is it town, with...
Read this entry »Adam Price (Plaid Cymru, Ret 2010)
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Former Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr. Retired from parliament in 2010.Articles written by Adam Price (Plaid Cymru, Ret 2010)
a market for welsh futures?
I’m currently reading Fintan O’Toole’s highly readable modern morality tale of the hubris that sunk the Irish economy. The...
Read this entry » Western Mail Essay
It should be pretty clear by now to any objective observer that the Labour Party is a few months away from suffering the most humiliating electoral...
Read this entry » Plaid Cymru gain, Plaid Cymru hold
Kirsty Williams has read the “Riot Act” to the party’s London Headquarters on not consulting her over scrapping the huge ‘vote...
Read this entry » Quote Hain, get baloney…
Despite it being probably the least successful election slogan in history, vote Plaid get Tory is yet again being wheeled out this morning by...
Read this entry » A lot of fizzle, all of it fake
My recent Conference speech has inspired some interesting responses. One of the best has been from Jeff Jones the former Labour leader...
Read this entry » Conference Speech
Conference, as we face a new decade in politics my mind turns to how, for me, this decade began. On a clear June morning in 2001 when a trusty...
Read this entry » The Big Lie
Peter Black is not the first Liberal to accuse Plaid Cymru of being fascists. This is a grand old Liberal Tradition. W.J. Grufydd was...
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the death and life of American cities
In the wake of Tory Frontbencher and popular culture trendoid, Chris Grayling’s recent comparison of Britain’s inner cities to The Wire’s depiction...
Read this entry »Quantum leap
What industry needs lots of cheap land, plentiful access to water and cheap energy? No, not woollen mills, but one of the world’s highest tech industries:...
Read this entry »A design for plaid
Paolo Coelho, the author of The Alchemist, argues that people come in two generic types – gardeners who invest in a lifelong passion, patiently pruning...
Read this entry »the glacial speed of Welsh progress
Re-reading K.O. Morgan’s Rebirth of a Nation the other day and I came across a reference to Labour’s five priorities for Wales in their 1945 General...
Read this entry »A Tory Victory: ten consequences for Wales
The surprise news on the UK Government’s conversion to electrification of the Great Western main line to West Wales was a landmark decision and is the...
Read this entry »THe strange death of Liberal Wales
In the continuing imbroglio (to use a suitably Italianate term) following my original piece about the WNO, the Lib Dems’ Jeremy Townsend was upbraided earlier...
Read this entry »Time To Go
In November 2001 those of us who opposed the impending invasion of Afghanistan staged a symbolic vote against what was to be the first war in what came to be known...
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