Record profits, high interest rates and soaring energy bills
Record profits for Shell will be good news for some who stand to benefit from bonuses and share prices with shareholders standing to gain £5bn in total. £32 billion pounds is an unimaginable amount for the majority of people, and…
Can Labour fix the NHS?
IT is probably one of the most important institutions in the country. The NHS whether it is in England, Scotland, Ireland or Wales is cherished but in the eyes of many it is broken. We were warned that the pandemic…
Happy New Year
As 2022 draws to a close it is easy to look back and conclude that it has been a year with its fair share of disaster. The war in Ukraine has to be the single most worrying development, which will…
Welsh Chapel glows with the warmth of Christmas
One of my earliest memories of Christmas was preparing for the carol service in the local chapel. It seemed like everything stopped at school as we made numerous Christmas decorations out of paper, cotton wool, glitter, glue and the core…
Coronation Street more popular than Hazza and Megs on Netflix
If you are of a certain age you will remember some of the more colourful characters off the TV soap Coronation Street. Annie Walker landlady of the Rovers Return, Stan and Hilda Ogden, Albert Tatlock, Ena Sharples and of course…
Choose your words carefully
WORDS have meaning and the meaning of those words can change depending on the context in which they have been said and to whom they have been said and when and where they have been said. Today more than ever…
Who do I think I am?
THE last few days have ben some of the most uncomfortable in my life. I have been fortunate enough to have avoided great physical pain apart form the occasional accident on motorcycles. COVID seems a distant past but for those…
Harvest and History on a Hill
The sound of music drifting out from a Welsh church is a very special thing, which does strange things to the souls of the most un-God fearing person. To hear the voices of small children singing in Welsh is a…
What must the young think of politics?
What must the young think of British politics? More changes than a cubicle in Primark at a sale. What a few years we have had, what an incredible few months and what an astonishing few days. We are now in…
A lot to learn from Penguins
It looks like we will have to be a little jollier this winter and huddle together in a building somewhere in Llanelli, Carmarthen, Swansea, Aberystwyth, Pwllheli or goodness knows where if we want to keep warm. We have a lot…