Will the people turn on the despot dictator?
A number of idealist ideas about the world will need revising along with a number of rule books, strategic plans and reports. So much of what we thought we knew will need revising in the light of the largest full…
Ukranian citizen journalists empowering western media
NATO condemns Russia once more and says it is the worse attack since the second world war. There have been attacks on a nuclear facility and observers say that in the days to come things are likely to be worse…
What is NATO afraid of?
It is about as perverted and corrupt as it can be. No conspiracy theory here, just an out and out power struggle. The old saying that whoever mentions the word Nazi first loses the argument doesn’t ring true as that…
Biden stops short of a Cuban bluff and allows Putin to march on
As Russia invades the Ukraine the West has responded with financial sanctions and has sent weapons and troops to NATO’s borders with Russia. The rhetoric from Vladimir Putin is about denazifying Ukraine. The last time that phrase was used was…
A decade of no reduction in child poverty in Dickensian Wales
Most households in Wales will receive a £150 payment as part of plans to tackle the rising cost of living. This is on top of the £200 winter fuel payments. A generous gesture according to some, a stripped chicken bone…
When the Toad Came Home is a song for politicians everywhere
Readers will be familiar with the mole, badger, ratty and of course toad. The story of toad’s downfall after a fancy for motorcars, a run in with the police for breaking the rules, a stint in prison and an escape…
Top Ten Hits for the FAB 20’s
It never rains but it pours. We live in Wales after all, bordered by water, criss crossed by rivers and dotted with lakes and waterfalls you’d think that by now those people behind the door labelled Intelligence Unit for Climate…
More Ena Sharples and Elsie Tanner and less of Crowley & Aziraphale at the Senedd
How close and how cosy is the partnership between Price and Drakeford? Is the First Minister being challenged robustly enough? These are questions, which are surfacing as the new ‘Co-Operation Agreement’ between Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru bed in. Before…
A modern day Robin Hood with a Twist
GROWING up as a child on a council estate in Llanelli one could say that there was a shortage of spare cash and that most children thanked their lucky stars for whatever they received, be it food or a bicycle…
Somewhere Over the Rainbow, coming to a coal mine near you
The men and women embroiled in the mining for coal, the distribution and the use of for industry must be looking over their shoulders and trying to work out whether at any moment like a scene from How Green is…