Background If you’ve been taught at an English medium school in Wales then you’re the product of a deranged experiment. State schools were introduced into… Read More »Ioan Talfryn: The Dragon Needs Two Tongues
That Nev Wilshire, eh. What a cracking bloke. Total legend. Because if you’re going to do a soul-sapping, low-paid job for an odious boss –… Read More »Uncle Nev’s Swansea Fun Factory
These days we understand how it works. We realise that we’re all just individual nodes of productivity. That we’re paid for what we’re worth –… Read More »Scotch Cattle: The Welsh Mob Who Took No Bull
Here’s an example of how Welsh people used to treat politicians they didn’t much like. It involves a man called Pryce Pryce-Jones who became extremely… Read More »Knocking the hats off politicians, Newtown style
Wales has been living on its industrial past for too long. All this talk about miners and working class struggle and blah, blah, blah –… Read More »The Green Green Grass of Drone
It’s party time in Cardiff town!!! The gates to the Premiership have finally swung open and happy fans are skipping through into their shiny new… Read More »Cardiff City: Everything Must Go
There are some bits of Welsh history that are best left alone – that shouldn’t be scratched. Because knowing what happened to your parents’ grandparents… Read More »The Mold Riots: The Summer of ‘69
This photograph captures a remarkable moment in Welsh broadcasting history. Here we see BBC Radio Wales presenter, Roy Noble OBE, as he watches his colleague,… Read More »The Unspeakable Horror of Radio Wales
It’s hard to give a toss about language when you’re an English speaker. Because losing your language is not something you’ll ever have to worry… Read More »The Taming of the Taffy