Wales
Jan Morris’s last book is a vade mecum to treasure
Jan Morris, in all her incarnations, was always able to evoke a place and a moment like no other. As…
Interview: Rowan Williams on Wales, independence and the King Lear of Westminster
Rowan Williams is no stranger to politics. As Archbishop of Canterbury he was as comfortable criticising Tony Blair over Iraq…
The small Welsh village taking on the tree planting industry
The village of Cwrt y Cadno sits in a particularly pretty and unspoiled valley in Carmarthenshire, south west Wales. The…
You need to be a millionaire to move to Wales
We began searching for the farm of our dreams in Wales as we planned our escape from Surrey. The problem…
Devolution doesn't work in a crisis
One of the worst features of devolution is the tendency of devocrats to insist on doing their own thing in…
The true cost of my week in Wales
Rather miraculously, my daughter managed to leave the country last week to go on holiday with a group of friends.…
It’s time to upgrade the office of the Welsh first minister
Some of the most revealing detail from newly released 1997 government files relate to Welsh constitutional affairs. The Home Office…
Welsh independence faces an existential crisis
Wales has never embraced the notion of independence and perhaps never will. So it was unsurprising that YesCymru, a grassroots…
King of Fortress Wales: an interview with Mark Drakeford
Mark Drakeford sits opposite me in a small conference room on the third floor of Cathays Park, the nucleus of…
Scrapping English votes for English laws could spell trouble
It has been almost 45 years since Tam Dalyell first asked the West Lothian Question. It is a damning indictment…
Your guide to the 2021 election results
This week will see the biggest set of polls in UK history outside of a general election. Contests are under…
Number 10 should fear a Welsh nationalist coalition
As Disraeli’s famous maxim goes: England does not love coalitions. In Wales, by contrast, we can’t get enough of them.…
Is Welsh devo-scepticism beginning to unravel?
Calls to abolish the Welsh parliament are nothing new: Wales rejected devolution in 1979 and voted only by the smallest…
Could Holyrood ever be abolished?
Although Alex Salmond and his Alba party have understandably been getting most of the attention, the separatists aren’t the only…
Labour of love: producing the perfect loaf
Wheat flour, and the bread made from it, has been a recurring cause of concern for the British for centuries,…
Letters: Wales has been betrayed by Westminster
Woeful Wales Sir: Allison Pearson succinctly points out the absurdity of the so-called Welsh government and its assembly, now trying…
Wales is being destroyed by tinpot tyrants
My homeland is quite rightly a laughing stock
Why are the devolved nations so ungrateful?
One of the things I hadn’t anticipated about the pandemic is that it would turn me into an English nationalist.…
Divided nation: will Covid rules tear the country apart?
The Covid divide is triggering political tensions
Letters: We need career detectives, not fast-tracked officers
We need career detectives Sir: Your lead article (Trial and error, 29 February) rightly condemns Tom Watson for pressurising police…
Why the Royal Court is theatre’s answer to Islamic State
The Royal Court is the theatre’s answer to Islamic State, a conspiracy of nihilists fascinated with death, supported by groups…
You’ll be blubbing over a wooden boulder at David Nash’s show at Towner Art Gallery
Call me soppy, but when the credits rolled on ‘Wooden Boulder’, a film made by earth artist David Nash over…
My brilliant career hits the drystone wall
We all tell stories about ourselves, every one of us. ‘I’m a useless cook.’ ‘Spiders don’t scare me.’ Not all…
Made in Port Talbot
Port Talbot, on the coast of South Wales, is literally overlooked. Most experience the town while flying over it on…
The listening project
As Classic FM celebrated its quarter-century on Wednesday with not a recording but a live broadcast of a concert from…
