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I'm currently reading the book Treachery by the indefatigable journalist and ancient - it was written in his 90s - cold war warrior Ch...

I was expecting more online interest in Simon Brooks' new book Pam Na Fu Cymru; perhaps there was some confusion as to whether the book...

"Simpering, self-serving, holier-than-thou bullshit" so says the heading of a sidebar on Jac's blog.  A pretty controversial ...

The 150th anniversary of the Welsh settlement of Patagonia is not, we are told , an occasion for celebration.  Indeed it something to be re...

Localism The new localist parties didn't have much of an election, for example Yorkshire First, a party which was able to field som...

It's one of those ironies of history that the phrase "American Exceptionalism" was coined by Joe Stalin.  Similarly the conce...

Having a bit of difficulty finding a picture of Idi Amin, her man in Kampala, meeting Betty Battenburg on one of his state visits to Engerl...

One thing you're not going to hear very much about during the election campaign is foreign affairs.  After all the main parties are bro...

The Welsh according to the Financial Times are stone age.  It's hard to disagree until you realise the paper isn't referring to the...

Morrissey is playing Cardiff on the 18th of this month but never mind that, one of the support acts is supposedly Buffy Sainte Marie - well...

According to the 2011 census the community of Abbeycwmhir consists of 96 households with a total population of 235.  Of these, 48 individua...

Bryndraenog is only two fields away from England, although as Mr Payne pointed out the Teme hereabouts is no real border, either geograph...

A bit of autobiography Growing-up in Radnorshire in the early 1950s you wouldn't have heard much Welsh.  Indeed I can actually reme...

The other night's moon halo occurred exactly 554 years after the battle of Mortimer's Cross, an event marked by the appearance of ...

Not having access to a television - well at least one where I have any control of the remote - I'd never heard of the actress Jessica...

Dafydd Iwan "descended from Welsh kings who ruled England" said the headline in the Daily Post, which seems all to typical of th...

Feeling a bit of sympathy for Andy Mountbatten - hasn't the guy done his level best to win Central Asia for the West?  And how is he re...

If you were to sum up Wales with one of those fashionable hundred-object lists then surely a recording of this plygain carol would have to...

My previous post on the national question in the USA, see here , was written before I saw this fascinating map detailing individuals' ...

While looking at Estyn reports on Radnorshire schools I was taken by this comment in the inspection for Gladestry primary "all learner...