Geraint Talfan Davies responds to a suggestion that the statue of a little known Cardiff Victorian should be replaced by one of St. David.
The Quiet Celts
John Osmond listens to Rhodri Morgan musing about what makes us Welsh.
IWA west Wales branch visit to Bluestone
The west Wales branch visited Bluestone Leisure village in Pembrokeshire for their June meeting to understand the impact of the development on the west Wales economy over the first year of its operation.
English is a Welsh Language
In March 2009, as Welsh broadcasting suffered from further cuts in ITV Wales’s programme output for Wales and the prospect of five years of budget cuts at BBC Wales, the Institute of Welsh Affairs mounted a defence of English language television programming for Wales in English is a Welsh Language: Televisions’s crisis in Wales.* Its sixteen essays were part elegy for past glories, part cri de coeur as a nation’s visibility to itself was allowed to wither, and part affirmation that the problem can and must be solved. Its opening chapter was by the broadcaster and Chair of the IWA, Geraint Talfan Davies.
Delilah and the Welsh Victim Culture
John Osmond suggests that the current controversies surrounding Tom Jones’s 1960s hit song betray an atavistic Welsh culture of defeat:
Rugby unites the nation
John Osmond discovers that appreciation of the national game is the strongest experience uniting the people of Wales: