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Fox News and the latest phone-hacking scandal outdoes TV’s Succession
News Opinion
In this world of Succession obsession, media expert John Jewell casts his eye over how – in the case of Fox News and the Murdoch empire – art appears to be imitating life...
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The thing about Mark Drakeford nobody realises
Politics
Welsh Labour love to point out that they are the most successful democratic party of the last century. But this continuous auto-piloting into brushing away any legitimate criticism with indignation and patronising words is exactly the same entitlement and 'we have a right-to-rule' mentality that is levelled against the Tories in England
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King Charles III's coronation to prove an intense time for scrutiny, speculation and interest
News Opinion
Media expert John Jewell casts his eye over how King Charles III's forthcoming coronation is being - and will be - received
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'Cardiff is right to charge people driving in the city'
Cardiff
It will face criticism but it needs to happen if Cardiff is to taken seriously as a green a vibrant capital city
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The new King Charles 50p shows everything that is wrong with Wales' place in the UK
King Charles III
'Given that Wales has its own parliament, makes many of its own laws, regularly competes and wins at the highest level of sport and is just as much a nation as any other in the UK, a royal coat of arms that fails to acknowledge this part of the UK is a coat of arms that is not fit for purpose'
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'The UK needs a total rethink to stop Westminster walking all over devolution'
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'Simply imposing its own policies regardless of the wishes of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on matters devolved is not a sustainable option'
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What is going on with the Twitter feed of Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies?
Andrew RT Davies
It is bad news for everyone in Wales that he has gone off the populist deep end
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'The UK and Wales are crying out for of a real industrial strategy' | Nick Thomas-Symonds and Vaughan Gething
Labour Party
Two prominent Labour politicians have written this article argue setting out their vision from growth and business in Wales and the wider UK
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Wales' future is at stake and here's how you can have your say in it | Laura McAllister
Politics
Now is absolutely the right time to map out how we in Wales wish to be governed and the different kind of politics that we’d like to see...
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'My eating disorder left me so ill they sent me to a pyschiatric ward in England'
Bridgend
Georgia Taylor was sent far from home for treatment after she turned 18 because of a lack of support in Wales for young adults
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'Wales is fed up with being forgotten, ignored, sidelined by Labour and the Tories' | Liz Saville Roberts
Plaid Cymru
This weekend Plaid Cymru held their spring conference in Llanelli. Their Westminster leader, MP Liz Savile Roberts has written this article to make the case for Wales turning its back on the two main parties
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Should St David's Day become a bank holiday?
News Opinion
Ireland get one for St Patrick, and Scotland for St Andrew... so what about us?
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Trainers are often the soundtrack to our youth and, indeed, to our current lives and lifestyles | Laura McAllister
Cardiff University
They are icons of sport, fashion, nostalgia, big business and history - but I will always call them daps!
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Wales changes direction dramatically but no one wants a country full of dangerous, overcrowded roads
Traffic and Travel
The Welsh Government has taken the decision to scrap a slew of major road-building and road-improvement schemes but we need alternatives quickly
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'We will soon have a nation of Indy converts' Adam Price writes for WalesOnline about the campaign for independence
Politics
"We must write our own stories and be our own agents of news," argues Adam Price MS, leader of Plaid Cymru
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'I didn’t know how to process seeing so many children and people in distress'
Invasion of Ukraine
A Cardiff graduate working with refugees in Moldova fleeing Ukraine fighting describes the scenes she has witnessed
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'£300m for Port Talbot steelworks falls woefully short of what's needed to save the Welsh steel industry'
Port Talbot
Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens and Newport West MP Jessica Morden argue the government is putting the steel industry's future at risk
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'Mark Drakeford must acknowledge the scale of the crisis in the Welsh NHS' | Plaid MS Rhun ap Iorwerth
Politics
Rhun ap Iorwerth MS, Plaid Cymru’s spokesperson for health and care, says the Labour-led Welsh Government is failing to acknowledge the depth of the problems gripping Welsh health services
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Here's what can be done to try to fix Wales' health crisis | Laura McAllister
NHS
Personal responsibility, innovation and children are major go-tos if we are to treat the causes and not just suffer the symptoms of a system on its knees...
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'Wales' iconic fishing industry is in terminal decline unless the Welsh Government acts' | Mabon ap Gwynfor
Politics
'Overall farmed finfish and shellfish saw an 82% fall in value between 2019 and 2021, with a near total collapse in the tonnage produced from 3.1 thousand tonnes to a mere 214 tonnes, a 93% decline'
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'Online travel agent Opodo owes me £964 for flights cancelled during Covid but won't pay'
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Nearly three years ago, political editor-at-large Martin Shipton planned to visit the capital of Azerbaijan and bought airline tickets costing nearly £1,000. The trip couldn't go ahead during the pandemic, but he still hasn't had a refund
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The Tories clapped, but now they’ll sack our key workers | Jo Stevens MP
Politics
'Let’s call this Bill out for what it is, a fundamental attack on the right to withdraw your labour and a deliberate strategy to bankrupt trade unions representing key workers'
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Neither Mark Drakeford or Adam Price will be leading their parties by the end of the year
Politics
I predict both men will have stepped down before 2023 is out
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'I marked the Winter Solstice with Welsh druids and it was awesome'
Anglesey
Celebrations for the traditional event are still held on Anglesey every year
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Sian plays Constable Grace Ellis in Northern Irish police drama Blue Lights which returns to screens on April 15
Protesters will use 20mph convoys in bid to show 'how bad things will get' this summer
North Wales
The convoys are being organised as a motion goes before the Senedd calling for the policy to be reversed