Tag: politics
The Half-Life of Snails
Sisters Helen and Jennifer live in the shadow of Wylfa Nuclear Power Station. Growing up in a sheep-farming family on the north coast of Anglesey, Wyl …
Read moreBrittle with Relics: A History of Wales 1962–1997
Interviewing people is not as easy as good writers make it appear. You have to ask the right people the right questions. You have to corral and conniv …
Read moreWelsh [Plural]:Essays on the Future of Wales
This snazzy-looking book is subtitled Essays on the Future of Wales, but many of the nineteen short pieces collected therein are bits of memoir, diary …
Read moreSmooth Operator: The Life and Times of Cyril Lakin, Editor, Broadcaster and Politician
At first glance, this biography of Conservative MP Cyril Lakin appears an unlikely project for author and chronicler of the British Communist Party, G …
Read moreLand of Whose Fathers?
Land is an enigma. It is soil, roads, houses and mountains, but more than any or all of those. It is, in a sense, all we have as humans. It is everywh …
Read moreKendal Mountain Festival: Levison Wood
Levison Wood, one of the most renowned speakers at this year’s Kendal Mountain Festival, shares stories about his incredible adventures and the people …
Read moreLest We Forget
The recent actions of Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters tearing down statues of the slave owner Edward Colston in Bristol has drawn public attention …
Read morePravda Ha Ha
Jemma L King is intrigued by this exploration, comic in parts, in which a return to Russia 30 years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, reveals the r …
Read moreCrocodiles by Youssef Rakha
It began appallingly – with the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia – but the reforming hope that rose, phoenix-like, from those awful flam …
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