Geraint Talfan Davies examines the UK Culture Secretary’s plans for local television and his willingness to let ITV off the hook.

Essays, interviews and reviews related to the arts, media and cultures of Wales.
Mae the welsh agenda yn gylchgrawn Saesneg sydd yn cael ei hariannu gan Gyngor Llyfrau Cymru. Mae erthyglau’r cylchgrawn yn Saesneg ond mae’r tudalennau am waith y Sefydliad Materion Cymraeg ar gael yn ddwyieithog.
Geraint Talfan Davies examines the UK Culture Secretary’s plans for local television and his willingness to let ITV off the hook.
Geraint Talfan Davies wishes more from Wales were at Salford University’s 18th annual Nation and Regions Media Conference in Manchester
Peter Finch ponders the literary highs and lows of 2010
Derek Jones raises a question mark over a scheme that aspires to become the eighth wonder of Wales
Mark Drakeford says the capital is failing to meet the rising demand for new Welsh language schools
Derek Jones celebrates the latest addition to Wales’ national institutions
Huw David Jones reports on a symposium on collecting contemporary art at the National Museum Cardiff.
The New Year is a time for raising our sights rather than plunging into a kind of collective hypochondria, says Rhys David
Ifor Thomas is full of praise for a Welsh novelist who delivered in 2010