…were open for advance voting on the Tuesday and Wednesday before the election. A new polling station was also created in Cynffig Comprehensive School where eligible students could cast their…
What have we learned from the Rwandan Genocide?
…complex ruling structure. The state was supported by an administrative network that oversaw three groups of people in a semi-feudal system composed of Tutsi, Hutu and Twa, terms which described…
Sanctuary: There Must Be Somewhere by Angela Graham
Wales: Nation of Sanctuary. It’s an inspiring aspiration and commitment. However, as I was creating my new collection of poetry Sanctuary: There Must Be Somewhere, published by Seren Books, I…
We Really Need to Talk About Work
…of work I hated, with seemingly little prospect of an end in sight. I have, fortunately, also experienced the sense of self-validation that comes from work that feels meaningful, purposeful…
Women and the War in Ukraine
…in a community to come together to cut up old clothing, blankets and other fabrics and to weave the strips onto fishing net in zigzag patterns before dispatching them to…
Restanza in Blaenau: New Foundational Politics
…approach to a knocked about, post industrial district town. The attachment to Blaenau is not an individualistic choice because it involves a commitment to preserving and developing community. In partnership…
Introducing: Ukraine: What can we do?
…you’d be hard-pressed to find a headline about the strike. Rwanda. Roe V. Wade. Christopher Kapessa. The Kremenchuck bombing. Everyday very real human stories compete for our attention in an…
Placemaking, or Life and Death (and Rebirth?) of a Great Welsh Town
…public sector, it’s equally important for public services to be re-engineered to achieve place-based objectives – for example, locating services to increase town centre footfall, making public spaces clean and…
Time for a Welsh Human Rights Act
…The Welsh Government should be taking steps to ensure that it does not allow Westminster to rewrite the rulebook on human rights Another example of the control the UK government…