YOU MIGHT have thought that unquenchable anger and grief over the flooding of Cwm Tryweryn 58 years ago would at least have made Wales determined to never again let non-Welsh businesses exploit the country’s natural resources. But it hasn’t. Water, then and now, is gushing out of the country with minuscule financial gain …
ALARMED no doubt by the sheer ferocity of opposition to its mad plan to close all sixth-forms in the county, Ceredigion council goes into pass-the-buck mode and comes up with the very surprising claim that it didn’t write the review containing this insane proposal. As everyone had been led to assume. The ‘don’t blame …
IF YOU’RE a student in Gwynedd heading towards GCSEs and fancy going on to higher education you won’t be stuck for somewhere to take A-levels. All the county’s seven comprehensive schools run sixth-forms. In Powys, 11 of 12 secondary schools have sixth-forms. Of Carmarthenshire’s 12 secondaries, eight offer sixth-form courses; in Pembrokeshire, five of …
WHEN THE barbarity of Hamas is duplicated by an important economic partner and strategic ally of the West, be unsurprised that Rishi Sunak has had nothing much to say about the deaths of Gaza civilians beyond that Israel has a right to defend itself. Yet there is something unconvincing, an incompleteness, in mainstream explanations …
PEOPLE in charge of important public meeting-places need to be able to think straight. If they can’t, they need to make way for people who can. That must be the conclusion in the case of Borth Community Hall Committee, who have made it pretty obvious that the power of reasoning is not their strong …
WRITING about something genuinely alarming carries a risk – that you’ll be accused of being alarmist. Never mind. Because, really, who is going to argue that a political manoeuvre that holds out the threat of imprisonment, or a £15,000 fine, for property-owners not sticking to proposed new energy efficiency rules is anything less than alarming? …
WALES is deeply in love with mobile-phone technology. That at least must be the assumption when you hear the wailing of north and mid Wales MPs over what they would have you believe is the scandal of leaving places without ultra-powerful wireless phone links. Such connection is proclaimed as the indispensable social …
THE ludicrously profitable BT Group, together with its currently even more loaded subsidiary Openreach, is behaving quite disgracefully by claiming a need for spending constraint as a reason for trying to push through its new, and potentially life-endangering, internet-based telephones system. In June, our column in the Cambrian News described how the bullheaded plan …
WALES CLIMATE change minister Julie James continues to try to slide out of a solemn commitment in 2021 to fund desperately urgent attempts to save Wales’s curlews from extinction within 10 years. She knows very well that the Cardiff government is under international obligations to protect this marvellous and characterful bird, with its distinctive …
THE spectacular merlin, Europe’s smallest falcon, is in trouble, along with 69 other birds on the British Trust for Ornithology’s red list of “birds of conservation concern”. From the 1950s, and for about 30 years afterwards, they were badly affected by organochlorine pesticides, with numbers having fallen by 1960 to an all-time low of …
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