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I find myself in agreement with politicabetting in that I’m very sceptical about hypothetical polling and it really is difficult to comment on the survey without seeing the actual polling details particularly the wording of the questions. A pro-EU Labour peer and...

There may well be elements amongst the Labour leadership who understand the damage the anti-Semitism row is doing to their party and are trying to find a way to back out of the mess that they are in. However, if that is the case then their colleagues are doing them no...

Perhapss one of the outcomes of the Plaid Cymru Leadership contest is that whoever wins the Party will be putting Independence as its main platform after years of simply trying to make the devolved settlement work and trying to become the largest party in the...

It is not often nowadays that a newspaper article shocks me, but this one in yesterday's Guardian did exactly that. The paper reports that data they have obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that the Home Office has left some people waiting more than...

RWe should always be wary of Polls conducted on behalf, and it is important that we see the questions asked . but the  a  new YouGov poll has revealed that more people in Wales believe that the UK leaving the EU will have a negative effect on Wales than believe it...

Labour received another blow yesterday when one of its most high-profile supporters announced that he could no longer support or vote for them because of their stance on Brexit.As the Mirror reports, Sir Patrick Stewart, who has starred in Star Trek and the X-men...

Tweet It was during my time in primary school, back in the 1950s, that I first learnt about Sir Francis Drake.  He was presented, of course, as a ‘British’ hero (despite the fact that ‘Britain’ didn’t exist as a political entity in his day: ‘English’ -...

One of my Tutors in Coleg Harlech  Neil Evans, once said he did not so much believe in Conspiracy Theory  of History as a Cock Up theory. It could well be that the Anti-Sematism row within the Labour Party could lead to the greatest Cock Up in its history. The latest...

Boris Johnson is not afraid of controversy. In fact he actively courts it. The dishevelled, bumbling, obfuscating figure he projects is a carefully nurtured act designed to throw people off guard, get him through awkward situations and endear him to others. It raises...

Tweet Increasingly desperate Brexiteers have resorted recently to accusing the EU of breaking its own treaties by not accommodating the UK’s demands, on the basis that those treaties require the EU to "develop a special relationship with neighbouring countries,...

This blog is no fan of maverick Plaid AM Neil McEvoy  and his populists politics and admit that my reaction to his  early campaign against plans to dump mud off the south Wales coast that has been dredged from near the Hinkley Point nuclear sites was just that...

Tweet I agree with those campaigning against the dumping of ‘nuclear mud’ off the cost of Wales that we should not allow Wales to become a dumping ground for waste created by others.  There’s some question over the extent to which the waste is, in fact,...

It is some time since a senior politician stormed out of an interview with a reputable journalist. It is not the sort of thing I expect to happen on the BBC anymore, following their peculiar redefinition of balance, which seeks to reclassify facts as opinions and...

On 23 June 2013 voters in the UK opened a Pandora's Box by voting for Brexit  and it seems the majority would now like to close it. Although I tend to support the idea of a People Vote  regarding  a final say on Brexit it is fraught with danger almost  in the same way...

Tweet Godwin’s Law states that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1".  I don’t know whether online discussions have ever been rigorously investigated to determine the truth of the law, but casual...

Just when we thought that the UK Government was taking homelessness and rough sleeping seriously with the announcement of a £100 million strategy to "help people turn their lives around", including support for mental health and addictions, along comes reality to...

The BBC  reports that UKIP's Welsh assembly leader expects the party to back his campaign to abolish the Senedd, saying it would be "strange" to change his main policy. They say  that "Gareth Bennett was elected by party members on Friday with his mandate based around...

Medellin is the most stunning place I’ve ever been to. In 1992 it was the most murderous city in the world (over 27,000 murders). Today it’s mainly peaceful. A truly astonishing level of forgiveness. In 1950 there were around 350,000 residents. By 1970, the...

Tweet The new leader of UKIP in the Assembly has made clear his belief that his victory in the internal election was a direct result of his policy of abolishing the Assembly and that he now expects the whole party to fall into line behind him and support that policy...

By far the most shocking international story of last week was not the revelation that Donald Trump had initially asked to be sworn in over a copy of 'The Art of the Deal' rather than the Bible, or even the allegation that he frequently uses the 'N-word', but the way...

Sadly it comes as no surprise to me that Jac O' the North who writes a Blog claiming to be Interpenetrating Wales from a "Right of Centre Nationalist Perceptive" has  coined an article The Synthesis of Colonialism and Cultural Marxism in Wales. I have read Jac...