Many of you will be familiar with the phrase, “Sucking the oxygen out of the room.” It’s when an issue becomes so dominant that every other issue doesn’t get a look in. This is what is unfolding with ...

Lila Haines Celtic Conundrums/1 First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth told an NUJ conference on the state of the media in Wales recently that he would prefer to live in a Wales where journalists ask too man...

Lila Haines Celtic Conundrums/1 First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth told an NUJ conference on the state of the media in Wales recently that he would prefer to live in a Wales where journalists ask too man...

Status does not currently exist under bloc’s treaties

Status does not currently exist under bloc’s treaties

Status does not currently exist under bloc’s treaties

At least 88 families made homeless in June’s race riots – most have not returned home

State spent about €1.88bn in official development assistance last year, including a record €807m under the Irish Aid programme

Ken Moon, Chair, Tir Pontypridd  I’ve been promising my son a walk up Pen y Fan since the spring, so yesterday evening I set aside feeling unwell for a couple of hours and headed up the Taf Fechan to ...

Ken Moon, Chair, Tir Pontypridd  I’ve been promising my son a walk up Pen y Fan since the spring, so yesterday evening I set aside feeling unwell for a couple of hours and headed up the Taf Fechan to ...

The fetishisation of the Troubles by Kneecap is part of the same normalisation

The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review (2006) assessed a wide range of evidence on the impacts of climate change and on the economic costs.

The fetishisation of the Troubles by Kneecap is part of the same normalisation

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has announced that the Irish government will establish and fund an annual peace prize honouring the late John Hume. Speaking in Strasbourg, the Taoiseach said “John was both a...

Nation.Cymru staff More Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank during the past three years than in the previous 17 years combined, according to new analysis by Oxfam. The charity said...

thousands of books and crucial study spaces are at risk. Cardiff Uni wants to repurpose the busiest library on campus into classrooms. Help protect our library and sign the petition today.

Richard Wyn Jones The prospect of change and, specifically, the end of Labour hegemony has already led to an unprecedented amount of polling ahead of the Senedd election. We can expect more between no...

Ancient Order of Hibernians says US president’s criticism of Pope Leo and AI-generated image has ‘deeply offended’ Catholics

US President Donald Trump has feuded with Pope Leo XIV over the Iran war - setting off an unholy row that could have serious political implications for the Republican leader at home.

The Great Orange One has turned his ire on the pontiff. Posting on Truth Social the following: Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. He talks about “fear” of the Trump Administra...

Five of the vessels travel through Irish exclusive economic zone in likely bid to discourage boarding attempts, say military sources

Concerns over threat to key infrastructure raised in private submissions by Government departments and State agencies

Shifts in identity, social change and the strain of long incumbency mean Ireland’s nearest neighbour is about to undergo a sea change

Global Justice Campaigners in Wales have warned that proposals in party manifestos that scrap programmes they describe as “international aid” risk weakening vital global partnerships and abandoning co...

Lila Haines I’ve been a bit of a grumpy old woman about St Patrick’s Day most of my life – not for me the silly hats and plastic shillelaghs, and don’t get me started about people who dye rivers green...

The memo was obtained by Plaid Cymru, which has accused Labour of turning its back on devolution.

It would be "utterly despicable" to allow Russia to gain financially by selling oil and gas to Europe, Tánaiste Simon Harris has said.

Someone needs to tell him the truth or swathes of the world could be turned into Gaza writ large

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has doubled down on his opposition to the attack on ⁠Iran by the US and Israel, warning that the conflict risked playing "Russian roulette" with the lives of milli...

A fortnight ago in Belfast’s Shankill Road I met four impressive young people who were deeply involved in their working-class, loyalist community: Stacey Graham, Adam Watters, Ryan McFarlane and Mark ...

Martin Shipton When celebrities endorse politicians or political causes, it can appear crass and embarrassing, especially when they’ve previously had little to say, aren’t very articulate and it’s cle...

Sinn Féin is rightly proud of republicanism’s role in the fight against fascism in Spain. So why is it now opposing assistance for Ukraine?

Yuliia Bond A leaflet being distributed by the Welsh Conservatives in Wales attacks the Nation of Sanctuary programme, while failing to explain that more than 90% of its budget has been spent resettli...

Elements that built up fascism in Germany are now in United States, says former president

Martin Shipton Once again, Britain is caught up in a frenzy of Messiah politics. With Keir Starmer’s approval ratings at a shockingly low level, the answer to Labour’s problems is, so far as many in t...

At least 100 children have been killed by Israeli airstrikes and ground forces in Gaza since the start of a tenuous ceasefire three months ago, the United Nations said.

Oxfam Cymru’s Dr Hade Turkmen outlines why a Wellbeing Economy should be the only option for the new Welsh Government and Senedd.

On Friday, Nicolas Maduro ruled Venezuela with an iron fist. Yesterday, fists cuffed together, he shuffled across the tarmac into American federal detention.

Martin Shipton It’s quite extraordinary that when asked about the gangster-like kidnapping of a foreign head of state and his wife on the orders of Donald Trump, Keir Starmer’s response was to say tha...

UK Labour peer says home secretary is ‘unnecessarily hardline’ on asylum seekers and he doesn’t ‘denigrate’ Reform voters

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Martin Shipton A racially motivated attack on a 14-year-old Ukrainian girl in Caerphilly is being linked to the anti-migrant rhetoric of Reform UK in the recent Senedd by-election. Polina Rudakov was ...

Intermediaries have charged as much as $1m to make a case to the White House for those seeking clemency

I should begin this blog with a declaration of interest. My father was a Czech Jew, a political refugee who arrived in Ireland in 1948, and my mother was an Ulster Presbyterian. So I am not a typical ...

Rob Humphreys - driving to Ukraine to deliver vital humanitarian supplies - as part of the Senedd4Ukraine project. Please donate now!

Ireland’s neutrality doesn’t bother EU allies. Our inability to defend ourselves does

Joseph E. Stiglitz counts the ways that the US president is derailing the country's future prosperity and competitiveness.