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  • What is justice?  For the current President of the United States of America, the answer to that question is directly and exclusively linked to another – who holds power over others?  In his White House dialogue with Volodymir Zelinskyy on…

  • In 1940 the government commissioned around sixty artists to record local scenes all over Britain, in order to capture a visual record of the country’s buildings and landscapes before they were transformed by the effects and aftereffects of war.  The…

  • The last deep coal mine in the Llynfi valley, St John’s Colliery, just east of Maesteg, closed in 1985, at the end of Margaret Thatcher’s war against the miners.  At its peak it employed nearly 1,500 men.  There’s been no…

  • Nelan a Bo yw trydedd nofel Angharad Price.  Ynddi mae’n mynd nôl i’w chartref gyntaf, Rhos Chwilog, ar bwys pentref Bethel yn Arfon.  Llecyn bach iawn – rhaid troi at y map manylaf er mwyn rhoi’ch bys arno – ond,…

  • Christopher Williams is little known today outside his home town of Maesteg, but in his heyday – he was born in 1873 and died in 1934 – he was regarded as the outstanding painter of Wales.  He earned his living…

  • deud llai (Barddas, 2024) yw’r trydydd casgliad o gerddi i’w gyhoeddi gan Dafydd John Pritchard.  Roedd yr ail, Lôn fain (2013), dipyn yn llai fel llyfr corfforol na’r cyntaf, Dim ond deud (2006), ac mae’r gyfrol newydd yn llai byth. …

  • Peter Lord’s exhibition ‘Dim Celf Cymreig / No Welsh Art’ fills the whole of the largest exhibition space in Wales, the Gregynog Gallery in the National Library.  It needs such a big space because Peter’s personal gallery, built up over…

  • On 20 January Donald Trump, having been sworn in at the start of his second term as US President, outlined in his acceptance speech his mission for the next four years.  Simply, he would put America first.  He blamed ‘the…

  • Owen Glynne Jones, everyone agreed, was the outstanding rock climber of his age. Born in London in 1867 of Welsh-speaking parents and educated in science and engineering, he made his name by pioneering new routes in the English Lake District,…

  • Less than four miles from Kilburn, my brother’s home in north Yorkshire till his death last November, is the village of Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe.  It sits at the foot of the steep escarpment known as Sutton Bank, on the main road between…

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