Tag: test and trace
The Republic of Wales
A few days ago a distracted weather presenter on Sky News, missing out a few words of her script, uttered the phrase ‘Republic of Wales’. The news spread quickly round Twitter. There was wide agreement that the phrase had a highly appealing ring to it. So, too, the Welsh version, Gweriniaeth Cymru. Since then I’ve […]
Dido Harding: a failed state in microcosm
I thought I recognised the name Dido Harding, when her name popped up on the news recently. After all, Dido isn’t the commonest of names. There’s Dido, the excellent singer, and Dido Twite, the heroine of Black hearts in Battersea and other stories by Joan Aiken. And, of course, the original, wonderful and tragic Dido, […]
