Bethan Jenkins AM is the Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales West. She was first elected in 2007. She is Plaid Cymru’s spokesperson on Heritage, Welsh Language & Sport at the National Assembly for Wales. She has an office in Neath. Bethan has a blog www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk and a website www.bethanjenkins.org.uk.

Time for radical solutions

Debate over the future of the Welsh media down the years has failed. Now, as an end game comes into view, we must take decisive steps to prevent some of our titles from disappearing

Something needs fixing

If the Welsh Government is serious about rebuilding the country’s manufacturing base, it needs to be doing more to promote engineering in our schools

Plaid needs to ditch this cult of the individual

Pity the country that needs heroes, Adam Price once famously said. So what about a political party?

Tomorrow’s questions today

The debate over the future of Welsh newspapers has ignored our changing tastes and is instead looking to answer yesterday’s questions over the media – not what comes next

Angen chwyldro yn S4/C

Plaid Cymru’s heritage spokesperson, Bethan Jenkins AM, tells us why S4/C needs a radical shake up if it is to be saved.

The usual suspects

News that familiar – some might say notorious – corporate names have profited from a company that took the pensions of Welsh workers should compel us to rage against the machine

Using the future to embrace our past

Wales did more than play a pivotal role in the Industrial Revolution. Welsh innovation down the years has helped shape the modern world, and we must grasp the potentially fundamental opportunities that our past could bring us

Time for bread and butter

The media is fixated on coalitions and rows. But most candidates will be focused on representing local issues if they are elected

All in a day’s work

With the economy still suffering and quality jobs being lost, a new forum will examine if there is a way our skills can be used to bring the work back

Turning a regeneration corner

Today’s announcement that work is to begin in finding a future for Swansea’s historic Hafod Copperworks site also points to a new and innovative way for regeneration in Wales

Who wants a cup cake?

To the outside world, the Tea Party is a regressive, inward-looking and sometimes frightening movement. But people in the US are beginning to live with it – can it now live with the rest of the US?

A recovering economy must put skills first

The closure of another automotive manufacturer’s Welsh factory shows where Wales’ real problems – and opportunities – lie