John Dixon is a former National Chair of Plaid Cymru, and a former candidate for the party in Parliamentary, Assembly, and local elections. He spent most of his career in IT, ending up as a senior manager in a multi-national consultancy company. Following redundancy in 2003, he now works mostly as a freelance translator with occasional IT or management consultancy work.

Share the wealth

Argument over the effectiveness of a city region within Wales fails to address overall issues of wealth creation across the country. It is time the Welsh Government took a more interventionist approach

Let a hundred flowers blossom

The internet is more than just another channel – but for it to add true value to politics, then central party structures need to relax control on how political figures use it

Schrödinger’s Plaid

The Eighties gave us the Three Wales model. Plaid’s outgoing Chair reckons there might also be a Three Plaid model

Untangling nation and state will lead to a better debate about our future

To most nationalists, a sense of nationhood and a desire for Welsh independence are indivisible. But, as Plaid Cymru’s Chair argues, pride in Wales and a proper debate about its constitutional future may both benefit from greater distance from one another