Marc Jones is a Plaid Cymru councillor for Caia Park in Wrexham and works as a press officer. Prior to that he worked as a journalist for 22 years, including sub-editing with the Wrexham Leader, Daily Post and Liverpool Echo as well as producing current-affairs programmes in English and Welsh for BBC Wales and ITV. He has also freelanced and written occasionally for Private Eye and the Big Issue. He was also editor of Golwg magazine before opting for a life in politics. He is a socialist and republican who has co-edited the Red Poets magazine for the past 15 years. His Gramscian "pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will" is regularly undermined by the Welsh football team's performances. His first success as a councillor was to start up an allotment of 54 plots but has yet to master growing anything but potatoes and carrots.

Gwawr newydd ar y gorwel?

Nid dim ond yr Eisteddfod sydd wedi sicrhau sylw i Wrecsam yn y newyddion. Mae yna drafferthion dybrys o ran y clwb rygbi a’r clwb peldroed hefyd. Oes yna oleuni ar y gorwel?

The north-south divide (and how devolution bridged it)

The Gogs versus the Hwntws is almost as much a part of Welsh folklore as the Mabinogion. It’s time to accept the north-south split for the myth it now is