Posts Tagged ‘Cardiff’

Should Cardiff have an elected mayor?

Should Cardiff have an elected mayor?

The debate around an elected Mayor for Cardiff is perhaps the only thing that has heated up this summer. Here two city politicians on both sides of the debate voice their views

So much more than a watering hole

So much more than a watering hole

Since it was threatened with the wrecking ball, The Vulcan in Cardiff has become arguably Wales’ most famous pub. It demonstrates a determination to pay tribute to the city’s past, as the organiser of the campaign to save it explains

Whatever happened to the idea of making every school a great school?

Whatever happened to the idea of making every school a great school?

School reorganisation in Cardiff isn’t just about Welsh medium provision in Cardiff West: there’s a much bigger picture here and one in which the Council must listen and the Assembly Government respect

Wanted – a white charger to defeat tribalism

Wanted – a white charger to defeat tribalism

With coalitions in both Cardiff Bay and Westminster, voters might be forgiven for thinking that political tribalism is over. Not in a certain part of Cardiff, argues the council’s deputy leader, in a personal account of the Welsh medium schools reorganisation that has created huge controversy in the west of the city – and further afield

Smile though your heart is aching

Smile though your heart is aching

Cardiff’s failure to win promotion to the Premiership is regarded both as a lost chance for glory and an economic missed opportunity. Here, a Bluebirds fan assesses how the city has really lost out

2010 Constituency Profile: Cardiff North

2010 Constituency Profile: Cardiff North

Popular local MP Julie Morgan looks likely to be swept away by a national and local swing to the Conservatives in one of their top target seats

2010 Constituency Profile: Cardiff West

2010 Constituency Profile: Cardiff West

A seat that is changing, but is unlikely to change party on this occasion

2010 Constituency Profile: Cardiff Central

2010 Constituency Profile: Cardiff Central

Arguably the historically most persistently marginal seat in Wales is now anything but and is the safest Liberal Democrat seat in Wales

A sense of loss and sorrow that is only Welsh

A sense of loss and sorrow that is only Welsh

Hiraeth is a uniquely Welsh word born out of uniquely Welsh experiences. Is that why it cannot be translated to English?

Her dying breath

Her dying breath

Today is the day of romance. It is also the 22nd anniversary of a Cardiff murder that heralded the end of one kind of Bay and the start of another

The Crown and the Presence of Absence

The Crown and the Presence of Absence

City Hall should become a Royal Palace, creating a Welsh Order of Chivalry, and introducing Regius Professorships to Wales: just some of the ideas advocated to increase the role and visibility of the monarchy in a modern Wales

Why is Cardiff so unloved by us Welsh?

Why is Cardiff so unloved by us Welsh?

We don’t love our capital city and, though our grumbles are mostly unfair, there is a germ of truth in the criticism that Cardiff is not yet fully the champion of Wales. And it could start by being prouder of its own and the nation’s heritage