Cardiff
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Remembering Jim Callaghan: an underrated PM
James Callaghan, who died 20 years ago this week, might have been Britain’s most forgotten postwar…
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‘Works hard not always with success’ – The Guardian features my old school report comments
The Guardian newspaper has been running an amusing correspondence about school reports in its letters column.…
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Headlines from my 50 year old childhood scrapbook
Do any children today keep a scrapbook? It seems very unlikely given almost every aspect of…
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The end of coal power in Britain
The coal age in Britain is over. The country’s last coal-powered power station closed yesterday, marking…
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(Not) Hanging on the Telephone
‘We’ll never forget the magic of a landline’, Viv Groskop wrote in The Guardian on Friday…
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A historic election and the humble act of voting
Vote early, vote often, as BBC Radio 4’s Weekly Ending satirical show said of the first…
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Learning Welsh, 30 years on
Thirty years ago this week, I sat down in a classroom in an abandoned quarrying village…
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Remembering my Nan, 30 years on
It’s hard to believe that my grandmother, Nan, died 30 years ago today. It’s seems like…
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Echoes of 1939
Some years are associated with tragedy and the horror of war. For example,1914: the year the…