Wales

40 years on: the disastrous start to my working life

I started my first job 40 years ago today. My career began at Nationwide Building Society…
Training for London Edinburgh London 2025: hard lessons from Bryan Chapman

This is the third in a series of posts about my training and preparation for the…
‘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.…
My Dad and Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

I was delighted to discover this photo of my late father with Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, one of…
Remembering Pelé, the world’s greatest footballer

Brazil, and the world, is mourning a legend. The greatest ever footballer, Pelé, has died aged…
Dewch ymlaen, Cymru!

It’s taken a lifetime. Cymru (Wales) tonight play our first game in the FIFA men’s World…
Own goal: Prince of Wales supports England

No one asked the people of Wales whether they wanted an English prince William to be…
The Falklands war, 40 years on

I never expected Britain to be at war when I prepared to sit my A levels…
COP26: the end of King Coal?

It was a symbol of Welsh industrial might: a locomotive hauling a coal train that seemed…
Flintshire detached: remembering our old counties

Forty years ago today, many of Britain’s most cherished counties disappeared under local government reorganisation. The changes…