Richard King’s books include Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97.
Since 1922, the Labour Party has won in Wales at every general election, and has been the largest party in all of the country’s devolved governments since the National Assembly, now known as the Senedd, was convened in May 1999. During the extended periods when the UK has been under Conservative rule, Welsh Labour has made much of its political integrity and electoral success. Such...
Who’s to say that one version of Welsh nationalism is more ‘true’ than any other? The claim that ‘Wales is a nation’ isn’t a descriptive statement: it is – or aspires to be – an illocutionary...
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