Columnists, comment on Welsh news, sport & lifestyle

No more whitewashes!

ON RADIO 4 Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg was discussing the case of a man who fathered nine children by violently raping his two daughters over many years. Read

Can Brown be our modern Moses and lead us all to financial salvation?

IT’S a relief to hear that Gordon Brown is “a kind of Moses figure” who is going to lead the wicked world away from the economic mess and into the Promised Land. Read

Cardiff remembered: Lion clue to the past history of city hotel

Peter Finch, author of the acclaimed Real Cardiff books, has the facility to cast his net far and wide and this is what he has done with his latest offering Real Wales (published by Seren at £9.99). Read

Free flip-flops? Have the Torquay police gone a bit bonkers?

THERE are a number of sounds from childhood which have disappeared into the mists. Read

A virus doesn’t stop for ‘cute’

I was delighted to join Dewi Llwyd on S4C’s excellent current affairs panel show Pawb a’i Farn from Cardigan on Thursday night. Read

Talking WM Sense

I HAVE a confession to make – I usually start buying Christmas presents in January. Read

Gorgeous Gael Jack Doyle who had it all and threw it all away

HE spent his last tragic weeks living on cheap booze in the back of a derelict van, and he died broke 30 years ago this month after getting through a fortune and the loot lavished on him by one of America’s richest women. Read

Homes Under the Hammer’s culture guide

TAKING time off work means two things. Read

Waste not, want not, money-man

SHADOW Finance Minister Nick Ramsay was scathing in his attack on Labour’s financial record in a speech to the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy last week, describing its reign as “the age of irresponsibility”. Read

Police State UK? Stop being silly

IT’S official: Britain is now as dangerous and corrupt a society as Zimbabwe. Read

Not just in green: John Humphries

THERE is a traffic island I know quite well where the enterprising local council has attempted to establish a range of plants only for most to go walkies in the middle of the night. Read

The Insider: Peter Finch

THERE was a time when poetry books sold like hot cakes. So I’ve been told. I can’t remember these times myself, you understand. Read

Women’s Own: Lynne Barrett-Lee

I really don’t want to become the Facebook equivalent of a drunk mum on a dance floor at a wedding reception Read

Mind matters: Tryst Williams

Short of setting up a tepee village in our corner of suburbia it’s hard to envisage how our alarming volume of rubbish generation will change Read

The first word: Hannah Jones

I told the class leader: “I’m not eating chips, I’ve cut right down on everything, and when I do put something in my mouth these days I’m trying just to chew and not swallow. Read

Time to consider the true value of Christmas

A BREATHLESS young lad who appeared to be in a bit of a rush tapped me on the shoulder and asked: “Do you have the right time?” Read

PM Gordon Brown’s bounce back is a temporary blip

SO QUICKLY is the political landscape changing that it’s sometimes difficult to tell who’s moving in which direction, let alone which party has its nose in front. Read