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Older than King Lear but still time for Cinderella to have a ball

IT came as bit of a shock, while watching a Shakespeare video last week, to realise I’m now older than King Lear. Read

Welcome back, Sex and the City girls

FOUR years ago we all bid a sad farewell to Carrie Bradshaw and her friends – the Manolo-wearing, cocktail-drinking, cupcake-eating glamorous New Yorkers who had enthralled us with their hectic love lives and shopping sprees. Read

Hello, surely gran was in the picture over magazine

THE Queen is a canny old bird. She has survived a long marriage to a peculiarly tricky husband and weathered the storm of two troublesome daughters-in-law. Read

Burning Bush mystery flickers before going out

PRESIDENT Bush’s visit to the UK next month is intended to mark the 60th anniversary of the Marshall Plan which fuelled the economic transformation of a war-torn continent – but it is also a goodbye tour. Read

Top restaurants probably have no need to ban breast-feeding

CHARLOTTE CHURCH may have recorded an album with the worst ever title known to man (Tissues and Issues – pah) but you have to hand it to her. As celebrities go at least she’s got personality. Read

Have we really got our priorities right?

HEARD of Dr Doolittle, have you? Bloke who talks to animals? Read

Revolt against petty tyrants

LOSS of the 10p income tax band is given as a main cause of the present political discontent. I doubt that. Read

Cup fever at French festival

IT WAS a Breton farmer called Manu, who raises 850,000 chickens for the table every year, who told me that Cardiff had been beaten in the FA Cup final. Read

Cardiff’s working girl who knew too much, or not?

SHE boarded the soot-spattered train in Cardiff’s smoky station 120 years ago, bound for a new life in London. Read

A reminder of how big our small nation can be

ON THE eve of the FA Cup Final one of the most precious relics of Welsh sport was paraded around the dining tables of Cardiff’s City Hall. Read

Blogged down

THERE is one big question overshadowing the current storm brewing in the Assembly over the proposed policing of AMs’ blogs: have the commissioners considering censorship actually read them? Read

Why I won’t shut up until kids can belt up

AS a columnist in a paper such as Wales on Sunday I am in a privileged position. Read

Tips and fat cats

THERE is something about big business that makes me queasy. Read

Mind Matters: Tryst Williams

Children’s memories are vivid, surprising, enduring, and as absorbent as salt on a wine stain. As a parent, that brings massive responsibility Read

Women’s Own: Lynne Barrett-Lee

I know, I thought, we pay a silly amount of money every month to be VIP customers and have someone call once a year to try and sell us Isas Read

The First Word: Hannah Jones

OH, to believe in something with passion. Can you just imagine what that’s like? Speaking as someone who’s too lazy to have hobbies let alone form fancy, intelligent, workable opinions, it amazes me when people are convinced that so-and-so is right, or that A and B will always lead to C as long as you consider D. Read