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Children at a primary school in Yorkshire, July 7, 2025

Education / 5 October 2025

Head teachers attack Welsh government's teachers' payment scheme

5 October 2025

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during a press conference in Caerphilly as he announces Llyr Powell (right) as the party candidate for the upcoming Caerphilly Senedd by-election, September 12, 2025

Wales / 5 October 2025

Legal threat forces Labour to delete social media posts in Caerphilly by-election campaign

5 October 2025

Andrew RT Davies, Leader of the Welsh Conservatives speaking while on the general election campaign trail, June 21, 2024

Wales / 5 October 2025

Desperate Welsh Tories attack Plaid and far right

5 October 2025

A view of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardiff

Wales / 30 September 2025

Party leaders jostle to pitch to electors at FMQs

30 September 2025

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (left) and newly announced party candidate for the upcoming Caerphilly Senedd by-election Llyr Powell (right) outside the Reform UK office in Caerphilly, September 12, 2025

Wales / 29 September 2025

‘Different poison, same bottle’

29 September 2025

Welsh Labour come out fighting to win by-election

Britain / 25 September 2025

Wales' top auditor calls for change in NHS funding model

25 September 2025

WTUC president-elect Laura Doe chairing the conference

Wales / 24 September 2025

Trade unionists in Wales plan how to defeat Reform and the far right

24 September 2025

Opera review / 23 September 2025

Candide capers

23 September 2025

DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity

The sign for the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Ca

Wales / 22 September 2025

Caerphilly council cancels meetings during Senedd byelection

22 September 2025

Opera review / 17 September 2025

I lived for art

17 September 2025

DAVID NICHOLSON is thrilled – and shocked – by an opera that seethes and sizzles with passion and the depraved use of power

First Minister and Labour leader in Wales, Baroness Eluned Morgan, delivers a keynote speech marking one year to the 2026 Senedd election, at the Norwegian Church in Cardiff, May 6, 2025

Wales / 16 September 2025

By-election fever hits FMQs

16 September 2025

Junior doctors on the picket line at Cardiff's University Ho

Wales / 16 September 2025

Doctors in Wales issue Senedd election manifesto

16 September 2025

A Labour Party supporter wears a rosette

Wales / 14 September 2025

Labour’s Caerphilly election campaign in turmoil as council leader resigns

14 September 2025

People take part in a march organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, from Russell Square to Whitehall in central London, June 21, 2025

Wales / 14 September 2025

Campaigners welcome council decision not to be associated with companies complicit in the conflict in Gaza

14 September 2025

A preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks

Wales / 10 September 2025

Campaigners warn thousands of children in Wales put at risk by temporary accommodation

10 September 2025

Wales / 10 September 2025

Teachers take strike action over bullying allegations at Flintshire school

10 September 2025

The sign for the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardiff, after four Welsh government ministers resigned saying First Minister Vaughan Gething must leave office. Mr Gething has said he will

Wales / 8 September 2025

Activists slam Starmer's divisive apparatchiks in Welsh Senedd by-election

8 September 2025

Jeremy Corbyn (second left) and Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South (second right) on the picket line outside London Euston train station, August 18, 2022

Wales / 2 September 2025

Calls for an inaugural all-Wales Your Party meeting in the autumn

2 September 2025

Wales / 2 September 2025

Environmental campaigners claim over 45,000 land sites in Wales are contaminated

2 September 2025

PROTESTS AGAINST RACISTS / 31 August 2025

Anti-fascists rout the far right at demonstrations in south Wales

31 August 2025

A view of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardi

Wales / 25 August 2025

Revelations about Senedd candidate’s work with payday loan company met by wall of silence

25 August 2025

A general view of Port Talbot, South Wales

Wales / 25 August 2025

Plaid Cymru slam slow response to letter to FM

25 August 2025

Counter-protesters in Wales, August 18, 2025

Counter-Protest / 18 August 2025

Anti-fascists confront far right in South Wales

18 August 2025

Plaid Cymru / 12 August 2025

Welsh nationalists pledge to breathe life into rural economy

12 August 2025

Britain / 11 August 2025

Prison campaigners call for urgent reform as numbers soar

11 August 2025

Mark Drakeford speaking at the TUC Cymru Eisteddfod meeting on Senedd reform, the Welsh language and workers rights

Wales / 6 August 2025

Trade unionists hold public meeting with Mark Drakeford at the Eisteddfod

6 August 2025

Wales / 6 August 2025

Culture unions to hold anti-cuts demonstrations at the Eisteddfod

6 August 2025

Wales TUC bilingual officer Dr Mandy James speaking at the launch of the Welsh language charter at the Eisteddfod in Wrexham

Wales / 5 August 2025

Unions launch charter to improve the use of Welsh at work

5 August 2025

Eisteddfod 2025 / 5 August 2025

PCS members continue campaign for more culture funding in Wales

5 August 2025

Wales / 22 July 2025

Top Welsh Tory defects to Reform

22 July 2025

Wales / 21 July 2025

Welsh Labour's troubles continue with latest polling

21 July 2025

A farmer harvesting the last of his wheat crop

Wales / 21 July 2025

Plaid call for a wealth tax and U-turn on farm taxation

21 July 2025

Disabled rights protesters sit-in at Cardiff jobcentre. Photo: Natasha Hirst

Wales / 8 July 2025

Disability campaigners hold sit-in at Cardiff jobcentre

8 July 2025

Wales / 8 July 2025

FMQs overshadowed by poll showing Reform lead

8 July 2025

Crowds watch Kneecap performing on the West Holts Stage during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. Picture date: Saturday June 28, 2025

Wales / 1 July 2025

Glastonbury looms large at First Minister’s Questions

1 July 2025

Senedd today when it was encircled by a Red Line

Palestine Solidarity / 1 July 2025

Welsh Parliament encircled by a ‘red line’ as activists demand action to stop Gaza genocide

1 July 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives with Wales' First Minister Eluned Morgan (left) and Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens (right) for a visit to RAF Valley in Anglesey, Wales, June 27, 2025

Welsh Labour Conference 2025 / 29 June 2025

Rattled Labour leaders attack Plaid and Reform in Wales

29 June 2025

Protesters outside Welsh Labour conference on Saturday

Welsh Labour Conference 2025 / 29 June 2025

Peace campaigners march to the Welsh Labour conference demanding action on the genocide in Gaza

29 June 2025

Welsh Labour Conference 2025 / 27 June 2025

Activists urge Welsh Labour to tack left

27 June 2025

Protesters take part in a demonstration outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Offcie (FCDO) in Whitehall, London, calling for the UK Government to protect the crew of Madleen, June 9, 2025

Exclusive / 27 June 2025

Peace campaigners to take protest to Welsh Labour conference

27 June 2025

Wales / 17 June 2025

First Minister funding review leads to row

17 June 2025

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper visits the Bentley factory in Crewe, Cheshire, May 13, 2025

Britain / 16 June 2025

Home Secretary accepts all recommendations in child exploitation review

16 June 2025

Members of a humanitarian convoy of at least 1,500 people, including activists and supporters from Algeria and Tunisia, wave Palestinian flags from a bus as the group travels toward Gaza via Egypt's Rafah Crossing, in Zawiya, Libya, June 10, 2025

Gaza / 16 June 2025

Organisers call for the release of those detained on the peace march to Gaza’s Rafah border crossing

16 June 2025

Protesters hold a CND flag in Parliament Square in London, i

Wales / 11 June 2025

Welsh activists join peace march to Gaza

11 June 2025

Inequality / 10 June 2025

Campaigners react with dismay to new poverty report in Wales

10 June 2025

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during a press conference at Church House in Westminster, London, June 10, 2025

Climate Crisis / 10 June 2025

Political parties and campaigners line up to slam Farage’s coal plans for Wales

10 June 2025

A registration form and a stethoscope at the Temple Fortune

Wales / 8 June 2025

GPs in Wales welcome training for diagnosing endometriosis in women

8 June 2025

Wales / 3 June 2025

Disability campaigners furious as Wales consultation scrapped

3 June 2025

Wales / 2 June 2025

Campaigners call on the Welsh government to act to eradicate child poverty

2 June 2025

Wales / 27 May 2025

Europe's biggest youth festival kicks off in Margam park

27 May 2025

Wales / 26 May 2025

Protesters target BBC offices in Wales over Gaza reporting

26 May 2025

A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban

Universities / 20 May 2025

Compulsory redundancies are a red line for university members in Cardiff

20 May 2025

A general view of medical equipment on a NHS hospital ward a

Healthcare / 19 May 2025

Heart health in Britain declining faster than any other decade for 50 years

19 May 2025

Theatre Review / 7 May 2025

The Welsh roots of Jamaican slavery

7 May 2025

DAVID NICHOLSON applauds the return of Azuka Oforka’s stunning drama about slave plantation politics

Britain / 15 April 2025

Education unions launch blistering attack on the cost of supply teachers in Wales

15 April 2025

Britain / 9 April 2025

Senedd committee urges government intervention to deal with delays in buying new trains

9 April 2025

Britain / 8 April 2025

Teachers slam Welsh government's failure to tackle pay in schools

8 April 2025

Former Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood (left) and ex-Labour M

Britain / 6 April 2025

Winter and Wood hold meetings in the valleys to combat Reform

6 April 2025

Wales' First Minister Eluned Morgan attends a press conferen

Britain / 1 April 2025

Welfare cuts dominate First Minister's questions in Cardiff

1 April 2025

A general view of staff on an NHS hospital ward at Ealing Ho

Britain / 1 April 2025

Health unions urge Cardiff Bay to tackle NHS pay in Wales

1 April 2025

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves holds a press conf

Britain / 31 March 2025

Row intensifies over the impact of Rachel Reeves' welfare cuts in Wales

31 March 2025

Members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) protest against Mid

Britain / 26 March 2025

Firefighters in Wales threaten strike action over shift changes

26 March 2025

Britain / 25 March 2025

Welsh party leaders clash over council tax increases at First Minister’s Questions

25 March 2025

Britain / 25 March 2025

UCU Cardiff members vote for strike action to fight job cuts

25 March 2025

Plaid economy spokesman Luke Fletcher speaking at the party�

Britain / 23 March 2025

Nationalists pledge to cut taxes for small Welsh businesses

23 March 2025

Leader of Plaid Cymru Rhun ap Iorwerth speaks during the par

Britain / 23 March 2025

Plaid Cymru leader confirms his government would review Welsh electoral system

23 March 2025

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth launches his party's Gen

Britain / 21 March 2025

Plaid leader promises a new weekly child benefit payment in Wales

21 March 2025

General view of the Cardiff University Brain Research Imagin

Britain / 21 March 2025

UCU promises strike action unless compulsory redundancy threat is removed

21 March 2025

Features / 21 March 2025

A plan for the renewal of Wales

21 March 2025

Wales reporter David Nicholson talks to Morning Star columnist and Plaid Cymru economy spokesman LUKE FLETCHER ahead of the unveiling of his economic strategy for Wales

England's Joe Heyes (centre) scores a try during the Guinnes

Men’s Rugby Union / 16 March 2025

England overpower Wales but France take title

16 March 2025

Campaigners demonstrate outside Swansea's Guildhall

Britain / 12 March 2025

Hundreds protest outside Wales Pension Partnership meeting in Swansea

12 March 2025

Britain / 10 March 2025

Doctors union cautiously welcomes Welsh government plans to strengthen GPs' role

10 March 2025

Displaced Palestinians make tea at a school run by UNRWA, th

Britain / 10 March 2025

Campaigners demand Wales Pension Partnership divest from firms linked to Israel's Gaza genocide

10 March 2025

England's Ollie Sleightholme scores his second try during th

Six Nations / 9 March 2025

England move into 2nd place after defeating Italy

9 March 2025

Britain / 8 March 2025

Unity demanded at Stop the War Cymru conference

8 March 2025

A view of £5, £10, £20 and £50 bank notes

Britain / 4 March 2025

Senedd debates the Welsh budget

4 March 2025

First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan speaks during the Labo

Britain / 4 March 2025

First Minister's Questions celebrates Eluned Morgan's 20th session as leader

4 March 2025

Britain / 4 March 2025

Union welcomes ministers' meeting with higher education chiefs

4 March 2025

A patient bed on an NHS hospital ward in England

Britain / 3 March 2025

Plaid Cyrmu slam crisis handling at Wales' largest health board

3 March 2025

SOLIDARITY WITH THE REVOLUTION: The presidium of the 9th Con

Book Review / 2 March 2025

A socialist heroine

2 March 2025

DAVID NICHOLSON is fascinated by one of the early pioneers of the women’s movement and of the early days of the Labour Party

General view of a Welsh flag before the Six Nations match at

Britain / 2 March 2025

St David's Day messages demand fairer funding for Wales

2 March 2025

Plaid Cymru's Luke Fletcher speaks with delegates during the

Britain / 26 February 2025

Plaid's Luke Fletcher faces internal challenge for new Senedd constituency

26 February 2025

First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan at Cathays Park in Car

Britain / 26 February 2025

First Minister's office bats away Tory calls to shut Welsh government foreign offices

26 February 2025

Britain / 19 February 2025

Senedd scrutiny committee recommends punishments for lying politicians

19 February 2025