Essays and Debate archive

Border crossing alongside the Dee near Chester
Mar
24

Frontiers are corridors for culture

Tom Nairn says globalisation is bringing a redefinition of borderlands rather than their abolition.

Novo Mesto
Mar
03

Welsh letter from Slovenia

Christopher Meredith reports on a writer’s month in Novo Mesto, a city on a bend of the Krka river close to the border with Croatia

english-parliamnt
Feb
12

English dilemmas 2: A nation discovers its voice

Sunder Katwala asks why Englishness has been suppressed for so long and what kind of identity is emerging

Rupert Murdoch at the World Economic forum in 2009
Jul
18

After Murdoch

Anthony Barnett argues that the mess that Jeremy Hunt wishes to see sorted out is the very fusion of politicians, journalists and media owners that govern us – the political class.

Welsh-language singer-songwriter Meic Stevens, who has been favourably compared with the likes of Bob Dylan and Syd Barrett
Apr
13

Standing up to Anglo-American mass music

Dafydd Iwan and Dafydd Roberts asks whether the crisis in the Welsh music business represents the kiss of life or death

Carwyn Jones and Ieuan Wyn Jones launching the One Wales agreement
Apr
06

Seven requirements for One Wales Mark II

Mark Drakeford reflects on the conditions necessary to negotiate a successful coalition deal in the National Assembly

Slow train for Wales
Dec
16
Carwyn Jones and David Cameron
Nov
19

Wales now more confident in engaging Whitehall

Andrew Davies predicts that relations between Cardiff Bay and Westminster will be the major fault-line in Welsh politics over the next five years

Cameron and Clegg
Nov
05

The Coalition’s constitutional strategy – is there one?

The Coalition might agree in principle over the Freedom Bill but they can’t produce an overall constitutional strategy. Anthony Barnett says the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties are fundamentally at loggerheads over the destination of democratic reform

Pembrokeshire fisherman
Sep
29