Cambria Zeitgeist - Oct 2024 (4)

What's Happening? What's New? What's Evil? This issue focuses on Wales.
Check out the latest articles, and curated lists below:

Jonathan Edwards: If Trump wins, the world will immediately become a darker place. With the right in the UK also heading towards this path both mainstream and fringe, what might well be rolled out in the States after January’s inauguration could be heading this way very soon.

What does a Trump victory mean for the US and for us?

Jonathan Edwards In less than a month the world from a Western perspective could look very differently. If the latest polling intelligence is correct, Donald Trump is pulling clear in some of the key swing states that determine the US Presidential election. There is a reason why Elon Musk has reportedly set up base in […]

Nation.CymruMark Mansfield

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Gwern Gwynfil: ‘Welsh Lobsters?' 'Aye, once they fall in, if they try and climb out, all the other buggers will pull them back down see!’

Welsh Lobster Syndrome?

Gwern Gwynfil I was recently regaled with the story of the Welsh Lobsters (more of which later) and this inspired some wider thinking about the ways in which we conduct ourselves here in Cymru. It is particularly striking how few people in Wales are prepared to stick their head above the parapet and declare publicly […]

Nation.CymruMark Mansfield

Martin Shipton: Representatives of the book publishing industry in Wales have appealed for urgent help to every Senedd Member, saying they are facing what could be a terminal financial crisis.

Publishers ask every MS for help in crisis that could wipe out the industry in Wales

Martin Shipton Representatives of the book publishing industry in Wales have appealed for urgent help to every Senedd Member, saying they are facing what could be a terminal financial crisis. In a letter to all 60 MSs, Natalie Williams, who chairs Cyhoeddi Cymru/ Publishing Wales, a trade organisation established in 2022 to represent Wales-based publishers, […]

Nation.CymruMark Mansfield

Welsh publishers ‘facing existential crisis’

Chris Haines – ICNN Senedd reporter Welsh publishers face an existential crisis following a decade of cuts, a Senedd committee heard. Helgard Krause, chief executive of the Books Council of Wales, said cuts in the past year have made it difficult to operate after years of standstill funding. She also pointed to production pressures with […]

Nation.CymruEmily Price

Gwern Gwynfil: Where are the ideas? Where are the solutions? Where is the conviction? Where is the driving purpose that supports the belief that the position held, in this case some level of greater autonomy, will improve the lives of yourselves and others?

A new age of reason?

Gwern Gwynfil I was recently invited to speak at an international conference for European regional movements seeking greater autonomy, self determination, or independence. Maybe it was the frenetic nature of the event as each speaker was given only six minutes to précis their movement’s history and development, but listening to the speakers, representing 14 different […]

Nation.CymruMark Mansfield

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Read below our lists of articles by Medium writers we follow on topics of interest to our audience such as writing advice, politics, evil things happening in the world and more.

List: Writing Advice | Curated by Cambria Stories | Medium

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List: Evil | Curated by Cambria Stories | Medium

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List: Politics | Curated by Cambria Stories | Medium

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List: Artificial Intelligence AI | Curated by Cambria Stories | Medium

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Editors note. The topics, content and opinions in these linked articles are those of their authors. Read at your own discretion.

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