BUCKLE-UP! It’s time to get controversial and venture into the swamplands.
In a journalism career spanning nearly 50 years, I have often wondered about the stupidity of some members of the population.
An early example came when reporting on a case at Swansea Magistrates’ Court.
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This year’s Carmarthen River Festival will take place on Saturday, August 17.
The fun-filled day at the town’s Quayside will start at 3pm and run into the early evening.
And for the first time in its history, the perennial summer favourite will end with a

THE perils of social media, eh? You could probably write a decent 80,000-word PhD thesis on the topic.
Your dissertation could include chapters such as ‘How social media left me with egg on my face’ and ‘Is social media a dangerous tool for mobilising mob

IT’S a long story, but today I should have been working at the Palace of Versailles, a very long hop, skip and a jump from the Olympics city of Paris.
The team of volunteers preparing for next week’s modern pentathlon events at the palace will

Underground educators in war-torn Myanmar are using community storytelling to recapture their histories and celebrate ethnic identities, thanks to a project led by an Aberystwyth University academic.
Dr Yi Li, a historian of modern Southeast Asia, is working with community educators in Myanmar’s marginalised ethnic

CAN I ASK IF OVERUSED EXPRESSIONS HAPPEN FOR A REASON?
There are many expressions that people use, that when you pause to think about them, are completely meaningless.
A prime example is a six-word sentence that, if there was a competition to find the most