IT was someone a lot wiser than me who once declared, “Grandfathers are just antique little boys.”
It’s a thought I will not disagree with as I seem to have spent much of this ‘summer’ revisiting places from my childhood – and places which were

South Wales Evening Post column, October 04, 2024

South Wales Evening Post column, September 27, 2024
WHAT’S in a name change, eh? Well, quite a lot for many people when the title refers to something close to their hearts.
The ink is hardly dry on the row over the Bannau Brycheiniog/Brecon Beacons name change . . . and now we have

South Wales Evening Post column, September 20, 2024
IT was big, it was bold and (in so many different ways) it was bloody good.
It was a privilege to be in the audience for Llanelli Youth Theatre’s Sweeney Todd last week. It was one of the theatrical ‘events’ of the year for this

South Wales Evening Post column, September 13, 2024
ONCE upon a time, former USA President George W Bush said, “The trouble with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur”.
But . . . hang on a minute, did he actually say it?
The answer, as you probably guessed, is, No,

South Wales Evening Post column, September 6, 2024
IT may be 80 years on, but the people of a Dutch city show no signs of ever forgetting the role Welsh soldiers played in their liberation during World War Two.
Back in 2011, I was privileged to join the old Côr Meibion Llanelli Male

South Wales Evening Post column, August 30, 2024
AS I steadily make my way to 50 years in journalism, I’m entitled to grow old disgracefully and have a pop at the way the media world works these days.
Of course, much has changed since I embarked on a career in print in the