SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
FOR the past three years, airwaves, screens and column inches have been saturated with news of the cost-of-living crisis, inflation, industrial disputes, soaring energy costs and the resultant profiteering. These have been unimaginably difficult years for the vast majority of people in Wales.
Most have had little if any financial breathing space in what has amounted to collective anxiety as one month is struggled through to the next. Despite the fact that inflation shows some tentative signs of slowing, living standards show no indication of improving in Wales.
This week, the Bevan Foundation released its summer 2023 Snapshot of Poverty report which showed that the cost-of-living crisis remains poised to grind down people’s ability to live decent and dignified lives.
LUKE FLETCHER outlines Plaid Cymru bold plans for wide-ranging policy consultations with trade unions in Wales
Wales is second from the bottom in terms of cultural services in the EU. HELEDD FYCHAN believes that needs to change if the country is to prosper
We need a massive change in direction to renew a crumbling health service — that’s why Plaid Cymru has an ambitious plan to recentre primary care by recruiting 500 additional GPs and opening six new elective care hubs across Wales, writes MABON AP GWYNFOR



