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Antoine Dupont of France holds the trophy aloft after clinching the title after winning the Six Nations rugby union match between France and England in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, March 14, 2026
Men’s rugby union / 15 March 2026
15 March 2026
Teachers on a NASUWT picket line outside Wellshot Primary School in Glasgow with then NASUWT general secretary Dr Patrick Roach (second right), March 1, 2023
Workers' Rights / 8 March 2026
8 March 2026
Anthony Slaughter at the Senedd
Wales / 6 March 2026
6 March 2026

In the second of a series of interviews with leaders of progressive parties in Wales ahead of the May 7 Senedd election David Nicholson talks to Welsh Green Party leader ANTHONY SLAUGHTER

Labour First Minister of Wales Baroness Eluned Morgan addresses an audience of members and candidates at Newport Market, during the Welsh Labour Senedd campaign launch ahead of the Senedd elections in May, March 2, 2026
Wales / 3 March 2026
3 March 2026
Labour First Minister of Wales Baroness Eluned Morgan (centre) and Welsh Labour members and supporters at Newport Market, during the Welsh Labour Senedd campaign launch ahead of the Senedd elections in May, March 2, 2026
Wales / 2 March 2026
2 March 2026
Plaid Cymru's newly elected Senedd member Lindsay Whittle speaks during a rally at Caerphilly Castle after victory for the party in the Caerphilly Senedd by-election, October 24, 2025
Wales / 28 February 2026
28 February 2026
Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth making his speech to the Plaid Cymru Spring Conference at the ICC Wales, Newport, February 27, 2026
Wales / 27 February 2026
27 February 2026
WALES FOR ALL: Rhun ap Iorwerth speaks to the media Caerphilly in October 2025
Features / 27 February 2026
27 February 2026

In the first of a series of interviews with leaders of progressive parties in Wales ahead of the May 7 Senedd election DAVID NICHOLSON talks to Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth speaks during a press conference at Ty Hywel in Cardiff, marking the start of the new Senedd term, January 13, 2026
Wales / 18 February 2026
18 February 2026
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government Steve Reed leaving BBC Broadcasting House in London, after appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, February 1, 2026
Local elections / 17 February 2026
17 February 2026
FW Pomeroy's Statue of Justice stands atop the Central Criminal Court building, Old Bailey, London
Britain / 17 February 2026
17 February 2026
A ballot box arriving during the count for the Blackpool South by-election at Blackpool Sports Centre, Blackpool, May 2, 2024
Britain / 16 February 2026
16 February 2026
DPAC Cymru activists after their attempted meeting with Minister Stephen Kinnock
Wales / 16 February 2026
16 February 2026
France's Antoine Dupont
Men’s rugby union / 15 February 2026
15 February 2026
First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan speaks as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to a engineering workshop at Coleg Menai in Anglesey, November 13, 2025
Labour Party / 10 February 2026
10 February 2026
Fraser Dingwall
Men’s rugby union / 8 February 2026
8 February 2026
WELSH SHIFT: Plaid Cymru Leader Rhun ap Iorwerth (left) and Deputy Leader Delyth Jewell (right) with newly elected Senedd member Lindsay Whittle at a rally after victory in the Caerphilly Senedd by-election on October 24 2025
Features / 6 February 2026
6 February 2026

Morning Star Wales reporter DAVID NICHOLSON analyses polling for the Senedd election — and it’s bad news for Welsh Labour

A baby  [Pic: Omar Lopez / Creative Commons]
Childcare / 2 February 2026
2 February 2026
Welsh singer Dafydd Iwan performs with a choir at the Corniche Walk Park, Qatar, ahead of Wales' second Group B games at the Fifa World Cup 2022, November 25, 2022
Anti-Fascism / 2 February 2026
2 February 2026
Wales First Minister Eluned Morgan at the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool, September 28, 2025
Wales / 27 January 2026
27 January 2026
A camera on top of a Live Facial Recognition (LFR) van during a demonstration of facial recognition technology by Surrey and Sussex Police at Surrey Police headquarters in Guildford, November 11, 2025
Wales / 27 January 2026
27 January 2026
Children in a classroom
Wales / 28 January 2026
28 January 2026
First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan delivers a speech during the Wales Investment Summit at the International Convention Centre Wales in Newport, December 1, 2025
Wales / 25 January 2026
25 January 2026
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to the media in the briefing room of 9 Downing Street in central London, January 19, 2026
Gaza / 21 January 2026
21 January 2026
First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan delivers a speech during the Wales Investment Summit at the International Convention Centre Wales in Newport, December 1, 2025
Wales / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during a press conference in Port Talbot, Wales, June 9, 2025
Wales / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026
Hands of an elderly resident at a nursing home
Wales / 19 January 2026
19 January 2026
First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan (centre), Tour de France 2018 winner Geraint Thomas (right), and Director of the Tour de France Christian Prudhomme during the Tour de France 2027 Grand Depart Route Reveal at the Senedd in Cardiff, January 15, 2026
Men’s Cycling / 15 January 2026
15 January 2026

Biggest free-to-watch sporting event ever held in Britain confirmed for Welsh roads

First Minister and Labour leader in Wales, Baroness Eluned Morgan, delivers a keynote speech marking one year to the 2026 Senedd election, at the Norwegian Church in Cardiff, May 6, 2025
Wales / 14 January 2026
14 January 2026
Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth speaks during a press conference at Ty Hywel in Cardiff, marking the start of the new Senedd term, January 13, 2026
Wales / 13 January 2026
13 January 2026
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
Wales / 13 January 2026
13 January 2026
A sign for Lloyds Bank
Britain / 13 January 2026
13 January 2026
Passengers queue to board a bus in Cardiff
Wales / 12 January 2026
12 January 2026
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during a press conference in Port Talbot, Wales, June 9, 2025
Wales / 4 January 2026
4 January 2026
Leader of Plaid Cymru Rhun ap Iorwerth speaks during the party's annual conference at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, October 11, 2024
Wales / 4 January 2026
4 January 2026
Opera Review / 30 December 2025
30 December 2025

Although sitting was tight, DAVID NICHOLSON has had a whale of a time especially when joining in the sing along finale

TUC Cymru general secretary Shavanah Taj
Wales / 2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Together Against the Far Right poster
Anti-Fascism / 2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Wales / 2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Wales's Ellis Mee and South Africa's Damian Willemse in action during the Quilter Nations Series match at Principality Stadium, Cardiff, November 29, 2025
Men’s rugby union / 30 November 2025
30 November 2025

Tandy's men failed to score a point at home for the first time in 58 years

A Welsh flag before the UEFA Euro U21 Championship Group I match at Rodney Parade, Newport, March 22, 2024
Football / 25 November 2025
25 November 2025
A view of £5, £10, £20 and £50 bank notes
Britain / 25 November 2025
25 November 2025
England's Freddie Steward takes on the Argentian's defence during the Quilter Nations Series match at the Allianz Stadium, London, November 23, 2025
Men’s rugby union / 23 November 2025
23 November 2025

Borthwick’s side survive late scare, while Tandy’s men show promise despite loss

An elderly man holding his walking stick
Wales / 24 November 2025
24 November 2025
Debris on a street in Cwmtillery, Wales, where a mudslide forced residents from their homes, November 25, 2024
Wales / 23 November 2025
23 November 2025
Plaid Cymru's newly elected Senedd member Lindsay Whittle speaks during a rally at Caerphilly Castle after victory for the party in the Caerphilly Senedd by-election, October 24, 2025
Wales / 4 November 2025
4 November 2025
mark drakeford
Wales budget / 3 November 2025
3 November 2025
 16/09/25 of Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy leaving 10 Downing Street, London
Prisons / 27 October 2025
27 October 2025
Plaid Cymru Leader Rhun ap Iorwerth (left) and Deputy Leader Delyth Jewell (right) listen as newly elected Senedd member Lindsay Whittle speaks during a rally at Caerphilly Castle after victory for the party in the Caerphilly by-election, October 24, 2025
Wales / 24 October 2025
24 October 2025

Labour's historic by-election loss branded an 'existential threat' to the party’s future

Plaid Cymru's newly elected Senedd member Lindsay Whittle speaks during a rally at Caerphilly Castle after victory for the party in the Caerphilly Senedd by-election, October 24, 2025
Wales / 24 October 2025
24 October 2025
Rescue workers form a chain to move debri in desperate efforts to reach the children trapped in the Pantglas Junior School at Aberfan, Glamorgan
Wales / 21 October 2025
21 October 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London, July 2023
Healthcare / 21 October 2025
21 October 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Mark Drakeford during a visit to a coal tip in Port Talbot, Wales, August 7, 2025
Wales / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025
A view of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardiff
Wales / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025
A general view of a Prison
Prisons / 13 October 2025
13 October 2025
Wales First Minister Eluned Morgan at the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool, September 28, 2025
Wales / 13 October 2025
13 October 2025
TUC Cymru's Ceri Williams speaking at the Undeb fringe meeting on artificial intelligence. Photo: Rob Norman/HayMan Media
Wales / 12 October 2025
12 October 2025
Pupils in a classroom
Wales / 12 October 2025
12 October 2025
Rhun ap Iorwerth addresses Plaid Cymru conference. Photo: Matthew Horwood 2025
Wales / 10 October 2025
10 October 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (left) with his party's candidate, Llyr Powell standing in front of a Tommy Cooper statue while campaigning in Caerphilly, South Wales, for the upcoming Caerphilly Senedd by-election. The by-election is due to be held on October 23 to elect the new member of the Senedd following the death of Hefin David on August 12. Picture date: Friday October 10, 2025
Politics / 11 October 2025
11 October 2025

Plaid Cymru and Reform UK lead the polls — the Caerphilly by-election will be the first stop on the journey to see if our nation chooses union-friendly, progressive, left-nationalism or Farage’s reactionary dead end, writes Wales reporter DAVID NICHOLSON

Children at a primary school in Yorkshire, July 7, 2025
Education / 5 October 2025
5 October 2025
Andrew RT Davies, Leader of the Welsh Conservatives speaking while on the general election campaign trail, June 21, 2024
Wales / 5 October 2025
5 October 2025
A view of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardiff
Wales / 30 September 2025
30 September 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (left) and newly announced party candidate for the upcoming Caerphilly Senedd by-election Llyr Powell (right) outside the Reform UK office in Caerphilly, September 12, 2025
Wales / 29 September 2025
29 September 2025

Welsh Labour come out fighting to win by-election

Britain / 25 September 2025
25 September 2025
WTUC president-elect Laura Doe chairing the conference
Wales / 24 September 2025
24 September 2025
candide
Opera review / 23 September 2025
23 September 2025

DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity

The sign for the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Ca
Wales / 22 September 2025
22 September 2025
tosca
Opera review / 17 September 2025
17 September 2025

DAVID NICHOLSON is thrilled – and shocked – by an opera that seethes and sizzles with passion and the depraved use of power

First Minister and Labour leader in Wales, Baroness Eluned Morgan, delivers a keynote speech marking one year to the 2026 Senedd election, at the Norwegian Church in Cardiff, May 6, 2025
Wales / 16 September 2025
16 September 2025
Junior doctors on the picket line at Cardiff's University Ho
Wales / 16 September 2025
16 September 2025
Jeremy Corbyn (second left) and Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South (second right) on the picket line outside London Euston train station, August 18, 2022
Wales / 2 September 2025
2 September 2025
anti-racists
PROTESTS AGAINST RACISTS / 31 August 2025
31 August 2025
A general view of Port Talbot, South Wales
Wales / 25 August 2025
25 August 2025
Counter-protesters in Wales, August 18, 2025
Counter-Protest / 18 August 2025
18 August 2025
Siddhant Kumar
Plaid Cymru / 12 August 2025
12 August 2025
Prison
Britain / 11 August 2025
11 August 2025
Wales TUC bilingual officer Dr Mandy James speaking at the launch of the Welsh language charter at the Eisteddfod in Wrexham
Wales / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025
PCS members continue campaign for more culture funding in Wales
Eisteddfod 2025 / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025
Laura Anne Jones in the Senedd
Wales / 22 July 2025
22 July 2025
A view of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardi
Wales / 21 July 2025
21 July 2025
A view of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardi
Wales / 8 July 2025
8 July 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives with Wales' First Minister Eluned Morgan (left) and Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens (right) for a visit to RAF Valley in Anglesey, Wales, June 27, 2025
Welsh Labour Conference 2025 / 29 June 2025
29 June 2025
First Minister and Labour leader in Wales, Baroness Eluned Morgan, delivers a keynote speech marking one year to the 2026 Senedd election, at the Norwegian Church in Cardiff, May 6, 2025
Welsh Labour Conference 2025 / 27 June 2025
27 June 2025
Protesters take part in a demonstration outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Offcie (FCDO) in Whitehall, London, calling for the UK Government to protect the crew of Madleen, June 9, 2025
Exclusive / 27 June 2025
27 June 2025
First Minister and Labour leader in Wales, Baroness Eluned Morgan, delivers a keynote speech marking one year to the 2026 Senedd election, at the Norwegian Church in Cardiff, May 6, 2025
Wales / 17 June 2025
17 June 2025
Protesters hold a CND flag in Parliament Square in London, i
Wales / 11 June 2025
11 June 2025
llanrumney
Theatre Review / 7 May 2025
7 May 2025

DAVID NICHOLSON applauds the return of Azuka Oforka’s stunning drama about slave plantation politics

A general view of staff on an NHS hospital ward at Ealing Ho
Britain / 1 April 2025
1 April 2025
A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Britain / 25 March 2025
25 March 2025
Plaid economy spokesman Luke Fletcher speaking at the party
Britain / 23 March 2025
23 March 2025
BOLD IDEAS: Luke Fletcher
Features / 21 March 2025
21 March 2025
Wales reporter David Nicholson talks to Morning Star columnist and Plaid Cymru economy spokesman LUKE FLETCHER ahead of the unveiling of his economic strategy for Wales
England's Joe Heyes (centre) scores a try during the Guinnes
Men’s Rugby Union / 16 March 2025
16 March 2025
England's Ollie Sleightholme scores his second try during th
Six Nations / 9 March 2025
9 March 2025
Poet Patrick Jones
Britain / 8 March 2025
8 March 2025
A view of £5, £10, £20 and £50 bank notes
Britain / 4 March 2025
4 March 2025
SOLIDARITY WITH THE REVOLUTION: The presidium of the 9th Con
Book Review / 2 March 2025
2 March 2025
DAVID NICHOLSON is fascinated by one of the early pioneers of the women’s movement and of the early days of the Labour Party
General view of a Welsh flag before the Six Nations match at
Britain / 2 March 2025
2 March 2025
A dentist at work
Britain / 18 February 2025
18 February 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 18 February 2025
18 February 2025