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David Nicholson
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
Britain / 17 February 2025
17 February 2025
Britain / 16 February 2025
16 February 2025
Wales First Minister Eluned Morgan
Britain / 11 February 2025
11 February 2025
The Bank of England in the City of London
Britain / 21 January 2025
21 January 2025
Experts warn not to overplay the risk of wage growth to inflation
Members of fascist group Patriotic Alternative protest in To
Britain / 21 January 2025
21 January 2025
Dr Hussam Abu Safiya
Britain / 14 January 2025
14 January 2025
Eluned Morgan asked to call for release of Dr Hussam Abu Safiyya in FMQs
A woman's hand pressing keys of a laptop keyboard
Britain / 14 January 2025
14 January 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
Britain / 14 January 2025
14 January 2025
First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan speaks during the Labo
Britain / 7 January 2025
7 January 2025
REMEMBER THIS: Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl
Album review / 6 January 2025
6 January 2025
DAVID NICHOLSON draws attention to an album of music and poetry that channels a first-hand experience of Gaza
Bryn Terfel in concert
Music / 18 December 2024
18 December 2024
Wales' First Minister Eluned Morgan
Features / 18 December 2024
18 December 2024
Wales reporter David Nicholson talks to First Minister ELUNED MORGAN in a wide-ranging interview looking at how Welsh Labour will see off the challenge of Reform UK in the 2026 Senedd elections
Mari Fflur as the Wolf and Grace O’Brien in the title role
Theatre review / 17 December 2024
17 December 2024
DAVID NICHOLSON is disappointed by a show that fails to engage its target audience
Britain / 10 December 2024
10 December 2024
Ambulance workers on the picket line outside Croydon Street
Britain / 10 December 2024
10 December 2024
Campaigners blockade BAE Systems’ Glascoed site
Britain / 27 November 2024
27 November 2024
Flood water in Cwmtillery in Wales, as an apparent mud slide
Britain / 26 November 2024
26 November 2024
Wales' Ryan Elias shows his dejection after the Autumn Inter
Men’s Rugby Union / 24 November 2024
24 November 2024
Roof workers building new houses in Derbyshire
Britain / 20 November 2024
20 November 2024
First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan at Cathays Park in Car
Britain / 19 November 2024
19 November 2024
Wales' First Minister Eluned Morgan during the Council of th
Britain / 17 November 2024
17 November 2024
Welsh Labour celebrate new leaders' first 100 days in office
First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan speaks during the Labo
Britain / 5 November 2024
5 November 2024
Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on the picket
Britain / 5 November 2024
5 November 2024
The crowd at the emergency vigil for Gaza outside the Senedd
Britain / 5 November 2024
5 November 2024
SOCIALIST PRINCIPLES: Welsh Labour Party MP Beth Winter (rig
Britain / 4 November 2024
4 November 2024
Parents and children staged a sit-in at the Senedd calling
Britain / 1 November 2024
1 November 2024
Workers from Tata's Port Talbot steelworks gather at College
Britain / 28 October 2024
28 October 2024
The scene after a collision involving two trains near Llanbr
Britain / 22 October 2024
22 October 2024
Odyssey '84 at the Sherman Theatre.
Theatre review / 21 October 2024
21 October 2024
DAVID NICHOLSON is disappointed that an ambitious telling of the strike from a Welsh perspective disregards the collective struggle
A view of the Job Centre Plus on Benalder St in Glasgow
Britain / 15 October 2024
15 October 2024