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

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

Welsh Labour come out fighting to win by-election

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

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