i-Cambria
The online magazine that celebrates all things Welsh!
Spring 2007
| Editorial |
I started work on Cambria magazine exactly ten years ago. For many years I harboured a dream of seeing a Welsh national magazine on newstands and in homes throughout the world. With very hard work - and with your invaluable help - I have managed to make that dream a reality.
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| Pierhead: The column that gets to the heart of Welsh politics |
David Davies leaves because he has been elected to Westminster for his Assembly seat of Monmouth. His right-wing liveliness will be much missed – although perhaps party leader Nick Bourne might use an alternative phrase.
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| WAG's Big Air Bungle |
The People of Wales the real losers in WAG’s Big Air bungle. When I presented the Around Wales Air Service booklet to the Assembly in 2000, the proposition was to commence Phase One of the operation from Cardiff to Hawarden Airport in Flintshire. The population density there is clearly much greater than Anglesey Indeed in 1978/79 Air Wales carried 6500 passengers on that route, the service on...
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| Pier Head |
Even more than First Minister Rhodri Morgan, Presiding Officer Lord Elis-Thomas is surely the key to the gradual success of the National Assembly. Rhodri Morgan is certainly the figure-head, known throughout Wales and Britain, the politician with the common-touch, the master (almost always) of his administration’s policies, who has succeeded in scotching for ever the old canard about a counc...
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| Marmaladeness by Jan Morris |
Half Welsh and half English, Jan Morris says that while her chief loyalties are to Wales, she still cherishes one of the oldest traditions of Englishness, now almost a national talisman - real orange marmalade.
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| The Graves of Dewi Sant |
In the Middle Ages the body of a saint was a valuable commodity. It would draw crowds of pilgrims offering generous donations to his or her shrine. Patrick Thomas is on the trail of the resting place of our Patron Saint.
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