Tag Archives: Career

Shorthand: The drama, the boredom, the insanity

For some strange reason, even in this highly technical age where you can get dictaphones as small as a USB-stick, shorthand – which should be renamed ‘journalistsbain’ – is still an important addition to an unemployed journalists arsenal, and the only one I have not managed to get so far. A hundred words a minute […]

Is Wales’ language policy slowly suffocating the nation?

Wales is the only country on the planet that seems to actively dissuade its population from achieving high standards of English. I’m a fan of strong and controversial statements, but I don’t believe that this one is particularly exaggerated, though I think it might open me up to extreme criticism from certain elements within Welsh […]

At this exact moment in time…

Life for a twenty-something Briton sucks. We are, I believe, one of the most unlucky generations of the modern age. It’s a big statement, but when you think about it not hugely hyperbolic. Just to take my life to date as an example. I was brought up in a small cockle-picking Welsh village near Swansea by […]