'Gwell byth fyddai gweld y llywodraeth yn gweithio i ryddhau egni a chreadigrwydd cyrff, unigolion a phawb sy’n awyddus i greu gwlad decach, cryfach.' gwallter.com/politics/ar-...

Llyn Ogwen and Tryfan: 'The end of this stretch, after a Second World War gun emplacement and just before the path joins the A5, is downright dangerous, at least for over-70s, with its chaotic pile of huge rocks (‘an up and down scramble’ is the guidebook’s euphemism).' gwallter.com/travel/snowd...

'We climb towards a wood, to the north of the Machno. Sounds drift up to us on the still air, of young children at play outside the primary school and of young lambs in the fields below.' gwallter.com/travel/snowd...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

'There’s not a cloud in the sky, but the wind was lashed itself into a gusty fury. It threatens to push us off the path, and constantly saps us of energy. Somehow, whichever direction we walk in, we’re battling against it.' gwallter.com/travel/snowd...

Ludwig Wittgenstein, the great philosopher, came to stay in Swansea many times in the 1940s. Join Dr Alan Sandry for a guided walk around some of his haunts: Saturday 16 May, 11:00am, Cwmdonkin Terrace.

A Llechwedd relic. Could Blaenau Ffestiniog be the highlight of Llwybr Llechi Eryri? gwallter.com/travel/snowd...

Sgwrsio rhwng pobl fyw a phobl marw: placiau coffa ar feinciau cyhoeddus gwallter.com/cymraeg/mein...

Tickets are now available for Cader Idris and the Artists Book Launch at The Turner House, Penarth. www.ticketsource.com/graffeg-ltd/...

'Communion is that rare thing, a novel that’s totally rooted in place and time but that tussles throughout with universal matters of belonging, commitment and action. It will be a while before Port Talbot finds a better novelist.' gwallter.com/literature/p...

Like walking? Or art? Or Wales? Come and hear about walkers and artist-walkers in Wales, tomorrow (Friday) at 10:30am in Newton House, Dinefwr, Llandeilo Fawr #LlandeiloLitFest www.llandeilolitfest.org/programme/a-...

‘Another crop of Mr Whistler’s little jokes.’ Or one of the best series of etchings ever made? gwallter.com/art/whistler...

'His dad remained a staunch socialist, republican and puritan, who felt nothing but contempt for the throwaway consumer society that was gathering pace in the 1960s.' Geoff Dyer's 'Homework' and the art of the memoir: gwallter.com/books/geoff-...

'As you slog along these forestry tracks, that fine balance between mind and world gets disturbed. Faced with an unceasing line of trees, and lacking the longer views that the eye desires, your mind turns in upon itself, and gloomy, existential questions start to loom.' gwallter.com/travel/st-il...

'Astonishingly, Swansea Council doesn’t have its own transport strategy. It seems quite content to let the roads clog with ever-increasing quantities of motorised traffic, while devoting a pittance to other forms of transport.' gwallter.com/travel/on-ac...

'Ar ôl peth sgwrsio am hyn a’r llall, byddai eu hamrannau yn dechrau gostwng, a chyn hir roedden nhw ill dau ym mreichiau cwsg, Wncl Jack â’i ben yn gorwedd ar ei law a’i anadl yn chwibanu trwy ei fwstas.' gwallter.com/cymraeg/mae-...

'Calm reflection, independence of thought and questioning of authority, rational dialogue with other minds, verbal fluency, creativity – all are threatened when the airwaves are dominated by streams of 20-second TikTok videos made by teenage ‘influencers’.' gwallter.com/literature/a...

'If you don’t know the art of Gwen John and your mind is open to her subtle talent, the National Museum’s exhibition, 'Gwen John: strange beauties', will be a revelation. If you do, it will still be a revelation.' gwallter.com/art/gwen-aga...

Bydd Heini Gruffudd yn siarad (yn Gymraeg) am hanes yr iaith Gymraeg yn Abertawe ('O Gasnodyn i Neil Rosser'), nos Iau 5 Mawrth at 6:30pm yn Amgueddfa Abertawe. Croeso i bawb.

Canu clod y 'tywyswyr iaith' gwallter.com/cymraeg/tywy...

Gwen John's A corner of the artist’s room: "The artist, though implied by her few possessions, is invisible. There really isn’t any need for more self-statements, however undemonstrative." gwallter.com/art/three-fa...

'Not long after, the UK government gave Palantir a defence contract worth £141m. There was no procurement process.' gwallter.com/politics/who...

'2026 isn’t a bad year to think about utopian worlds, at a time when we’re faced with so many dystopian ones, factual and fictional.' gwallter.com/history/utop...

'One of the pieces, entitled ‘Ganymede’, cup-bearer of the gods, concerns Bernard’s insistence on being prescribed Ambrosia custard on the ward.' Embroidered pictures and stories on identity and mortality by Nigel Hurlstone at the Mission Gallery. gwallter.com/art/gwynt-tr...

'Where this exhibition scores is in its inclusion of many sketches and other preparatory works by both artists ... these and other works bring us as close as we can get to the act of making art.' Turner & Constable @tate.bsky.social gwallter.com/art/turner-a...

Dryw (llun gan Carys Evans): rhif 1 mewn cyfres o 'Cyfarfodydd ag adar rhyfeddol': gwallter.com/cymraeg/tri-...

What have the Donro Doctrine and the 1895 Venezuela crisis have in common? gwallter.com/history/a-zo...

Eugénie-Paméla Larivière: a good stand-in for Fanny Price? gwallter.com/books/imagin...

What's political about fonts? gwallter.com/politics/the...

Newyddion da o Abertawe! gwallter.com/libraries/ag...

Cardiff blues, anarchic poets and bookshop 'shrinkage' gwallter.com/books/peter-...

A hymn to the power of imagination: Philip Pullman's 'The rose field' gwallter.com/books/dust-a...

'You could easily miss the farmer in this painting, so camouflaged are his clothes and face against the dark tones of the mountain slope.' 'Kyffin in Bangor talk': gwallter.com/art/kyffin-i...

Craig Cau, 19 November: one the finest days I've ever had on Cader Idris in 50 years.

'The Llanboidy Molecatcher', a star of a new book, 'Carmarthenhire in 100 Objects' gwallter.com/art/things-f...

"‘Ignoring the fans’ I find admirable. He’s come all this way to play and sing for us, what more do we want?" Bob Dylan in Swansea. gwallter.com/music/bob-dy...

Want to know what's really going on in the BBC? Come & hear Prof. Elan Closs Stephens, late of the BBC Board, in an RISW talk & discussion in Swansea Museum, Thursday 13 November, 6:30pm. All welcome.

Aberystwyth: prifddinas llên - a mwy? gwallter.com/books/aber-p...

Well done, Aberystwyth, new UNESCO city of literature. More poets per hectare than in any other town.

'As Walter Bagehot well understood, monarchy continues to exist in order to infantalise the majority of the population.' Thoughts on the Irish presidential election and Andrew Windsor. gwallter.com/politics/mon...

Come join us at @nhm-london.bsky.social on November 7th for a day conference on the connections between natural history collections and enlightenment travel writing. For more information, programme and registration details, follow the link! curioustravellers.ac.uk/curious-coll...

Drawn into Landscape – Symposium 🌿 The School of Art invites you to Drawn into Landscape, a symposium in conjunction with Robert Newell’s exhibition Echoes Among the Rocks. 🕑 Wednesday 29 October, 14:00 - 17:00 📍 School of Art, Aberystwyth University, Buarth Mawr More: tinyurl.com/h5x5tr9y

Has Jesus College Cambridge improved since Coleridge went there in 1791? 'Jesus was an unwelcoming home, ‘the very palace of winds’. His rooms near the Porter’s Lodge were cold and clammy. He caught ’flu, which he treated with opium, and suffered from his bad teeth.' gwallter.com/literature/t...

"Though, Jan Morris adds later, she may be mistaken in her interpretation: 'those professors are probably company accountants really; the novelist is preparing a computer program and the sages are not contemplating Time, but waiting for the football on TV.’" gwallter.com/travel/heave...

'Someone counted the number of dashes in Tristram Shandy and reckoned there were 9,560 of them, an average of one dash every three lines.' gwallter.com/literature/i...

Pan oedd y gymdeithas ar-lein yn freuddwyd o hyd yn ein llyfrgelloedd … gwallter.com/libraries/ha...

'Swollen by the rains, Afon Glaslyn is brown, fast and angry. At Nantgwynant the mountains are streaked with broad silver torrents of water, Afon Nant Peris has burst its banks, and the road down Llanberis Pass is awash.' gwallter.com/travel/snowd...

'We ponder whether one of us should write the definitive monograph on the pedestrian gates of Eryri, to be published in an extravagant, full-colour edition by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.' gwallter.com/travel/snowd...

'Further below, we pass a large quarried-out hole full of dark water, complete with signs warning passers-by not to approach it.' Llun: hen chwarel, Y Fron. gwallter.com/travel/snowd...