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Anyone been wondering: what's that lanky guy out of The Verve been doing for the last 20-odd years? No, me neither, and to be honest you...

A couple of related things following the sudden death of rugby pundit and journalist (and former Wales rugby captain) Eddie Butler . Firstl...

The Velvet Underground 's bass- and viola-wrangler (and, hey, why not, Welshman of the Day ) John Cale  (pictured here in 1967) and abs...

Not much competition for Welshman of the Day today; obviously it's going to be Geraint Thomas , the man who won the Tour de France at th...

It's a few days late for the official anniversary but let me commemorate the 70th birthday of the National Health Service by appointing...

Nuclear-powered immaculately coiffured weirdly unlined futuristic sexbot Gigolo Joe , as played by Jude Law in A.I. Artificial Intelligence ...

Just a quick round-up in the aftermath of Europe's victory in the Ryder Cup . Firstly an updated version of my points table from last ti...

Current World Snooker Championship quarter-finalist, devoted family man and (I've just decided) Welshman Of The Day (you see what I d...

Two further quickies: firstly let's give a posthumous Welshman of the Day award to Mervyn Davies, the former Wales and British Lions num...

More interesting and revealing word choices from the Daily Mail today as they attempt to wind their readership up to a frothing climax of r...

This morning's post-9am traffic jam Radio 4 accompaniment was a bit of Start The Week with Andrew Marr. The usual array of luminaries i...

In the first place divest yourself of all bias in favour of novelty & singularity of opinion. Indulge them in any other subject rather t...

Always nice to read an interview with the Manic Street Preachers as in this month's Q magazine - one of the reasons this is such a ple...

Just to underline my point about cover versions , I hear the worrying news that X Factor winner Alexandra Burke has released a cover of Le...

This (via Strange Maps ) is very cool indeed: an interactive series of maps of the competing countries in each Games in the modern Olympic ...

Sue Jones-Davies , the current Mayor of Aberystwyth . SJD, as her mates probably call her, is currently campaigning for the lifting of the...

Ray Gravell, who died suddenly yesterday . Mainstay of the Welsh Grand-Slam-winning teams of the late 1970s, British Lion and stalwart of L...

Anyone who's of roughly similar age to me (say 4 or 5 years either way) will surely remember Absolutely . Sketch show, primarily Scott...

Actually this is more a couple of of everyday objects that you might have lying around the house, not knowing that they are named after Wels...

Robert Recorde , 1510-1558, physician and mathematician. Born in Tenby, attended the universities of both Oxford and Cambridge, acted as phy...