Category: Social justice

• June 20, 2020

  The truth about racism in Wales

  

  When I moved to Cardiff in 2003, it was to work in an office at the bottom end of Bute Street, the main artery connecting the city centre to the waterfront. I’d heard much about Tiger Bay, the cultural melting pot that had bubbled away for hundreds of years thanks to immigration into the city’s…
• December 2, 2014

  How one project helps keep Cardiff’s street-based sex workers safe

  

  Last night I spent the evening with the outreach team of Streetlife, a project run by Safer Wales, to protect young people and adults in Cardiff from prostitution, abuse and sexual exploitation.  What their dedicated volunteers do REALLY matters. Here’s why. My drive to work through Grangetown to the bay is a short, fairly tedious one. I…
• October 3, 2014

  Big Issue Madam? Yes it is…

  

  It started as an idea for a teambuilding activity. I was looking for something our team could do to get us out of the office and experience something new, and horizon-expanding. As a company we have supported the Big Issue for a while, so when I found out about their Big Sell Off challenge, where companies…
• August 2, 2014

  On daddy…

  The last time I wrote anything at length about my dad, I was 21. He had died just 48 hours previously, and my local paper The Pontypool Free Press was running a story on his death. As a popular local councilor and community figure they had a tribute planned. I had written a column for…
• July 25, 2014

  When did a side order of sexual harassment become as de rigeur as a kebab on a night out?

  

  THIS TEXT ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON WALESONLINE ON JULY 25TH 2014, ALONGSIDE THE EXPERIENCES OF FIVE OTHER WOMEN. THE WHOLE PIECE IS WORTH READING. I agreed to write this piece a few hours before going to see Paul Weller in Cardiff Castle. At the end of the evening, having split up from my friend, I was…