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From The Watershed Elections — Planet 183

The Assembly Election results by John Osmond

From You Couldn't Leave your Curtains Open — Planet 182

Interview with Andy Fairweather Low

From Review of the Review — Planet 181

Assembly Arts Policy by Hugh Adams

From Doing the Swansea Shuffle — Planet 180

Spencer Davis: A Rock 'n' Roll profile

From "All the Trappings of a Great State Occasion" — 179

Opening of the Senedd, Neil Evans and Paul O'Leary

From The Tears of Premier Wen Jiabao — Planet 178
Worldwide coal industry by James Stewart
From Poverty's Still Here — Planet 177

Ian Rappel interviews George Monbiot

From New Terror, Old Fears? — Planet 176

Terrorism and history by Martin Wright

From Buildings that Speak for Us — Planet 175

Jonathan Adams interviewed by Meic Stephens

From Dealing with the Devil — Planet 174

Where publishing went wrong by Nicholas Murray

From Duplicity and the Invasion of Iraq

by Bruce Clunie Ross, Planet 173

From What Activism is For!

by Jan Morris, Planet 172

From "In a Very Deranged State" - Iolo Morganwg

by Mary-Ann Constantine, Planet 171

From Identity Cards — Identity Crisis

by Philip A. Thomas, Planet 170

From Enter the Vaccum - The Death of Dylan Thomas

by David N. Thomas, Planet 169

From Y Fro Gymraeg Declaration

by Tim Webb, Planet 169

From Islam in Wales

by Paul Chambers, Planet 168

From Starbucks and Stadiums

by John Lewis Jones, Planet 167

From Single Issues and Double Standards

by Patrick McGuinness, Planet 166

The Planet Cartoon, 166

by Peter Roberts

From The Cradle of Flesh

by Jeni Williams, Planet 165

From Realpolitik, Galician Style

by Gabriel Rei-Doval, Planet 163

From Welsh Writing in English
by Greg Hill, Planet 161
From: “Racism” in Welsh Politics
by Patrick McGuinness, Planet 159
From: The Shrinking of Language
by Nicholas Murray, Planet 159
From: ‘Building a National Team’
by Rhobat Bryn Jones, Planet 158
From: Putting a Price on the Red Kite
by Peter Midmore, Planet 156
From: Hiraeth and the Recoil from Theory
by Stephen Logan, Planet 155
An Extract From Sugar & Slate, published by Planet Books in 2002
'Close to Nature', a short story by Alfonso R. Castelao
[This story is collected in Things, published by Planet Books in 2001]
From: 'Pushing the Boundaries' - an interview with Archbishop Rowan Williams
by Owain Wilkins, Planet 154
From: 'Tony Curtis, Seamus Heaney and Confidential Poetry'
by Anne Stevenson, Planet 152
From: 'Globalisation and the Death of Diversity'
by Angharad Penrhyn Jones, Planet 150
From 'The Ratchet of Violence'
by John Barnie, Planet 149
From 'Loaded Dice'
by Mike Parker, Planet 148
From 'Living in Room 101'
by Kevin Williams, Planet 147
From 'Direct Activists'
by Ruth Shade, Planet 145
From 'The Uncertain Critic'
by Jasmine Donahaye, Planet 144
From 'The Site Inviolate - R.S. Thomas (1913-2000)'
by Walford Davies, Planet 144
From 'Hoping for a Honeypot'
by John Lovering, Planet 139
From '"Europe's Most Exciting Waterfront": the official story of Cardiff Bay'
By Huw Thomas, Planet 143.
From 'Animal Omega: the dubious moral universe of Michel Houellebecq'
by Andrew Hussey in Planet 142
From 'The Rhyming Detective: Gwyneth Lewis's latest Collection'
By Ruth McElroy in Planet 141
From 'Making Good Boundaries', an interview with Joshua A. Fishman
by Xabier Erize, Planet 140
From 'Never Say Ethnic: The Poltical Culture of Devolution'
by Ned Thomas, Planet 136
From 'The 51st State? Britain's Transatlantic Connections'
by Neil Evans and David Sullivan, Planet 135
From 'Field Notes for a Native Land: The Significance of Custodial Aesthetics for Welsh Art'
by Iwan Bala in Planet 135
From 'A Stage of Their Own: Women and Performance Poetry'
by Angharad James, Planet 135
From 'George Borrow's Wales'
by John Davies, in Planet 134
From 'Iechyd Da: The State of our Health'
by Gareth H. Williams, Planet 133
From 'Looking for Lincoln'
by Jan Morris, in Planet 132 and 133
From 'Outside the House of God, an interview with the artist John Knapp-Fisher'
by Damian Walford Davies, in Planet 131
From 'Kissing with Confidence: SWS Social Welsh and Sexy'
by Frances Williams, in Planet 131
From 'White Noise: Remembering Enoch Powell'
by Daniel Williams, Planet 131
From 'Taking Control: The Crisis in Farming'
by Peter Midmore, Planet 128
From 'Of Devolution, Maps and Divided Mentalities'
by Paul O'Leary, Planet 127
From 'Making it New, a profile of playwright Ed Thomas'
by Heike Roms, Planet 125
From 'How Sacred is Life?'
by Roger Caldwell, Planet 125
From 'Sianel Pedwar Cymru: Corporate Behemoth or Cultural Redeemer?'
by Kevin Williams, Planet 122:
Extract from 'Them', a short story by Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín, published by Planet Books.
'Cân y Gwneuthurwr Mapiau / The Mapmaker's Song': poems by Gwyneth Lewis
'To me you'll always be a Spat': poem by Les Murray
'The Jesus T-Shirt': a poem by Mike Jenkins. Would you like to order a copy of Graffitti Narratives, published by Planet Books
'...but isn't this one an absolute beauty!', a cartoon by Peter Roberts