Barry Welsh is Coming

Merry Christmas and a Barry Welsh New Year to everyone who has re-tweeted, followed and favourited me this year - from all at HTV Wales as was. Thank you all - Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda

Iceland has joined Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in saying it will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest because of Israel and despite all of this, the UK will still come near last (again)

At this time of the year I go to work in the dark and come home in the dark. I wouldn’t mind, but I work from home

Given how many times the Hood has been shot at, crashed and blown up in the classic Thunderbirds, it makes me wonder if he was the inspiration for the indestructible Captain Scarlet

There’s one good thing to come out from the Budget today. The end of relentless pundit speculation on what will or will not happen

Allegedly Nathan Gill said that he was taking bribes to support Crumlin and not the Kremlin

BBC News reports “Here’s why people are having facial injections made from fish sperm” I have so many questions to ask, the first would be; “What the fcuk?”

I use to "𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘹"; I was a rubbish goalkeeper

Watching the BBC news. Fair play, it’s all about the BBC these days

I saw that the final of Celebrity Traitors had been released early. On this occasion, nothing to do with David Lammy

November sees a full Beaver Supermoon! My goodness, they'll do anything to make astronomy seem sexy. That said, "I've got an 5 inch refactor"

I suspect who is behind the Louvre jewellery heist. Seems it could be the same guy has now got a crown from South Korea, and who is building a lavish palace in Washington DC

Why is it that everyone cares about food waste, expect when it comes to pumpkins?

I’ve a serious question. At what point does a robbery become a heist?

Congratulations to Rhun ap Iorwerth on becoming the First Minister of Wales next year. Or should that be Llongyfarchiadau i Rhun ap Iorwerth ar ddod yn Brif Weinidog Cymru y flwyddyn nesaf

Good news: Mock the Week is returning to the telly. Bad news: No one can access the channel it’s on

I see that Prince Andrew is to be exiled, seems he’s going to an island somewhere – Epstein’s perhaps?

I see that Wales is to get over £540m to boost the economy over the next three years, and most suspect that the money in no shape or form is to improve Labour’s chances of winning the election next year

I see that Wales is to get over £540m to boost the economy over the next three years, and you can bet that services and resources will still be cut back and taxes will increase

I see that Wales is to get over £540m to boost the economy over the next three years, and most suspect that the money will be spent on more politicians in the Senedd

I finally got to see the northern lights this week. Okay, it was a trip to Blackpool. Still good though

I see that Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Oh dear, I bet we're never going to hear the end of this from someone in the USA

I see it is world Octopus day today. Give them a big hand, and another, and another, and another or should that be tentacle?

Hang ‘em. Hang ‘em and beat them with a stick. Oh, wait. That’s socks. That’s socks. As you were

“You are not listening to a single thing I’m thinking” What an odd thing for my wife to say to me this morning

I see that in Afghanistan, the Taliban have imposed a nationwide internet shutdown that is set to last indefinitely. Don't give Donald any more ideas

Congratulations to this years BBC Sports Personality of the Year; Ellie Kildunne

Was half asleep listening to a radio play ‘Fatherland’ by Robert Harris and thought it was a documentary about the USA today

Curtain has risen on Strictly 2025 as new couples are revealed. We can expect the following; an unexpected dance relationship, a subsequent divorce, an injury, the chubby one, the journey and an a wholly inappropriate career ending moment. Worth watching then

First, they went after those known troublemakers of democracy - the Late-night TV show hosts, and I said nothing