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Forget Sharia Law. One of the most important issues for many Welsh people is the obvious need for a new Welsh language law to give the Welsh language equal status with English and made compulsory in administration, in law, in business and industry and in education.
There is a dire need for a new commission to defend the rights of Welsh speakers, and those rights firmly based in legislation.
This is the only way we can truly protect the Welsh language and our Welsh communities before they disappear forever. But we have long been easily trampled over.
Dr Rowan Williams is a fluent Welsh speaker. Wouldn’t it have been fantastic if he would have used his influential position to do more for his own country and language, and to try to promote his own people’s rights to fair play instead of being dragged into a debate about the rights of Muslim immigrants to be allowed to set up their own courts of law?
But these days campaigning for greater equality and the same rights for everyone always seems to mean equality and rights for people who have chosen to move into the country to live, and not for those who have always lived here.
Or that’s how it increasingly seems to me anyway. Read more
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