ANOTHER COUNTRY
I’m a fan of Jonathan Meades, but his piece on Welsh and Wales was a nasty mix of cliché, minority-bashing, cultural snobbery and factual inaccuracy. He knows neither the country nor anything of the past and present life of the Welsh language. He doesn’t know who speaks it, where, how long it has existed, or its historic tenacity against… well, people like him: English supremacists triggered by the fear of another language within earshot in “their” country.
Meades mentions his opposition. Maybe he’ll update it for the next edition.
