though we’d always challenge the reductive assumption that there is only one type of Welsh accent – Wales has many accents - the ‘fading Welsh accent and does it even matter?’ article by Stephen Price (Nation Cymru, 17 August 2024) does highlight a broader issue about...
Where is the best bara brith in Wales? Two Cockneys, now living in Wales, are aiming to find out where the best traditional cake can be found, also learn a new word and phrase of Welsh every day, on a week-long journey of their adopted homeland using their free bus...
Are working-class cultural identities such as Cockney, Scouse, and Weegie facing greater social stigma and prejudice that fuels greater division and polarisation in modern society? Leading social commentator David Goodhart of the Policy Exchange explores the issue at...
16 October is World Dictionary Day and to mark it our director Andy Green was invited onto BBC Radio London to discuss modern Cockney language, speech and identity. You can take a butcher's hook [look] at the full interview on our YouTube channel:...
This weekend Grow Social Capital will be in Sligo in the Republic of Ireland. We know, we know....it's a dirty job but someone's got to do it. Specifically, we are heading to Ireland for the launch of Dublin Conversations (#ConversationsFest), a weekend event like no...
We have had the pleasure of joining a couple of seminars recently at which the value of social capital has been front and centre of research and practice. Dyffryn Dyfodol Two weeks ago we joined the online Dyffryn Dyfodol workshop hosted by Iwan and Kate from Ffiwsar...
How can you make coming into the office more attractive for your hybrid teams? How can you enable your people to live, and breathe a bigger picture in their work to be more creative, purposeful, and overcome the ‘Haven’t got time' Monster’? A great new solution is at...
It is almost three years since Andy and I wrote the first article in Planet - The Welsh Internationalist's Possibilities for a Post-Pandemic Society series. The series invited contributors to project years ahead and conjure up potential futures that the pandemic could...
A huge 'Tom Hanks' to BBC London reporter Adriana Elgueta for spending time with our Andy Green and Saif Osmani and reporting on the Modern Cockney Festival for the BBC News website: Do you need to be from London to be a cockney?
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