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Mario Basini

Merthyr-born Mario Basini is an acclaimed ex-Western Mail journalist and author

Dylan Thomas: 100 years since his birth, are we any closer to understanding who the poet really was?
Dylan Thomas
As the world marks a century since the birth of Dylan Thomas, Mario Basini investigates whether the poet's public image matches his real character
Mario Basini: Despite her Welsh blood, Margaret Thatcher clearly saw us as weak and needy
Margaret Thatcher
She inherited Welsh blood from her father, but as PM saw Wales as weak, says journalist Mario Basini, who reported on Wales at the height of the Thatcher era