Rob Williams

Rob Williams has worked at The Independent since summer 2008, before which he mucked about on local newspapers in North Wales.

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Anatomy of a Bust-Up

It isn’t the political scandals or the Welsh football team that have caught the eye of Welsh readers this week – it’s ‘Hooters’. So why is the restaurant chain, with it’s heady mix of fried chicken and scantily clad hostesses, causing an almighty row in Cardiff?

By Rob Williams | Notebook - A selection of Independent views - | Thursday, 12 August 2010 at 12:06 pm

The Miracle Beer Diet

According to new research swapping wine for beer, for just one week, could save as many calories as a half hour jog…

By Rob Williams | Notebook - A selection of Independent views - | Tuesday, 3 August 2010 at 9:55 am

We need to do less to combat the EDL

Hundreds of counter-protesters and police. Political and religious figures in uproar. And the media in a frenzy. Even the taxi drivers went on strike. But what did the EDL demo in Cardiff actually demonstrate?

By Rob Williams | Notebook - A selection of Independent views - | Wednesday, 23 June 2010 at 8:44 am

Bethan Jenkins: Just don’t call her a sell out

Bethan Jenkins is Wales’s youngest politician, a socialist, a nationalist and a veteran campaigner. And she’s only twenty eight. I ask her about the roots of her political identity, her patronising elders and, of course, Robert Green.

By Rob Williams | Notebook - A selection of Independent views - | Wednesday, 16 June 2010 at 8:18 am

What Wales wants and what Wales gets

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has decided to put paid to the plans for Independently Funded News Consortia in Wales. But the Assembly voted in favour of the scheme, so why has it been ignored?

By Rob Williams | Notebook - A selection of Independent views - | Wednesday, 9 June 2010 at 8:57 pm

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