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As I write this, the post-mortems have only just begun. Questions are being asked and angry responses are being offered by everyone. The experts are telling us that they were warning us all along, when in reality they were involved in building up everybody’s expectations. Across the country there is a flat feeling. What am I talking about; the recession? the budget? No, England are out of the World Cup!

In the week that I am writing this, two events have dominated life in the capital city of our principality. Both of them have drawn crowds to two of Cardiff’s biggest buildings, one of them old, the other brand new. At first glance these occasions might seem to have little in common, but if you think about it more closely...