John Osmond Author

John Osmond has been a prolific author, journalist and broadcaster for over 50 years. A political correspondent with the Western Mail during the 1970s, deputy editor at the launch of Wales on Sunday, and television producer with the HTV current affairs programme Wales This Week and the Channel 4 series The Divided Kingdom, he then, from 1996 to 2013, was Director of the Institute of Welsh Affairs. A lifelong political activist, he was chairman of the Parliament for Wales campaign in the 1990s, a Plaid Cymru parliamentary candidate in 2007, 2015 and 2016, and between 2018 and 2022 was Special Adviser to Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price.