Slumped against the plinth of the statue of Aneurin Bevan sat atop Cardiff's Queen Street, the gateway of what used to be one of the capital's most well-to-do high streets, Byron is trying to sleep. It's nearly 1pm on a Friday afternoon but he has barely slept all night.
This is his second attempt at shut-eye. He's already been moved on once this morning. Under 'Nye's' watchful eye Byron blocks out passersby, most using the street as a thoroughfare to get to where they need to be, too busy to notice him. Closing his eyes he has little care for the world. And the world, he says, has little care for him.
It's thought that the NHS Stalwart once uttered the words "If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution". If so, on this November afternoon, this proclamation has clearly been lost on Cardiff.
