On the surface – stagnation. That’s the picture of poverty that the headline statistics present. Since touching a low of 22% in about 2005, the proportion of people in Wales living in income poverty has drifted around without any clear…

Peter Mandelson famously set a marker for New Labour when he said he was intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich. Carwyn Jones has said that the status quo is not an option for the configuration of Welsh hospitals. There…

This week, members of the House of Commons Welsh Grand Committee debated the impact of the UK Government’s legislative programme on Wales. The Welsh Grand Committee is a curious, pre-devolution attempt to carve space in Westminster to consider purely Welsh…

  The latest figures on poverty in Wales released by the Department for Work and Pensions make for gloomy reading.  It is some comfort that the percentage of the population living on low incomes(1) has not gone up, but the…

The decision by the Welsh Government announced this week to introduce legislation to create a three year budget period for NHS Wales may sound bureaucratic.  But it is one of the most important changes to the Programme of Government in…