There are just 5 days left for organisations and individuals in Wales to tell the UK Government that “equality’ isn’t red-tape but a fundamental requirement of a fair society.   Nearly a year ago, Home Secretary Theresa May announced a…

Image: Wales Online On 10th April Elaine Morgan was awarded the Freedom of the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf. What this world leading feminist, radical and atheist thought of some of the procedural pomposities, pastors and lieutenants abounding, she…

Wales in 1979, when Margaret Thatcher was elected, was a very different place to 1990, when she stood down, let alone to today.   Art Garfunkel was at number 1 in the charts with Bright Eyes, and Blankety Blank as…

  This week’s arguments about welfare reform are some of the most depressing, ill–informed and ill-judged I have ever heard.   Last weekend, various left groups got out their placards after realising that people would be hard hit by the…

  There is a proposition widely circulating Wales that we would be better off with less local government – fewer, larger local authorities with fewer, less significant functions. Wouldn’t it be sensible if the Welsh Government ran schools? Wouldn’t it be good if the…