“Money must no longer be the passport to the best treatment” declared the Labour Party election manifesto in 1945 with crisp clarity. And, as The Spirit of ’45 rises again in cinemas up and down the country, we recall that the birth…

Yesterday’s labour market statistics and budget should give everyone pause for thought. There has been no economic growth for five years, since the financial crash began in early 2008.    GDP has been broadly static, in both Wales and the…

  Was the 2011 census showing a decline in the Welsh Language a blip or was it a return to the long term decline that we saw throughout most of the twentieth century? Between 1901 and 1981 the number of…

  Reducing the number of people who smoke is probably the single most effective thing that could be done to improve health and cut the burden on the NHS.  Giving up smoking isn’t easy, however. It isn’t a “life-style choice”…

When Wales played England during the Six Nations rugby match in 2012, South Wales Police recorded a 76% increase in the numbers of domestic abuse incidents compared to the previous weekend.  Whilst shocking, the statistic and the spike in incidents…