Whilst munching a lunchtime sandwich a few weeks ago, I watched the BBC News channel broadcast a speech which Kirsty Williams, the Welsh Liberal Democrat leader, was giving to a handful of supporters in Aberaeron, in what appeared to be…

The next Welsh government has 5 years to transform Wales. With new powers, a clear mandate and, notwithstanding the cuts, a still sizeable budget, there will be no excuse if the figures on unemployment, poverty, low educational achievement and ill…

Well, the campaign may have been deathly dull but the results of the Assembly election so far haven’t been. In an Assembly that was losing a quarter of its members voluntarily, it now looks like a sea of new faces…

The scale of the challenge facing whoever forms the next Welsh Assembly Government is clear from new statistics published on the Poverty website today.  The news on the proportion of workless households is as grim as ever -  with two…

The tabloid view of people who have been unemployed over the long term is that they are largely unemployed due to their own inadequacies and lack of effort. As a result, public debate over welfare reform has been dominated by…