The role of leaders has always been an extremely popular discussion point – even before Donald Trump got a Twitter account.  However, once the fundamental understanding that 94% of the variation in performance of any system is created by the…

  When I studied for my Economics A-level back in the heady days of the 1970s, the standard ideas we were taught to pay lip service to were of a mixed economy and state planning to overcome the occasional problems…

  The European Union is facing unprecedented demographic changes (an ageing population, low birth rates, changing family structures and migration). Social co-operatives exist to provide social services such as the care of children, elderly and disabled people, and the integration…

On Monday 29th November, the Western Mail featured the Bevan Foundation’s latest analysis of employment figures, published on its blog the same day. Under the headline ‘Welsh Government job creation is a “drop in the ocean”, claims Bevan Foundation‘, the…

    Like buses, after nothing for ages suddenly two city regions have come along at once – at least if the report of the Task and Finish Group on city regions is accepted by the Welsh Government. Many aspects…