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…
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Last week Huw Lewis, the Welsh Government’s Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty announced £1.8 million new money for free advice services to begin to implement the government’s report on advice services in Wales which was published the week before….
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The voting system that we use has a major effect on the election result. Examples abound but the easiest one to see is the National Assembly for Wales which, if it was elected solely by the first-past-the-post electoral system, would…
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Another week and another social media scandal. Most recently, the deputy leader of one of Wales’s political parties has come unstuck with a series of posts on his website. However the manufactured outrage expressed some is in danger of damaging…
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The annual visits by the Secretary of State for Wales to the Assembly to introduce the Queen’s Speech are a key part of the Assembly year. They are also very much influenced by the persona of the person doing…
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