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Wales Articles

The stark choice for the NHS

The attachment of the public and the Labour party to the NHS is one of the enduring features of British politics. It’s utterly predictable that the debate over the future shape and organisation of the NHS in Wales is such a controversial topic. This week, I hosted an...

A microcosm of Britain

North Wales is a diverse region; it’s a microcosm of Britain. The economy is made up of industry and manufacturing in the north-wast, science, business and technology parks along the A55 corridor, power production in the north-west and tourism along the coasts and in...

A ‘pot of gold’

‘I struck a pot of gold.’ That’s how one Carmarthenshire teenager described joining the Welsh government’s Jobs Growth Wales scheme. Jobs Growth Wales is one of the Labour Welsh government’s key Programme for Government commitments, seeking to respond to the worrying...

Giving depth to the One Nation vision

‘The Labour party did not come into the world as an economistic left party preoccupied with state remedies; nor with a remote cosmopolitan bent that surrendered talk of place, home and nation’ - Jon Cruddas 2013 Though it would of course be misleading to suggest that...
The stark choice for the NHS

The stark choice for the NHS

The attachment of the public and the Labour party to the NHS is one of the enduring features of British politics. It’s...

The stark choice for the NHS

A microcosm of Britain

North Wales is a diverse region; it’s a microcosm of Britain. The economy is made up of industry and manufacturing in...

The stark choice for the NHS

A ‘pot of gold’

‘I struck a pot of gold.’ That’s how one Carmarthenshire teenager described joining the Welsh government’s Jobs Growth...

Investing in Wales

Investing in Wales

The discussion about how to strengthen the economic base in Wales has sometimes become a debate between the merits of...

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NHS the Welsh way

NHS the Welsh way

So David Cameron, in a recent PMQs, has resorted yet again to the old trick of trying to deflect an attack on one of...

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Delayed attack

Delayed attack

Politics has been relegated to the second most widely discussed topic in Welsh tearooms and pubs this month....

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Working for Wales

Working for Wales

South Wales mining tragedy I can only begin by sending deepest condolences to the families of four miners: Charles...

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