Wales Articles

Lies, damn lies and statistics: Mark Twain would have been proud of today’s prime minister’s questions. But ultimately it is boring listening to politicians arguing over statistics. It is the thing that puts the public off politics. It is not funny. It is not amusing....

There was a woman who walked nine miles, mostly down a 60-mile-an-hour, windy ‘A’ road because she didn’t have the bus fare and was scared that if she missed her job club appointment her benefits would be stopped. When the Tories announced that they would require...

Tolerant and fair-minded or obsessed by class and suspicious of foreigners? Peter Kellner unveils research for Progress on how the English view themselves If George Orwell and John Major are to be believed, the defining characteristic of Englishness is nostalgia....

The recent report by Labour's local government innovation taskforce articulates an eloquent case for decentralising the delivery of public services in England. Labour's policy review coordinator, Jon Cruddas, deserves credit in pushing this agenda of radical...