Articles...
Jul 5 2008
THE news that Welsh students at Key Stage 3 – the first three years of secondary school – are falling further behind their counterparts in England should act as a wake-up call to policymakers....
Jul 1 2008
IT’S little wonder Tony Blair, the man who introduced the devolution settlement, concluded the best way to deal with the West Lothian question was not to ask it....
Jun 27 2008
AS HE marks his first anniversary as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown may not be in the mood for any more gloomy news, but he would do well to read the report produced into Labour’s failure to connect with voters in North and West Wales....
Jun 25 2008
MORE than a decade ago, the then leader of the opposition, Tony Blair, promised to end mixed-sex accommodation on NHS wards. Mr Blair said the Conservative administration lacked “the wit” to end the practice, but his own ministers, and those of his successor, Gordon Brown, have proved no more adept at implementing this popular and simple policy....
Jun 24 2008
IT SOUNDS like a double dollop of good news for anyone who feels the cost of getting from A to B is beginning to reach breaking point....
May 29 2008
TODAY marks the first anniversary of the abduction of five Britons – two of them Welsh – in Iraq. Those working for their release say they are hopeful they can be found alive, and the whole country will be hoping and praying they are right....
May 28 2008
THE last thing an under-fire Prime Minister needs is the threat of protesting hauliers bringing the country to a standstill, but that is exactly what Gordon Brown has to deal with this week....
May 23 2008
SOMETHING is missing from one of the Assembly Government’s flagship policies....
May 22 2008
ITH technology allowing people to access and create content on the internet developing at a sometimes bewildering pace, it’s perhaps unsurprising that parents, teachers and politicians find themselves struggling to keep up....
May 21 2008
WITH Wales so dependent on its tourism industry for employment and revenue, data on the health of the sector is, with some justification, a snapshot of the health of the wider economy....
