Delyth Jewell, Plaid Cymru Senedd Member for the South Wales East region Boris Johnson has handled the Covid19 crisis appallingly from the start. After missing crucial Cobra meetings, he delayed lockdown for a disastrously long period. Looking back, it’s hard to believe that as we watched other European countries’ death rates […]
Leena Sarah Farhat, Diversity officer for the Welsh Liberal Democrats Police brutality is prominent in the news at the moment due to the death of 46-year-old George Floyd in Minnesota. George Floyd died after a white police officer named Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. […]
Huw Cook, Health Communication Officer I’ve been struggling to write recently. For me, working in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been all-consuming, exhausting, emotionally and physically draining and often quite upsetting. Each day I sit at my desk trying to do best by the people of Wales promoting well-being […]
Charlie Evans, Deputy Chairman of the Carmarthen West & South Pembrokeshire Conservative Association In the latest round of easing the lockdown, Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland has allowed groups of eight from multiple households to meet in outdoor spaces whether on private property or public spaces. Boris Johnson has done similar in England […]
Suzy Davies, Welsh Conservative Senedd Member for South Wales West The words “emergency” and “legislation” don’t work well together. Well-made law creates certainty and means less need to reach for lawyers. Making law in haste means repenting at leisure. Just look at the bunfights over the lockdown – culminating in this week’s […]
Rhys ab Owen, Barrister COVID-19 has exposed many weaknesses in Wales. One such weakness that does not, in my opinion, receive enough attention is the Welsh prison system. Before the pandemic, we knew that Wales has the highest prison population per head in Western Europe. We knew this, not because […]
Helen Mary Jones MS, Plaid Cymru Shadow Minister for Tackling Poverty Whilst causing a global pandemic, freezing the world’s biggest economies, and sending most of Europe into lockdown, the coronavirus crisis has also exposed how we have let down the weakest elements of our society. Years of warnings about an […]
Rhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru Senedd Member for Ynys Môn Every Thursday evening throughout this pandemic people across the UK have been showing their gratitude for all our NHS and care workers. The appreciation shown by the public is clear, but after nine weeks of clapping for our carers, we […]
Jac Jones Wales has often been called the New Zealand of the Northern Hemisphere, and with good reason. The geography of both countries are quite similar, and both have a similar population – 3.2m in Wales’ case and 4.8m in New Zealand’s. Both live in the shadow of a larger […]
Dan Lawrence The Health Minister Vaughan Gething recently suggested that next year’s Senedd Cymru / Welsh Parliament election could be postponed due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. While I think this is unlikely to actually happen (and it was suggested purely as something that could happen rather than should happen), […]
