Andrew RT Davies, Conservative AM for South Wales Central It’s probably an understatement to say that I can’t imagine many Nation.Cymru readers are lying awake at night obsessing too much about the identity of the next leader of the Conservative Party. However, regardless of your political affiliation, it’s undoubtedly a […]
Ifan Morgan Jones The Jac o’ the North blog yesterday published a new post in which he speculates that George Soros is ‘influencing’ Wales and involved in many projects that Jac disapproves of. Jac o’ the North’s evidence for this ultimately amounts to the fact that some people now working […]
Ben Lake, Plaid Cymru MP for Ceredigion Last month, the Irish Government reopened their Consulate-General in Cardiff, a decision that was rightly heralded as an excellent development for Wales. Indeed, the reopening of the Consulate in the capital following a ten-year leave of absence offers a valuable opportunity to strengthen […]
Duncan Fisher, Co-editor at newfoodentrepreneurs.co.uk The fact that a majority in Ebbw Vale came out against EU membership despite being awash with European funding has baffled many and been the subject of online humour verging on mockery. How did things go so terribly wrong? I believe the problem is that […]
Delyth Jewell, Plaid Cymru Assembly Member for the South Wales East region One of the failures of the 2016 referendum campaign was that it failed to tell the people of Wales how they benefitted from membership[ of the EU. Now, we know similarly little about how those benefits will be […]
Ifan Morgan Jones A decision on whether to expand the number of members in the Welsh Parliament from 60 to 80 or 90 has been put on hold until after the next election. Labour have said that they will not back the plans without first putting it to the electorate […]
Elin Roberts Wales is becoming older: On average, around 2,750 45-64-year-olds migrate to Wales every year. In the meantime, it is estimated that 117,000 young people between 15 and 29 years old have left just the counties of Ynys Môn, Gwynedd, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire over a decade. As a young […]
Jonathan Edwards, Plaid Cymru MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr “Please, do not waste this time” so said the European Council President, Donald Tusk, when the latest Brexit extension was agreed. For that to be interpreted as a signal to start a Conservative beauty pageant for the top job is […]
Bethan Sayed, Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales West The announcement this week that the Ford plant in Bridgend will shut down has been devastating. Devastating, not only because of the impact on Bridgend, the area and the wider Welsh economy, but because of the 1,700 highly-skilled and specialised workers […]
Keith Darlington, retired university lecturer in AI There is widespread agreement on both sides of the political divide that Brexit has become a huge distraction that is eating away at the body politic. One of its consequences is that other important issues are getting scant attention. One of those is […]
