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On Covid-19, a century and a half of expertise in infection control has been squandered

Dr. Carl Iwan Clowes, former medical director of NHS Wales, board member of Public Health Wales 2009 -2018 Pounding the…

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Wales needs to break away from Westminster’s abysmal approach to global trade

Hywel Williams, Plaid Cymru Arfon MP As the Trade Bill gets its second reading in the House of Commons today,…

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What will decide the 2021 Senedd election? Probably not what happens at the Senedd

Ifan Morgan Jones There’s just a year to go until the 2021 Senedd election and it’s fair to say that…

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‘A Grief Observed’: How devolution is reshaping our response to loss

Aled Edwards, Wales’ Former Commissioner for Racial Equality Around the pivotal point when Wales marked the staggering loss of over…

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This pandemic has proven that Wales can do a better job than Westminster

Ella Davies Over the past week the British tabloids, Conservatives and anti-devolutionist have been giving the Welsh Government both barrels…

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Citizens’ Assemblies will be key to reshaping Wales after Covid-19

Geraint Talfan Davies There is a growing ferment of ideas about the need to reconfigure our society in the wake…

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There’s nothing less nationalist than wanting to end the British nation-state

Sam Coates Last week the First Minister said that nationalism was “inherently right-wing”. Whenever arguments like this get thrown around,…

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Why it’s very, very unlikely the Senedd elections will be postponed

Ifan Morgan Jones Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething has said it is possible the next year’s Senedd elections may not…

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The pandemic’s legacy could be the end of political fatalism in Wales

Dewi Rees Heald I have worked with UK-wide organisations and institutions often enough to know their pattern. It did not…

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Mark Drakeford knows his own comments about Welsh nationalism make no sense

Tim Richards Mark Drakeford’s interview with Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 yesterday was very revealing of the First Minister’s…

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Casual bigotry from Buzzfeed towards the Welsh language is a disgrace

Gareth Ceidiog Hughes I can’t begin to explain how tiresome it is to have to respond to another stupid and…

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How the Welsh Conservatives can win the 2021 Senedd election

Charlie Evans, Deputy Chairman of the Carmarthen West & South Pembrokeshire Conservative Association Just 23 years ago, not one person…

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