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Has the time come for a government of national unity in Wales to tackle the coronavirus?

Gareth Ceidiog Hughes The nation is on a war footing. The inexorable spread of the coronavirus means we are facing…

Johnson needs to announce a coronavirus lockdown if Wales is to avoid the worst

Ifan Morgan Jones Governments ultimately have three choices when it comes to responding to the coronavirus. The first is to…

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Coronavirus confusion demonstrates why we need to devolve broadcasting to Wales

Ella Davies Over the last few weeks, we’ve been watching the coronavirus pandemic unfold across the world, with day to…

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Wales’ autistic citizens need to be part of the independence discussion too

Brogan Rees In Wales, there are roughly 31,000 people living with an autism spectrum condition. That means that roughly 1…

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Basic income could prevent the coronavirus pandemic causing an economic collapse

Tegid Roberts If ever there was a time to trial basic income in Wales and the UK, this is it.…

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The UK Government’s coronavirus advice will see me and my partner out of work – we need help now

Bleddyn Williams COVID-19, or Coronavirus as many of you know it, is quickly changing the way we live our lives.…

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In the midst of all the panic buying, spare a thought for us supermarket workers

Lisa Ware With Covid-19 on the rise in the UK, and an increasingly large number of people panic buying, it…

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As Westminster sows coronavirus confusion the Welsh Government needs to cut through the noise

Ifan Morgan Jones Prime Minister Boris Johnson has long cultivated comparisons with Winston Churchill, and it seems that he now…

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One of Wales’ Victorian treasures is being demolished to build flats – please help us save it

Sara Pedersen The former Intermediate School for Girls’ in Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan was built in 1895-6 and was the…

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Is it time to cancel Wales v Scotland?

Ifan Morgan Jones As the Welsh rugby squad was announced this morning there was a strange feeling of unreality to…

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Why we need to burst the Cardiff Bay bubble

Paul Davies AM, Leader of the Welsh Conservatives Last weekend at our Welsh Conservative conference in Llangollen, I told some…

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Why the Senedd must act on giving prisoners the right to vote

Peter Huw Jenkins First Minister Mark Drakeford once wrote ‘services which are reserved for the poor very quickly become poor…

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