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 […]
Luke Fletcher, Pencoed Councillor and Plaid Cymru 2021 Candidate for Ogmore I write this article with a heavy heart. The confirmed closure of Ford in Bridgend will see over 1,700 jobs being lost – and that’s without considering the number of jobs that will be lost in the supply chain. […]
Daran Hill, Managing Director at Positif public affairs consultancy The decision by Mark Drakeford – and it was clearly his decision – not to proceed with the M4 Relief Road is perhaps not only his most important one to date, but arguably the most significant move by Welsh Government since the […]
Alun Evans Social media has now become one of the major tools of political communication. All candidates have Facebook pages and Twitter accounts and all parties spend considerable amounts of money on Social Media advertising. During the 2017 general election, over £170,000 was spent on Facebook advertising in Wales alone, […]
