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2017 was the year that groupthink silenced free speech at the Assembly

Neil McEvoy, AM for South Wales Central The National Assembly went into recess this week, ending an explosive year for me…

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Review

Ifan Morgan Jones Much has been made of the links between Wales and Star Wars, including the Millennium Falcon being…

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Wales needs control of taxes so that we can forge our own economic future

Steffan Lewis, Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales East The government has published the first ever rates for the Land…

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Labour has betrayed Wales’ youth on Assembly reform

Rhydian Elis Fitter , Plaid Ifanc Most of Wales woke up on Tuesday thinking of the freezing temperatures, panicking about…

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I’ve felt included and welcomed in Wales – regardless of my language and race

Radha Nair-Roberts I recently read Oruj Defoite’s complaint on WalesOnline about feeling excluded in Wales because of race and language with…

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STV could be the radical change Welsh democracy needs

Ifan Morgan Jones It’s the recommendation that the Welsh Assembly needs 20 to 40 new members to scrutinise legislation which…

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5 good things about Brexit for Wales

There’s no denying that Brexit is going to be very tough for Wales. At present 68% of the exports made…

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Wales is trapped in a war between two factions that don’t care about our nation

Benjiman L. Angwin We in Wales need to remove ourselves from the fight between Labour and the Conservatives that is…

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The BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year shows that we still rate British performances over Welsh ones

Adam Pearce It’s something of an accident of history that Wales, a stateless nation, has its own national sports teams.…

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Why have a Senedd if we have no independent vision for Wales?

Huw Williams An expanded Welsh language version of this article can be read here. Culture, as Raymond Williams puts it,…

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This 30 year-old programme will change the way you see Wales

Nick Stradling The biggest problem we have in Wales is that our children grow into adults without any perception of…

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Air travel tax powers would be an economic boon for Wales but Westminster won’t give them up lightly

Rhydian Jones In autumn 2016 low-cost airline Flybe launched its first ever Cardiff to London City service. As the Severn…

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