Opinion Archives - Page 46 of 219

Is there any point in having more Senedd Members if we’re lumbered with the Closed List voting system?

Martin Shipton Members of the Senedd have a great opportunity to perform a service to Wales: by rejecting the iniquitous…

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‘Cymru Can’ do better to improve lives for today and tomorrow

Derek Walker – Future Generations Commissioner for Wales Young or old, we all have a stake in the future. Many…

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Plaid Cymru to make valleys conference regular event

Peredur Owen Griffiths MS While it may be hard to define precisely, whenever the ‘valleys’ are mentioned most people have…

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It’s Carers Rights Day – but why should I care?

Rob Simkins, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Carers Wales If you ask many people in Wales what comes to…

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A Stopped Clock

Ben Wildsmith If there’s one thing we can depend on in the arbitrary crapshoot of existence, it’s that our perception…

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Senior Welsh Labour figures have signed up for ‘full financial devolution’ – but what does it mean?

Martin Shipton Frustration over the fiasco of rail funding for Wales and other insults is pushing former diehard unionists into…

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‘We need public ownership of water’

Mike Hedges – MS for Swansea East Water is uniquely vulnerable to pollution. It is known as the universal solvent…

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Wales must set an example and ban animal experiments

Deborah Davies Each year inside British laboratories, around 3 million animals are experimented on. Every 8 seconds, one animal dies…

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‘The energy crisis did not happen overnight and could have been avoided’

Bethan Sayed – Warm this Winter Wales Campaign Coordinator “My situation this year, like any other year, is to look forward…

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All Aboard The Reshuffle Special

Ben Wildsmith When former Tory Chairman Jake Berry told struggling citizens to ‘go out there and get that new job’,…

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CAT Down to Net Zero?

Ken Moon I was very disappointed to hear Wales’ foremost net-zero pioneers, the Centre for Alternative Technology, is to close…

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Blaming schools for poor attendance is no way to engage teachers

Finola Wilson In Wales, the percentage of pupils absent from school now stands at nearly double the rate seen before…