Opinion Archives - Page 86 of 222

The knives are out for the great Tory egg-and-spoon race

Ben Wildsmith There’s nothing like naked ambition to reveal the inner-child in a person. Dangle anyone’s deepest desire in front…

18 comments.

What would the five Tory leadership candidates mean for Wales, devolution and independence?

Ifan Morgan Jones Last night’s Channel 4 debate was many people’s first proper look at the Tory leadership candidates, only…

11 comments.

Could the UK’s future lie as a partnership of modern sovereign states?

Glyndwr Cennydd Jones Devolution involves a sovereign Westminster, in effect, delegating a measure of sovereign authority to the devolved institutions.…

36 comments.

‘Hawl i Fyw Adra’? Results from a novel experiment to test voter perceptions on second homes

James Griffiths, Ed Gareth Poole and Jac Larner, from the Welsh Election Study team at Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre…

3 comments.

Ready4Rishi? Plundering the depths in search of integrity

Ben Wildsmith Are you Ready4Rishi? Well, he suspected you might be as far back as December, which is when he…

8 comments.

Out of the frying pan? Why Welsh autonomy may not be entirely safe under a Labour UK government

Ifan Morgan Jones For the first time in this parliamentary term, it looks like Labour may have a better than…

20 comments.

The chaotic last 48 hours has exploded the myth that Westminster can run Wales better than we can ourselves

Ifan Morgan Jones Just last week, the now-former Welsh Secretary Simon Hart was sitting in the Senedd making the case…

12 comments.

The Impact of Devolution in Wales aims to excite debate and a mature discussion of the challenges facing us

Aled Eirug, co-editor of The Impact of Devolution in Wales The Impact of Devolution: Social Democracy with a Green Stripe…

4 comments.

Wrexham’s march showed that none of the momentum has been lost from the independence movement

Ifan Morgan Jones Back in 2019 the Welsh independence movement held a series of three huge marches, in Cardiff, Caernarfon…

14 comments.

When the personal is political and irreversibly public what will our legacy be?

Ben Wildsmith If you ever look at the state of the UK and wonder how we’ve got here, have a…

2 comments.

Welsh devolution is now facing death by a thousand cuts

Ifan Morgan Jones There was an interesting article on the website Conservative Home back in February of this year which…

32 comments.

The Westminster Government is hoping to steamroll devolution – and our human rights along with it

Rhys ab Owen, Senedd Member for South Wales Central The UK Government has recently presented its proposals for the removal of…

10 comments.

Opinion