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Welsh Assembly members’ expenses claims included a £2,000 sofa, a £1,000 surround-sound TV, right down to a £2 glass bowl

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Such a tautly-worded stand-off has seldom been seen in the Assembly as that between Michael Grade, executive chairman of ITV, and Alun Davies, boss of the new broadcasting committee.

At its heart was the future of commercial broadcasting in Wales with the ending of digital broadcasting in this country next year.
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Peter Black, one of the policy-wonks so often at the back of Liberal Democrat moves, is busily proving that the Welsh government has no clothes.

To blame is former education minister Jane Davidson, although by now we can shout our complaints at her successor, Jane Hutt.

Mr Black is about to propose that every local authority [...]

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It seems insane that WAG is doing everything it can to piss off Welsh business at a time of economic and political meltdown . Nevertheless , as Dylan Jones-Evans is highlighting below, this appears to be happening.
At a time when the small firm sector in Wales needed support, the Assembly Government has come up [...]

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There’s something to be said for politicians being honest about the promises they will deliver when they get elected.

Plaid’s loss of control of Gwynedd County Council - over the closure of some of the primary schools with which the county is over-provisioned for the number of children born - may soon link up with [...]

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Alison Halford always seemed a wee bit different from her colleagues when she sat as an AM in Cardiff. Her years as assistant chief constable for Merseyside gave her an outlook on her fellow man which was a trifle broader than most of us ever attained.

Although she sat for Labour, she was fiercely independent; independent [...]

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It’s good to know that the Assembly government is putting both its name and its money behind good beer.

No surprise after Rhodri Morgan’s address to the CAMRA UK annual general meeting in Cardiff this month.

But which ministry is putting cash into the Great Welsh Beer and Cider Festival at its new venue of the [...]

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It’s difficult to know what Lord Elis-Thomas, defender of the Assembly and former university lecturer in modern Welsh literature, really made of this week’s row over the Senedd sex scene which a Llanelli TV company won “permission” to film in Lord Rogers’s new building.
It was supposed to be a scene of dialogue. You can imagine [...]

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