Cambria Politico - The Political Blog

We all know the Western Mail (otherwise Llais y Sais) is losing readers, and that their reporters sometimes can’t find stories (after all, it is still the “silly season“).

But today’s effort on the future leadership of the Welsh Labour Party in the wake of Rhodri Morgan is peculiarly off-centre.

So peculiarly off-centre that it’s worth examining, [...]

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Wales is in grave danger of being considered a nation of narrow-minded hypocrites in the wake of the Rev Rhodri Glyn Thomas being forced to resign as culture minister after mistakenly walking into a Bay public house with a cigar in his hand .

Apparently, the resignation followed a tete-a-tete on his future with party leader [...]

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Almost every time Carwyn Jones opens his mouth, the delays to the proposed new, stronger legal status for the Welsh language get longer.

A new Legislative Competence Order was expected to be introduced to the Assembly this spring, we were told before Christmas.

We all knew the procedures for passing these LCOs was complicated - they are [...]

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It almost seems perversely appropriate to use tinplate to create the giant portrait of Margaret Thatcher revealed at the National Assembly today.

After all, the tinplate industry as it once existed in Wales is all but dead, and Maggie is the one who killed off so much of British industry.

The portrait - together with one of [...]

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