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Housing a mockery of devolution

October 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Welsh Politics

It is very appropriate that the title of the housing conference organised at Cardiff university concludes with a question mark.

“Housing and Government: A Decade of Difference ?” will examine the results of devolution in the various countries of the UK.

When the conference is organised by the Housing Studies Association and the flier for next April’s [...]

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No Jones apology as the views of a nation change ?

July 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Welsh Politics

It seems David Jones, MP for Clwyd West, is none too happy about me having suggested that he had issued a “sort of” apology over his blogged remarks about the light weight of much Assembly legislation.

He also denied had been “breathed on” by the party hierarchy over comments which most of us saw as being [...]

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Why David Jones apologised

July 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Welsh Politics

I wonder who in his party’s hierarchy pounced on David Jones, MP for Clwyd West and previously AM for North, for his blogged comments that he would have been rather sunning himself in a London park that drudging through the minutiae of an Assembly measure at Westminster.

He’s now given a sort-of apology.

In the press gallery [...]

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