For reasons which were never fully explained to us (perhaps because we never asked), the presiding officer decided to move himself from one end to the other of the unlovely office block that houses the Assembly’s administration.
In fact, he decided to take over part of the area occupied by the press.
Welsh Politics
The Presiding Officer causes chaos for the Press
Press and Media
Dic’s West was hardly the Western Mail’s
Dic Jones, the sitting Archdruid, was a character in bardic and eisteddfodic terms. And not because he was often on telly, but because he was such a wonderful character. In his life and his language, he symbolised the West and was a hugely influential and important figure in the politics and life of Wales. But what did the so-called ‘national newspaper of Wales’ write about Mr Jones on his death? A brief unattributed snippet off the PA newswire.
Expensegate
Playing the right-wing Tory game on AMs’ expenses
HOW LONG before the expenses issue starts to blow up in the faces of AMs, writes Clive Betts from the National Assembly press gallery.
A new system of rules was,… Read the rest
Economy
Sir Victor fires a Blank
A TRIP to Bristol on the day after Sir Victor Blank announced he was resigning as chairman of the complete disaster that is the Lloyds-HBOS merger gave a good chance to look at another of Sir Victor’s bits of handiwork.
Press and Media
The failings of the media in Wales
A nasty jibe at newspapers and broadcasters in Wales from the Constitution Unit of University College, London in their latest Monitor.
Welsh Politics
Shenanigans at Trinity Mirror
If we are to talk of the importance to democracy of the existence of a variety of news sources, we must ensure our concerns extend beyond the fears that the HTV news… Read the rest
Welsh Politics
A case of newspaper inequality at expense of the Tories
Nick Bourne and the Welsh Tories seem to be storming to political advances within the next year after the collapse of the Western Mail concatenation of attacks
