David Jones graduated in Philosophy from Cardiff University. He is chairman of three Welsh software companies and also a non-executive director of the Cardiff and Vale Health Board. For 10 years, David was the founder and Managing Director of Travelink, a Cardiff-based software company. He is a member of the Welsh Government Ministerial advisory panel on the ICT sector and writes here in a personal capacity. David is an associate editor at WalesHome.

Does the left really want to fight for jobs?

It’s jobs that matter – And that means private sector jobs – Will the left embrace this opportunity to support capitalism ?

Has anyone seen the MEPs?

The pace of economic collapse is accelerating. At the very time we need to best political leadership there is a vacuum

The power of Brahms

Brahms’ German Requiem may not be the most widely-known piece of choral music, but it is up there with the best of them – particularly when the Welsh National Opera performs the piece

What really is occurin’

How does the economic climate affect people in Wales on a personal level? We follow the lives of two middle class examples

Should Labour join the UK government ?

It’s bad and getting worse each day. So let’s find some radical answers.

Betting Anyone?

With the Rugby World Cup about to start, WalesHome gets our tournament blog underway with some first thoughts on betting – and Bono

We’re not in Kansas anymore

This recession is taking a lot longer to work its way out of the system than anticipated. What is working against the recovery, and just how bad could it get?

Iceland’s hard lessons

Half-hearted measures of lending money money to Greece simply extends the pain and underestimates how bad things are. Does the experience of Iceland present any useful lessons ?

A great idea is not enough

Can the Welsh Government learn from the success of Facebook as it seeks to improve public service delivery? Surprisingly, yes

12 reasons why we are headed back into recession

We’re all feeling the squeeze, and it won’t get better any time soon, as these factors demonstrate

Cardiff

The first 3 pieces in this series were on London, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Now it’s back home to Cardiff. Can it compete as a economic city ? Or should it not even try ?

Shanghai

The clash of the oriental and the capitalist wrapped up in a Communist state. The great wealth sitting next to poverty. The hi-tech and very lowest tech.  The rickshaws and Mercedes. Errr, not quite…