Articles By: WalesHome
X hits the spot?
It’s Britain’s biggest talent show and ITV’s most lucrative franchise. But is the X Factor marvellous or manufactured?
We’re half way there
SOMETIMES you stumble across a mini-milestone without even realising it. Today Eleanor Burnham AM becomes the 30th Assembly Member to write for us on WalesHome. That puts us half way there out of the 60 AMs. Will we ever get all 60? Who knows. We probably never really expected to get this far. But here’s [...]
What business wants from the Comprehensive Spending Review
By simply focussing on cuts we miss the route out of this crisis. It is business growth thats needs to be at the heart of today’s announcements.
How definitive must Labour be about the deficit?
The battle is over, and Ed Miliband has emerged the unlikely victor. Here, WalesHome’s two brothers argue over how he should face his first big challenge
Where did it all go wrong?
The pieces on WalesHome have been way too upbeat lately. It’s time to inject a bit of unreality
Should Cardiff have an elected mayor?
The debate around an elected Mayor for Cardiff is perhaps the only thing that has heated up this summer. Here two city politicians on both sides of the debate voice their views
Is Plaid in crisis?
Plaid Cymru enters the Assembly election near-term with searching questions about its future posed from within and beyond part ranks. But is there really a crisis? And, if so, can Plaid recover? Two WalesHome editors give their verdicts
The Afghan War Diary release – was it the right thing to do?
Wikileaks has provided journalism with its biggest talking point of the year, yet is has sharply divided the profession. Here, The Independent’s Rob Williams and WalesHome editor Duncan Higgitt argue for and against
The Week on WalesHome.org: our ignored success
WHAT an unlovely summer of Welsh sport we have on our hands. Excluded from the World Cup and beaten by the Springboks and All Blacks. Even the England and Wales cricket team went down to perennial whipping boys Bangladesh on Friday. You’d think, therefore, that the surprise emergence of a world-beating Welshman in the most [...]
The Week on WalesHome.org: Does it matter whether Thomas Jefferson was Welsh?
AMERICANS celebrate the 4th of July with firecrackers. We mark it by appropriating the Founding Fathers. The list of signatories to the Declaration of Independence supposedly of Welsh descent has been repeated so often that nobody disputes it any more. Yet in a number of cases, the actual Welsh influences are negligible. Thomas Jefferson is [...]
‘The dragon’s head is on the Chancellor’s chopping block’
It was billed as the budget that would change our way of life. So did George Osborne deliver a decisive and historic break from the past, or only a conventional does of austerity?
The Week on WalesHome.org: we’re going to need an extension
WALESHOME is expanding, with three new associate editors coming on to the team to help us develop the site. Katie Chappelle has written for the sites on a number of occasions and is also one of our new Sixth Columnists. A former broadcast journalist who worked for various radio stations in Wales and London before [...]







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