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An excuse to do nothing
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When the thin blue line becomes a garrote
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Providing a useful sex education
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A mirrored darkness
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Brassed off
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Posts Tagged ‘candidate selection’
Ten things I’ve learnt about you
With the first term of the fourth Assembly now over, here are ten observations on how the character of this one differs from its predecessors
Closer to shattering the glass ceiling
What does the Assembly election and the formation of the new Welsh Government say about the role of women in our democracy?
A national question
Ever wondered what life would be like with a national list of AMs rather than five Assembly regions?
Keeping the balance right
Women in parliament are making a difference to the political culture and to policy outcomes, says Deputy Presiding Officer Rosemary Butler AM at a Hansard Society and Welsh Assembly event on women in devolution
2010 Constituency Profile: Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
A medium range Conservative target, Carmarthen West & South Pembs needs to be won by them if they stand a realistic chance of forming the government Candidates Simon Hart (Conservative) Nick Ainger (Labour) John Dixon (Plaid Cymru) John Gossage (Lib Dem) Ray Clarke (UKIP) Henry Langen (Independent) 2005 Result [table id=9 /] Current Majority 1,910 [...]
Experience and the length of adult life are not the same thing
With a General Election underway, one young candidate makes the case that everyone standing should be judged on their ideas, experience and record, and not on their date of birth
Leave the politics to us, love
Continuing our International Women’s Day coverage, why doesn’t politics practice what it preaches, and could there be a better time than now to address the gender imbalance on our local authorities?
A twist in the dragon’s tail
Welsh Labour is fighting back after a strong conference – and their targets include Plaid Cymru seats as well as those of the Conservatives
A tale of two selections…
LABOUR was having such a good couple of days. An effective conference and a strong opinion poll showing had been buoyed their spirits no end. But as Betsan reports, the selection for the successor to Don Touhig MP has gone somewhat awry over in Islwyn. She quotes from the following letter sent to Gordon Brown [...]
Don Touhig to stand down
DON Touhig, the Member of Parliament for Islwyn, has become the sixth Welsh Labour MP to signal he will not stand again for Westminster when the General Election comes later this year. Nobody in the political bubbles of Cardiff Bay or Westminster will not know of perhaps the most prominent and vocal of Welsh Labour’s [...]
Top tweets
TWITTER is the biggest of life’s many distractions created just to deflect me from my real purpose. Following Twitter today, a medium warm topic today has been the number of elected and non-elected politicians who use the platform to communicate. They have assessed the risks, had the technology explained to them, and then taken the [...]
Pointing the arrow of history can be personal
THE decision of Cathy Jamieson MSP to depart the Scottish Parliament has been interpreted in different ways. Ms Jamieson (one of the few Labour MSPs I have even heard of) contested the Labour leadership in 2008 and was, until yesterday, the opposition’s health spokesperson. She is also a former Justice Minister and Minister for Education [...]
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