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Sgint – Sherman Cymru
February 10, 2012 15:02 -
AWEMA – a failure of governance
February 10, 2012 10:02 -
The show must go on
February 10, 2012 07:02 -
The Welsh re-Development Agency
February 9, 2012 07:02 -
An excuse to do nothing
February 8, 2012 07:02
Posts Tagged ‘House of Lords’
If the Lords didn’t exist we’d have to invent it
The government has promised to publish its proposals for reform of the House of Lords. Whichever options it goes for will be based on a dodgy premise
Carwyn Must Respect the Union
“If the Wales Labour Party can’t work with a Conservative UK government, the British state is in real trouble” argues our leading Conservative thinker
Comings and goings and stayings
THE decision to make Mike German AM a working Liberal Democrat peer is a sensible and worthy one. He has been a significant member of the National Assembly for over a decade and left an indelible mark on both his party and the institution. In 2000 he took his party into government in Wales and [...]
Something on referendums which you should read
The House of Lords Constitution Committee report on Referendums in the UK is a document which every one with an interest in this topic should read – and it poses some very pertinent questions for us here in Wales
Nasty, brutish and short
APOLOGIES for the radio silence on the Hearth, but I have been distracted by Another Place over the past two days. On Wednesday I spoke to the House of Lords Constitutions Committee on the issue of referenda as part of their ongoing enquiry into this rather unBritish political device. Why me? Well it wasn’t on [...]
Peers against the people
Amid the turmoil of discredited MPs and the tumult of more devolution, the House of Lords stands as an overlooked and overdue reform. Democratising it is not enough – abolition is the answer
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