Posts Tagged ‘law’

This game is unfair

This game is unfair

The first law to be passed by a newly-empowered Assembly was opposed by Plaid Cymru. Simon Thomas explains why Wales has been railroaded into protecting big sponsors when it has already done badly out of the Olympics

By Simon Thomas AMBubble January 24, 2012 7:00 am 6 Comments

Treacle we don’t need

Treacle we don’t need

Welsh acts and mirror clauses bundled up into English legislation such as yesterday’s Localism Bill not only create a great deal extra, unnecessary work for the Assembly. They often escape proper scrutiny, too

By Ian JohnsonBubble January 18, 2011 7:00 am 1 Comment

A holiday no foreign newspaper would take here

A holiday no foreign newspaper would take here

Britain is becoming a ‘global pariah’ because of libel tourism. The Government says it is taking steps, but the Americans have got there first

By Duncan HiggittPostcard December 3, 2009 6:00 am 5 Comments