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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 ‘Welsh Government’
AWEMA – a failure of governance
The situation at Awema is perhaps the biggest scandal around the use of public money since devolution began and damages more than just the two people at the heart of the storm
The Welsh re-Development Agency
A former WDA documents his ongoing dismay at subsuming a once-dynamic agency into government, and his struggles to re-establish its name
Caught on the horns of a nationalist dilemma
Labour has been falling over itself to state its opposition to Scottish independence. Now the Welsh party is moving to shed its nationalist clothing
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
Time to man the bulwark
Labour continues to be popular because of a promise to protect Wales from a repeat of the Thatcherite cuts of the 1980s. This will be the year to deliver on that promise
Wales behind the curve on city regions
A lack of co-ordination between cities and city regions in Wales is hindering growth. It requires a unified regeneration programme
Moving beyond ‘business as usual’
Today, the Assembly began the process of debating the Welsh Government’s budget, whose proposals are being opposed by three parties. Here is what one AM said
The wrong target?
Opposition parties have made little of the Welsh Government’s new Annual Reports that were promised this week. However, a set of figures now would have been helpful
Making the new National Assembly match its role
The Assembly now has full powers – and a big job on its hands in exercising them properly. Here, devolution expert Alan Trench, in a speech he will give today to ‘The National Assembly for Wales as a legislature – then, now, the future’ conference organised by the National Assembly and the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University, looks at the issues ahead
Tinkering or fixing?
Welsh economic development minister Edwina Hart is expected to announce a programme of work for her department this autumn, including some expected changes to the Economic Renewal Programme. Will it focus on the right areas?
Share the wealth
Argument over the effectiveness of a city region within Wales fails to address overall issues of wealth creation across the country. It is time the Welsh Government took a more interventionist approach
Who stole the funk?
Wales’s youth democracy initiative is fronted by a goofy,brightly-coloured dragon that is an embarrassment to young people. Time for a revolution
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