Closely tied to previous pieces on the census and national statistics is civil registration - registration of births, marriages and...

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Anyone who has even a passing interest in Welsh politics will have come across the complaint about "a weak Welsh...

At the start of 2022, I posted "My Nationalist No-No Confessions", which proved to be one of the more popular...

Back in September, Plaid Cymru published a report they commissioned into the "Welsh deficit" (pdf). The deficit is the difference...

This is a re-write of a piece from a few years ago and something a bit more gentle to round...

The penultimate part of this series on local government and independence looks at how local democracy and community spirit could...

In case it wasn't obvious, the chances of any significant local government reform – considering the current and expected state...

The final four posts on local government and independence start with a look at money. Firstly, a word of warning....

The final piece in this mini-series examining decentralisation within Wales after independence looks at perhaps the thing you've been waiting...

I've looked at the Constitution in more detail previously, while some of the available options for introducing devolution or federalism...

A Federal Wales I looked at the arguments for and against decentralisation within Wales after independence. This part will look...

  The previous pieces in this series on local government have focused on what we would traditionally consider "local government":...

In the previous piece, I looked at governance at the community level. Today, it goes up a level to counties...

An examination of the issues, lack of reform and international comparisons are out of the way. So it's time to...

After a short break, next up in this series on local government is an examination of how Wales' peer countries...

Reforming local government has been a rather fruitless endeavour since devolution - to the extent that a few years ago...

Having looked at how local government in Wales has got to where it is, next it's worth examining how local...

Over the rest of summer and the autumn, I'll be doing a series on local government (a revisit to a...

There's been a bit of chatter recently – on the Welsh political Twittersphere at least – about referendums and if/when...

As you'll probably know by now, in the last few weeks the (at least) second Senedd committee set up to...

Honours are awards given by the state to acknowledge a personal achievement, bravery, exceptional performance or extended periods of service...

While I've looked at the issue of the monarchy (and how it may or may not fit an independent Welsh...

  Today I'll be taking a look at how Wales preserves the historic environment and how that may or may...

Here's another edition of this series of "looking at arguments against Welsh independence/Owen creates a strawman". Today, I'll look at...