Tag: Conservatives

Image Source: BBC iPlayer This site is best viewed in landscape or desktop mode on smartphones. × Support State of ...

Image Source: Elliot Brown via Flickr under Creative Commons Licence BY-SA-2.0 This site is best viewed in landscape or desktop ...

Image Source: Welsh Conservatives This site is best viewed in landscape mode or desktop mode on smartphones. × Support State ...

Image Source: Welsh Conservatives This site is best viewed in landscape mode or desktop mode on smartphones. × Support State ...

Image Source: Finnish Defence Forces/Puolustusvoimat via YLE This site is best viewed in landscape mode on smartphones. × Support IndyWales? ...

Image Source: Welsh Government, Crown Copyright This site is best viewed in landscape mode on smartphones. × Support IndyWales? Support ...

Image Source: via Reddit Support IndyWales? Support State of Wales! Donations keep this site going. If you like what I'm ...

If you were unkind or cynical, you could describe politics as a marriage of convenience between the science of government ...

We'll all have our views on the necessity (or not) of the "War on Drugs" and whether prohibition works (and ...

As you've probably noticed, there won't be one big series of posts on independence this year. Instead, there'll be shorter ...

After looking at democracy, attention turns to the star teams in the sport of representative democracy: the parties. Party Politics ...

The Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales - the latest installment in the Welsh Constitutional Universe franchise - ...

Last week, the Senedd (Members & Elections) Bill was tabled. It comes after the best part of 20 years of ...

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

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

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 ...

Following last week's local elections, here's a more detailed look at what happened nationally and what each of the parties/groups ...

A round up of some of the things you might want to keep an eye on when the local election ...

The final local election preview takes in the post-1996 authorities that were part of the former South, West and Mid ...

The penultimate local election preview looks at the five local authorities that make up most of the former county of ...

Next, a look at the four very large councils covering central Wales and the west. Carmarthenshire Who runs Carmarthenshire has ...

In this first of four county-by-county previews over the coming week, here's a summary of where things stand in the ...

While I'll be doing the Bridgend-related local election stuff over at Oggy Bloggy Ogwr - starting shortly after this - ...