Tag: Devolution

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Today, I'm revisiting "vices" and independence, combining previous posts on pornography and prostitution. There's nothing explicit in this, so it's ...

After drugs, alcohol and tobacco/vaping, it's time to return to another vice. "Gambling" - in the context of this post ...

Following neatly on from last week's look at alcohol policy and independence, it's time to look at one old vice ...

Does Wales have a drinking problem? If so, what can be done about it? Is the problem fixing itself? Having ...

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

The final part of this mini-series on democracy and independence focuses on raising standards of political conduct and making politics ...

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

Some may think Wales is a classless, egalitarian paradise - or at least should be. Everyone is a salt-of-the-earth stiff ...

Housing Associations – which fall under the legal banner (in Wales) of Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) – provide just over ...

Today I look at "The Brain Drain" – the net loss of skilled people to out-migration; particularly the under-40s – ...

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In 2019 – not long after the first AUOB Cymru march in Cardiff – I wrote "Five Steps to Independence". ...

The previous piece looked at roads and independence. This time, it's buses (including community transport). The current situation (though arguably ...

The next two pieces in this series on transport will be a bit meatier, looking at where Wales might be ...

The latest (possibly final) in-depth examination of policy options and independence – chosen by Twitter followers towards the end of ...

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

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

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 ...

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