Devil’s Advocate: Independence would hand Wales to “the crachach”
Some may think Wales is a classless, egalitarian paradise - or at least should be. Everyone is a salt-of-the-earth stiff ...
Some may think Wales is a classless, egalitarian paradise - or at least should be. Everyone is a salt-of-the-earth stiff ...
In 2019 – not long after the first AUOB Cymru march in Cardiff – I wrote "Five Steps to Independence". ...
Yes, you read that correctly. The whole point of this site is to leave no stone unturned when it comes ...
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 ...
There's been a bit of chatter recently – on the Welsh political Twittersphere at least – about referendums and if/when ...
The final two pieces in this series look at how criminals can be managed in Wales after independence. While the ...
This final tranche of posts in the "A Welsh Justice System" series looks at the consequences of crime and the ...
State of Wales Productions proudly presents The Bastardised Wizard of Oz, starring: Dorothy - curious about the journey; doesn't have ...
All professions have their annoying buzzwords and shibboleths they use to talk to each other and the Welsh political bubble ...
As we all know by now, the solution to every problem in Wales is to form a committee. The more ...
The final part of this mini-series looks at running the police as well as how to hold the police to ...
It's safe to say it's been a difficult few months for the Welsh independence movement. As said in a previous ...
(Title Image: Nordic Council) Independence raises a lot of questions about the future, but if the UK did dissolve, that ...
(Title Image: The Guardian) Independence is my preferred constitutional future for Wales – that's obvious - but that support is ...
Political unions come and go. The shortest-lived ones (i.e. the United Arab Republic) have lasted little more than a decade ...
As chosen by Twitter followers back in July, this short series – one article a week for the next six ...
(Title Image: via Youtube) Before considering how a Welsh Bill of Rights (or equivalent) might develop, it's worth looking first ...
Mistakes happen and attitudes change. With that, any future Welsh Constitution may have to change in order to remain a ...
(Title Image: Pixabay, copyright free) The third (often considered to be the weakest) branch of government in most constitutions is ...
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