Tag: Scotland

Now that the world's most expensive game of musical chairs is out of the way, it's worth picking up on ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The final post in this "Welsh Justice System" series focuses on the least comfortable element – prisons and prisoners - ...

A key element of independence is learning best practices from around the world (and learning from mistakes too), so it's ...

This is a rewrite of a piece originally written in 2015 and long overdue given the number of developments in ...

Although they play the role of "referee" during trials and hearings - especially in adversarial systems - at the heart ...

After looking at the issue of access to justice, the focus turns to those responsible for securing justice on behalf ...

The next chunk of posts on a Welsh justice system and independence look at the judiciary, court system, legal profession ...

As we all know by now, the solution to every problem in Wales is to form a committee. The more ...

With the look at the current strength and administration of the police (Part Va) and some of the issues facing ...

The final two articles in this mini-series cover probably the most constitutionally important elements. I start with a look at ...

Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the most persistent claims made by Labour is that the Welsh Government's business support ...

PFI, MIM, NDP, TFI - acronyms galore. But what do these big public finance systems mean in practice, and is ...

(Title Image: The Guardian) Independence is my preferred constitutional future for Wales – that's obvious - but that support is ...

As chosen by Twitter followers back in July, this short series – one article a week for the next six ...

(Title Image: © Copyright Brian Slater and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence BY-SA-2.0) The final four articles in ...

This final article marking devolution's 20 anniversary considers the future. While I have a terrible track record for making predictions ...

(Title Image: BhzSamTheRipper via Wikipedia under the GNU Free Documentation Licence) Towards the beginning of January, Plaid Cymru leader Adam ...

(Title Image: tripsavvy.com) With a detailed breakdown of how the Welsh economy works at the moment out of the way, ...

(Title Image: The Scotsman) For about 150 years, "ambitious" engineers and Unionists have dreamt of a fixed link between Ireland ...