(Title Image: Cleveland Clinic Health Essentials) The Issue Bowel cancer is one of the most common forms of the disease in both men and women and one of the biggest killers. Since 2008, all people…
Senedd backs idea for electric vehicle charging law
(Title Image: South Wales Argus) Time for another discussion on what might be a future backbench Member's Bill. It was the turn of Rhun ap Iorwerth AM (Plaid, Ynys Môn), who is proposing a law…
Senedd Bites #28: Neil Hamilton Ousted
(Title Image: via Youtube) Botched UKIP leadership challenge? Twitter was "abuzz" with rumour and counter-rumour earlier this afternoon that three UKIP AMs – Caroline Jones (South Wales West), David Rowlands (South Wales East) and Michelle…
Best of the Blogs #28: Hollow Crown
(Title Image: ITV Wales) An interesting investigation by Rebecca TV on shenanigans at Ofcom and a certain lobbyist firm. National Left: Welsh Labour "humiliated" by Corbyn opposing UK Government power grab. More goings on in…
Enterprise Zones: Most Illogical?
(Title Image: National Assembly of Wales) Economy & Infrastructure Committee Enterprise Zones: Boldly going? (pdf) Published: 16th May 2018 Chair's Statement, Russell George AM (Con, Montgomery): "Enterprise Zones have been a series of place-based experiments…
The Talking Point #28: Should he stay or…
(Title Image: BBC Wales) There's no doubt that Carwyn Jones had given us plenty of warning as to when he intends to stand down as First Minister and - while it was predictable, though not…
Planning inspectors and LDPs attacked
(Title Image: plasdwr.co.uk) The Welsh Government are currently consulting on a new draft planning strategy (pdf) – it's surprisingly readable. The general idea is to uplift the quality of the places we already live in…
Finance Secretary outlines Vacant Land Tax plans
(Title Image: Wales Online) A few months ago, Finance Secretary, Mark Drakeford (Lab, Cardiff West), announced that he'd chosen a vacant land tax from a shortlist of options for new taxes in Wales (following the…
Senedd backs Brexit Bill
(Title Image: Cardiff University) The LCM When the UK Government & Parliament wishes to make a law in a policy area that's devolved, they need to ask the Senedd's permission through the use of a…
FMQs: Powers, Trains & Special Measures
The real rough-and-tumble today will surround the (final) vote on the UK's Brexit Bill; I'll have something on that later, hopefully - hence why this is being posted earlier than usual. As a result, this…
Six things we learned about news journalism in…
(Title Image: BBC Wales) Culture Committee News Journalism (pdf) Published: 10th May 2018 Chair's Statement, Bethan Sayed AM (Plaid, South Wales West): "The decline of commercial news journalism in Wales should therefore concern us all.…