Tough lessons in Welsh poverty
Ynysybwl Valley, Glyncoch. Areopagus photoLuckily the Great Regenerator in the Sky looks after me and source material came through my post today. The spring edition of Agenda, the excellent journal of...
View ArticleReading is the best regeneration policy
Right you lot: be quiet at the back. Let me clarify. Before some dull object asks me whether the above heading means that Reading is better than Swindon I mean ‘reading’ with a small r. Bill Clinton...
View ArticleTo reform is not to wreck: Reforms we can all agree on
Although I come from a Welsh family as politically tribal as the Borgias – with a preference on balance for merely verbal lashings over outright murder – I am capable of lifting myself above party...
View ArticleLet my people come: Gordon Brown, New Labour and the non-mystery of immigration
Immigration’s sorted then. Phew, that was easy. “Just say ‘No’” was the effective Tory policy at the election (though following yesterday’s government equivocations on “capping”, “Just say ‘Maybe’” is...
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