Senedd Watch - November 2015

Welsh Language Commissioner, Meri Huws, backed calls by the Assembly's Communities & Local Government Committee to protect historical place names in the Historic Environment Bill, following several high-profile name changes to listed buildings from Welsh to English. Deputy Minister for Culture, Ken Skates (Lab, Clwyd...

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Returning Your Deposits

(Pic : buzzfeed.com) Yesterday, the Conservatives held a debate on something that blights all communities, and likely to be a perennial issue on the doorstep : littering, fly-tipping, graffiti and dog shi...

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Groundhog Day : Auditing the Welsh Media

(Pic : BBC Wales) Last week, the Institute of Welsh Affairs (IWA) published a thorough review of the state of the media in Wales....and it makes typically grim reading.The IWA's online organ, Click on Wales, released drafts of the report's sections throughout October, but the full and final report is now available at around...

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Seeing through the Senedd

You can see through it, but how much can you see on the other side? (Pic : tripadvisor.co.uk) The ongoing discussion and debate over of transparency and openness within both the Welsh Government and National Assembly shows no signs of abatin...

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Election 2016 : Six Months To Go

The most exciting thing to happen at the Senedd since.... (Pic : Wales Online) The thoughts of sitting and prospective AMs will start turning towards the 2016 National Assembly election with only six months remaining until polling day - as indicted by the countdown clock I've added to the top righ...

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Senedd debates draft Wales Bill

Following the stronger words said on the draft Wales Bill over the last fortnight it was rightly time for more measured discussion on the issues it raises. (Pic : BBC Wales) Yesterday, following the suspension of standing orders, the National Assembly held an extraordinary debate on the controversial draft Wales Bill....

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