Beginning of the End

Since August I've been asking myself, "Why am I still doing this?"...

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Law to support Additional Learning Needs introduced

(Pic : Northampton College) Having stood down the "picket line", it's worth giving those of you who might've laughed it off a friendly reminder of how much work's done here - just under two hours for this post; no pay, very little if any coverage of this topic anywhere other than the BBC. It's also what's going to be lost...

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FMQs: On Strike

The final First Ministers Questions of 2016 takes place this afternoon, but you won't be getting anything from m...

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National Ass. sucked into own rectum

We really, really could be calling our AMs "Ass-sucks" in the future - not joking. Read on. As suggested yesterday, it's becoming harder to tell where reality ends and satire start...

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Committees Bite Size #1: December 2016

Like First Minister's Questions, this is an experiment in improving Oggy Bloggy Ogwr's depth of coverage. As some of you might've seen from my fifth anniversary post last March, I only cover about a third of the Assembly's committee work. This move will enable me to push closer to 80-100...

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Senedd busts a gut

(Pic : oeko-travel.org) We're all living longer, but that doesn't necessarily mean we're any healthier. We also all know that obesity and lack of regular exercise are two of the most significant public health crises facing Wales. There's no single root cause and no single solution. The one thing that can be said is that...

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PISA: Denial to Anger to Depression

(Pic : E) Climb into your bath, track your arteries with a razor blade and bring on The Smiths.It's PISA time and there's nothing the Welsh enjoy more than a good moan, revelling in the doom as we all – once again - rubber neck the slow motion car crash that is the Welsh education syst........like Glyn over at National...

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FMQs: PISA, Article 50 & Bank Closures

Obviously the big story today is the OECD's PISA 2015 results – I'm pushing to get something done for tomorrow but I'm currently unwell 😰. In the meantime, there's the penultimate FMQs of 2016 with PISA featuring heavily as you might expec...

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Arfon Jones & Legalising Drugs

(Pic : Daily Post) Gwynedd county councillor, Cllr. Sion Jones (Lab, Bethel), has called for the resignation of PCC Arfon Jones (Plaid, North Wales Police) - who recently called for drugs to be "legalised", and offered his support to the idea of clean "fix rooms" for drug addicts who use injectable drugs after a man was...

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Reshaping the Senedd

(Pic : viewpictures.co.uk) There's been a fair bit of discussion for several years on how many Assembly Members we need. The general consensus within the "Bay Bubble" is that 60 AMs is too few to meet the growing demands of the legislature – which will have tax-varying powers from 2018 and, at some indeterminate post-Brexit...

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Law replacing landfill tax introduced

(Pic : South Wales Argus) Earlier this week, Finance & Local Government Secretary, Mark Drakeford (Lab, Cardiff West), introduced the second Bill to establishes a new Welsh tax. It followed hot on the heels from the law to replace stamp duty – which was introduced in Septembe...

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