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What happens at the end of the race?
Now that the starting gun has been fired at the National Assembly for Wales to hold a referendum on “powers” I wasn’t sure if this left me feeling positive or not. For some strange reason I can’t help but think that the arguments are still all about process, the process of law making that is….
Why do we make it so hard to communicate?
Image via Wikipedia I received a letter from the Government recently, asking for some details about my business. I wanted to check on the type of information they wanted and decided that it might be best to contact them to talk about it. But their unsigned letter only contained a phone number that took me…
The Mad Mad road
This is Bridge Street, Lampeter, showing some road improvements. No doubt this costly work was done to improve the roads pavements and did not a lot to provide better management of parking. For some reason it appears necessary to plan wooden bollards on the pavement and also in the middle of a bespoke parking space….
Education in Wales: time for some change
Last week the BBC reported in Wales: “First Minister Carwyn Jones has told BBC Wales he thinks some councils are incapable of improving education in their area. He said that with six local education authorities (LEAs) in special measures it is impossible to have faith in the delivery of education across Wales. Mr Jones argued…
Pickets, Horses and Donkeys. Idiots all!
It’s almost become the default answer after an act of terrorism: “this country/government/nation will never bow to terrorists” or words to that effect. Yet today the business of governing Wales came to a halt as a small bunch of strikers (terrorists) objected to a policy that the UK Government has labelled “fair” to both staff…
What’s happened to Penarth?
I went to Penarth yesterday, hadn’t been there for some time, but I remembered it as a smart little town but I was shocked when I saw how the centre of the town has changed. Standing in the middle of the shopping area I could count 3 supermarkets, 4 coffee shops and 5 charity shops….