THIS YEAR I WAS RATHER SURPRISED by how little there seemed to be in the way of celebration - and support - of St. David’s Day in the media.
Usually, in the evening, there is a Noson Lawen, several concerts perhaps, and a show or two with, say, Mike Doyle or Max Boyce on at least two channels - but not this year. The television and papers seemed dominated by sport with little time or space given over to our national day. Cardiff, though, was ablaze with flags and banners, and the National ...
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It’s increasingly clear: the existing devolutionary settlement hampers Assembly’s competence to deliver for Wales. 

The brief note of triumph from minister Jane Hutt the day that the first Legislative Competence Order was finally passed by the Commons hid far more than it revealed.
Our education minister wrote that it is “wonderful’ that the first LCO put forward by the Assembly, to change special educational provision for children in Wales, has at last been approve...
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