John Osmond admires the political memoirs of the Labour MP for Newport West
Do they give a fig about Wales?
John Osmond says the decision on electrification of the Great Western rail line to Swansea will signal whether we still register on Westminster’s radar
Welsh Government plays judge and jury
Kirsty Williams on how Ministers in the Assembly are the last group of politicians in Wales who still police themselves.
How to kick start the economy
Richard Livsey addresses the challenge of creating innovative, indigenous enterprises
Tartan Pimps in topsy-turvy times
Reflecting on a week spent in Edinburgh
Voting system to change so things can stay the same
Stuart Weir says next year’s AV referendum is an ugly and undemocratic manoeuvre
Parties take their partners for a Welsh quadrille
Rhys David reports on an IWA conference on the issues and dilemmas arising from Wales’s four main parties having a share in governing the country
The betrayal of the liberal tradition
David Marquand asks whether in the wake of the budget there is space for two conservative parties.
David and Frances
In a lectured delivered at the National Library of Wales on 26 June 2010, Head of the Welsh Political Archive J. Graham Jones uses A. J. Sylvester’s detailed diaries in the custody of the Library to examine the tortuous build-up to the marriage of Lloyd George and Frances Stevenson at Guildford Registry Office on 23 October 1943