Summer 2010
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Editorial
Falling out over money
Opinion
Wales 2100: year zero
Peter Stead says that, at the start of a new century for our country, we need a new politics
News
Inspire Wales Awards recognise active citizenship
Creatinging a positive business environment – response to Economic Renewal consultation
Resilient personality answer to ageing – new report
Outlook
Ethnic cleansing in civic Wales– Simon Brooks
Time for the Eisteddfod to bloom– Mark Rendell
Subtleties in Translation-Judith Kaufman
Powys tries combining cultures and the back office- Carl Cooper
Politics
Double coalition land
Roger Scully ponders the outcome of next May’s Assembly election when all the parties will be in government
Back to drawing board on social care
Joseph Carter urges the Welsh Government to examine the tools at its disposal for reforming social care funding
Legislating between equals
Iwan Davies says London cannot continue treating the Welsh Government as though it were another Whitehall department
Economy
Jury out on Ieuan’s new direction
Stevie Upton and Brian Morgan assess the Welsh Government’s response to private sector views on economic renewal
How to capitalise on the payroll
Chris Jones says we should emulate American-style Credit Unions to kick-start business finance in Wales
Food in the City
Whole food system
Elin Jones explains the thinking behind her emerging food strategy for Wales
The political economy of food
Kevin Morgan argues that food planning is one of the most important new social movements of the early 21st Century
Market garden venture reduces carbon footprint
Steve Garrett describes the creation of an organic food-growing cooperative outside Cardiff
How we could run our own rail service
Stuart Cole explores the opportunities that might arise from Germany’s acquisition of Arriva
Social Policy
Dual sector revolution comes to Wales
John Osmond reports on a transformation of the Welsh education system
Innovate or die
Marcus Longley explains why to survive the Welsh NHS must speed up change
Adding life to years
Odette Parry agrees with a new IWA study that we need to change the way we think about ageing
Environment
Economic growth’s collateral damage
Katie-jo Luxton bemoans the loss of our biodiversity hard drive
Tackling coastal flooding without relying on concrete
Richard Ellis describes how the National Trust is coping with sea incursion at Freshwater West in Pembrokeshire
Science
Alzheimer break-through in Cardiff
Julie Williams asks why mental health remains the poor relation in medical research funding
Wales needs a science museum
John Tucker says our scientific heritage should be collected and celebrated
North East Wales
Banality of the border
Simon Gwyn Roberts investigates the annonymity of north-east Wales’ psychogeography
Border wars
Jane Redfern Jones makes plea for the identity of Wrexham
Mold’s sense of place
Derek Jones casts an eye over a town that is slowly changing
Communications
Flying the Welsh flag
Rhys David interviews Alan Edmunds, editor of Wales’s sole national newspaper
Culture
Thinking about history
Colin Thomas says the makers of a BBC Wales landmark series should avoid paying safe
Art of the world
Tessa Jackson reflects on eight years at the helm of Artes Mundi
Sydney Harbour Comes to Glamorgan
Stephen Knight describes how a voluntary group of enthusiasts are putting the pier pavilion back into Penarth
Cynghanedd gives life to Welsh verse
Mererid Hopwood discovers enticing connections between the Meistersinger and our bardic traditions
Ancient Britons and London Aborigines
Prys Morgan ponders the long history and continuing role of the Cymmrodorion
Last word
The Canada option- Peter Stead