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Upfront
Migration, identity and development
Arguing that we need to move from a protectionist to a dynamic
approach to Welsh identity, Cynog Dafis says
the biggest threat comes from people moving out of Wales, rather
than those coming in. |
News
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Culture and Communications
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Cover Story: When Icons Meet
Bryn Terfel explains his passion for the Millennium
Centre, opening in Cardiff this November.
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Linking past and future
Paul Flynn traces the revival of the Welsh
language in Gwent to the 1988 Newport Eisteddfod.
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Cymuned versus Cymdeithas
Carwyn Fowler argues that it is time for factions
within the language movement to collaborate.
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Books’r Us
Peter Finch charts how being Welsh in English
has progressed from being a parochial joke to a mainstream preoccupation.
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Roland Mathias
Sam Adams profiles a man whose literary achievement
is being marked by a writing prize in his name.
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Word Power
Gillian Clarke explains why writers and poets
need more than just a sense of place.
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Spaces Between
Wiard Sterk says that public art can promote
regeneration in neglected urban environments. |
The Richard Commission
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Richard’s Radical Recipe
Richard Rawlings finds the Richard Commission
went for the radical option on all the key choices it faced.
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Size Matters
John Osmond addresses the Commission’s
most politically sensitive recommendation.
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Electoral Indigestion
Denis Balsom examines Richard’s recommendation
that STV be used for assembly elections.
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Cross-border Obfuscation
Lord Elis-Thomas assesses the difficulties
of disentangling Welsh from English primary legislation.
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Rhodri’s Retreat
Alan Trench objects to Rhodri Morgan’s
latest devolution compromise.
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By thy deeds
Jon Owen Jones argues that performance indicators
should be made to count in local elections.
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Must Plaid lose?
Richard Wyn Jones and Roger Scully
ask whether Plaid Cymru will be an eternal party of opposition
in the Assembly.
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Slippery slope
Duncan Tanner and Andrew Edwards
revisit the dire predictions of the No campaigners in 1979.
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Sennedd 04
Dafydd Glyn Jones proposes a second chamber
for the National Assembly. |
Economy
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Brain Drain
David Blackaby and Stephen Drinkwater
unpick the statistics of migration to and from Wales.
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Hinterland hopes
Peter Midmore reflects on the factors that should
underpin policy making in rural Wales.
Communications Special
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I. E-Commerce potential
Beverley Evans and Tony Davies
explore the business benefits that can accrue from broadband.
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II. Broadband Wales
Andrew Davies explains how internet access is
being expanded across Wales.
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III. Learn Direct
Jeff Greenidge describes how e-learning is improving
the Welsh skills base.
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Right Tracks
French levels of funding are needed to give Wales a modern railway
argues Stuart Cole. |
Social Policy
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Urge to merge
Geraint Talfan Davies unravels why, despite
the evidence, Welsh higher education is drawing back from change.
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Self help
Huw Lewis reports on his review of the Communities
First initiative. |
Environment
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Linking space with people and politics
Kevin Bishop puts the Wales spatial plan under
the microscope.
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A two-legged stool
Gordon James questions the Assembly
Government’s commitment to sustainable development. |
Europe
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Roadmap
Peter Sain Ley Berry offers a guide to the new
European Constitution.
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Small Battalions
Christopher
Harvie revisits the theory of European Regionalism
he promulgated in the early 1990s. |
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Summer Reading
Endpiece by Peter Stead |
