Tag: Democracy
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Emlyn Hooson (1925–2012)
The Barrister Who Carried Welsh Liberalism Through Its Leanest Years In the long aftermath of Lloyd George, Welsh Liberalism did not collapse in a single dramatic moment. Rather, it diminished gradually, election by election, chapel by chapel, until it seemed less a living political force than a surviving memory. Emlyn Hooson matters because he refused…
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The Election That Broke an Inheritance
Why Montgomeryshire in 2010 Was So Corrosive for Liberal Wales Since publishing my earlier essay on the decline of Liberalism in Wales, I have been asked how one election result in one rural constituency could prove so damaging for an entire political tradition. (source 1) The answer is that Montgomeryshire in 2010 was never merely…
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Why Reform UK Will Never Understand Wales
Wales is not a branch office of Westminster politics. It is a nation with its own civic memory, its own institutional landscape, and its own lived experience of what happens when power is exercised at a distance. Reform UK’s problem is not simply that it is provocative, plenty of parties have been provocative, it is…
Antony David Davies FRSA FRAS AFRHistS FIoL MCMI 