Tag: Public services

• 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

  Politics

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• A Decade of Cuts, A Future Betrayed: Why Is Wales Starving Its Own Soul?

  

  Wales is the land of song. Of poetry and myth. Of harp strings, painted hills, and voices that carry centuries. So why, after a decade of managed decline, is the Welsh Government allowing our culture to be starved of the very funding that sustains it? This is not hyperbole. A Senedd report published in January…

  Antony David Davies

  Culture

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