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How does Wales fit into One Nation?

By Owen Smith

Modern Britain is unique: a nation of nations. Wales, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland are proud and distinct parts of our United Kingdom, each with their own traditions and culture, heritage and history, accents, dialects and even…

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Tories vote for motion calling themselves “incompetent”

By Mark Ferguson

A brilliant spot from politics.co.uk, who report: Welsh Conservatives voted to call their own party incompetent yesterday, after a "whipping mistake". Assembly members mistakenly voted with Labour and Plaid colleagues to back a motion…

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Goldie Lookin Chain rapper elected as Labour councillor

By LabourList

Many people have come from the Entertainment industry to become Labour campaigners and representatives - Glenda Jackson, Eddie Izzard, Richard Wilson - and Rhys Hutchings? Hutchings - from the comedy Welsh rap act Goldie Lookin Chain…

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Complacency does not create jobs, only unemployment

By Huw Irranca-Davies

It is a disgrace that Clegg and Cameron can describe this week’s employment figures as an improvement, when in Ogmore and Bridgend almost 500 more people are out of work in the last year. This Tory government, propped up by…

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Quote of the day: The Gillan Tunnel

By LabourList

Ed Miliband mocks the Welsh Secretary at Welsh Labour conference: "And as the Conservative-led government hits the people of Wales, what is the Welsh Secretary doing? Lobbying hard. At the Cabinet table banging her fist. Fighting for the…

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Unemployment – a Welsh solution

By Mark Ferguson

This week's UK wide unemployment figures were as damning as they were distressing, particularly when it comes to the plight and prospects of the next generation. Youth unemployment across the UK is now frighteningly close to the one million…

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Why didn’t Merthyr Tydfil or East Ayrshire erupt?

By Stewart Owadally

By Stewart Owadally / @sowadally Most of the explanation attempts at this dust-settling stage for the recent riots have been centred on deprivation and low opportunity from the left, and inherent lawlessness and 'Broken Britain' culture…

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