Financial phoney war spills into 2011
From the viewpoint of public finance 2010 was the year of the ‘phoney war’. After an extended period of debate and planning fiscal consolidation in the UK will finally start in earnest in 2011. The...
View ArticleUnemployment, inflation and Wales
The announcement of today’s modest drop in unemployment is a very small ray of sunshine in what otherwise is a pretty bleak economic scene. In Wales unemployment has dropped by 9,000 (0.7 per cent) on...
View ArticleRoad to the Scottish referendum
We could be only 15 months away from the dissolution of one of the most successful political unions in history: the United Kingdom, a country whose empire once dominated the planet. Yet Scotland has no...
View ArticleWales needs an industrial strategy built on localism
Earlier this year the Wales TUC commissioned an independent report by the New Economics Foundation which challenged how we go about winning prosperity for Wales in the wake of economic crisis. Towards...
View ArticleBanging on about robots
Looking back on the issues I’ve become really engaged with since becoming an Assembly Member, there are a couple of surprises. Some issues I knew before I was elected that I wanted to take an active...
View ArticleFinancing a Basic Income in Wales
While Wales languishes at the bottom of most UK tables of economic success, a position being confirmed by austerity and likely to be exacerbated by Brexit, it may appear impossible that Wales could...
View ArticleIndependence Debate
Earlier this year Dafydd Trystan suggested that there was greater support for independence than had been the case hitherto. In an interesting response, Mike Hedges suggested that there were structural...
View ArticleIt’s not just bad weather that’s slowing our economy – it’s bad Brexit
The bad weather in the first quarter of 2018 has certainly had a dampening effect on the UK economy, but boiling it all down to the weather ignores the red, white and blue elephant in the room: it’s...
View ArticleBanging on about robots
Looking back on the issues I’ve become really engaged with since becoming an Assembly Member, there are a couple of surprises. Some issues I knew before I was elected that I wanted to take an active...
View ArticleFinancing a Basic Income in Wales
While Wales languishes at the bottom of most UK tables of economic success, a position being confirmed by austerity and likely to be exacerbated by Brexit, it may appear impossible that Wales could...
View ArticleIndependence Debate
Earlier this year Dafydd Trystan suggested that there was greater support for independence than had been the case hitherto. In an interesting response, Mike Hedges suggested that there were structural...
View ArticleIt’s not just bad weather that’s slowing our economy – it’s bad Brexit
The bad weather in the first quarter of 2018 has certainly had a dampening effect on the UK economy, but boiling it all down to the weather ignores the red, white and blue elephant in the room: it’s...
View ArticleIs Wales too small or too poor to be independent?
John Ball has raised two questions about Wales on whether it is too small and too poor to become Independent, most recently on click on wales on 25th January “Is Wales too poor to become independent”?...
View ArticleIs Wales too small or too poor to be independent? A reply.
When I read Mike Hedge’s most recent reply to my previous articles, I checked the date – was it meant for April first? Quite what point he was making about Cardiff and Swansea escapes me, a new set...
View ArticleBanging on about robots
Looking back on the issues I’ve become really engaged with since becoming an Assembly Member, there are a couple of surprises. Some issues I knew before I was elected that I wanted to take an active...
View ArticleFinancing a Basic Income in Wales
While Wales languishes at the bottom of most UK tables of economic success, a position being confirmed by austerity and likely to be exacerbated by Brexit, it may appear impossible that Wales could...
View ArticleIndependence Debate
Earlier this year Dafydd Trystan suggested that there was greater support for independence than had been the case hitherto. In an interesting response, Mike Hedges suggested that there were structural...
View ArticleIt’s not just bad weather that’s slowing our economy – it’s bad Brexit
The bad weather in the first quarter of 2018 has certainly had a dampening effect on the UK economy, but boiling it all down to the weather ignores the red, white and blue elephant in the room: it’s...
View ArticleIs Wales too small or too poor to be independent?
John Ball has raised two questions about Wales on whether it is too small and too poor to become Independent, most recently on click on wales on 25th January “Is Wales too poor to become independent”?...
View ArticleIs Wales too small or too poor to be independent? A reply.
When I read Mike Hedge’s most recent reply to my previous articles, I checked the date – was it meant for April first? Quite what point he was making about Cardiff and Swansea escapes me, a new set...
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