Also: the Welsh Government’s ‘Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales’ has reported and you’ll never guess, but they think Cardiff Bay needs even more powers.
Day to day, it is much more congenial to be a “steady hand on the tiller”, even if this is a terrible quality in the captain of a ship going in the wrong direction.
Devolution was supposed to mean that different parts of the UK could experiment, with best practice eventually being taken up elsewhere to the benefit of all. Instead, devocrats have often done everything they can to thwart cross-border comparisons altogether.
Also: new polls suggest Labour has reached parity with the SNP in Scotland, and the projections indicate that the next election could be absolutely brutal for the Nationalists.
Also: Welsh Government winds down flagship life sciences investment fund after writing off more than half it’s value.
Also: leader of backbench unionist caucus quits government over Northern Irish sex education changes; Orkney floats idea of joining Norway.
Meanwhile, both Humza Yousaf’s personal ratings and support for independence on the wane as the Sturgeon magic wears off.
In launching a campaign for a metro mayor, a local businessman (and Labour activist) has said aloud what many Welsh Conservatives seem to think privately.
A quarter-century of socialist rule has given the UK Opposition nothing to write home about, and Welsh voters much to regret.
We cannot stand by whilst Welsh Labour fail our children, and pack our schools with their union cronies.
Cutting the 45p rate puts fresh pressure on the SNP’s revenue-hostile policies; spending cuts will squeeze their budgets again.
We cannot fall into the Corbynista trap of being more obsessed with running the party than running the country.
His call for a stronger British state reflects the thinking of many Conservatives… but not, yet, the Government’s actual policy.
With traditional cluelessness, Westminster devolved planning policy without a carve-out for vital national infrastructure projects.
One of the cardinal rules in designing an electoral system is it needs to fit the place and political culture. The political culture in Wales, as throughout the wider UK, is grounded in the link between members and constituents.