| Things of Interest That Were Said |
A Political Diary |
| A Look-back and Guide by Topic , Public Life of Wales , October 2, 2025 |
3 October 2025: 2026 electoral system, Labour strategy, message banality, complacency, minister and civil service, client state, secrecy, organisations and individuals patronage, civil ociety needs to be stronger* * * * 30 June 2025: Voting Reform UK, Education, Labour Self-inflicted, Women in Power , Future Generations Act * * * * 01 June 2025: Lee Waters interviews about Government of Wales * * * * 31 May 2025: Lee Waters, scrutiny, civil society weak, media weak, civil service * * * * 31 March 2025: Lee Waters, Labour communications policies, Drakeford policies dropped, higher education cuts, government lacking focus and clarity, power without responsibility * * * * 28 March 2025: A guide to who said what * * * * 31 December 2024: Relentless banality, Future Generations Commissioner, hatred in politics, misunderstanding of government, Wales public services condition, education decline, banning John Steinbeck * * * * 27 December 2024: Future Generations Judicial Critique, Tourism extractive, legislation designed to over-ride local government, * * * * 27 October 2024: Education and Ministerial distance, Economic analysis, banality of language, bilingualism and budget waste, Another nail in the coffin of Welsh democracy, voters robbed of choosing candidates, First Minister “There will be a lot more transparency”, Social Partnership Act, NRW accounting error * * * * 01 August 2024: Education, pension divestment, bilingualism, attack on journalists, Lee Waters on resignation of First Minister, time to end “culture of secrecy and hostility” * * * * 05 July 2024: SNP, Back-bench critique, Senedd language, Ben Lake campaigning, general election result, “ditch the secrecy-centred approach” * * * * 01 March 2024: Conflict of Interest, Electoral, Agricultural & Education Policies, New Statesman “Mark Drakeford Doesn't Understand Wales”, Being Kind and Caring, Ben Lake, farming reform * * * * 29 February 2024: Economy, Pollution, Apprenticeships, Closed-list Elections, Unacceptable Government Information, banale, fatuous and vacuous language, Nick Servini interview * * * * 05 January 2024: Non-Regulation of Pollution, Criminalising Non-voters, Welsh Language Decline, Opposition to Voting Reform * * * * 05 July 2023: Pollution, Economy, Evasion on Energy Policy, Social Procurement, Criminalisation of Non-voters, Opposition Illegitimate, Party equals Nation * * * * 30 November 2022: A-liberalism, Labour in Wales, real sense of what the public wants, pollution, tourist tax, public language, Freedom of Information, public language decay, pollution and no responsibility, government and cognitive change * * * * 20 December 2021: Language, state and society, Future Generations Commissioner appointment, Act woolly and unenforceable, Culture politically directed, Conservatism, voting betrayal of Welsh values, Government creates society, political theory & aliberalism * * * * 18 December 2021: Tourism, Yes Cymru boil-over, political language on autopilot * * * * 13 December 2021: Wales Deficit, Labour supply, immigration, attitudes, heat pumps * * * * 23 April 2021: Plaid Cymru manifesto and critique * * * * 28 December 2020: One Planet policy, breaking the ministerial code, CV faking * * * * 20 December 2020: End of Welsh Development Agency, Wales deficit * * * * 30 October 2020: Lockdown and exam results, First Minister loyalty to the algorithm * * * * 28 February 2020: Power opaque and unaccountable, Labour campaigning against itself * * * * 05 February 2020: “Independence Day”, identity politics, Simon Brooks ontological certainty * * * * 31 January 2020: David Lammy on death threats, Adam Price fostering disunity, transformation not interesting, one-party-ism, liberalism and non-conformity * * * * 31 July 2019: Laura Macallister, Jess Blair on open government, Martin Johnes on victim focus * * * * 04 June 2019: Europe, hostility, Danny Dorling, Ben Lake in Aberystwyth * * * * 30 May 2019: Runt nation, patchy and incoherent, John Redwood, EU march, Eluned Morgan in Aberystwyth, money chucked over the wall * * * * 23 March 2019: Out of Europe, Wales GVA, Tourism projection, Pinewood Studios errors * * * * 25 February 2019: 1979 referendum, projection of Welsh culture * * * * 25 May 2013: Carwyn Jones, Natural Resources Wales formation |
Reviewed by: Adam Somerset |
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