Spooked by aliens David Williams says the election campaign is getting surreal
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Spooked by aliens David Williams says the election campaign is getting surreal
In denial the voters simply don’t want to hear about spending cuts or taxes
Peter Finch worries that Bute Park, Cardiff’s green lung, is flaking away
Four manifestos in one week – it must be a General Election. The fallout from the Welsh Leaders Debate, Peter Stead’s take on how Dave Cameron lost the 2010 General Election and John Osmond thinks about the seats that could be up for grabs on the 6th May 2010.
Peter Stead judges that Brown was better, Cameron not up to the job, and Clegg kept the debate alive
Deutsche Bahn’s takeover of Arriva should prompt Transport Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones to put in a call to Berlin
Denis Balsom assesses the impact of the Liberal Democrat spike in the polls on the Welsh battleground seats
Rhys David on a new book that asks what exactly it is to be Welsh and how well it is surviving in a multicultural world
The answer will be clear in next year’s Assembly elections when the current leadership debates will surely have set a precedent