Stuart Weir says next year’s AV referendum is an ugly and undemocratic manoeuvre
Parties take their partners for a Welsh quadrille
Rhys David reports on an IWA conference on the issues and dilemmas arising from Wales’s four main parties having a share in governing the country
The betrayal of the liberal tradition
David Marquand asks whether in the wake of the budget there is space for two conservative parties.
David and Frances
In a lectured delivered at the National Library of Wales on 26 June 2010, Head of the Welsh Political Archive J. Graham Jones uses A. J. Sylvester’s detailed diaries in the custody of the Library to examine the tortuous build-up to the marriage of Lloyd George and Frances Stevenson at Guildford Registry Office on 23 October 1943
Glory moment before a devil and the press get to work
Lembit Öpik, former MP for Montgomery, looks back at his day in the sun of British democracy
We’re all Disraeli’s children
David Melding suggests that the new coalition in London signals the end of old fashioned two party orthodoxy
Clock ticking for coalition impact on Wales
John Osmond unpacks the implications for the Welsh Government of the Agreements between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats
Making time to talk
John Osmond says coalition negotiations normally take much longer than the few days Westminster seems to expect
Following Wales – a normalisation of UK politics
Laura McAllister says this wasn’t an election to be a political pundit