Summer 2013
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Editorial
Why Welsh Government needs a critical friend
Essay
Lions that convert us into a six-foot nation
Peter Stead examines what happens when we take our national game on to the world stage
News
Outlook: Making Wales a sustainable food nation
- Tom Andrews
- Terry Marsden
- Kevin Morgan
- Steve Garrett
- Eryl Powell
Politics
Carwyn Jones’ government by instinct
Lee Waters says ‘standing up for Wales’ is not a delivery strategy
Whatever London does we do the opposite
Jon Owen Jones argues that the progress of the Assembly has been hampered by the absence of responsibility for taxation
When it takes courage to compromise
Kim Howells looks back at 1984-5, a pivotal year in recent Welsh history
Wales and Europe
Between a rock and a hard place
Richard Wyn Jones asks whether Euro pragmatic Wales can continue to exist alongside Euro sceptic England
Consequences of fragmentation within the British Isles
Paul Gillespie explores the dilemmas the Irish Republic faces with the prospect of the UK leaving the EU
How Europe can be a catalyst for economic recovery
Hywel Ceri Jones says the Welsh Government should drive forward a development plan that is fully integrated with EU convergence funding
Marching side by side
Kenneth O. Morgan examines how Wales’ relationship with Europe has been articulated by four political leaders across two centuries
Changing Union
Our legal personality
Thomas Glyn Watkin explains that law has now joined language as a focus for national assertion
Why police and criminal justice should be devolved
Alun Michael argues that we need these powers to enable a joined-up approach to tackling crime
Welsh Government scrutiny by-pass
Marie Navarro and David Lambert on a bureaucratic grey area where guidance notes are used in place of legislation
Economy
Key policies for Welsh economic success
Chris Sutton says Wales has put itself on a road toward creating a more attractive business environment
New economic thinking needed for north Wales
Steffan Lewis explains how we can make an alienated Welsh region a participant in devolution rather than a spectator
Universities drive knowledge economy
John Hughes examines the impact made by higher education across Wales
Education
Leighton’s legacy on school standards
David Reynolds says it should be seen as the need to teach teachers to teach well
Bigger is better for education results
David Ellis reveals the findings from research he carried out into the performance of primary schools across Wales
Health
The dead end road of health care as a business
Julian Tudor Hart says the Welsh NHS alternative can become a model for the rest of the UK
Home based palliative medicine
Simon Jones argues that end of life care should be taken out of the hospital and placed in the community
Environment
Cars come before people in urban Wales
Jane Lorimer asks where the sounds of children playing on our streets have gone
Swansea Bay can take lead in tidal energy
Mark Shorrock says lagoons can contribute to Welsh target of doubling renewable energy generation by 2025
Communications
Debating Wales in a Anglo-centric media landscape
Rosemary Butler says inadequate coverage of the National Assembly is creating a democratic deficit
Living Welsh in a globalised world
Rhys David makes a plea for more radical thinking on how best to fit the language for the modern era
Giving policy impact to research
Stevie Upton unveils the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s scheme for improving researcher engagement with the real world
Culture
Fishlock’s File: Senghenydd remembers
Trevor Fishlock reports on the opening of a mining memorial at the old Universal Colliery where disaster struck a century ago
Ambivalence in the art of Emlyn Williams
Colin Thomas discovers a new way to read one of Wales leading playwrights
Reviews
A great (south) Welsh novel at last
Jon Gower
Spiritual irony of an internal exile
Gavin Goodwin
As many questions as answers
Rhodri Holtham
Pike in a small pond
Derek Jones
Memoirs that shine in lacklustre stream
David Melding
Last Word:
Presidente of my own banana republic
Peter Stead