Summer 2011
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Editorial
Wales puts her hand to the wheel
Essay
Growing up in Ardudwy
Philip Pullman looks back with nostalgia on one corner of Wales in the 1950s and 1960s
News
Life stories that inspire Wales
Outlook: Priorities for the fourth term
Imaginative policies exist to close productivity gap
Brian Morgan
Prioritise electrification to Swansea and the Valleys
Stuart Cole
An education mountain to climb
David Reynolds
NHS must do more for less
Marcus Longley
Wales’ ‘One Planet’ aspiration
Anne Meikle
Politics
Where stand the parties now
John Osmond says all the parties have their work cut out to be ready for the next election in 2016
Referendum Special
Welcome to the legalities of law making powers
Alan Trench says the referendum marks the beginning of the National Assembly’s entanglement with judicial process
Delivering the Yes vote
Daran Hill describes how the parties collaborated in the referendum campaign
Challenging a culture of mediocrity
Lee Waters says Wales can no longer afford to be the land of the pulled punch
Why we should control the courts and the police
Eurfyl ap Gwilym finds devolution of criminal justice to the Wales cannot be opposed on financial grounds
Economy – with PricewaterhouseCoopers
Time to be bold
Gerald Holtham urges there could not be a better moment to borrow to invest in Wales’ Infrastructure
Falling in and out of love with inward investment
Ken Poole advises the Welsh Government to refocus on overseas opportunities
Bring back the Wales Tourist Board
Terry Stevens presses the Welsh Government to address a malaise in our tourism industry
Charting our progress in and out of recession
Michael Artis and Marianne Sensier argue the Welsh Government should find policy responses to timing variations across the economic cycle
International
Cultural corridor to the east
Ned Thomas revises his view of Turkey following cross border events organised by Aberystwyth University’s Mercator Institute
Patagonia Special
Tenacious settlers
Gerry Holtham discovers a compelling example of what ordinary Welsh people can do
Y Wladfa today
Cynog Dafis welcomes the growing connections between Wales and Patagonia
A forest the size of Wales
Sarah Jenkinson describes how Wales is taking a lead in rainforest protection and climate change
Education
Wales’ vocational attainment gap
Gareth Rees questions a moral panic over the recent PISA scores of our school performance
Y Coleg Cymraeg provides critical mass for intellectual engagement
Merfyn Jones argues we need to be able to write, reason and calculate in Welsh as well as simply speaking it
Social Policy
Regeneration and the economy
Mark Lang and David Leech argue that the successor programme to Communities First will need to engage more actvely with local businesses
City region strategy needed to integrate policy
Roger Tanner calls for a unified regeneration programme to tackle poverty
Environment
Two wheels good
Jane Lorimer reports that 60,000 Cardiff households are being contacted in an effort to change their travel habits
Science
Going back in time 13.5 billion years
Rhys David meets the Welshman behind the 17-mile nuclei Collider at Cern
High performance computing
David Craddock on a £40 million project which will provide Wales with a world-class super computing network
Culture
Fishlock’s File
Memories are made of this
Trevor Fishlock says we should have more stories about Welsh lives
Joining a thousand literary flowers together
Peter Finch describes the emergence of Literature Wales, a new agency for the word
Lighting up the nations
Mari Beynon Owen reports from the Venice Biennale
Small is still beautiful
Virginia Isaac reflects on the legacy of Fritz Schumacher
Reviews
Everything was better after a few drinks
Peter Stead
An intertwining of Welsh and British politics
J. Graham Jones
Nine Centuries of Welsh contact with Islam
Harri Pritchard Jones
Our history should catch up with the present
Peter Stead