Spring 2017 #58
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Contents
The End of the Liberal Elite
Christopher Gage
The decline of the West’s liberal elites and the rise of a new brand of conservatism.
Making Wales Better: The Next Thirty
To celebrate 30 years of the IWA making Wales better, we introduce thirty of the nation’s rising stars
Interview: Kully Thiarai
Jasper Rees
New Artistic Director of National Theatre Wales talks about being a far from obvious choice
Left behind: Brexit and the valleys, a story of decline
Photo Essay: Seb Cooke
Interview: Jo Kiernan
Jess Blair
Former Special Adviser talks of her ten years by the side of two First Ministers
A Studio Visit: John Abell
Jonathan Glasbrook Griffiths
‘If it’s good enough for William Blake, it’s good enough for me,’ says one of Wales most exciting creative minds
Interview: Shahien Taj
Dylan Moore
Inside Story: Wales Act
Stephen Crabb
From lofty ambition to law, the former Welsh Secretary reflects on the Wales Act’s journey
Cardiff: Creative City
Ana Gonçalves
Parity of Esteem?
Marcus Longley & Peter Martin
The Buzzard & The Chicken
Gary Beauchamp & Tom Crick, Alan Lewis
A new series in which the views of policymakers are presented alongside those of practitioners
Interview: Joanna Penberthy
Dylan Moore
A Welsh Brexit
Jo Hunt
What next for Wales after the UK leaves the European Union?
‘Never waste a good crisis’:
Plugging the infrastructure funding gap in a post-Brexit Wales
Swansea: time to deliver
Dai Lloyd
Interview: Kirsty Williams
Owen Hathway
Hay Festival at 30
Peter Florence
Poetry: Hedd Wyn at 100
Menna Elfyn
Reviews:
50 Buildings That Built Wales
by Mark Baker, Greg Stevenson and David Wilson
Jonathan Adams
What I Know I Cannot I Say/All That Lies Beneath
by Dai Smith
Peter Stead
Testing Times: Success, Failure and Fiasco in Education Policy in Wales Since Devolution
by Philip Dixon
Rajvi Glasbrook Griffiths
Our Holy Ground
by Jon I. Morgans and Peter C. Noble
Andrew Sully
Cove
by Cynan Jones
Katie Munnik
Farewell Innocence & Ride the White Stallion
by William Glynne-Jones
Aled Eirug
Last Word
Rhian Elizabeth
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