Winter 2011
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Editorial
Connectivity priority for capital city region
Essay
A 21st Century theatrical vision for Wales
John Osmond explores how National Theatre Wales has dealt with with the metropolitan and the provincial in its first year
Obituary
From Leipzig to Abercynon
Mike Joseph offers a personal memoir of an influential industrialist
Henry Kroch’s contribution to Wales
Keith James and Rhys David look back at the life of the IWA’s founding chairman
Outlook
Cymdeithas yr iaith at fifty
- John davies
- Angharad Tomos
- Menna Machreth
- Simon Brooks
- Huw Lewis
Economy – with PricewaterhouseCoopers
Wales faces choice between Northern Ireland and Scotland on tax powers
Gerald Holtham finds the silk commission has a wider canvas than was envisaged when it was first proposed
Recession deepens north-south divide
Rob Lewis on why Wales is performing worst in the UK according to a new household financial index
Skills gaps revealed in Welsh workforce
Kevin Thomas reports on a new survey of the food and drinks industry in Wales
How we reproduce gender disparities
Alison Parken highlights the pitfalls of sidelining the contribution women can make to the knowledge economy
Politics
Wales in a two circle Europe
David Marquand queries what the non-English nations will do if the UK opts to stay outside a newly integrating European Union
The best and worst of times
Roger Scully assesses the impact of the May Assembly election on the fortunes of the four main parties
Opening a window on Welsh politics
Nick Bourne reflects how over the past decade Welsh Conservatives have come ro terms with devolution
Boundary obsessions
Paul Griffiths says we should put away our local government reorganisation maps
Assembly denies international role
Francesca Dickson queries the legislative journey that is putting sustainable development at the heart of Welsh Government
Glancing back to look forward
Meirion Thomas and Martin Rhisiart argue that today’s era of economic difficulty should prompt some fresh blue sky thinking
Environment
Welsh forestry could become collatoral damage
Jon Owen Jones questions the projected merger of the Forestry Commission with the Environment Agency and the Countryside Council for Wales
Environment Agency and Countryside Council in planning collission
Gordon James says a nearly built power station in Pembrokeshire is testing the Welsh Government’s commitment to sustainable development
Heritage
When Wales was imagined as one gigantic chapel
Prys Morgan looks back at a 19th century figure who gave Welsh Nonconformity its national personality
Heritage and the new experience economy
Huw Bowen explains how the lower Swansea valley’s industrial past is providing a catalyst for inward investment and new jobs
Telling Cardiff’s Story
Neil Evans finds the capital’s new museum rejects a comfort zone of the distant past amnd is not afraid to raise controversial issues
Media
Needed – a broadcasting new deal
Ron Jones calls for a wide-ranging review of television provision for Wales
News aggregator hits Port Talbot
Rachel Howells explores the aftermath of a death of a town’s local paper
Culture
Fishlock’s file
How heraldry prospers in today’s Wales
Trevor Fishlock on the extraordinary survival of an invented tradition
Demographics of the languages
Hywel Jones explains how we are losing 3,000 Welsh speakers a year
Reviews
National Museum still stranded on the M4
Osi Rhys Osmond
A fifty year shift
Peter Stead
When nationalism trumps socialism
David Melding
Lessons from a secular rabbi
John Osmond
Last Word
Out with our toxic brands
Peter Stead