In denial the voters simply don’t want to hear about spending cuts or taxes
Capital thoughts on a Spring day
Peter Finch worries that Bute Park, Cardiff’s green lung, is flaking away
Assembly Cynulliad Bwletin April 2010
Four manifestos in one week – it must be a General Election. The fallout from the Welsh Leaders Debate, Peter Stead’s take on how Dave Cameron lost the 2010 General Election and John Osmond thinks about the seats that could be up for grabs on the 6th May 2010.
Seduction of the TV debates
Peter Stead judges that Brown was better, Cameron not up to the job, and Clegg kept the debate alive
Germans in charge of Welsh railways is huge opportunity
Deutsche Bahn’s takeover of Arriva should prompt Transport Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones to put in a call to Berlin
Tracking the Clegg phenomenon
Denis Balsom assesses the impact of the Liberal Democrat spike in the polls on the Welsh battleground seats
Against the odds, the survival of Welsh identity
Rhys David on a new book that asks what exactly it is to be Welsh and how well it is surviving in a multicultural world
Who are the real Welsh leaders?
The answer will be clear in next year’s Assembly elections when the current leadership debates will surely have set a precedent
Spin merchants swirl out of control
David Williams welcomes a natural explosion of human unpredictability into the election campaign