The Welsh Tory strategy for countering Nationalists appears to be to ‘give in’ on national sovereignity and full devolution but repair Unionism byinsisting on ‘ federalisation’ to the UK in a sort of United States of Britain.
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Does he still claim for his old mum as secretary?
The Sunday Times has uncovered that Peter Hain, despite being made Welsh secretary is still a partner in a firm that specialises in political communications.
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Gelyn fy ngelyn yw fy nghyfaill, meddai’r hen ddihareb. Ond sioc a siom oedd clywed Arlywydd Venezuela, ac arweinydd pwysicaf a mwyaf carismataidd y Chwith yn ystod y chwarter canrif ddiwethaf, Hugo Chavez yn amddiffyn ei “gyfaill” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yr wythnos hon yn wyneb protestiadau torfol yn Iran a beirniadu byd-eang.
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Er gwaetha’r cynnydd yng nghefnogaeth y Blaid a’n llwyddiant yn ein cadarnleoedd, mae’r anfadwaith bod pleidiau cenedlaetholaidd Prydeining wedi gwneud bron cystal a’r Blaid Genedlaethol Gymreig yn yr Etholiadau Ewropeaidd yng Nghymru dal yn fy mhoeni.  Gobiethio bod hyn yn pigo cydwybod pob gwladgarwr wnaeth aros gatre, ond mae’n gyfrifoldeb arna i ofyn beth a [...]

Do, ni chaethon ni’r ail sedd a fe ddaethon ni’n drydydd, ond mi oedd hon, serch hynny, yn ganlyniad da i Blaid Cymru.  Daeth y Blaid o fewn 20,000 - neu 2.7% y cant yn unig o’r bleidlais - i ddod yn gyntaf.  Mae hyn o fewn cyd-destun yr etholiad Ewropeaidd mwyaf Prydeinllyd erioed yn [...]

Fel y bydd darllenwyr y golofn hon yn sylweddoli, ar ol wyth mlynedd o fwrw fy mhen yn erbyn colofnau carreg San Steffan dwi ychydig bach yn besimistaidd ynghylch y gallu i ddiwygio San Steffan.
Rhan fawr o’r broblem, fel oedd Aneurin Bevan yn nodi yn ei lyfr In Place Of Fear, yw’r adeilad. Y model [...]

The open government we were promised from our National Assembly is certainly far from what we are in fact being provided at the moment – except perhaps in openness to theft and loss.
Herein lies a personality clash which seems to be developing. Ms Williams had claimed Mr Jones’s economic department had been making a bad [...]

It seems the new Barnett formula which will eventually appear will be almost exactly the same as the old one. Almost the only difference will be that an appeal formula will be built in so that the “regions” can object to the way the carve up that has been decided by the Treasury in London.
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IT SHOULD be an interesting sight, when Western Mail letter-writer Neil Welton ascends to the block erected outside Cardiff Castle, lays his head down, and hears the swish of the axe, before knowing no more as his now-detached head tumbles to the ground.
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When it comes to the Welsh language, people can harbour some very strange ideas, writes Clive Betts from the National Assembly press gallery.
The latest and strangest is that 80 per cent of AMs are Welsh-speaking.
The upshot of that claim, as made by a letter-writer to the Western Mail, is that the Assembly should be deprived [...]