These Isles: Charting a Constitution
This is part four of the series. The full essay is available to read here. A new constitutional framework promoting multicultural Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish and English identities within an...
View ArticleBorders Are Not the Answer to Global Challenges
In these most testing of times, we find out who we really are. Who we are as people, as communities, as nations. Everything superfluous is stripped away as we protect what we value most and discover...
View ArticleForget Federation
It’s said at every election; the next will prove a watershed for the future of Wales; this time it may well be. With at least two new political parties (WNP and Gwlad) and potentially more, friction...
View ArticlePart Two: A Sovereign Wales in an Isle-wide Confederation
A sovereign Wales in an isle-wide confederation is an essay by Glyndwr Cennydd Jones, presented in five daily parts on the IWA website during the first week of February 2021. You can read the first...
View ArticlePart Three: A Sovereign Wales in an Isle-wide Confederation
A sovereign Wales in an isle-wide confederation is an essay by Glyndwr Cennydd Jones, presented in five daily parts. You can read part one here and part four here. Moving onwards, I had always imagined...
View ArticlePart Four: A Sovereign Wales in an Isle-wide Confederation
A sovereign Wales in an isle-wide confederation is an essay by Glyndwr Cennydd Jones presented in five daily parts. You can read part one here, part two here and the third part here. Why is a...
View ArticlePart Five: A Sovereign Wales in an Isle-wide Confederation
A sovereign Wales in an isle-wide confederation is an essay by Glyndwr Cennydd Jones, presented in five daily parts on the IWA website during the first week of February 2021. The full essay appears as...
View ArticlePart One: Devolution? Federalism? Why Independence is the Answer
This essay is the first of two parts. You can read the second part here. There is no question that Wales’ political future and place in the world has never been in a greater state of flux. There are...
View ArticlePart Two: Devolution? Federalism? Why Independence is the Answer
In the first part of my essay I outlined Wales’ journey towards devolution and the current inadequacies of that settlement. Here, I will examine the basis of federal and confederal models of the UK and...
View ArticleBaroness Jenny Randerson: ‘One of my main roles is to defend devolution’
Josiah Mortimer (Electoral Reform Society) interviews Baroness Jenny Randerson, who served as a Welsh Liberal Democrat member in the very first Welsh Assembly and as Deputy First Minister in 2001-2002,...
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