It’s been an incredible year for anyone with the slightest interest in Universal Basic Income (UBI). In the last twelve months, we’ve seen the idea move from the fringes of political debate to the forefront of the progressive policy conversation in Wales. Just days after 25 of the 106 candidates…

That Labour in the elections this May 2021, especially in the north of England and Scotland, did not appeal to enough working people is self- evident from the election results although in Wales we had our joint best ever result. I will address Scotland in a future article but in…

The past year has seen a surge in the popularity for a Universal Basic Income (UBI), and it is not difficult to see why. The Coronavirus pandemic has shone a spotlight on the full extent of the failures in our welfare system and in wider society. With money, or lack…

In an article following the 2019 general election, I described that contest as the ‘Brexit election’. In the same way, the Senedd election last week was the ‘Covid election’. The handling of the health crisis in Wales, and the vaccination programme, was the major issue during the election in the…

A month out from polling day, I made some predictions on what might happen at last week’s Senedd elections — partly to promote discussion, but also because it’s worth looking back in retrospect at what I got wrong! If only for the sake of my ego, let me start by…

How we covered Senedd 2021 and what we can do next. So the dust is settling on the Senedd election and Hiraeth towers will be musing on things a little later. We hope you like what we did in the past year leading up to this election. We have tried to be fair and open across the political spectrum with guests…

It is 300 years since Sir Robert Walpole became the first recognisable Prime Minister of this country. You would think an anniversary to celebrate or champion as part of Britain’s tentative first steps to becoming a representative democracy, but not in Wales. The tercentenary is passing in a slumbrous manner…

The last Welsh Government rightly won plaudits for its work on children’s rights, most notably with the smacking ban, but also for embedding rights and ethics into the new curriculum. However, in one area progress has been conspicuously lacking — that of recruitment visits by the military to schools in…

I believe we are at the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution, not as expected with artificial intelligence but with home working and shopping. A completion of the circle from people moving into cities to work in factories to people leaving offices to work at home. We have seen over…