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Could the politicians in the Senedd soon hold new powers?


In October 2007, First Minister Rhodri Morgan AM announced that Sir Emyr Jones Parry would chair the convention preparing for a referendum on establishing a full law-making Parliament in Cardiff Bay.

Pursuant to the… Continue

Let the rallying call go out: print is not dead, and the daily paper will survive. Why? Because the trade and the craft which we are learning will continue to be the most important skill set we ever have.

This is the overriding message given by our most hopeful speaker yet, Richard Burton, former editor of Telegraph.co.uk and current steward of the Jewish Chronicle. The newspa… Continue

The dinosaur metaphor is back after today's lecture. With any luck, however, this won't reawaken the fight that has kept us occupied as the nights have drawn in and the temperatures dropped.

Kim Hollamby was, happily, another one of the guest lecturers who doesn't predict the doom of us all in p… Continue

After a couple of weeks of lectures that gave some hope to those of us in print the conclusion of the online guest lecture series held no great fear. Sadly, darkness fell once more over the dubious Stanley Parris lecture theatre, with associated and inevitable sound trouble, as a master of the dark arts arrived to tell us Google was king of all that it surveyed.

Sadly, Antony Mayfield is probably right: everything… Continue

As an immediate preface I am, as ever, a little rough from Saturday night festivities - apologies then for meandering thoughts and poor spelling. Nice to have an excuse for once. A pretend one at least.

It seems that Wales has just remembered it's meant to be a wet place and is making up for all the dry weather we've had in the last couple of months, so it's coming down like metaphorical cats and dogs out there. Not a surprise to anyone here mind, you all live within a couple of miles… Continue