Nye Davies, Cardiff University Ph. Welsh Labour can no longer rely on the legacy of ‘father of the NHS’ Nye Bevan. Steve Travelguide/Shutterstock After all the predictions, projections and polling permutations, Welsh Labour’s defeat has been confirmed. In 1985, Welsh historian Gwyn Alf Williams described Labour majorities standing “like Aneurin Bevan’s memorial stones”.
Ph. Lightspring/Shutterstock Stephen Clear, Bangor University For the past two years, the Welsh parliament – or Senedd – has been grappling with how to tackle deliberate lying by politicians and how to rebuild public trust in democracy. There is broad agreement across parties in Wales that the current system offers few real consequences
ph. BalanceFormCreative/Shutterstock Cathryn Knight, University of Bristol and Emily Lowthian, Swansea University Nearly half of people born in Wales in 2002-2003 were classed as having special educational needs (SEN), our new research has indicated, raising questions about the system used to diagnose a generation of Welsh children. Our report for the Nuffield Foundation