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This is spot-on
How will the 2026 Senedd election change Welsh politics?
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Very sorry to hear of Jim Wallace's death. Passionate devolutionist and always a delight to deal with. As Douglas Alexander said, a man who gave politics a good name
The Commissions chaired by me in 2014, by Lord Thomas in 2018 and by Laura McAllister and Rowan Williams in 2024 all recommended the devolution of policing to Wales. Police reform should be an opportunity to give Welsh Government policing responsibility. What is the case against?
When I was Clerk of the then National Assembly, we hosted members of the US Congress - from both parties - who had come to thank Wales for its support in the Second Gulf War. The delegation's next stop was Denmark
An interesting post. There is an equal need for a shift away from an executive-led agenda in Cardiff and London
Gareth Evans: The Devolution of the Crown Estate in Wales ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/09/04/g...
A sad week for @studyofparl.bsky.social with the death of two distinguished members who were also both kind and principled - Sir Roger Sands, former Clerk of the House of Commons and Professor Michael Rush of Exeter University. We will miss them greatly
Nigel Farage yesterday asked Laura Anne Jones if the Senedd works. It would be really interesting to hear Reform's ideas about Senedd reform well in advance of next year's election
New blogpost: The Afghan super-injunction case: Some constitutional implications publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/07/17/t...
Great admiration for my wife's (a) fitness (b) commitment to support those who suffer domestic abuse. Please support her.
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This article is well worth reading for the long quotation from the former professor of Mediterranean archaeology at Cardiff on what a university should be
Fiction turns into fact....
As a Princeton alumnus, I was very pleased to see this www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
Meg Russell, @ruxandrasrbn.bsky.social and various Constitution Unit fellows and honorary staff are among the 73 contributors to a new textbook on parliament.
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I hadn't read Laura's excellent blog about Dafydd El until today. His funeral tomorrow in Llandaf will be a chance to celebrate an extraordinary contribution to Wales and politics. I first worked with him almost 50 years ago. How much he will be missed
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I am very interested in the extent to which the Planning and Infrastructure Bill may remove powers from the Senedd and Welsh Ministers - if it does, or if it does without requiring their consent. I hope someone will enlighten us!
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Excellent blog. Making pious declarations and making good legislation are two very different things
Our new blogpost explains why the reduction breaches a legal duty and how this breach reveals a deeper legislative failure.🔽
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It isn't easy to say what has been most repugnant recently, but Vance and Trump's verbal assault on a polite and brave man speaking his third language was a disgrace
A critique by our @hansardsociety.bsky.social
trustee @paulsilk.bsky.social about his experience as a petitioner in the Brecon and Radnor constituency in 2019 explored some of these admin/procedural flaws in the process. 10/
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Well done Germany.
(Turnout in the 2024 UK General Election was less than 60%. Which isn't great.)
Most Constitutions allow the postponement of elections in times of national emergency, and President Trump himself suggested that the USA elections in 2020 might be postponed until people could "properly, securely and safely" vote (albeit that this is difficult under the US Constitution)
Visiting the Capitoline Museums and seeing the bronze cast of the Lex de Imperio Vespasiani, couldn't help thinking that executive orders are nothing new
Very sorry to hear of the death of Dafydd Elis Thomas. He was certainly mercurial, but he was an enormous figure in the development of the Welsh constitution. I liked him a lot. RIP
As Porfirio Díaz so perceptively said, "poor Mexico: so far from God, so close to the USA"
It is profoundly depressing that a Russell Group university is contemplating the ending of research and teaching in the core humanities
Grim news from Cardiff University. I understand the pressures, but it is hard to conceive of a university that does not teach and research foreign languages, music and theology
