https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2021/12/aberration-or-just-extreme-example.html
Borthlas: Aberration or just extreme example?
A few days ago, the press carried a picture of a small child in tears wearing a lifejacket wading ashore from a small boat in the Channel....
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https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2012/05/not-too-late-to-change-course.html
Borthlas: Not too late to change course
The report of the Assembly Committee on Children and Young People is a welcome one. They are challenging the Welsh Government on a number...
too latechangecourse
https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2022/09/silly-numbers-and-extraordinary-claims.html
Borthlas: Silly numbers and extraordinary claims
Interpreting crowds is never easy, not least because in any crowd there are likely to be many different reasons for the participation of i...
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https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2020/04/cakeism-is-immune-to-any-virus.html
Borthlas: Cakeism is immune to any virus
Meanwhile, away from the pandemic, talks between the UK and the EU stutter along with the UK continuing to demand the special and exceptio...
immunevirus
https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2014/08/for-wales-see-london.html
Borthlas: For Wales, see London.
Boris Johnson attracted plenty of coverage over the weekend with his call for the Tories to be ready to take Britain out of the EU if Camer...
walesseelondon
https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2012/12/to-frack-or-not-to-frack.html?showComment=1356105389979
Borthlas: To frack or not to frack
For those who remain unconvinced, despite the scientific consensus to the contrary, that the man-made contribution to climate change is sign...
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https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2016/08/guarantees-for-richest-but-not-poorest.html
Borthlas: Guarantees for the richest, but not the poorest
To date, the new government has made no commitment at all to replace the EU structural funding from which Wales benefits with an alternativ...
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https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2010/05/dubious-economics.html
Borthlas: Dubious economics
I think that it was probably during the Thatcher years that the idea of preparing a 'business case' for anything and everything first came i...
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https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-long-is-long.html
Borthlas: How long is long?
Nick Bourne claims today that "Welsh Conservatives have long called for a review of the Barnett formula and a proper needs-based assessment...
how long
https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2023/07/those-british-values-at-work-again.html
Borthlas: Those British Values at work again
It turns out that the cartoons on the wall of the detention centre in Kent which a minister ordered removed were originally installed by co...
values at workbritish
https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2008/07/bourne-aims-at-wrong-target.html
Borthlas: Bourne aims at wrong target
Nick Bourne displays his outrage today over the One Wales Government's legislative programme, choosing to target in particular the lack of m...
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https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2009/06/
Borthlas: June 2009
june
https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2018/02/
Borthlas: February 2018
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https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2008/08/dentists-bills.html?showComment=1219772820000
Borthlas: Dentists' Bills
Yesterday, the leader of Wales' dentists, Stuart Geddes, called for dentistry to be free in Wales . He was right to draw attention to this ...
dentistsbills
https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2018/09/promises-promises.html
Borthlas: Promises, promises ...
In the grand scale of things, whether we will have to pay roaming charges for using mobile phones in the EU after Brexit is a fairly minor...
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https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2020/07/extending-tour.html
Borthlas: Extending the tour
There might, conceivably, be a parallel universe somewhere out there in which Boris Johnson touring a series of venues in Scotland, pre...
extendingtour
https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2009/05/excessive-secrecy.html?showComment=1242711360000
Borthlas: Excessive Secrecy
Carmarthenshire County Council is currently promoting a major development at the Eastern Gateway to Llanelli. In broad terms, the proposal ...
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https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2008/09/ashcroft-loophole.html?showComment=1222802460000
Borthlas: The Ashcroft Loophole
I thought that last night's Dispatches programme from Channel 4 went a little bit over the top in its treatment of the Tory funding scandal....
ashcroftloophole
https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2022/08/circular-motion-leads-nowhere.html
Borthlas: Circular motion leads nowhere
Underlying the sacking of one Labour frontbencher for allegedly making up policy is a circular argument which ultimately leads nowhere. Ba...
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https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2010/05/backdoor-subsidies.html
Borthlas: Backdoor subsidies
One of the approaches which has been used to try and encourage 'market forces' to operate in ways which reduce emissions rather than increas...
backdoorsubsidies
https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2016/01/muddying-waters.html
Borthlas: Muddying the waters
It was Peter Hain who, when he was Secretary of State for Wales, steered through the 2006 Government of Wales Act. That act provided for t...
waters
https://borthlas.blogspot.com/2012/06/rather-different-referendum.html?showComment=1340010708800
Borthlas: A rather different referendum
Cameron has been rather more unequivocal about the proposed referendum in the Falkland Islands than he has been in relation to Scotland. I...
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