Tiger Tales

:: I don't know anything about him/her, but there is someone standing in the Uplands ward of Swansea for next week's council electi...

Bacon baguettes were on offer at Plaid's local election campaign launch today. I didn't have one and I didn't miss much accordin...

A possible insight today into why the Assembly Government has prohibited PFI in the NHS while it continues in the rest of the public sector...

:: Among the soaring rhetoric and occasional mentions of the "I" word at Plaid's spring conference yesterday, Helen Mary Jon...

I wasn't going to blog during recess. But the decision not to get Wales covered by laws protecting NHS staff seems like a bit of a gaffe...

"Someone ought to tell Rhodri Glyn Thomas that Cardiff City fans WANT to go to Wembley ," a reader emails. The Heritage Minister ...

Goodwill has broken out all over the place. An inquiry into last summer's foot and mouth outbreak found the relationship between Wales, ...

Last week, Department of Health minister Ben Bradshaw claimed Wales was going to miss out on extended GP surgery opening hours. Guardian col...

Plaid Cymru AMs might think that 8.3% is far too much, but an AM from another party tells me he hopes Plaid realise some members "too...

:: On the menu in the Assembly canteen today - North American Hash. :: Not a day, week, month or year goes by without at least one special i...

Those of us who work in the Assembly will know how cold the Senedd can get. It's part of what you might call a drive for sustainability...

The idea behind this pay rise is fair - take away AMs ' perks by scrapping the allowances regime and give them a fair wage as judged by...

A very large 10-volume document was deposited on my desk this week. It contains the findings of Assembly Government research into what we t...

Counsel General and Leader of the House Carwyn Jones found himself in an embarrassing spot about extending the Assembly's timetable ye...

You may have read recently that end-of-term oral exams in foreign language GCSEs are to be replaced with term-time assessments in the clas...

“Dolphins have incredibly healthy diets. Their interest is mackerel and my interest is mackerel now. And I want to be able to communicate wi...

In Aberconwy last May, local Plaid Cymru candidate Gareth Jones - now the local Plaid AM - had the phrase "Save Llandudno Hospital...

The Welsh attempt at a national male costume (obligatory rugby shirt and farmer's cap for boys at the school Eisteddfod) always struck m...

Not content with using incomprehensible jargon to express itself, the Assembly Government's education department is now using incompreh...

It's been a day of funny quotes in Cardiff Bay. In a bid to hush-up a rowdy plenary session Dafydd Elis-Thomas said he would not allow t...

:: A colleague and I were lurking at the back of the conference hall a moment ago. We must have looked bored because an Assembly Government ...

:: Had a week off for recess. Llandudno tomorrow for Labour conference. First of three weekends in a row that I will be spending in Wales...

:: The way jobs are divvied up in the Assembly Government's Cabinet is strange. Drugs policy is a responsibility of the Social Justice M...

:: Education Minister Jane Hutt, in her response to an Assembly committee, says she cannot include communication problems in a definition of...

Even though they want a Welsh Parliament, the Liberal Democrats will not campaign for a 'yes' vote in a referendum on primary powers...