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Category: Opinion

Short-term pothole repairs ‘represent a false economy’

Monday, March 30, 2026Monday, March 30, 2026

In this piece for Caerphilly Observer, South Wales East MS Peredur Owen Griffiths talks about potholes and Plaid Cymru’s Senedd election campaign.

‘It has been the honour of my life to represent you in the Senedd’

Friday, March 27, 2026Friday, March 27, 2026

Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney MS Dawn Bowden has thanked the community in this piece for Caerphilly Observer, as her time in the Senedd draws to a close.

‘Council not meeting basic legal obligations’

Thursday, March 26, 2026Thursday, March 26, 2026

Community councillor Steve Aicheler has penned this piece for Caerphilly Observer following Estyn’s recent inspection of Bedwas High School.

Can Wales’ wellbeing law survive the pressures of the next Senedd election?

Thursday, March 19, 2026

With the Senedd election due in May, Wales faces a test of whether long-term thinking can survive short-term political pressure.

‘Tactical voting is dead’: Labour candidate talks Senedd election

Friday, March 13, 2026

Labour candidate Richard Tunnicliffe discusses how the new voting system being brought in at this year’s Senedd election means tactical voting is no longer necessary.

How plans to share wind farm profits with local people has been tried elsewhere

Friday, March 13, 2026

Udisha Saklani, lecturer at King’s College London, looks at Plaid Cymru’s pledge to make companies share benefits of energy projects with residents, and how it has been tried elsewhere.

‘Smoke and mirrors’: Delyth Jewell MS attacks UK Government rail announcement

Thursday, March 5, 2026Thursday, March 5, 2026

South Wales East MS Delyth Jewell, who represents Plaid Cymru, has said Wales “deserves clarity” over the UK Government’s recent rail funding announcement for Wales.

Lindsay Whittle on housing, Ruperra Castle, Plaid Cymru’s spring conference and more

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Caerphilly MS Lindsay Whittle discusses housing, Ruperra Castle preservation efforts, the recent Plaid Cymru conference, and more in this piece for Caerphilly Observer.

‘This proposal raises serious environmental, planning and financial questions’

Tuesday, March 3, 2026Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Simon Lewis, secretary of the Nant y Calch Conservation Group, has penned this piece for Caerphilly Observer outlining the group’s opposition to greenfield housing plan.

Peredur Owen Griffiths MS: ‘We know this is not as good as it gets’

Friday, February 13, 2026Friday, February 13, 2026

In this article for Caerphilly Observer, South Wales East MS Peredur Owen Griffiths talks about the upcoming council by-election, Plaid Cymru’s Senedd election campaign, and more.

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