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Category: Opinion

‘This would vastly improve people’s quality of life’: Delyth Jewell calls for quarry buffer zone

Monday, June 9, 2025

In her monthly blog for Caerphilly Observer, Plaid Cymru Senedd Member for South Wales East, Delyth Jewell, discusses calls for a mandatory buffer zone to be introduced around quarries.

‘The red Welsh way’: Welsh Labour attempts to distance itself from the UK party

Friday, May 30, 2025Friday, May 30, 2025

Nye Davies, of Cardiff University, looks at First Minister Eluned Morgan’s new ‘Red Welsh Way’ slogan as the 2026 Senedd Election edges nearer.

“We are all united”: Conservative MS reflects on VE Day

Monday, May 19, 2025Monday, May 19, 2025

In her monthly blog for Caerphilly Observer, Conservative Senedd Member for South Wales East, Laura Anne Jones talks, about the importance of VE Day shortly after 80 years since the end of the Second World War.

Rugby clubs ‘could not sustain the consequences of another Storm Dennis or Storm Bert’

Thursday, May 15, 2025

South Wales East MS Peredur Owen Griffiths talks about the continued impact of Storm Bert, as well as council library cuts, in his blog for Caerphilly Observer.

Gwent PCC on chief constable, police precept, and her five main priorities

Tuesday, May 13, 2025Tuesday, May 13, 2025

In this blog, Gwent’s police and crime commissioner discusses the chief constable, her five priorities for policing, and more.

‘What happened to us in our past should compel us to ensure that every coal tip in Wales is made safe’

Friday, May 2, 2025

Plaid Cymru MS Delyth Jewell discusses a “long-overdue” coal tip safety bill in her latest blog for Caerphilly Observer, but says “legislation alone is not enough to make our communities safe”.

Wales wants to punish lying politicians – how would it work?

Thursday, May 1, 2025Thursday, May 1, 2025

Bangor University’s Stephen Clear looks at plans that would make it a criminal offence for Senedd Members, ministers or candidates to deliberately deceive the public.

Conservative Senedd Member announces she won’t stand in Caerphilly area at next election

Thursday, April 17, 2025Thursday, April 17, 2025

In her latest blog for Caerphilly Observer, Conservative Senedd Member for South Wales East Laura Anne Jones announced she has been selected to stand for Monmouthshire and Torfaen at the next election.

Hefin David MS talks drone technology and welfare reforms

Wednesday, April 16, 2025Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Caerphilly’s Labour MS Hefin David discusses drone technology and welfare reform plans in this blog for Caerphilly Observer.

‘Times have changed, crimes have changed, and policing has had to adapt’

Friday, April 11, 2025Friday, April 11, 2025

Gwent’s police and crime commissioner, Jane Mudd, discusses her new Police, Crime and Justice Plan, which was launched last month.

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