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IT HAS been a busy week for the Tories, who must have block-booked Great Figures in British History from Westminster Library on their party lending card.
We’ve had Boris Johnson attempting to evoke Churchill (again) and even sitting at the war desk at RAF Uxbridge, barking fake orders down the phone to an imaginary Roosevelt.
As if that were not enough to strike fear in the hearts of millions, Cameron then got his hands on the obviously much-thumbed volume and now seems to be doing his best to imitate everyone he can think of.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
In the first of a series of interviews with leaders of progressive parties in Wales ahead of the May 7 Senedd election DAVID NICHOLSON talks to Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth
Plaid Cymru’s spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in the second article of a two-part series, argues that Labour’s contempt for voters and backward-facing approach have led to widespread mistrust in Wales
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century