A UK Government Bill aimed at preventing public sector bodies from boycotting goods made in Israel would challenge the very foundations of devolution, according to former Welsh Secretary Lord Peter Hain ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-GZg

The UK’s equalities watchdog has warned the Welsh Government that it does not have the power to allow anyone to self-identify with their chosen gender at Senedd elections ✍️Martin Shipton
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Solicitors acting for a leading feminist organisation have served a legal claim against Plaid Cymru following a decision of the party’s NEC to revoke the group’s booking of a stall at its Spring conference ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-GUR

A Question Time-style event on Wales' relationship with Palestine will take place in Cardiff this week with politicians, Palestinian and Jewish activists and peace campaigners fielding questions from the public ✍️ Martin Shipton
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An Israeli diplomat speaks candidly to NationCymru about the horrors of October 7 and Gaza, and also concedes there are extremists on both sides of the conflict ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-GUd

A gender critical campaign group has called on First Minister Vaughan Gething to scrap the Welsh Government’s current policy that supports medical interventions for young people who believe they were born in the wrong body ✍️Martin Shipton
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The scandal surrounding the office of Wales’ Ombudsman has taken a new turn with the resignation of a council’s independent standards committee chair who says his position has been undermined ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-GRk

One of the world’s top forensic experts on arson says a mother whose life was ruined after she was wrongly convicted of killing three people in a fire could not have been guilty ✍️ Martin Shipton
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A month after Vaughan Gething was elected leader of Welsh Labour, it’s surely time he set out in detail what he plans to do as First Minister ✍️Martin Shipton
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Controversial plans to build networks of wind farms and pylons across mid Wales have received a boost with Ofgem announcing it’s minded to grant the company behind the project an electricity distribution licence ✍️ Martin Shipton nation.cymru/news/regulator…

A month after Vaughan Gething was elected leader of Welsh Labour, it’s surely time he set out in detail what he plans to do as First Minister ✍️Martin Shipton
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Controversial plans to build networks of wind farms and pylons across mid Wales have received a boost with Ofgem announcing it’s minded to grant the company behind the project an electricity distribution licence
✍️ Martin Shipton
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A local social club has pulled itself back from the brink of closure to forecasting more than £1m in revenue this year, as support and public funding leads to major renovations and new customers ✍️Martin Shipton
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Concerns are mounting within the Welsh broadcasting industry about a delay in appointing a new Chair of S4C and the fact that Wales no longer has a representative on the main BBC board ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-GJG

Congratulations Stewart Owadally ! I understand you’re to be the next General Secretary of Welsh Labour

The Labour Party has been criticised for fielding a candidate in a crucial by-election who is unable to campaign because she is following Islamic mourning rules ✍️ Martin Shipton
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UKIP’s Westminster candidate for Llanelli at the next general election has been condemned for referring to Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner as a 'common oik' and a 'slag from Bolton’ ✍️Martin Shipton
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The senior barrister appointed to review allegations of anti-Tory bias in the office of the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales is a former Labour council leader and parliamentary candidate, it has emerged ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-GE4

The Welsh Ombudsman has appointed a senior barrister to investigate allegations of political bias at the body after NationCymru revealed that its chief investigator wrote a series of contentious social media posts ✍️Martin Shipton
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