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Will Hayward

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The most infuriating thing isn’t that Wales is treated as a non-country – it’s that we accept it

When you come to Wales, one of your first impressions is of how delighted people here are to be Welsh. Even those who have left feel a strong pride in...

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The Guardian

Will Hayward

Wales’s 20mph speed limit saves lives and money. So why has it become a culture-war battlefield?

Imagine you’re a politician running a country. In front of you there is a proposal that in just nine months would save your society more than £45m,...

18.11.2024 30

The Guardian

Will Hayward

Call it the Great Welsh Train Robbery – a £4bn HS2 scandal happening in plain sight

Everyone can agree that the delivery of HS2 has been shambolic. The high-speed line from central London (ish) to the north of England, has for a...

15.10.2024 200

The Guardian

Will Hayward

'I think Andrew RT Davies is the worst political leader in the UK'

In many ways Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies has achieved something few Welsh politicians have ever done - people know who he is. But,...

30.08.2024 7

Wales Online

Will Hayward

All the things we learned from three shocking weeks of the Covid Inquiry in Wales

For three weeks the UK Covid Inquiry has been based in Cardiff pouring over how the handling of the virus played put in Wales. Within days the...

16.03.2024 7

Wales Online

Will Hayward

We saw the best and worst of Mark Drakeford during the Covid Inquiry

Over the course of six hours we saw every side of the First Minister. There was the good. The desire to show his workings on why he made decisions he...

14.03.2024 7

Wales Online

Will Hayward

Bluster, fluster and 'word salad' nonsense: Vaughan Gething ducks and weaves like a boxer at the Welsh Covid Inquiry

There were three main aims of any inquiry. Firstly, it is to establish what happened. Secondly to learn why and who is to blame. And thirdly to...

12.03.2024 30

Wales Online

Will Hayward

How all of Wales' political parties have performed in the past 12 months

At the start of 2023, with the Welsh NHS close to being overwhelmed, if someone had told you that the issue that would really get people angry this...

28.12.2023 10

Wales Online

Will Hayward

The bold predictions for what will happen in Welsh politics in 2024

Nothing is guaranteed in politics. If the situation in the UK since 2016 has taught us anything it is that making predictions is a mug's game....

26.12.2023 10

Wales Online

Will Hayward

The most loved and hated man in Wales: How Covid defined Mark Drakeford

In many ways, Mark Drakeford’s greatest success and failure was the pandemic. Having announced that he would be stepping down it is worth...

13.12.2023 10

Wales Online

Will Hayward

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