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Leighton Andrews
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Prof Cardiff Uni. Ex Education Minister then Public Service Minister in Welsh Government. Ex-Chair, Cardiff City FC Community Foundation. Books:Ministerial Leadership; Facebook, the Media and Democracy. Cymro/Welsh. Substack: ukania.substack.com
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This should be a worry for @WelshGovernment - if you don’t get literacy right, it’s hard to get anything else right in education, no matter how impressed you are by your new Curriculum
Exclusive: A member of the Welsh Government’s expert literacy panel has resigned, warning the new £8.2m national programme to improve reading is “flawed” and “not fit for purpose”.

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Caerphilly just popped Reform's bubble.
Caerphilly, Senedd constituency by-election result:

PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)

Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
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Caerphilly, Senedd constituency by-election result:

PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)

Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
On the way into Copenhagen we had to undergo the new EU ETIAS ststem.

Contrary to all the doom and gloom, it took 30 seconds to have faces and fingerprints scanned.
An historical note from me….
Perpetual story of at least the last 60 years, but great for teaching.
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An interesting overview from @leightonandrews.bsky.social of the first meetings of the Welsh ‘cabinet’ in 1999 as it sought to navigate its role and working practices amidst the broader infancy, and constitutional complexities, of Welsh devolution

#senedd #devolution
How do new political institutions evolve their practices? I take a look at the first meetings of the Welsh Cabinet in 1999.

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The first meetings of the Welsh Cabinet
May to July 1999
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Just read a wonderful quote from James C. Scott on Bourdieu
How do new political institutions evolve their practices? I take a look at the first meetings of the Welsh Cabinet in 1999.

ukania.substack.com/p/the-first-...
The first meetings of the Welsh Cabinet
May to July 1999
ukania.substack.com
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Transforming Government - new @carr-lse.bsky.social discussion paper on contemporary public sector reform. With @leightonandrews.bsky.social, Roland Koch, Daniel Werfel and Richard Mottram

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I have a short essay in this collection on Transforming Government from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) CARR centre. My theme is ‘Priductive Government’ - and of course, its opposite! @martinlodge.bsky.social

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In the US. Other approaches needed elsewhere across diverse regulators.
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“We need public debates about AI governance that go beyond technical jargon to examine fundamental questions about power, justice and human agency”

Thanks for sharing this article @leightonandrews.bsky.social👇🏻
Very sad news. I met David a number of times when I worked for the BBC and subsequently. Great mind and commitment to a pragmatic progressive politics.
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Lord David Lipsey dies while swimming in River Wye
Lord David Lipsey previously worked as a journalist and Downing Street adviser.
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Just finished this - brilliant, wonderful, lyrical, profound and an unfolding thriller of detection as well;one of the best novels I have read this year and one I will be coming back to; and it's also about #Wales #Cymru - the stories we tell ourselves, and our changing and climate-threatened world.
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Better governance ‘could have avoided mass university job cuts’.

Philip Augar proposes union representation on governing boards and vice-chancellor pay reforms.

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