Also: Villiers’ proposal on parades dispute ‘sunk’ by nationalists; new complaints regulator needed to combat NHS ‘defensiveness’ in Wales.
Also: Welsh Tory leader denies blackmail ‘cover up’; Sinn Fein accused of intimidating businesses over Gaza; and Ann Clwyd reconsiders retirement.
Also: PM stands by attacks on Cardiff government in visit to Royal Welsh Show; and Scottish businesses urged to make plans for rUK.
Also: Stormont flirts with disaster over budget deadlock; ‘Help to Buy’ sees Scotland run out of bricks; and BBC staff plan Commonwealth Games strike.
They promised to address the West Lothian Question. Now they’re just ignoring it. If they carry on, UKIP and Labour will capitalise.
Also: Violence hangs over Orange Order on both sides of the water as Twelfth looms; and Welsh Labour face familiar rebellion over all-women shortlists.
Also: Nationalist conspiracy theorists target Armed Forces Day and the BBC as ground is laid for ‘establishment stitch-up’ narrative.
Also: Race equality campaigner quits Scottish Labour over ‘nepotistic’ candidate selection; and co-founder claims NI21 should be ‘put down’.
Our politicians have left a rhetorical vacuum into which nationalist politicians – Salmond and Farage – have moved.
Also: NI21 civil war rages on; language activist warns of ‘death of Welsh’; and are the NI Tories being undermined to woo the DUP?
Also: From the demise of non-English ‘big beasts’ to increased culture clash – how we might drift apart in the age of devolution.
Also: Jones overrules local preferences to give Welsh pre-eminence; Scottish Isles bid for more powers; and embattled NI21 leader receives sexual misconduct report.
After winning representation in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, could it become the first party since Irish independence represented all four home nations?
Lord Trimble ‘hurt’ at being ‘kept in the dark’ over amnesty letters; MSPs defer decision on giving Edward Snowden asylum.
This week, one of the worst reports on a Welsh hospital ever written has been published – the Princess of Wales in Bridgend.