The Welsh Government

March 14, 2024

Vaughan Gething wins Welsh Labour leadership contest

...The Welsh government is also exploring plans for the biggest shake-up to council tax in the UK since the levy was introduced in 1993....

March 16, 2024

FT Live

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News in-depthEnvironment

Welsh communities grapple with toxic legacy of metal mining

...The Welsh government has been aware of the possible human health risks associated with these mines for decades....

March 12, 2024

Environment

MPs launch probe into health risks from abandoned Welsh mines

...The formal review by MPs will add to pressure on both the Welsh government and NRW to tackle the legacy of Britain’s mining past....

March 12, 2024

News in-depthEnvironment

Welsh mines leak at least 500 tonnes of harmful metals each year

...At least 500 tonnes of harmful metals leak into the Welsh environment each year from abandoned mines, according to government estimates obtained by the Financial Times....

March 11, 2024

ReviewMusic

Five stars for Welsh National Opera’s hauntingly beautiful Death in Venice — review

...At Welsh National Opera, director Olivia Fuchs has delivered a production that never puts a foot wrong....

March 11, 2024

FT Live

Accelerating the Energy Transition in Asia

Industrial strategies and policy drivers for sustainability

UK devolution

Mark Drakeford calls for more powers for Welsh Senedd

January 26, 2024

UK energy

UK in talks with Hitachi over buying Welsh nuclear site

...The government wants the UK to have 24GW of nuclear capacity by 2050, compared with almost 6GW today....

February 11, 2024

News updates from January 19: S&P 500 closes at record high, Ford cuts production of electric truck

Tata Steel to close two Welsh blast furnaces and cut up to 2,800 jobs

...The decision is a devastating blow to the 4,000 strong workforce at Tata’s main site at Port Talbot in south Wales, which is expected to bear the brunt of the job losses....

January 19, 2024

News in-depthUK employment

Sunak’s hollow pledge to Welsh steelworkers puts focus on green jobs

...Paul Nowak, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, accused the government of being “asleep at the wheel” and called for more support....

February 6, 2024

Instant InsightPeter Spiegel

Coalition government, American style

...The dysfunction in the majority party in the US House of Representatives was as clear as Saturday’s final vote on $60bn in military aid for Ukraine: of the 218 Republicans in the House, most (112) voted...

April 20, 2024

Government of Wales

Welsh economy minister defends Labour plans to shake up council tax

...The Welsh government has not yet put precise figures on the proposals....

January 3, 2024

Tata Steel Ltd

Workers at Welsh steel plant braced for widespread job losses

...The vast majority are expected to come at the Welsh plant, the biggest employer in the region with a workforce of 4,000....

January 17, 2024

Chris Giles

An optimist’s guide to the next Labour government

...Few dissent from the view that a Labour government would soon be overwhelmed by economic forces....

April 25, 2024

Wales

Welsh first minister Mark Drakeford resigns

...He added: “We have been able to build a constructive relationship in delivering transformative policies through the co-operation agreement between the Welsh government and Plaid Cymru.”...

December 13, 2023

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

FT MagazineTim Hayward

The Shed, Swansea: brown and brilliant — restaurant review

...I took it as it was intended, in respectful homage to St John, and concluded with Welsh cakes and whisky. If only Proust had the good grace to be Welsh....

April 11, 2024

News in-depthScottish National Party

Humza Yousaf’s leadership of the Scottish government is on the line

...provided the government with a working majority in parliament....

April 25, 2024

Inside Politics

Vaughan Gething and the UK’s integration success story

...the Welsh government....

March 18, 2024

Travel

My night in the Red Lady’s cave

...“The cave was very much on the edge of the world,” she had told me. “And the whole idea of pilgrimage is the journey itself....

March 16, 2024

Budget 2024: As it happened

More devolution pledged to local regions

...The Scottish government will get nearly £300mn, alongside £170mn for the Welsh government and £100mn for the Northern Ireland executive....

March 6, 2024

FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley

Ask Shrimsley: is it safe to sext?

...The fourth rule is related to the third, and I cannot overstress this one. You need to be above embarrassment if the pics leak....

April 19, 2024

ReviewTelevision

Michael Sheen, James Graham and Adam Curtis collaborate and miss with dystopian drama The Way — review

...The refugees sit huddled on a small inflatable dinghy, buffeted by the waves of the English Channel. White, working class and Welsh, they have no home, nor hope, left in Britain....

February 19, 2024

News updates from March 12: US inflation rises to 3.2%; White House warns Israel against ‘smashing into Rafah’

MPs launch probe into health risks from abandoned metal mines

...Stephen Crabb, the Conservative chair of the Welsh Affairs Committee, said on Tuesday: “The information uncovered by the Financial Times about metal mine pollution in Welsh rivers is deeply concerning....

March 12, 2024

ReviewCrime books

Crime fiction round-up — a modern riff on famous sleuths

...Scottish novelist Louise Welsh has long been interested in the universality of human experience, unconcerned with the parochialism that both the Scots and the English regularly display....

January 22, 2024

Tata Steel Ltd

Tata Steel pulls announcement on 3,000 job cuts at Welsh factory

...Tata Steel will invest about £750mn in its UK operations as part of the deal with the government....

November 1, 2023

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