Internet Sources on Government and Politics in Wales

Government Departments.. National Assembly.. Political Parties
Welsh politics
Legal System.. Local Government.. Elections and Referenda
Political Groups, Movements and Organizations Think Tanks Media
Weblogs
Other Sites of Political Interest

Latest Update 24 November 2011

Government Agencies and Public and Parapublic Bodies

Government of Wales

• First Minister
• Cabinet and Ministers

• Welsh Legislation

  Wales Legislation

  Wales Statutory Instruments

• Secretary of State for Wales from Wikipedia

Agencies and Policy Areas

• Countryside Council for Wales
• Environment and the Countryside
• Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills
• Environment Agency Wales
• Other Policy Areas
• Wales Audit Office
• former Welsh Development Agency from Wikpedia
• Welsh Extremism and Counter-Terrorism Unit
  • Welsh Extremism and Counter-Terrorism Unit blog
• Welsh European Funding Office
• Welsh Higher Education Funding Council

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National Assembly for Wales

• National Assembly for Wales
  • National Assembly for Wales from Wikipedia
• Business including Committees, Record of Proceedings, Standing Orders, Calendar and Research
• Television Coverage or from Democracy Live or on YouTube
• Merely a Talking Shop? European Commitees of the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly

Political parties

• Plaid Cymru
  • Young Plaid
• Welsh Conservatives
• Welsh Labour Party
  • Progress:Labour's Progressives also links to leftish blogs
• Welsh Socialist Alliance
  • Welsh Socialist Alliance from Wikipedia
• Welsh Socialist Republican Movement
• Welsh Liberal Democrats
  • Welsh Liberal Democrats
• Communist Party of Wales
• Socialist Party of Wales
• Welsh Christian Party
• Wales Greens
• Cymru Annibynnol/Independent Wales Party
• Newid
• Cymru Goch/Welsh Socialists from Wikipedia

Welsh politics

• British Nationalists in Wales
• Institute of Welsh Affairs OR here
• Welsh Language Society

Legal System

• Law Commission for England and Wales

• Local Government Data Unit
• Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales
• Local Government Ombudsman for Wales
• Wales Local Government Index from Oultwood
• Unitary Authorities
  • Unitary Authorities of Wales from Wikipedia
• Welsh Local Government Association
• Political Composition of Councils
• Tagish Local Government Directory
• UK Parish and Town Councils on the Web

• The Richard Commission on the Powers and Electoral Arrangements of the National Assembly for Wales

• Electoral Commission: Wales
• Election Maps - parliamentary, devolved, local boundaries
• Welsh Parliamentary Constituencies

  Assembly Elections

• The First National Elections to the National Assembly for Wales
• Welsh Assembly Election Study 1999
• The 2003 Welsh Assembly Elections
• Electoral Commission Report on National Assembly for Wales elections 2006
• National Assembly for Wales 2007 Election Report
• National Assembly for Wales Elections 3 May 2007
  • National Assembly for Wales election 2007 from Wikipedia
• National Assembly for Wales 2007 Elections Public Opinion Report
• National Assembly for Wales Election Results 2011/a>
  • Elections to the National Assembly for Wales 2011 from Wikipedia

  Referendums

• Welsh Devolution Referendum 1997 from the BBC
• Wales Devolution Referendum 2011 from Wikipedia
• Yes for Wales from Wikipedia>

  Other

• Devolution Matters blog
• Postal Vote Rejections

• Centre for Alternative Technology
• Carers Wales
• Chartered Institute for Housing Cymru
• Consumer Focus Wales
• Cymuned - 'a better future for the communities of Wales'
• GM-Free Cymru
• Institute for Welsh Affairs
• Oxfam Cymru
• Shelter Cymru
• Wales Council for Voluntary Action
• Wales TUC Cymru
• Welsh Defence League
• Welsh Refugee Council
• Welsh Republican Movement from Wikipedia
• Welsh Socialist Republican Movement from Wikipedia
• West Wales EcoCentre

Think Tanks and Policy Institutes

• Aneurin Bevan Foundation - 'the social justice think tank for Wales'
• Centre for Public Policy for the Regions or here

Media

Newspapers

• All Newspapers in Wales
• Gateway to Newspapers in Wales
• Welsh Newspapers from OnlineNewspapers
• Newspapers in Wales from World Newspapers
• Aberdare Online
• Aberystwyth Today
• Ammanford South Wales Guardian
• Bala Today
• Bangor & Caernarfon North Wales Chronicle
• Barry and District News
• The Barry Gem
• The Border Counties Advertizer
• Caernarfon & Denbigh Herald
• Cambrian News Aberystwyth
• Cardigan Today
• Carmarthen Journal (This is South Wales)
• Conwy & Gynedd News
• Cowbridge Gem
• Daily Post
• Denbighshire Vale Advertiser
• The Denbighshire Free Press
• Dolgellau Today
• Evening Post
• Flintshire Chronicles
• The Flintshire Leader & Standard
• Holyhead and Anglesey News
• Lampeter Today
• Llanelli Star
• News Now Wales
• News Wales
• North Wales Chronicle
• North Wales Pioneer - Colwyn Bay, Llandudno, Conwy
• Pembrokeshire County Echo (Fishguard)
• Penarth Times
• Powys County Times
• Rhyl Journal
• South Wales Evening Post
• South-West Wales Newspapers
• South Wales Argus
• Towy Valley South Wales Guardian
• Wales Online
• Western Telegraph (Pembrokeshire)
• Wrexham Evening Leader

  Radio and Television

• BBC Wales
  • Betsan Powys - Political Editor
  • Dragon's Eye - investigative political affairs programme
• BBC Wales (Welsh)
• BBC Mid-Wales news
• BBC North-East Wales news
  • BBC Wrexham on Twitter
  • BBC NorthEast Wales on Facebook
• BBC North-West Wales news
• BBC South-East Wales news
• BBC South-West Wales news
• HTV from Wikipedia
• ITV Wales
• S4C
• Radio Stations in Wales

Political Weblogs

• Blog Cymru
• Catalog of Welsh Blogs
• Tiger Tales from David Davies - PA Correspondent at the National Assembly of Wales
• Banksy's Blog from David Banks - Daily Post Columnist
• Gog in the Bay - from Tom Bodder, Daily Post reporter inactive
• Matt Withers - Wales on Sunday
• David Livingstone - Western Mail
• Wales Poliblogs
• Nick Bourne AM (Con.)
• David Davies AM MP (Con.)
• Glyn Davies AM
• Gog With a Blog
• Bethan Jenkin
• Mark Jones not active
• Dylan Jones-Evans (Con.)
• Miserable Old Fart
• Plaid4Maldwyn not active
• Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM/AC
• Welsh Independence
• Leanne Wood AM/AC

Other Useful Sites

• Business Wales
• Data Wales
• Wales on the Web
• Nations and Regions: Dynamics of the Devolution Project from UCL
• Gathering the Jewels: Welsh Social, Economic and Political Sites
• National Library of Wales
• National Economic Development Strategy
• Google Wales Directory
• Institute for Welsh Affairs
• Welsh Directory
• West Wales European Centre
• Womens Archive of Wales
• Yahoo Wales Directory

Compiled/Copyright 1995-2011 Martin Harrison. Please send corrections or suggested additions to M.Harrison@pol.keele.ac.uk Links verified November 2011