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Huw's Views

Recess ends, hard-work continues
Recess ends, hard-work continuesThe long Parliamentary recess is about to draw to a close. Those with more cynical views about the workings of British politics will try and tell you that MPs spend...

Conference special
Conference specialAfter the hullaballoo of the party conference season dies away, when all the media have gone home and we all go back to life (and politics) as normal, does it...

Crime Stats published
Crime Stats publishedLast week I had my regular meeting with Tim Jones, the Superintendent of the South Wales Police F division – statistically amongst the best police divisions in the...

Huw's Views; What have the Italians ever done for us?
Huw's Views; What have the Italians ever done for us?As Alun Cairns, Member of the National Assembly for Wales faces criticism and censure for referring to Italians as “greasy wops”, the spotlight falls on the Welsh-Italian community in...

Huw's Views: Hooray for Valleywood!
Huw's Views: Hooray for Valleywood!Walking through the towns of Llanharan and Pencoed in South Wales, a number of things become obvious, not least the friendly and chatty people that come up to you in...

Huw's Views: The Devastation of Suicide
Huw's Views: The Devastation of SuicideOver the past few weeks the national media spotlight has focussed on Bridgend due to a number of family tragedies. Unfortunately, sensationalist tabloid headlines have sometimes obscured the real issues and...

Huw's Views: Pathways to Work
Huw's Views: Pathways to WorkYou don’t need me to explain the devastation that widespread long-term unemployment can have on a community – you will have seen it for yourselves when our communities faced the...

Huw's Views: Land Girls and Lumberjills Honoured
Huw's Views: Land Girls and Lumberjills HonouredThe immense debt we all owe to the servicemen and women of WWII is recognised at Armistice Day and in Veterans Services around the country. But the contribution...

Huw's Views: Blue Plaques for Ogmore
Having been an MP for almost six years, I think of how many thousands of people I must have spoken to, and listened to over the years. People...

Huw's Views: How Green is My Valley
Huw's Views: How Green is My ValleyHow green is my valley? No, this piece is not about Richard Llewellyn’s famous book (and perhaps more famous film with Roddy McDowell) based on the mining community of Gilfach...

Huw's Views: The new heart of our sporting community
Huw's Views: The new heart of our sporting communityIt never fails to amaze me just how dedicated people from across Ogmore are in supporting the needs of others. It’s a dedication that can be seen in...

Huw's Views: The flourishing Welsh Economy
Huw's Views: The flourishing Welsh EconomyHouse magazine November 2007 When we talk about the flourishing Welsh economy, discussions all too often focus on Cardiff. Indeed, Wales’ capital city has a booming and vibrant economy...

Huw's Views: Make Bridgend Fair!
Huw's Views: Make Bridgend Fair!Fair Trade Matters An Article for the Glamorgan Gazette - November 2007 When ever I talk to constituents or fellow MPs about ending world poverty, I’m quickly struck by...

Huw's Views: Living with Ankylosing Spondylitis
Living with Ankylosing Spondylitis For "House" Magazine, November 2007 As a very active and sporty youngster (and still fairly handy on the tennis court today!) it came as a...

Huw's Views: The Pioneering Principality
The pioneering principality Successful devolved government in Wales has consigned the nationalist cause to the margins, says Huw Irranca-Davies The devolution settlements for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland –...

Huw's Views: New job, but same passions for Ogmore
Huw's Views: New job, but same passions for OgmoreHuw's Views: New job, but same passions for Ogmore Many readers of this website will be interested to know whether my recent appointment has a Minister in the Wales...

Huw's Views...Regeneration of the Garw
Huw's Views...Regeneration of the GarwRegeneration of the Garw... It took millions of years, if my memories of childhood history lessons serve me correctly, for huge sweeping glaciers to shape and form the geological...

Huw's Views...The future of Labour
Huw's Views...The future of LabourPublished in the Western Mail, Saturday 12th May Shortly after six o’clock on a warm spring morning in 1997, the youngest Prime Minister in centuries greeted his party...

Huw's views...Post Office reforms
Huw's views...Post Office reformsI state the obvious when I say that post offices play a vital role in all of our communities. Not only do they provide an ever increasing range...

Huw's Views...Energy
Huw's Views...EnergyMeeting our future energy needs in a clean, sustainable and affordable way is arguably the greatest political challenge of our age. The decisions we make in the coming years...

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