Labour's bad week, Gaza, what makes a terrorist group, tourism tax and 80 years since Attlee's landslide
Columnist and author Steve Richards dissects Labour's terrible week, a year since getting their thumping commons majority. We hear from UK Med's field hospital lead in Gaza, Dr Clare Jefferys. Lord Hain questions proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Senior Lecturer in tourism management, Dr Linda Osti and Jim Jones from North Wales Tourism debate the value of a visitor levy due to be made law on Tuesday. And Labour minister, Torfaen MP, and Clement Attlee's biographer Nick Thomas-Symonds tells us the significance of the 1945 Labour landslide.Baroness Wilcox and Dr Elin Jones join Vaughan Roderick to review the Sunday papers.
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Labour conference and welfare woes one year since the election, university cuts and Blitzkrieg
Labour leader and Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan joins us from Labour conference in Llandudno. Journalist Chloe Chaplin dissects Labour's turmoil on the welfare bill. Philosopher Dr Huw Williams from Cardiff University tells us why more thoughtful subjects like his are still important. After a year in the job, Ann Davies talks about the highs and the lows of being a brand new MP. Andrew Monaghan is with us to review his book, Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War.Vale of Glamorgan conservative councillor Rhys Thomas and author and historian Norena Shopland review the papers.
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Iran nuclear facilities bombed, the UN AT 80, council partnerships and the 1539 Great Bible of Henry VIII and Cromwell
After the US bombs nuclear facilities in Iran, Israeli political commentator Gideon Levy and Chair of the Ezri Centre for Iran and Gulf states research Dr Efrat Sopher, puts Trump's intervention into context. Author and historian Diana Preston explains Roosevelt's vision as the UN celebrates 80 years of its existence. Welsh Local Government Association and Rhondda Cynon Taf Council leader, Andrew Morgan and Dr Marlene Davies, expert in local government finance and Associate of the University of South Wales discuss a new partnership agreement between the Welsh government and local authorities. Timothy Cutts celebrates having two unique copies of the 1539 Great Bible at the National Library in Aberystwyth.Bethan Darwin and William Powell review the papers.
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Wales funding, politician safety, Middle East, Gwen & Augustus John
Guests include First Minister Eluned Morgan; Adam Price MS, Chatham House director Bronwen Maddox; Prof Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones and Judith Mackrell. The paper reviewers are Baroness Ilora Finlay and Plaid Cymru councillor Steve Skivens.
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Rail funding, Spending Review, and 50 years of Parliament on the radio
Vaughan Roderick talks to Plaid Cymru MP Ben Lake about rail funding, discusses the Spending Review with Baroness Debbie Wilcox and the Institute of Directors' Richard Selby and reflects on 50 years of Parliament on the radio with former Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans. Plus what does the Hamilton by-election mean for Scotland's parties, and Dai Havard discusses what Merthyr's radical political past tells us about its future.
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