Did the BBC Wales poll overrepresent Welsh speakers?

The publication of BBC Wales’s annual St David’s poll is a keenly awaited event. For the politically active, it provides what is now the only regular opportunity to measure public opinion about politics in Wales, and especially devolution. Beyond that, the datasets are useful to academic researchers. In time, they will also provide a good [...]

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#4: “the Conservative Party has bravely enacted almost all Welsh language reforms”

Labour MP Paul Flynn says the Conservatives are responsible for nearly all measures to increase the use of the Welsh language. Is he right?

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#3: “the language is not the divisive issue it once was”

The claim We will stay with the Welsh language, particularly in the wake of yesterday’s publication of the LCO. Today’s coverage has furnished our third claim, from The Western Mail’s editorial: Things have changed since the late 1970s, and the language is not the divisive issue it once was. The identification of the late 1970s [...]

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#2: Welsh language LCO is a “milestone in the history of the nation”

The claim Today sees the launch of the much anticipated Welsh Language Legislative Competence Order (LCO), one of the key commitments of the 2007 coalition deal between Labour and Plaid Cymru. Much hinges on this document. A number of senior politicians, among them the Secretary of State for Wales Paul Murphy, have voiced their reservations [...]

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