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SA3 5RA To register your interest please email Laura Knight at [email protected], Tel: 01792 404315 who will also be able to help with any queries you may have. 42 55 contents 4 Crabb’s Journey 10 A ‘National’ 19 Competitiveness and 28 The One-And-A-Half- David Cornock talks to the Health Service? policy autonomy: What Party state Welsh Secretary about his Shane Doheny looks at can Wales learn from Adam Price gives a pre- route from Pembrokeshire the different paths being the Basque Country? election rallying cry that to Parliament, his view on followed by the NHS in James Wilson outlines reverberates far beyond the word ‘Principality’ and England and Wales what Wales could learn the confines of his own what the future may hold from one of Europe’s party 12 Bigger isn’t success stories 6 Jez we will? always better 31 A New Union Mentality Roger Scully considers Simon Parker argues 21 The Centre-Periphery Leighton Andrews makes what the recent polling for ‘small’ not to be Game an impassioned plea for a might tell us about ‘the forgotten within the ‘big’ David Anderson wonders constitutional convention Corbyn effect’ on politics of local government how long Wales will be in Wales reorganisation content at the periphery 34 Return of the Native of BBC arts and culture David Marquand revisits 8 Public service 14 Dealing with Dementia coverage his Welsh roots and broadcasting – who Beti George gave this celebrates having come needs it now? year’s IWA Eisteddfod 23 The makeup of the home to an unsettled As the IWA launches its Lecture, Taclo Dementia: next Assembly political community Wales Media Audit at Allwn ni ddim fforddio Gareth Hughes profiles the an event in Cardiff on peidio - Tackling Dementia: seats to watch at the 2016 37 Putting the patient November 11th, Glyn we can’t afford not to; here Assembly elections experience first Mathias considers where she outlines the challenges Jess Blair outlines the broadcasting in Wales may from her perspective as 26 The Manifesto Makers findings of the IWA’s Let’s be heading her husband’s carer Behind closed doors, it’s talk cancer project the busiest time of the 16 IWA Energy Roundtable political year; manifesto 38 Can Wales get its In June the IWA convened makers are meeting to ‘fair share’ of a roundtable to discuss our decide on policy proposals research funding? proposal to make Wales a and