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Wales’s Education Act: setting clear goals for the Welsh language
The government is now committed to promoting Welsh in schools — but we need some much bolder, concrete plans if we are to fight our national language’s decline, writes MABLI SIRIOL
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
THE Welsh language belongs to everyone in Wales, whatever their background. However, at the moment, 80 per cent of young people in Wales are deprived of the language because of the failure of our education system to grow and normalise Welsh education.
It is clear that a major change is needed, and the results of the 2021 census, which showed a fall in the number of young people who can speak Welsh, underlines the urgency.
Following campaigning by Cymdeithas yr Iaith (the Welsh Language Society), the Welsh government has committed to introducing a new Welsh Education Act.
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