By Denis Campbell
Congratulations, you won. You have no more bottom line to manage or expenses to cut so time to focus on swiftly building Wales’ top line. One only need walk past your constituent office in Bridgend to see that 1 in 4 storefronts lay empty (or leased by charity thrift shops). Economic growth is [...]

By Denis Campbell
3rd in my series on Economic Development and Politics in Wales made more critical by this week’s growing ‘silly season food fight’ over the Labour Leadership election.
It’s been anything but a quiet week in Lake Woebegone, (apologies to npr, Garrison Keillor, and most in Wales unfamiliar with the reference).
After my Sunday’s BBC The [...]

By Denis Campbell
This article also appears in the Fall ‘09 Edition of Cambria Magazine.
Timing is everything. The Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) waited until just before summer recess to release details of £700,000+ pounds of credit card expenditures by International Business Wales (IBW) for global trade. It exploded then died over summer break. Dylan Jones-Evans wrote [...]

UPDATED: By Denis Campbell
Rhodri Morgan could be moments away from officially announcing his retirement as Welsh 1st Minister. The rumour mill buzzes with anticipation. It could occur today during the annual Labour Party Conference kicking off today in Brighton (Gordon Brown desperately needs his pre-election conference to end on a collegial high note). Back home [...]

How can two cities from two different sides of the ocean be so alike in so many ways? Vadimus Post’s Denis Campbell looks at this psychological “Tale of Two Cities.”

by Denis Campbell
It’s easy to take the sure open shot on a basketball court or football pitch. Bloggers of all stripes do the ‘outrage’ thing very well. We can call an opponent out, take the Mick out of public gaffes, exploit weaknesses (indeed, there are enough of them) and generally be cynical or negative.
What’s missing [...]

By Denis Campbell
Only party leaders and media pundits seem to care that 27-member countries of the European Union head to the polls Thursday through Sunday of this week to vote for the entire 736-member European Parliament. The UK and indeed Europe faces the lowest recognition election in the history of voting. “Election, what election, there’s [...]

 
I broadcast a jesting Tweet on social media program Twitter this week about the origins of Easter Eggs. It read: “Easter the day Jesus rose from the dead, what should we do? “How ‘bout Eggs?!” what’s that have to do with Jesus? “Alright we’ll hide them…”
Harmless, mindless fun taking a sideways look (and swipe) at [...]

 
Media Tweets are Serious Business
What sounds like an expensive turbo-charged sports car is actually the social media platform Twitter and all the cool celebrity kids are using it to build an audience. In this recession, with the shuttering of The Rocky Mountain News, huge newspapers on financial life support and advertisers pulling back on network [...]

 
Only President Barack Obama could keep digging in a barn filled to the roof line with manure and find a brand new pony. Yet that is what the country and indeed the world needed in his non-State of the Union budget speech last night to a joint session of the US Congress.
Talk is cheap, cynicism [...]