My colleague Matt Withers regularly has to fight through crowds to write his weekly sketch from the Senedd; I have to avoid the gaze of celebrities to write my equivalent pithy summary of exchanges in the Commons.... Read

According to Paul Simon, there are 50 ways to leave your lover.... Read

I managed to force my way through the crowds yesterday and find a seat in the Senedd's public gallery for First Minister's Questions.... Read

David Cameron has had a busy day, announcing a policy reversal in the morning - no longer will the Tories match Labour spending plans - before attending a lunch with political journalists (and their bosses) at lunchtime.... Read

After what seemed like years of campaigning from both camps, the final result still managed to escape the air of anti-climax it might have had.... Read

Among the coverage of Rhodri Morgan's self-flagellation , there's another chapter in the book Politics in 21st Century Wales which warrants a mention: Kirsty Williams' ambitions for the Welsh Liberal Democrats should she win its leadership.... Read

Rhodri Morgan's assessment of Labour's problems in trying to attract new support is characteristically refreshing and suprising.... Read

Labour will never win a majority in Wales again unless the party reverses the public's perception that it is anti-Welsh, Rhodri Morgan warns in an article for a forthcoming book quoted in today's Western Mail .... Read

My daughter Corrie is getting married.... Read

You lucky Brits and others, who read this blog, now have access to vital information, which could spare you your life.... Read

Never have Labour MPs been so keen to get on the phone and tell me how pleased they were.... Read

YOU might think that the on-going row over devolving powers over affordable housing had strained Westminster-Assembly relations beyond repair.... Read

SOME weeks after last year's Assembly elections, I made a mistake.... Read

Warren Gatland's warning to Dwayne Peel that his decision to go to Sale Sharks could cost him Wales caps and subsequently a Lions tour place was alarming.... Read

Mary Robinson - the first woman president of Ireland and a former UN High Commissioner on Human Rights - swept into Cardiff last week.... Read

Legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen performed in the Welsh capital last week in a rare concert appearance.... Read

A posh up-market department store out here in Japan is gearing up its Christmas sales as if they'd never heard of the recent financial disaster that is sending millions world-wide to the dole queues.... Read

I HAVE been meaning to get blogging for weeks.... Read

Jenny Randerson's opponent for the much-coveted title of Leader of the Fourth Largest Party in the Welsh Assembly, Kirsty Williams, has just issued a statement entitled 'A little less conversation , little more action please', castigating the Assembly Government for being "focused on studying the recession rather than doing something about it".... Read

Cardiff Central AM and Welsh Liberal Democrat leadership contender Jenny Randerson yesterday tabled this Statement of Opinion - the Assembly equivalent of an Early Day Motion - in the Senedd, calling upon developers in the capital to reconsider tearing down the historic Vulcan pub .... Read