Borthlas (Free subscription) | yesterday
How good is an 'absolute guarantee'? On face value, it should be very good indeed, but there are guarantees and there are guarantees. Hywel Williams MP has been doggedly pursuing the implications of the contract awarded to Lockheed Martin, the US Defence contractors, to process the next UK Census. His concern, which I and many others share, is that Lockheed Martin is covered by the Patriot Act in the...
ORDOVICIUS (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
Following that memo by the WASC complaining about the number of LCOs it has to deal with, Hywel Williams MP, who is a member of the Welsh Affairs Committee, said that there were problems with the current LCO process and since this is the system we currently have, we must find ways to make it work. He emphasised that this should not mean limiting the number of LCOs but rather having a better
The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
From Hansard : Hywel Williams: People without access to broadband are as excluded and disadvantaged as their counterparts in the 1950s who scrambled around with candles and kerosene lamps while everyone else had power at the turn of a switch. I am a great enthusiast for the internet, but the description of it as merely being a more efficient way of delivering gossip and pornography is not entirely...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 24/01/2008
Sun Kings: a History of Kingship Hywel Williams Quercus, 256pp, £16.99
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Allergic disease might replace infectious disease as a major cause of ill health in cities in developing countries, British researchers say. Study leader Hywel Williams of The University of Nottingham in England says eczema needs to be tackled at a public health level in many countries.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Allergic disease might replace infectious disease as a major cause of ill health in cities in developing countries, British researchers say. Study leader Hywel Williams of The University of Nottingham in England says eczema needs to be tackled at a public...
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 19/11/2007
Plaid Cymru has today been found guilty of using public money for electioneering purposes. The House of Commons Committee on Standards and Privileges published its report into the misuse of the Parliamentary Communications Allowances of Plaid MPs Elfyn Llwyd, Adam Price and Hywel Williams. They had used it to pay for adverts prior to the Welsh Assembly Elections in May. The Report concluded that the...
anonymous (Free subscription) | 19/11/2007
Three naughty Plaid Cymru MPs have been ordered to pay back the money they spent from the Communications Allowances for party political campiagning. During the Welsh Assembly election campaign Elfyn Llwyd, Adam Price and Hywel Williams all took out adverts in the Daily Post, a daily paid-for paper circulating in North Wales. They paid for the adverts using their Communication Allowance, and
Miserable Old Fart (Free subscription) | 13/10/2007
One of the most vociferous proponents for the need of a prison in North Wales when the Welsh Affairs Committee discussed the matter last year was Hywel Williams the MP for Caernarfon. Martin Eaglestone suggests that Hywel is getting cold feet over the proposal having discovered that one of the sites proposed is in his own back yard! I can understand Hywel's trepidation - I too believe that there
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13/09/2007
Hywel Williams: It is a brave novelist who attempts to convey how Wagnerian intensity led to Nazi catastrophe.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/08/2007
Comment: Politicians who write biographies should be careful which lessons they draw from the past, argues Hywel Williams.
