Tag Archives: Derek Walker

The race online

Posted on January 24th, 2012

The starting gun of the race online was fired years ago but the finishing line is not yet in sight.

In 2010 as many as 785,000 people in Wales were not online and were therefore missing out…

Mutual Respect

Posted on December 16th, 2011

It is my task to provide you with some good news at the end of a year filled with relentlessly depressing economic headlines.

Whilst shops have continued to close and tens of thousands have been made redundant, one sector…

Bring on a new age of co-operatives

Posted on May 23rd, 2011

Political parties shared common ground on their commitment to co-operatives during the Welsh election.

There was a welcome cross-party consensus in the manifestos about the value of co-operatives in growing the Welsh economy. Welsh Labour acknowledged how mutuals, social enterprises and co-operatives have a…