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Senedd Circular

This week, Miss Wagstaff has been excited and down in the dumps at the same time, if that’s at all possible. On the one hand, she’s unwell, and on the other she has the opportunity to write a Senedd Circular post that is long overdue.

We can safely put leadership elections on the back burner for a while, the Welsh Labour leadership election has been talked to death [well, nearly!] and the Welsh Liberal Democrat election is a two-horse race that is slowly gaining momentum – and both always seem to be topical on Welsh blogs.

In place of a traditional Senedd Circular this week, we are publishing the shortlist for the Welsh Politico Blog awards, as a way of introducing some recommended reading amonst Welsh Political blogs.

A competition run by Ordovicius has now received nominations from all four panel members.

The Welsh Politico Blog Award consists of the Gold, Silver and Bronze seals of Owain Glyndw^r, which will be awarded to the three blogposts that the panel judge to have made the greatest contribution to or had the biggest impact on Welsh politics in 2008. The following is the final shortlist.

No Senedd Circular today – Miss Wagstaffe is taking a short break.

(PS her latest posting is about explicit pictures).

This week, Miss Wagstaff has been climbing down from a high octane family weekend, only to pick at the odd bits of Welsh news before raking over the bones of the Labour electoral turmoil of weeks past… it seems that it will take a while before we get over recent events – London fell; Councils fell; then it was the turn of Crewe and Nantwich. It’s no wonder that God invented recess!