https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/tags/welsh-constitutional-development/Recent content in Welsh Constitutional Development on Vaults of the ODDHugoen-gbTue, 16 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/welsh-constitutional-development-framework/Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/welsh-constitutional-development-framework/A strategic framework for Welsh constitutional development across the 2026–2030 Senedd term. Its thesis is that constitutional durability follows institutional capability rather than preceding it — that building governing capacity is itself constitutional work, and serves Wales under any of the futures identified by the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales.https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/comparative-fiscal-capacity/Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/comparative-fiscal-capacity/A comparative analysis of what each live constitutional path — the current settlement, enhanced devolution and independence — would require Wales to build in fiscal capacity, and how strong the evidence is for each requirement. Working through eleven mechanisms, from territorial funding and borrowing to currency, welfare and payment systems, it argues the paths are not steps on a single ladder of more or less power but different problems of capacity — and recommends none of them. A companion evidence annex carries the full method, mechanism dossiers and source log.https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/post-election-commentary/Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/post-election-commentary/Written after the 8 May 2026 Senedd election, this note applies the completed framework to a real political moment. The framework was substantially complete before the result and its core argument didn’t depend on it; here that architecture is read against the new environment — where the result strengthens or complicates particular sections, and what it means for sequencing the recommendations.