Richard Wyn Jones is Director of Cardiff University's Wales Governance and Dean of Public Affairs is our guest on this podcast special. His current work focuses on contemporary Welsh politics, devolved politics in the UK and nationalism. He is also considered to be one of the founders of Critical Security Studies. Richard is a regular and widely respected broadcaster, commentating on Welsh politics in both Welsh and English for the BBC in Wales and across the UK. He has presented two TV series and is a regular columnist for the Welsh language current affairs magazine Barn. In addition, he has contributed comment columns to a number of newspapers including the Western Mail, Irish Times, The Guardian and Sunday Times.Richard is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and the Academy of the Social Sciences. We explore the Welsh political landscape with Richard in light of Mark Drakeford's recent resignation announcementhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/14/england-chaos-boris-johnson-wales-mark-drayford-wales-legacy?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR3c6Z4kFs5JSL8NREvYtT0cLOmsjqmWJ4DNZCR6FLzeaXZS7vk_bJQAwUU We then move on to the fascinating findings contained in Englishness: The Political Force Transforming Britain where Richard and Ailsa Henderson, Professor of Political Science at Edinburgh University, draw on data from the Future of England Survey, a specially commissioned public attitudes survey programme,to explore the political implications of English identity, and the nature of English nationalism.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Englishness-Political-Force-Transforming-Britain/dp/0198870787https://academic.oup.com/book/39510In September 2023 Richard and Ailsa also co-authored The Ambivalent Union report which revealed different attitudes within and between the UK’s constituent units towards the European Union, it also revealed the ambivalence of attitudes towards the union of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.https://www.ippr.org/files/2023-09/the-ambivalent-union-sept23.pdf ★ Support this podcast ★