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A lesson in the need to read your Emails carefully, to the very end.

A note arrives from a member of staff at the National Assembly. It includes, as a footnote, the National Assembly's new "positioning statement". That, at least, is what I'm told I should call it.

It goes like this: "The National Assembly for Wales is the democratically elected body that represents the interests of Wales and its people, makes laws for Wales and holds the Welsh government to account".

Notice anything? How about the absence of "Assembly" in the use of "the Welsh government?"

"Ah, you've noticed" comes the response. This was agreed by the four Commissioners at one of their regular meetings earlier this year. It's not an attempt to give the Welsh Assembly Government a new title of course. It simply refers to its status.

I wonder what the "Chief Wag", as Rhodri Morgan was once referred to by Nick Bourne, makes of it?

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