Like every country Wales has its challenges. Whether it be poverty, a creaking infrastructure, poor health, low levels of education, decline of public services or the erosion of the Welsh language it is easy to see these issues in isolation.
But Wales' challenges are not simply separate problems occurring and ruining lives in a vacuum. They are immensely complicated and entrenched societal issues that both interact with and compound each other.
This can be complicated but it is this very complexity that prevents meaningful action to tackle them. Of course part of this is because they are fundamentally hard issues to fix but also because the sheer convolutedness of them makes public scrutiny of decision makers tough.
