Monday, 19 March 2012

Who gets to be in charge of the red telephone?

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I have been scratching my brains as to why there is so little information on the newly created police commissioners, especially since t...
Sunday, 18 March 2012

Painting go faster stripes on the titanic

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OCC (Oxfordshire County Council) have introduced e-books with a initial spend of  £43,560 and a annual cost of  £35,598 while cutting 25% ou...
Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Volunteers, the unlimited big society resource/The big society tax

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This post was prompted by a BBC Gloucestershire article that reports because of the cuts to their funding by councils, charities are warning...
Friday, 10 February 2012

Twitter and external comms

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Oxfordshire County Council have finally started to use their twitter account for something other than tweeting pointless (mostly to me anywa...
Wednesday, 18 January 2012

We are cutting ours, go use theirs. They are cutting those as well?

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Gloucestershire county council have recently released their latest "exciting"* plans for the library service. I say released, re-r...
Monday, 12 December 2011

Scrutiny and democracy

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You know the members are not effectively scrutinising a proposal when they are nodding along with what the officers they are supposed to be ...
Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Common sense and the people before party

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I keep thinking that the blog post I write will be my last. Then I keep looking at the data or hearing a new announcement and my brain start...