Saturday, September 26, 2009

A bureaucrat in Istanbul (not Constantinole)

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Conference is over, and it's time to escape the sunshine of Suffolk for something a little more exotic. And so, here I am in Istanbul. I...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Blog of the Year Awards: James Graham acceptance speech

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James won the BOTY for the best posting. For those of you of a sensitive disposition, I should warn that this clip contains 'adult' ...

Conference Day Three: (Not Quite) Everybody) Loves Vince

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It was becoming apparent that the 'Mansion Tax' was causing something of a stir. Naturally, as an employee of HM Revenue & Custo...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

When Liberal Bureaucracy met Discworld...

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I have met so many people at Conference this year, and you've all been really nice. However, a chance encounter allowed me to publish th...
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Blog of the Year Awards: Slugger O'Toole

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Forever the bridesmaid and never the bride, it fell to Stephen Glenn to collect the award for the best non-Lib Dem Blog. At some point, it w...

Blog of the Year Awards: Jo Swinson acceptance speech

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It was Jo Swinson's day at the awards, winning the award for the best use of social networking, as well as being the subject of award-wi...

Conference Day 2: an award free zone

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Well, the BOTYs ceremony, as we must now call it, went without too much controversy. Our compere for the evening, Stephen Tall, wearing a ha...
Monday, September 21, 2009

Blog of the Year Awards: Mark Reckons acceptance speech

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Never let it be said that I can't 'do' technology. And so, without further ado, my first video. Apologies for any camera shake -...
Sunday, September 20, 2009

Conference Day Two: the secret society meets

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Sunday morning, far too early. I hadn't read my papers for English Candidates Committee the top secret Committee tasked with keeping yo...

Conference Day One: tales from the green room

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And so, there I was for the beginning of Conference, having arrived a little early, and was talking to Annette Brooke, our MP for Dorset Mid...

Be very afraid: bureaucrat with gadget alert

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You just have that 'Eureka' moment sometimes. And mine was flicking that little switch on the memory card... As Jennie would put it...

Conference Day One: a bureaucrat steps out

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Alright, I was now up for Conference but the finishing touches were missing. Yes, it was time to go shopping. Fortified by a list from Ros, ...
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Conference Day Zero: Friday night surprises

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Alright, Mark, time to buck up. After all, it's only a Liberal Democrat conference, full of old friends and other assorted nice people. ...
Friday, September 18, 2009

A bureaucrat ascends the scaffold...

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And to the strains of Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35, I am bound for Bournemouth, for the opening of Federal Confer...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Conference: go back to Bournemouth and prepare to be perplexed

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I've always had mixed feelings about Federal Conference. Years of being a wallflower amongst the 'beautiful people' (MPs, Peer...
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Why you still don't know what Party Committees are up to (part 5) - ghosts in my machine…

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There will be those who will suggest that I am calling for the various committees to be exempted from criticism, that communication should b...
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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Why you still don't know what Party Committees are up to (part 4) - is there an easy answer to the dilemma?

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For anyone else considering using a blog to reach out to interested parties, it makes for a depressing spectacle. If the outcome is to provi...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

Guilty of looking at the government in a funny way

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The new Independent Safeguarding Authority marks another stage in the Labour Party's attempts to fracture our society into one where ind...
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Why you still don't know what Party committees are up to (part 3) - so what went wrong?

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Somebody once said that pop will eat itself, and I fear that this is true of blogging. In truth, that element of the leadership, national or...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Why you still don't know what Party committees are up to (part 2) - a brief, personal history of ‘reporting back’ via blogging

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Curiously, blogging, as a reporting medium, has been decidedly underused, given its relative simplicity. I blogged on events on the London R...