Sunday, July 31, 2011

Rewriting the rulebook with your own blood

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For a recovering bureaucrat, one of the biggest challenges is coming upon a situation whereby you need to create some guidance, some instruc...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

Ed Joyce stands down from Lembit's campaign team

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After the events of the past twenty-four hours, that is the headline that I would expect to see shortly. And why would that be? I'm a R...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

And the band played Lady Gaga...

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Never let it be said that life is dull in mid-Suffolk, and yesterday proved that point once and for all. Until 2005, Ros was the County Cou...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Thinking about thinking - can you really blog in two places at once?

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For the past week or so, the legendary Auntie Helen Duffett has been doing her best Beau Geste impression, making it look as though the Lib ...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Seen elsewhere - bringing you to the View...

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I may have mentioned that I've written a few pieces for Liberal Democrat Voice of late. Here are the links, and a little introduction fo...
Friday, July 15, 2011

I need a new PC*, what should I get?

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I am the not so terribly proud owner of a PC, purchased for me some years ago by my ever generous father. It is, as often happens, beginning...
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House of Lords Reform: I'm only a little conflicted...

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There are moments when your interests are contradictory. "I'm hungry," one might muse, "but I'm on a diet.", for...
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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Group blogging is the future. Didn't they say that about the steam engine?

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From this rather tranquil corner of the blogosphere, the suggestion that group blogging is the way forward is an interesting one. And whilst...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Alright Mr Littlewood, enough with the dodgy polling...

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I see that the Institute of Economic Affairs has published another book, "Sharper Axes, Lower Taxes" , and that young Mr Littlewoo...
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Another day, another redesign...

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I'm bored. Even a EuroMillions win has failed to enthuse me. Alright, it was £2.80, but it was a win. Which reminds me, I really must ca...
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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Caught in a landslide, can escape from reality...

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I find myself unexpectedly on a steam train, on the Worcestershire/Shropshire border, surrounded by people dressed in 1940s outfits, as the ...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Ros in the Lords: Localism Bill, Committee Stage

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Clause 4 : Limits on doing things for commercial purpose in exercise of general power Debate on whether Clause 4 should stand part of the Bi...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Social Liberal Forum, Liberal Vision... so many fences to sit on, so hard to choose...

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Someone of immense wisdom* suggested to me the other day that the Liberal Democrats are at their best when the three drivers of Party activ...
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Ros in the Lords: Oral Question - Cyprus

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Baroness Hussein-Ece  To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the recent speech by the United Nations Secretary-Gene...

Civil Service pensions: how on Earth did we come to this?

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Hector the Inspector If it isn't my old friend, Hector! Before I continue, for those of you below a certain age, Hector was, in his...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Goodbye and farewell to another stupid Conservative idea...

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Baroness Scott of Needham Market Lord Tope Lord Jenkin of Roding Lord Beecham 57       Page 210, line 27, leave out from beginning to end ...

What do you mean, I'm actually the Chairman?

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I was, I admit, pretty excited about becoming Vice Chair of my small, but perfectly formed, Parish Council. After all, we bureaucrats don...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Strike Law: Is freedom only appropriate for people you approve of?

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Having been critical of Liberal Vision's approach towards the Party it claims to support yesterday, I have been challenged to debate wit...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Liberal Vision - as warm and human as a thrown knife?

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I read with some interest the latest missive from Liberal Vision, another condemnation of the works, culture and morals of the Liberal Demo...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

When you only have three ways out of your village...

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I'm experimenting with my village blog, trying out a new style. What do you think?... At a meeting of the Mid Suffolk South Area Comm...