Broadly speaking, I sat out this year’s local elections. I did a tiny bit of campaigning in Lewisham (where we won a council seat), but generally speaking I’ve been busy and stressed at work and a little disaffected, with the Lib Dems and politics generally but my local party (Barnet) specifically. Let’s start with Barnet.… Continue reading Local election results
Month: May 2006
Lyons Inquiry Report – worth a read
Michael Lyons has just published his latest report on local government. It makes heartening reading for those of us who are not just in favour of the rhetoric of localism but the substance as well. Read it and champion it before Tony Blair and Gordon Brown catches sight of it and attempt to bury down… Continue reading Lyons Inquiry Report – worth a read
Surely Ollie, not Stan?
This is almost certainly old news, but I’ve only just come across a film called Under Two Jags (not a nice mental picture, is it?), starring Stan Laurel, about a man torn between two women.