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Hung drawn and balanced
Yes, it’s a hung Westminster parliament – maybe. You have to sympathise with politicians and what they need to do. In an election, of course, you have to say your aim is to win. But since the first...
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Surrendered territory and anti-social behaviour
Not so long ago I was walking home with my partner just after 11 p.m. one Friday from a pleasant visit to the cinema in a well-off medium sized UK city that shall remain nameless, although my...
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Probation service report
Q: Why is so much of the time of probation officers [up to 75%] spent carrying out admin and other tasks rather than seeing offenders? A (Committee chair Sir Alan Beith): It was micro-management. It...
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Politicians and statistics Round 2
Yesterday in what turns out to be Round 1 of this subject I wrote [MP Nadine] Dorries … said that we… have “more abortions than anywhere else in Western Europe”… I have neither the time nor the will...
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A short holiday in Wales and Cornwall – and a lesson about the public sector
This blog is a one-person effort so if the one person’s otherwise engaged the rate of production slows down. For ten days this month I was away from the desk delivering D3 to her new university course...
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The trouble with council tax freezes funded by national government
Chancellor George Osborne has just announced that the coalition government’s council tax freeze in England will be extended to 2012/13 and will include the devolved administrations providing they abide...
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UK political gene pool alarmingly small
A prime minister and chancellor said to be out of touch with ‘ordinary people.’ Party leaders rushing to publish details of their meetings with donors. The main parties trashed by ‘Gorgeous’ George...
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