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The new council

May 22nd, 2012 · No Comments · Politics

I’ll be interested to see how the new council works out. The council is a lot more evenly balanced now, and as a result the committee memberships will be more evenly balanced – to the point where Tories won’t be able to miss any meetings in case they risk being in the minority in committee [...]

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Post-election anoraking

May 11th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Politics

Tonight was Crawley Labour’s constituency meeting and, unsurprisingly, the mood was good. I enjoyed congratulating Peter Smith, Colin Moffatt and Chris Mullins on winning their seats and others for holding onto theirs. There was also a new leader of the Labour group to congratulate.

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Local election post mortem

May 10th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Politics

The local elections here in Crawley turned out pretty well for Labour I think. We held all the seats we were defending and took three off the Tories, unseating one of their cabinet members in the process. We came pretty close in our other target seat and looking at the results we did well enough [...]

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The Righteous Mind

May 2nd, 2012 · 2 Comments · Life, Politics

I recently finished reading a book by Jonathan Haidt called The Righteous Mind -Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion and thoroughly enjoyed it even though it was uncomfortable reading at times as it challenged and chipped away at some of my core beliefs. It has the potential to be a life-changing book. [...]

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Election time again

May 1st, 2012 · 3 Comments · Politics

I may have neglected to mention it, but am a candidate in this year’s council elections so if anybody reading this lives in Maidenbower and fancies annoying the Tories then pop down to the polling station on Thursday and put a big kiss against my name.

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70s Mania

April 17th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life, Music, Politics

For all its faults, I enjoyed the first part of Dominic Sandbrook’s series on the 70s. So many memories, even though I was only between 8 and 10 during the time covered in that episode, and I’m really looking forward to the rest. If anybody else is similarly hooked I can recommend Sanbrook’s book State [...]

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Bert Crane

April 10th, 2012 · 5 Comments · Politics

Last week I went along to the full council meeting at the town hall. It is not something I do very often, maybe once or twice in the last five years, but last week was a very special meeting – the last one ever to feature Bert Crane as a councillor. He has been a [...]

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Tory wordcloud

April 9th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Politics

I couldn’t resist it for my first attempt at a wordcloud…  

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PPVPM

March 27th, 2012 · No Comments · Politics

In the aftermath of the story about the Tory treasurer trying to sell dinner with the PM I very much enjoyed Charlie Brooker’s description of David Cameron as the pay-per-view prime minister. Of course other PMs, probably all of them, must have done the same or similar but I always assumed it would be done [...]

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Rich people are unethical

March 23rd, 2012 · No Comments · Politics

Somebody asked me for feedback on this graphic his team designed. Feel free to make comments here. Created by: AccountingDegreeOnline.net For what it’s worth, I don’t think the pie charts where the percentage is a dot rather than a slice work for me.

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